Well, apparently, EZboard has done whatever it could to restore all the posts lost on all of it's boards, on it's large network, after this devastating systems hack. It appears that many boards were fortunate enough to get most, if not all, of their lost postings back. Unfortunately that is not the case here. I don't know why--I'll have to ask them when and if I finally calm down. It appears that we were one of the last boards they attemped the process on. We did regain a number of treads in some forums, however most of them only had the first post with all the replies wiped out. In other cases we have completely lost threads going back to '04 and even '03. Syl had an interesting conspiracy theory about the whole thing-but I'd like to believe that's not the case.
In any case the damage has been done. Somehow, being a 200 member plus Gold board for over 3 years, I feel that the Hangar was rudely shortchanged in this matter. In fact, I was so disgruntled by how this board appeared to be treated that I persued avenues to tranfer the Hangar to another board. I found there is no easy and fast way to really do that, besides many other boards do not have anywhere near the image capacity that EZboard does. A number of members here have worked very hard with me to provide and help host many of our beautiful backgrounds, banners, buttons, etc...and I really can't bare losing them.
I really want to thank all our pilots and friends for sticking with us and offering encouragement after this dammdable hack. I was even, at one point, thinking of scrapping the board entirely, especially when I saw all the tons of people's hard work vanish (the Dune forums for example). Well, let's try to reconstruct and move on y'all. We've weathered the Merr pop-up and emoticon crisis and we can weather this. If Danlo can take all the crap thrown at him in the books, we can too.
But again, I really want to thank everyone for their kind words and for sticking through this, heck we've even added 2 new members in the process. Thanks again from the bottom of my heart! ***** Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise. Fravashi saying (from the formularies of Osho the Fool) <i>Edited by: danlo60 at: 1/8/06 6:04 pm </i>
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