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Title: Old Message Board
Post by: thesoldan on June 06, 2005, 10:42:14 PM
What happened to the old ezboard site?  I can access any of the old threads.  There was some great stuff sitting there.  I can still login with my user name from 2 years ago but the threads are gone.  I tried it at work and at home and it made no difference.  Did it get shut down completely from lack of use?  I did a search but didn't see a topic on what happened.
Title: Re: Old Message Board
Post by: Bob on June 06, 2005, 11:09:23 PM
yeah I tried to look up something today also and everything was blank. I thought it was me.. lol
Title: Re: Old Message Board
Post by: Bird351 on June 06, 2005, 11:20:15 PM
Maybe there's some kinda time limit on displaying them? *shrug*

I vaguely recall not being able to see any threads last time I was there.. but I also vaguely recall beer being involved..
Title: Re: Old Message Board
Post by: Nate on June 07, 2005, 12:09:00 AM
so much for it always being available
Title: Re: Old Message Board
Post by: V8Demon on June 07, 2005, 07:58:24 AM
That sux....Didn't the MasterBlaster save a lot of it on his computer?
Title: Re: Old Message Board
Post by: Thunder Chicken on June 07, 2005, 08:36:33 AM
I would guess that it's a glitch with Sleazyboard, hopefully temporary. I just logged in and it showed that there were some relatively new threads, and that there were several pages of threads in each topic, but when I entered the topic nothing was there. I would think that if anything were deleted it would've shown no new threads and no pages.
Title: Re: Old Message Board
Post by: MasterBlaster on June 07, 2005, 09:53:03 AM
Here's a hint:

http://p079.ezboard.com/fezboardimportantannouncements.showMessage?topicID=509.topic (http://p079.ezboard.com/fezboardimportantannouncements.showMessage?topicID=509.topic)

"ezboard Attack Update - 06/06/05 – Late Afternoon"


Along with 20 pages of complaints in 5 days of boards being wiped:

http://p079.ezboard.com/fezboardfrm98 (http://p079.ezboard.com/fezboardfrm98)

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Didn't the MasterBlaster save a lot of it on his computer?
Yes.
Everything in:
Audio
Body & Appearance
Drivetrain
Electrical
Engine Swapping
Engine Tech
General
Misc Tech
Suspension & Steering

I did NOT save:
Lounge
Pro Racing
Street Racing
User Comments
User Rides
Wanted / For Sale
Title: Re: Old Message Board
Post by: Thunder Chicken on June 07, 2005, 11:38:47 AM
Holy shiznit. Am I ever glad we moved over here now! We'd have lost EVERYTHING!!!
Title: Re: Old Message Board
Post by: thesoldan on June 07, 2005, 12:12:06 PM
Wow that really sucks.  MasterBlaster, if ezboard cant fix the old one do you think you could make your copies available somehow?
Title: Re: Old Message Board
Post by: MasterBlaster on June 08, 2005, 08:21:33 AM
All 70MB of them?
That would take about 6-7 hours to upload on dial-up.  :eek:

I've been trying (sort of) to whip up a combination of homemade programs to automatically convert the HTML pages to much smaller text versions, while saving selected links and references in each post, but I haven't played with them for a few months.

Still, when someone says "I seem to remember a post on the old board......",  I do a search and try to find it.
Title: Re: Old Message Board
Post by: Bob on June 08, 2005, 08:26:52 AM
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All 70MB of them?
That would take about 6-7 hours to upload on dial-up.


mail it on a cd to someone that knows what to do with it.
Title: Re: Old Message Board
Post by: MasterBlaster on June 08, 2005, 08:31:18 AM
Buy me a CD burner that works with Win95.  :hick:
Title: Re: Old Message Board
Post by: thesoldan on June 08, 2005, 02:38:56 PM
Wow I didnt realize it would be quite that large.  Nevermind then.  Hopefully ezboard will be able to fix it.
Title: Re: Old Message Board
Post by: Haystack on June 08, 2005, 04:20:01 PM
I have acouple of them that work winth 95... What kinda speeds you running
Title: Re: Old Message Board
Post by: nirvanagod on June 08, 2005, 05:21:57 PM
Soooo.... After reading a lot of that stuff i'd pose this question to Eric or Carm: Our boards here get backed up... right???