morleyjoe wrote:Glad to see it's all running fine now. To those who are complaining or are pissed off, would you have preferred to find CC did not do backups at all? Having had to replace my share of data on crashed or dead computers, I think it is amazing to see that they were able to get this backup in place and running so quickly. It could have been far worse. Congrats to the team for their hard work is in order.
I wouldn't go so far as to say that it should even be in the realm of possibility that CC didn't have any[i] backup, so I'm not going to give the admin props for quite that much. But I will second you on the direction if not the magnitude of your sentiment. I think that a 24 hour rollback for a situation that hasn't happened in 3 or 4 years is pretty impressive. I'm surprised and impressed that such a thing was so well prepared for (although I don't know if it was just luck that the last rollback was only 24 hours prior).
I can't believe all the griping in this thread. The single best post so far has been this one:
drunkmonkey wrote:The random outcome of my rolls was lost at a random point, and the new random results are different! It's an outrage!
But that doesn't stop people from having atrociously bad ideas:
CHECK-M8 wrote:All games in progress need to be deleted. That is the only fair way to do it.
Wow. How about thinking next time before you post, okay? Can you imagine the outrage if the games were completed deleted? TOs and their clan counterparts would probably start finding and stabbing people. Not to the mention the thousands of users who would lose entire games rather than just a turn or so. Unbelievable that you would actually suggest this.
TheProwler, I was very interested in your post though:
I have been very interested to read the posts by folks that work in similar industries and their takes on the matter. You seem to be somewhat in the minority here, chalking it up to a complete failure rather than something that can be learned from and improved as we go forward. Nonetheless, I appreciated the informative post from that viewpoint. Makes me slightly reconsider my kudos to the admin. Although, I still think I come down generally supportive and impressed by their handling of this.
Finally, I think the biggest losers here are the forum posters. A lot of those guys are running tourneys, may have taken games out of their Watch This Game screen, are running clan wars, are posting long, informative forum posts, etc. That type of stuff is more of a bitch to redo than just having to take a few turns over again. I hope if the admin have to make a choice that they will put emphasis on keeping a live backup of the forum in the future. (errr ... the "biggest losers" are maybe the people who are groaning about the loss of "their" dice that they "should have" got a second time, but I meant biggest losers in a different sense.)