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Yesterday the forum had a fatal database crash. The "search" tables were destroyed in that crash, but we were able to rescue all other data. We don't know why it crashed, though it could be that we used a very old version of phpBB (2.0.11).

We migrated the whole forum to a new server and then patched the forum to the current release of phpBB. We lost the "MCHuisstijl-template" in the migration however. This means we are now using the standard "subSilver" template, until we have our own template back.

Note that you won't find the old posts on the board with the built-in search-function because of the loss of data. Sorry.
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I would be happy to make you a new skin to match the frontpage...
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Post by threefingeredguy »

Let's have an exact duplicate of the old skin :lol:.
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Post by leofox »

Well, i'm glad this forum works again. This afternoon it was really weird, couldnt even open my own topics... Kinda weird to see the test topics with 0 views...
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Post by kalan_vod »

Ahh, that sucks for you guys. Sorry to hear!
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Good job on the migration, KV!!!
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So wait? Is the homepage and forum on the same server?
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Post by dysfunction »

Hmm, the Battlestar Galactica topic seems to have disappeared in the Staff and Featured projects section.
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Post by Spengo »

At least it works now eh? I vote for a return to the original skin too. I liked that one and the big phpbb sign is annoying where there should be the maxcoderz sign. I hope you can find the battlestar topic. :o
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So you want the exact maxcoderz skin? I was thinking of perhaps trying something a little fresher, something that will fit with the whole maxcoderz.org homepage.
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Post by Spengo »

Sure that looks good too. Of course, you could always have both skins with an option to choose which skin you want at the bottom. Many fora have this. :) Btw, is maxcoderz here to stay so should I update my bookmarks?
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kv83 wrote:We lost the "MCHuisstijl-template" in the migration however. This means we are now using the standard "subSilver" template, until we have our own template back.
Is it a template or a style, if it's a template you should be able to just ftp it out :)
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Post by kv83 »

@Dysfunction: I'll look into it, but can't promise anything. It's a little hard to work with a 100mb sql file :)

@Rezek: I am not able to ftp the old server. It's joe's server.

@Jim E: No, the frontpage is hosted on another server. Both sites are hosted with tengun.net though.

@kerm_martian: Thanks for the offer, but Kozak is our designer and will fix this soon I hope :)
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Post by DarkAuron »

I notified Joe about this. His response:
(15:33:33) sic: does this mean I can take the forum off my server? :-P
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Post by DigiTan »

I like the new setup. Seems to load very fast too.
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