Is Ezboards no more?

Goldmund · Wed 01/02/2006 17:31:14

I need to write my monthly column for a magazine, and driven by laziness I got and idea to check if I said something witty on the old forums, so that I can translate it and present to the editors.

Alas! Lo and behold the tragedy of the mortal forums!

I managed to login to my ezboards profile, but most of the posts are deleted ("unknown user, post non-existing").

Is there a backup of our happy past somewhere on the net?

MrColossal · Wed 01/02/2006 17:34:05

Sylpher saved some posts... But he hasn't fixed his site... You could pester him for some stuff, seems there's some posts about game theory, Monkey Island and something called Old Posts...

The Inquisitive Stranger · Wed 01/02/2006 19:08:11

http://p098.ezboard.com/bdosuserforums is still working...

And if you can't find what you're looking for, then archive.org is your friend!

Squinky · Mon 06/02/2006 05:44:57

Seems like very post has the first post, but the rest are lost in time. Makes me feel kinda sad, I spent a lot of time there....

Pumaman · Mon 06/02/2006 21:43:23

This is a shame, it seems like most of the posts are gone ... ah well, if that's how well ezboard take care of their data, I guess it's lucky we moved away from them...

Esseb · Mon 06/02/2006 23:03:13

That was one of the original reasons, CJ. You forgetful Brit.

m0ds · Mon 06/02/2006 23:14:03

Doh! There were many many great conversations had on ezboards, and now they have been destroooyyyed!

Does someone have all these Yabb posts backed up?

Who will look after adventuregamestudio.co.uk in 100 years time/!?!?1

CJ, when are you having kids?

PS Esseb, I like your signiature

auhsor · Tue 07/02/2006 12:54:40

I remember a few months ago ezboards got hacked and lost alot of data. They had some backups, but were not able to retrieve everything for all forums. I'm not sure if this is what affected the old boards, but it might be.

Esseb · Tue 07/02/2006 20:16:51

No, they have a policy of deleting old posts, or posts from page 10 or higher on a forum. This was a problem even when we were still on ezboard.

Pumaman · Tue 07/02/2006 21:30:28

Perhaps, but they certainly didn't have a policy of replacing all but the first post in each thread with "(This post is missing and can not be restored)" -- the hackery sounds plausible for this.

It's a shame, ezboard was a goldmine of how things were in the "oldern days"

AGA · Tue 07/02/2006 21:41:58

Oh Eee Zed Boards, how we miss you.

Esseb · Tue 07/02/2006 22:23:22

CJ: Depends on when this hackery was performed. It was like that two years ago also.

Squinky · Wed 08/02/2006 01:32:29

I had been popping in there every now and again, and this seems like a pretty recent devolopment. All the missing posts have the same date and time too, so thats probably when it happened....

MrColossal · Wed 08/02/2006 01:59:15

By golly Holmes! That's the time of the murder!

Gilbert · Wed 08/02/2006 07:59:00

Quote from: The Inquisitive Stranger on Wed 01/02/2006 19:08:11
And if you can't find what you're looking for, then archive.org is your friend!

Yeah, seems that it's our only hope, but that may not work well if you don't know the original message address.

The Inquisitive Stranger · Wed 08/02/2006 19:12:06

Quote from: Gilbot V7000a on Wed 08/02/2006 07:59:00
Yeah, seems that it's our only hope, but that may not work well if you don't know the original message address.

Yeah... interestingly enough, I managed to find my old EzBoard quite easily, because I was redirecting to it with a shorter URL.

Is Ezboards no more?

m0ds