IMPORTANT: Downtime: here's what we know

[Platinum Lucario]

Looks like I had to reupload my avatar. But it looks to me like it's now in a better quality than it was in the past.

But I'm kind of curious, has PC's servers ever been breached before the one that happened recently?

 

[Al3x]

has PC's servers ever been breached before the one that happened recently?

I'm pretty sure this was already asked somewhere before. If I remember correctly they were breached years ago before but not as big an extent as this one.

 

[Zoroark Cutie]

I'm just wandering, but was this always the limit or was this the result of the site going down?

Spoiler:

I thought the profile pic limit was 130x130 if you were not a supporter.

 

[Emboar]

I'm just wandering, but was this always the limit or was this the result of the site going down?

Spoiler:

I thought the profile pic limit was 130x130 if you were not a supporter.

That recently changed.

 

[Zoroark Cutie]

That recently changed.

Oh......well I'm stupid XP. I assumed it was due to the shutdown because I didn't see the announcement before.

 

[Dedenne1]

So since the attachments were worked on does that mean that downloadable attachments are fixed? Like hack roms that some of the pokemon hacks here have?

 

[chrunch]

I have an attachment uploaded at the start of 2014 that appears to be dead: https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=272818

 

[Hikamaru]

I remember hearing that Platinum Tier supporters' CSS usertitle editing has been broken by the incident, but it appears any form of usertitle formatting has been broken as well so Crystal Tier also has to be aware of that. Hope that it gets fixed soon so just going with unformatted usertitles until then.

 

[Megan]

Not sure, if it was already mentioned or not, but in terms of missing image files: that also includes the newer emblems.

 

[Hikamaru]

Thanks for pointing that out. I noticed six of my emblems had missing images.

 

[Dying Light]

Thanks for the update.

Sorry for the data purge.

Explains why my avatar and profile picture are gone.

 

[80C]

Oh snap... this means that a lot of rare Hack ROMs made by now nowhere-to-be-found-authors released only with an attachement in the main post are now lost forever.

 

[Natester]

Unfortunately they're gone. Hopefully the original creators of those emblems still have copies around somewhere.

What happens if the original creators of those emblems don't have copies? Does this mean that replacements have to be made?

Oh snap... this means that a lot of rare Hack ROMs made by now nowhere-to-be-found-authors released only with an attachement in the main post are now lost forever.

Yep, unfortunately. Of course, you can try Google although I'm not sure if that'll help much.

Thanks for the update.

Sorry for the data purge.

Explains why my avatar and profile picture are gone.

Actually, not all of the avatars and profile pictures (before March 2015) haven't been uploaded due to the shear size of the backup. Here's why:

Attachments were the first thing we did, so those should be up now. Avatars etc. were surprisingly massive and were taking too much time so we didn't finish them. tbd (to be decided).

 

[thedarkdragon11]

Are the attached files in this post gone forever? Thanks!

 

[Nihilego]

Are the attached files in this post gone forever? Thanks!

Unfortunately, yes, unless the creator or somebody else re-uploads them.

 

[Natester]

I noticed that every attachment in the ROM hacking forums (including subforums) are gone. Were they not in the backups?

 

[Natester]

There's only backups if the uploader kept them or if anyone has downloaded the original files but not tampered with them. It seems that they attempted to reupload the attachments, but it failed somehow. They all appear to be 1x1 images.

Oh, so that explains it. Looks like they have to be recoded.

 

[pokemaster102]

if anyone got my login they would be disappointed

 

[Saintscrew7]

Wow!! No wonder I had a WORLD of a problem sogning in.. or in my accounts. Uh... I don't know how to say this... but... I trusted you guys when I first got here and I STILL do!! Don't get discourage you can handle this!! GO PC TEAM!!

 

[ZapdosMan]

Well I just came on after one whole month, so highly doubt the fact that my information was misused. Well, I will change it anyway.
Hacking a community as big as this is honestly, a good catch for hackers. Security should be strengthened.

ZapdosMan,