RobotMonkeyHead

Nice.

Going from the Discord room and the parts of the video I watched it looks like it went over really well. Grats man!

I set up an MFFA server on Discord. Accounts there are very easy to make, and free. Friend request me at Doscord Tag: RobotMonkeyHead#7486 I'll add you, and once you're there feel free to invite anyone else you know from the forum.

We've actually talked a little bit about this already. The problem with taking new people on and giving them that kind of access is that it's almost impossible to give them enough to do anything without giving them TOO much. It's a lot of trust to put in a new person, and me and Алескей have decided to do that part ourselves for the time being. I have considered the idea of taking on a sort of 'tech board' so to speak. Something like a group of a few people to keep an eye on things, alert us to security risks, double check addons and updates, make general suggestions etc. Then leave the actual doing to Алескей and myself. This is only a loose possibility at the moment however, there is nothing solid as of now. Good call on the Discord thing. The funny thing about that idea is that we just created a staff chat on there a few days ago, so we can all stay in contact during down times. It's been working out great, and literally about an hour before I read this post I was on Discord staff chat thinking of setting up an MFFA server on there for everyone. That's hopefully going to happen very soon, still have to clear it with the rest of staff tho. I don't know where the thing about me going on vacation came from. I saw someone say that on mfg, and I was a little confused. No, during all of our downtime, I'm typically working my ass off, pouring ridiculous amounts of time (just about all I can afford) into getting everything fixed and working again as quickly as possible. It just takes that long for us to fix it, between conversations trying to narrow down and diagnosing the problem, talking to tech support when necessary, general communication coordination (we all mostly used different apps). Problems were arising with speculations over at mfg because it was difficult for staff to stay in touch during down times, but that's since been solved with the discord staff chat. And may get even easier very soon.

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I'm currently writing a script that's triggered by my calendar to download a backup of the entire forum either nightly or every 3 days. All admins will have access to these backups, so once that's up and running, it'll be safe to say that this won't be happening again any time in the near future. I'll post once it's up and running.

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Most of the glitches seem to be working themselves out. Some of the images in the collections that were hosted on photobucket aren't showing up still.

Upgraded, database repaired and optimized. I think the recent errors are a combination of what you're describing and that IPS upgrade kicking over. @Noside sorry man, that sucks. Just to expand on the bot issue a little bit, it did so by effecting one of our older out of use databases, which had had bot problems in the past. We think one of them has either been going this whole time, or was reactivated somehow, so recently that database started getting bigger and bigger in the background. Bigger than anything the tech support guy had ever seen in his life. Me and him had a good laugh about just how enormous it had gotten. Something like 6 times our allowed hosting space I think? No one noticed it quickly because we don't use that database anymore. We just kept it for the images in it. I hope this clears up the bot issue a little more.

Apparently we aren't out of hot water yet. Trying to fix this right now.

It actually got into an old obsolete database, which wound up causing the site to shut down from sheer size. That database was one staff used to use years ago to host images for our collections via a gallery feature. At the time, bots began accessing the gallery somehow, so the feature was removed for security. However one of the bots may have continued doing it's thing that entire time, or recently reactivated somehow, we don't know specifically. And thanks :)

Well, this has been fun. First off I'd like to apologize to everyone for the down time. And for the 2 weeks of forum content we've lost. Gui and Waefu, I'm sorry about bambi's mother. Both of them. 2 fawns down 2 standing. Gear up for some payback fellas, fawns don't go out like no bitch! To everyone else who's last 2 weeks of discussion and hard work got thwomped by this damned spam bot, I'm sorry. We tried everything we possibly could. So many tutorials I could code our database from scratch, and tech support probably recognizes my number on their caller id at this point, if I'm not in their contacts already. We got hit with a spam bot that inflated one of our old databases up to an enormous 12m and despite all the best efforts of Alexei, Ryon and myself we were unable to salvage anything after October 4th. It was no one's fault, ultimately (other than the source of that bot's) it's just been staff attempting damage control, trying to save those 2 weeks worth of posts / content. Unfortunately it didn't work in the end. Going forward from here, theoretically this should be the last time anything like this happens. I'm currently working on automating regular backups of the entire forum. Nightly backups for up to a week, weekly backups for up to a month, and monthly backups for up to a year. Rather than relying on our hosting services back up and restore capabilities. We'll also have about 4 anti-spam plugins running from here on out. Thank you, to all of you for sticking around and coming back after all this. Again I'm so sorry for everything lost. It was a pretty hard hit, But we're back up and running and we will recover and rebuild!

For posterity, the first issue got about 450 views over it's first week.

Yes! Excellent job fellas, looks fantastic!

lol yea man, when I was rebuilding the news board I think I know what happened. I was trying out the 'double click and hold to drag' function on my track pad, trying to get used to it. Now it just so happens that in the admin cp, the part where you're rearranging the forum tree is... very difficult to get them to land in the right place. Super touchy. So somewhere in that process I must have accidentally dragged the creator and edit boards into the help section. Kinda ironic lol

Shit, really? Gimme a minute.

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lol glad to hear everything's working for you guys! Excellent. Garchomp, sorry, that button opens up too many security issues. It supports people adding html into their actual posts. I'm not about to give up tho, not until every possibility is exhausted. I have one or two more ideas for potential work arounds for you, but I'm going to have to wait until the odd hours of the morning to test them out, so I disturb as few people as possible :)

After a solid afternoon of rehashing, rebuilding and trimming the toolbar, it looks like the image linking issue should be resolved. Thank you guys for bearing with me through the rebuild process. I wanted to get it done asap, so people could carry on with their work. Normally I do this shit in the early AM. The problem: A combination of extra embedding support plugins and a certain Link plugin (which had some really nice features). Eventual Solution: Removed almost all extra embedding support. We run exclusively on auto-embedding along with the default link button and image panel. This allows the built in auto embedding to distinguish between links and linked images without influence. @White Ranger & @Ryoucchi is everything working ok for you guys now?

* testing editor for bug fixes...