Hi, guys.
MFO went dark for most of the day on Thursday, 9/18. OJ sent both a heads up and some diagnostics. My best understanding is that we had a corrupt database (and here I thought corruption was the new normal) which took us down. Following OJ's prompt (and her workday) Chip attempted to reboot us then contacted our hosting service. Their answer had three pieces: 1. we can fix it, 2. it's tricky and might take a while, and 3. some of your content might be irretrievable.
Chip pressed them a bit (it's the nice thing about having a high-ranking IT professional in the family: she snarls convincingly in tech-talk) and they finally got us back.
I'm hopeful that folks were not badly inconvenienced. We can't determine what it anything was lost but if there's a mystery blank space where an act of rhetorical brilliance once resided ...
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A note on our discussion board applicants: it appears that six applicants in the waiting room are bots, three of them offering identical reasons for entry, two of them offering one-word reasons ("communicate") and one of them raising a red flag for Chip. If you have applied, or are thinking of applying, to contribute to the board, please try to say something fund-y like "I'm interested in WTF Gundlach is up to" or "fretting that my fund is converting to an ETF" or something that does not appear to be the same reason you used in applying to the crochet community, the bondage board or the developers' discussion group.
Thanks!
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Thank you for the information.
I'm glad the recovery effort was successful!