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Board Abruptly Lost Skin; The problem has somewhat corrected itself, but I'd still like an explanation if possible.
Topic Started: Feb 16 2012, 06:19 PM (270 Views)
Marcus_Vital
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The problem was this:
I opened up my nearly nine year old IF forum today to find that my custom skin had been completely wiped out. CSS, images, everything-- all had been reset to the default shiny new IF forum blue and white. And that wasn't all-- initially the home page was claiming I had 0 members and that the most users ever online was five, and that statistic was from today (it was previously around 82 from February of 2005). User avatars and signature images were still intact, as were my custom pips (weirdly), but all else was set back to default. Now the interesting thing was that bits and pieces started coming back on their own-- I checked the member list (thankfully no accounts had actually been removed) and after doing so and returning to the home page, the total members figure was displaying properly again, but nothing else was.

I decided to just let it sit and see what happened. Shortly after my initial discovery, an older version of my custom skin from this past November started to load instead of the default stuff. That's currently what is continuing to load, and it is something that I can just tweak back to the way it should be, but I would very much like to know what could have caused this in the first place. To my knowledge no posts were effected (thank goodness...didn't need another server one post annihilation like what happened several years ago), and because of that I'm viewing this problem with pretty good humor as opposed to spazzy wrathfulness.

A few other notes-- I have been noticing bots visiting in force over the past several weeks (usually around twenty at a time) but none of them are able to register so I'm thinking this is just a coincidence. There are only two of us with Admin CP access and my co-admin hasn't signed in for several days. I haven't touched the CP all day out of fear of making things permanent if I started poking around.

The board: http://z1.invisionfree.com/forums/vital

Any theories are most welcome.
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Hileville
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Ours went down as well for a while today and when it came back things were not the same and some of our polls reset to where people can vote a second time.

http://z1.invisionfree.com/forums/theSPacific/index.php?
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