stusue wrote:

Tirama, if I remember correctly, the initial post said that they'd be down for a few days (I can't remember exactly how many was stated but it was at least a few days) so everything could still be on schedule.

Thanks.  Okay, then they could be deleting some messages, then rekeying the database, and then backing up the new database, then deleting some more messages, and rekeying the database and doing a backup, etc.  All of which is going to take time.

I really hope they're succesful and manage to salvage the info in the game forums.
 

barregar wrote:

Tirama, can you estimate how long the whole process will take so that the game forums will be up again?  the date?

Not really.  I have no idea how many of the almost 5.5 million posts are in the game forums.  And a lot depends on the type of storage and the level of redundancy of that storage (meaning that BF would naturally have more than one copy of all their data.  Just imagine if they had one one copy of your purchase history and that data became corrupted).

Adding link to Hondo's Blog post

http://www.bigfishgames.com/blog/changes-are-coming-to-the-forums/

Fourth paragraph says:

Beginning Tuesday, August 13th at 3:30pm PST, our forums will enter maintenance mode so we can modify our service and address key technical and performance issues. When the maintenance is complete, the game forums will return but all other general forums will have been retired. We estimate the maintenance period may last several days.

So it's probably too soon to panic about there being a problem.

 

Last edited by TiramaSue (August 15, 2013 11:05 am)

jkuci wrote:

I've been playing the huge list of game betas that are provided in the Pond forum. Wow!!

I especially liked the Sable Maze beta. Anyone else here playing those betas?  

Off to play more.

Me, the Christmas Carol beta was the one I got from there.  I am going to play some of the others like the next MCF game and the other Elephant ones, as well as Blue Tea.  Isn't it awesome how many betas they have there?  I don't know how bfgmcffan got the links but who cares as long as I can try them out.
 

I only really posted in this thread and Teresa's question of the day along with the game forums.  To be quite honest I found some of the threads to feel a little exclusive.  It was very sad to see such venom directed to Hondo over the past few months in both the new forum thread and his hilite threads.  People were just making biting little comments. Personally I have moved on and this will be my thread d'jour each day.

Last edited by oscar66 (August 15, 2013 5:10 pm)

Forums are back up. Well what is left of them anyways. I am still a shark and it is still showing my original post count but only the ones from the game forums are available.. did get to check my PM's that I missed before it ended