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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT - website status
« on: Jan 26 - 2012 »

Unfortunately, the hard drive on the server hosting this website failed. The data centre installed a new hard drive, and it was then found that recent mirrors and backups are corrupt - so unfortunately at the moment we have moved back in time to the 4th.  :(

This mean all posts and uploads since then are unavailable. We are working to retrieve the last 22 days, and will update you when we have more info.
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Re: IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT - website status
« Reply #1 on: Jan 26 - 2012 »

..also..

Anyone joining as a member since the 4th (at the moment) will have lost their account, and will need to open a new one.  :(

Obviously this is a very annoying situation, and plans are already in progress to ensure that this can never happen again. In future, in addition to our own regular back-ups, we will also be testing back-up data, to ensure that it isn't corrupt.
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