Attn: Everyone

[Kiros]

Please read this announcement: http://virtualteen.org/forums/showthread.php?t=22483

All discussion for the announcement should happen in this thread.

[The Resurrected One]

Hey Kiros,

It's good to have everything back to normal. :D We all owe you everything for the time you put into repairing it. Thanks a lot.

[Serenity]

Omg Ben you are my freaking hero. Rock on! You do a lot of work for VT and we're all grateful :daisy:

[Maverick]

Hooray its back. :biggrin:

[japanman]

OMG ben you kick asss :D im so glad the site is bacckup and thanks for bieng so tech savy lol:D:D:D *bows down to bens awsomness*

[Kiros]

Please, let's not turn this into a "K!r0z ROOoLz" thread...

The only purpose of this thread is to ask questions if something is confusing.

[Serenity]

Alex's diary name is messed up.

[japanman]

Yes sir!! Hm well in gavins youtube corner the video i posted is gone but thats ok ill post it later :)

[Serenity]

Originally posted by VT Announcement
Threads, posts, and private messages may be a day behind, but it's only one day.

Yeap.

[Aηdy]

My blog name and user title are messed up but I should just be able to change them ok, and my blog is sorted now too.

[Serenity]

I think symbols in general aren't working...

[Kiros]

Alex's diary name is messed up.

Yes, I noticed. The Art Room was incredibly messed up, so I just changed it to it's basic name until I can look up the characters later.

I don't remember the exact character that Alex used for his forum, so I am going to wait until either Francis or he fixes it.

On top of this, I think it should be noted that any special character (including the ones in usernames) will be translated into an odd "code." This makes me glad that I implemented the regular expressions for usernames at registration (which means, only common characters can be in usernames at registration).

Right, so basically, if a post seems to have a messed up word, please disregard it, as it's an artifact from importing the database.

[Bobby]

Good to have the site back :D

[MoveAlong]

sounds like we are very lucky. Thanks!

[redcar]

I don't remember the exact character that Alex used for his forum...
I feel sad that you forgot. :(
Please, let's not turn this into a "K!r0z ROOoLz" thread...
Sorry but I can not resist... Ben your legend!:P

[DouggyO.o]

few. i was getting worried for a second. im glad to see things are back to normal. other then the diary thing vt seems to be running smooth

[thesphinx]

Glad everything worked out ok!

[Antares]

I started going through VT withdrawl. I kept checking like every few hours :P.

Also, Ben it says I have two new PMs in my box but I marked all of them as red and it still didn't go away. Help please.

[Kiros]

John, try to delete all of your messages.

[Antares]

I don't want to. I am a pack rat OCD freak. I would rather just deal with it.

[Underground_Network]

Ben, you are godly... The apostrophes and ellipses got messed up in my blog, but I fixed the majority of them by simply editing my blog[s]...

[Serenity]

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q235/VReason2003/screwyicons.jpg

^^Idk if that's my computer, a glitch in the style, or what but it's a bit irritating lol.

Edit: And no, I'm not referring to Andy :P The icons are all scrunched. Just so no one misconstrues my post :rolleyes:

[Underground_Network]

^^ Thats not happening to me.. :/

[Antares]

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q235/VReason2003/screwyicons.jpg

^^Idk if that's my computer, a glitch in the style, or what but it's a bit irritating lol.

Edit: And no, I'm not referring to Andy :P The icons are all scrunched. Just so no one misconstrues my post :rolleyes:

Mine is doing that too but its not bad at all.

[Triple7]

Yes, I noticed. The Art Room was incredibly messed up, so I just changed it to it's basic name until I can look up the characters later.

I don't remember the exact character that Alex used for his forum, so I am going to wait until either Francis or he fixes it.

Got it.

[Underground_Network]

K, I just clicked a link in someone's sig [to their diary] and it A) logged me out and B) wouldn't let me hit the back button. :/

[theOperaGhost]

I was starting to get nervous. I was checking like every couple of hours. I'm glad I worked today or I would have went crazy with nothing to do on here. lol

[Maverick]

K, I just clicked a link in someone's sig [to their diary] and it A) logged me out and B) wouldn't let me hit the back button. :/
If a link in someones sig is http://www.virtualteen.org and you're browsing VT with http://virtualteen.org ... (or vice versa) it will log you out.

[Serenity]

I do that a lot. Irritates the freaking crap out of me lol

[theOperaGhost]

Ok the post I made in this thread (#27) When I push the rep button it says "Your reputation on this post is somewhat negative" and the comment is "you have been acting very childish lately". It didn't take away any rep points, but just telling you. Not a big deal.

[Maverick]

Ok the post I made in this thread (#27) When I push the rep button it says "Your reputation on this post is somewhat negative" and the comment is "you have been acting very childish lately". It didn't take away any rep points, but just telling you. Not a big deal.
Alright but this isn't the place to be talking about reputation comments you received.

[theOperaGhost]

But it only shows up there and not on my control panel and it didn't take away any rep points. Plus the post was only up for like 2 seconds and I clicked it and that's what it said.

[Kiros]

Jared, I don't see any reputation comment of that nature that was recently given to you. If you don't see it in your UserCP and you haven't had a deduction of points, then chances are that it is simply artifact data that will go away after the next table repair.

[theOperaGhost]

Alright, Thanks Ben.

[Antares]

Hey, going back to Vals little thingy. I just posted a new thread and the icons were all messed up. So maybe it happens when there is one post or the last post. idk

[Kiros]

Well, until someone can reproduce this error and give instructions on how to, we cannot locate the possible bug.

[Antares]

I am too lazy too right now. I will try and explore it like tomorrow or something. :P

[Camazotz]

My signiture is messed up. Its supposed to be something like this...(cant remember exactly, so its a little different)

Ѐņ¶ ߀ƒØ®€ Ðϧ¶ØÑØ®

And instead, look at it.

[george]

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q235/VReason2003/screwyicons.jpg

^^Idk if that's my computer, a glitch in the style, or what but it's a bit irritating lol.

Edit: And no, I'm not referring to Andy :P The icons are all scrunched. Just so no one misconstrues my post :rolleyes:

does the same thing on my computer

[Triple7]

That's not very helpful. We've already seen that it's happening by the screenshot already posted.

What were you doing when this happened? What thread was it? Whose post was it? What browser are you using? Is this problem still happening? What can we do to get the same results?

[Serenity]

It's pretty sporadic and as far as I can tell it only happens after I use Quick Reply. Granted I almost always use Quick Reply, so that might not necessarily mean anything. But yeah I type up my post, click post, and when the page refreshes the icons get all screwy. Not every time, though- like I said it's sporadic. I'm on Firefox atm.

[iJack]

Could it be that the page wasnt fully loaded?

[Gavin]

It's Good to have VT back, Thanks Kiros

[Close102]

Kiros you are a hero to all of us

[Triple7]

Please, let's not turn this into a "K!r0z ROOoLz" thread...

The only purpose of this thread is to ask questions if something is confusing.

:yes:

[iJack]

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q235/VReason2003/screwyicons.jpg

^^Idk if that's my computer, a glitch in the style, or what but it's a bit irritating lol.

Edit: And no, I'm not referring to Andy :P The icons are all scrunched. Just so no one misconstrues my post :rolleyes:

Could it be a loading problem?

[Antares]

Okay. For that it is ONLY Andy. idk but he is the only user that I see with this problem. Im sorry Andy but your account is screwed :P

[Aηdy]

But it only shows up there and not on my control panel and it didn't take away any rep points. Plus the post was only up for like 2 seconds and I clicked it and that's what it said.

Might have something to do with the fact that I recieved that rep xD

In my user CP i've got negative rep with the comment "You have been acting very childish lately." Then it links to your post lol.

If an admin could sort this out that would be great xD

[iJack]

Might have something to do with the fact that I recieved that rep xD

In my user CP i've got negative rep with the comment "You have been acting very childish lately." Then it links to your post lol.

If an admin could sort this out that would be great xD

same here, i still got +rep, so im not mad.

[Triple7]

I just experienced the bunched up icons next to a person's post. It does look like a loading problem. A refresh made it go away easily.

[Mzor203]

I think I have the answer to the wierd rep thing. I got some postive rep from someone, and it linked to a post not of theirs. I think this is because it links dirctly to the post's individual number, so some of the posts being lost from vt in the crash would link the rep to another post. Make any sense?

[iJack]

^^ yes, kind of

[The Batman]

Actually since the data was recovered it wouldn't be from the crash it would most likely be from someone pruning that thread (deleting posts in it).

[Mzor203]

Maybe, but when the posts were restord, some were lost, like by going away post.

[Kiros]

I think that explanation is correct. When the vbulletin_post table crashed, I worked on it and tried to get some posts back up, so the site was open for a day with just a few posts (about 100 that would randomly show up in odd threads). Blogs were still up as well, so when I did the final restoration, the posts were slightly old, but the reputation, blog, and user data was completely up-to-date (as I thought people would complain about losing reputation or a blog post).

Everything should be fine now with the exception of the several oddly-placed reputation comments...

[iJack]

Ok, thanks kiros, You rock!

[Mzor203]

I do believe you mean that I rock for figuring out what happened with having no access to anything administrative and having little understanding of how vBulliten forums work. :P J/K

[japanman]

Um ok well i checked out my diary and the author thread is missing the one that started with Osamu tazuka and i might not be able to get al the info back.
Hm and the "our art" thread is gone but thats not a big problem i can easily fix it.
Btw my diary is japanmans crazytown

[Antares]

Do you have a co-owner? Did they delete it on accident...or purpose however you want to put it :P

[iJack]

Do you have a co-owner?

The Kid

[Kiros]

Alright, the topic has definitely been cleared up, and we know that the missing threads are either caused by a senior staff member deleting them (which wouldn't happen unless the entire thread was in some violation) or it was a co-owner's mishap. Before we get more posts like "Thanks!" or "Awesome!" or any other useless posts, this thread deserves to be locked.

Jake, if you are still worried about the matter, I recommend contacting your co-owner (if you have one). Otherwise, PM me, Alex, or Francis of the matter and we'll probably be able to help.

Thank you, everyone.

[LOCKED]