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Board Deletion; Cracked and deleted :/
Topic Started: Mar 4 2009, 11:45 AM (588 Views)
shinylady
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Hey - first off, I did read the guide. It's not my board (I'm just a member) but I've passed the guide on to the admins.

The URL of the deleted board is: http://z6.invisionfree.com/redCarpet__rebellion/index.php and it went down sometime between last night and today.

What I wanted to know is - why is it that the guide says IF board restorations are currently not being processed? RCR was a huge site, and extremely popular - with a lot of brilliant resources. ZB boards are currently being restored between 24 and 48 hours, but IF boards aren't being restored at all? Why?

Most importantly - is there any point in future that this board might be restored? I don't have a member count, but I think we're talking in the thousands here. It'd be devastating if this board was gone for good.

(If this is in the wrong place, please feel free to move it!)
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BAW94
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Hello There,

You said it yourself IF aren't restoring boards because they are set on having ZB working, also its a way to get you to convert!

Basically open a new forum and send a ticket (your admin will need to do it!)
They may restore it but it could take weeks and thats if your lucky!

I wish you the best of luck on getting your forum back!
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shinylady
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I really hope that's not true X_X;; I've had some rude responses from support here during a seperate incident, and if it turns out that IF admins are second-class to ZB or something, I'm hightailing it to less-mean pastures XDD; After all, that's what the last support staff member told me to do ;-;

I've passed word to the admins again - it's a whole Friend-Of-A-Friend chain at the minute - and I'm hoping the site gets restored. It's really such an amazing place, and so many of us rely on it for everything. Gah, stupid jealous... evil board-cracking people >_<
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I don't see a 404 error so I doubt it was deleted.
This is what I get.
This domain is not setup for an InvisionFree.com board.
Seems to be a domain problem.

That was from my link. Your link shows the 404 error.Looks like it could've been deleted.
Edited by ~kato~, Mar 4 2009, 12:13 PM.
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shinylady
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I'm confused, Kato - it is deleted, or... no? The admins have officially said it's been deleted, hence all the scurrying about ^^;;
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Only member no.1 can delete the board. If they did delete it I'm sure they had a reason. It's hard to accidentally delete a board since they ask for confirmation before deletion. I'd ask the board owner.
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shinylady
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The board owner has already confirmed that somebody cracked her account to do it. It wasn't her :/
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Tony
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If found, please report missing.

Restorations of any kind are not being processed for either InvisionFree or ZetaBoards. The only information I have on this is there are only two people who can process restorations, and both are busy with life; work; education; families; and bug fixes. There is also a lack of resources to effectively restore all boards; admin accounts; lost passwords; and all other restoration tickets.

In all honesty BAW94, we don't care if people convert or not. The issues above still stand for both services.

I will be honest, restorations most likely won't happen for InvisionFree. I would love if the Support Team was able to do more, instead of having to push people away.

shinylady, which member of the Support Team was rude to you?

Jealous people do stupid things, but it is also the responsibility of the board owner to use a secure password. One consisting of upper-case; lower-case; numbers; punctuation, and at least eight characters long. A secure password, changed often, can take a lifetime to crack.

If it's certain the board was cracked, send in a ticket asking for a restoration. RC&R may get lucky.
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shinylady
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Ahh, that's... a serious blow x-X; I know it's not your fault, but it's... well, bad, y'know? I can't speak for the admin regarding her password, only that sometimes these things happen, and having no solution is worrying. I'm sure they'll try and get it back anyway, successful or not.

And... I'd rather not get into that here ^^; Suffice it to say that it wasn't you - you've been professional to me before (thank you!)

Our own board is facing layout theft etc, and we're a little worried about the people doing it targeting us. I've backed us up elsewhere, and I think we'll start migrating there, just to be on the safe side x-x;;

Thanks for your help, Tony.

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My suggestion is to make a new board and set the domain that you were using to the new board. Anyone using it to find you will find you again and rejoin. It sucks you have to restart like this but it's better then nothing. That's the only idea I coudl give you as restoration isn't likely to happen anytime soon.
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Mysterious Wanderer
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Hey, Shiny. Luke here.

I saw the 404 error. It is in fact deleted. I have no idea who hacked the admin's account and I am dreadfully sorry that happened to you guys. I'm sure it was an awesome place.

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You said it yourself IF aren't restoring boards because they are set on having ZB working, also its a way to get you to convert!
Whoa, man. That makes the IF look more like a business than anything. I agree entirely with Tony that the service should apply to both types. Unfortunately, the IF seems to be temporarily incapable <for lack of better words) to do anything with their old service. A lot of undesirable things have happened with IF boards and they have been worked on constantly due to the recent break out.

I hope that Brandon or whoever is now in charge can Divide some attention to the original version of InvisionFree boards and give it the support and service it needs.


As a note: I speak in half ignorance, so if anyone would like to fill me in on the details so I can rethink and re-elaborate my views, it would be much appreciated.
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Tony
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If found, please report missing.

Certainly. Zathyus Networks own both services. InvisionFree was originally developed by Invision Power Services, and was set up to use for free forum hosting when IP.Board was itself free to use.

At this time, Brandons' main focus is on ZetaBoards; since the software is his. I would love to see IF updated to current standards, but with only one developer it won't happen until ZB is fully functional and running smoothly.

If we have a staff meeting anytime soon I'm going to bring this up. Only a month on the team and I already want to go on strike.

My main aim for IF is to have better skinning capabilities. :P
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shinylady
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Hey Luke! *Waves* Yeah, RCR was a brilliant resource - a little like RPG-D, but it focused more on skins, codes, tutorials etc. I wonder if the admins will have the energy to rebuild; their topsites is still working, but maybe they'll pack it in.

And awesome, Tony XD;; Come up with a protest song and take along a guitar! Just don't do a Bob Dylan impression >>;
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I actually prefer the IF look as opposed to the Zeta look, (one of the reasons I still use the original Invision Free) however; to make it easier to skin would be really great... might confuse a couple people who already make great skins though. hahaha.


Edit: Oh and yes, Tony. Thank you for being so clear about this. You helped explain a great deal, and I admire how down to earth you are.
Edited by Mysterious Wanderer, Mar 4 2009, 04:35 PM.
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shinylady
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Me too XD; No offense to Brandon, I mean. IF was where I first learned to skin ^-^; There are features I'd looove to see, skinning-wise, that it doesn't have yet - but like Tony said, IF is on the backburner right now. Sanc is gonna move to another host, at least until ZB is up and running and we feel a little more secure on IF.
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