Greetings all!!

Today marks the official moment in time which RSHumor appears to be fully operable.

Some forum posts are gone, but in the scheme of things, it could be worse.

Some editor panel accounts are gone, but those take a moment to re-create, so I don’t think it’s a hugely big deal. If you run into any issues we would be glad to help. We really do apologize for everything that has happened, but the good news is most everything else is back to normal!

At first estimate, we believed that about 600 pictures data (not the actual pictures, but comments and associated names) had been lost. As it turns out today, upon investigation, this number is actually close to 175, which is bearable. We’ll see what we can do over the next few days, whether it means I take one for the team and try to fix as many as I can, or if something else happens. Regardless, I’m thrilled the lost data is minimal. All pictures are back into the database that were there prior to the crash.

The only pictures we CANNOT account for, are the ones submitted AFTER May 29th, 2008 that had not yet been approved. Those will need to be submitted again. On a related note, Picture uploads are now open again, and we welcome all the ones you’ve been saving over the past week. Flood us with ‘em! We really want to make sure they get the chance to be put on the site.

Today we’ve also fixed the “Contact Us” and “Image Removal” forms, we know they’ve been broken for about a year, so it seems fitting that they be fixed along with everything else.

Summation (All that is fixed):
Picture Uploads
Editor Panel
Site Navigation
Pictute Database
Contact Us Form
Image Removal Form

Here’s to an amazing summer!!

<3 Travis && Linda

Greetings all. Wow it has been a horrific last few days, we could not seem to catch a break with some of our server equipment. After a few days of downtime I decided enough was enough, and restored RSHumor off a (semi) recent backup. Some data is missing, and over the next 24 hours we are going to evaluate whether or not it’s best to wait for the problem to be rectified on the old server to recover the data, or to do the best we can manually restoring some of it, and let he rest be re-created.

The only data really lost is as follows.
Forum Posts
Editor Panel Account Information / Some Database Structures
Images submitted prior to the last documented image update.
A Few Blog Posts

As it stands right now, approximately 400 images need to be added back to the database. We have the original picture files, but as the backup taken after the updates was corrupt, we do not have the associated submitter names for them. So we have the option to restore them with an “Unknown” submitter name for now and hope someone will claim them, or wait a day or so and see if the data from the other server is recoverable, and if it is, we will amend the database, and see how far along we can get.

In the mean time, we’ve attempted to disable new pictures, as we’re not sure which server the site will be on once this is all fixed (though RSHumor “dying” is, never will be, and has not been an option). RSHumor has never been stronger, and this is one of the first setbacks we’ve had.

Summation: Everything seemed to go wrong at once, and RSHumor is hosted on a server free from some of the other sites in our network, so were not at all affected. We’ve moved it to “Raptor” and are operating in “Backup” mode. In 24 hours we’ll know the next move, whether it be to re-create the data that is now missing from the site, or to attempt to keep the site as is and hope the data is recoverable.

Reminder: Please save all your pictures that you plan to submit to your computer. We want you to submit them once this is all fixed, we really do. In the mean time it’s easier though if we do not have to manage new data inside the massive database, as it’s a bitch to deal with.