May Outage Thread

[Lord Tentacle]

Originally Posted by Harlard

We <3 u Dana

+9001

[boostdemon]

Originally Posted by Lord Tentacle

+9001

oof. right in the feels

[John242Ti]

Sounds like it has been more fun than a barrel of monkeys on acid...

Anyway, thanks for getting us back up.

[dbarton]

I think maybe a bunch of data was lost for April.

I was going over some of my subscribed thread replies that had accumulated in my inbox while I was out of town for Davis before the outage. It looks like maybe 15 or more threads that I received replies for in late April are now missing all replies. Some appear to be missing all activity going back to March, including 'Tonights Volvo Orphan' thread.

This thread https://forums.turbobricks.com/showt...30#post6234930 had a reply on 4/25 from user: barandon. It's not there when I look.

This one also lost all activity from April: https://forums.turbobricks.com/showt...20#post6264420

And this thread had a reply on 4/28 and the entire thread seems to be dead now: https://forums.turbobricks.com/showthread.php?t=364349. It was titled: 'Oil filter extension arm! Why are you even a thing.'. It shows an error message: No Thread specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator.
Dave B

[Failz]

Thanks for restoring what is effectively a solid 90% of all 240 fixing/modding/etc. related google search results.

[JohnMc]

Originally Posted by dbarton

I think maybe a bunch of data was lost for April.

I was going over some of my subscribed thread replies that had accumulated in my inbox while I was out of town for Davis before the outage. It looks like maybe 15 or more threads that I received replies for in late April are now missing all replies. Some appear to be missing all activity going back to March, including 'Tonights Volvo Orphan' thread.

This thread https://forums.turbobricks.com/showt...30#post6234930 had a reply on 4/25 from user: barandon. It's not there when I look.

This one also lost all activity from April: https://forums.turbobricks.com/showt...20#post6264420

And this thread had a reply on 4/28 and the entire thread seems to be dead now: https://forums.turbobricks.com/showthread.php?t=364349. It was titled: 'Oil filter extension arm! Why are you even a thing.'. It shows an error message: No Thread specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator.
Dave B

A backup from early April was used to restore the site.

Originally Posted by boostdemon

First off let me apologize in that this was a my fault kind of issue where I knew better and simply wasn't thinking of ramifications if said process failed. Secondly I apologize for taking 10 days to get this back up and running. I was working with our host to try and repair the broken database and causing lots more crashes and failures in the hopes that we could save the data from April this year. Luckily the host had a backup of the board from the migration earlier in April that saved us.

[bgpzfm142]

Originally Posted by Lord Tentacle

+9001

9002

Very glad you filled up the bit tank again. Trouble is, the price of binary '1's has gone up....

Seriously, thank you for persevering. Software screwups are a major PITA to sort.

[dorvin]

Thank you for all the hard work Dana! Happy to be back.

[Fa182]

Thanks again for all your work Dana!!! So happy to see it back up.

[John242Ti]

Originally Posted by JohnMc

A backup from early April was used to restore the site.

Specifically, the one from 4/1/22.

[ermit71]

Originally Posted by John242Ti

Specifically, the one from 4/1/22.

The delayed April fools joke?

[dl242gt]

Glad to see the board back up and running. Much appreciation to you Dana for sticking with it and getting things running. This prompted me to get a backup device for my home computer. I got a 2 terrabyte seagate one touch for $65. Amazing how the price per byte of storage has gone down.

[Meistwagon]

I appreciate your efforts! Everything IV ever learned about volvos was from this site.

[v8volvo]

Good to see it back, echoing the thanks.

Have you looked at xenforo as an alternative? TDI Club's forum moved onto that platform a year or so ago. Tdiclub is a smilar size "big board" with 20+ years of archive that was probably no longer a good fit for vbulletin 3 which it had been using until the move, same as tbricks. There are definitely some interface differences and a lot of added functions that I found kind of off-putting and gimmicky at first after the transition, but now that I am used to it, I have to say it works well and the new stuff has been growing on me. Things like post quoting, PM, etc are much more modern and smooth than vBulletin ever was. Seems to be stable, no issues on there since the move.

Anyway, if it gets to the point of looking at alternatives that may be a decent candidate. Till then glad to see this back in action.

[John242Ti]

Other sites I know of that use it:

https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php
https://audiokarma.org/forums/index.php
https://www.photrio.com
https://www.radiodiscussions.com
https://tinkerdifferent.com

There are some weird things about it. Whereas, on vBulletin and phpBB, there's a new post icon next to the title of the thread; on xenforo, the title of the thread takes you to the new post. To get to the original post, you need to click on the date and time stamp below the title. But, once people get used to it, it works pretty well. In the case of all of those forums, you still have to click "Mark Forums Read" when you're done. You can @mention people in your posts, as well.

[rallybrick]

Thanks for fixing the forum! Of the few interwebzy things left from my "previous life" before being a grown up, TB has remained as that comforting, warm blanket always waiting in the corner... or maybe it's the familiar, overly oily red rag stuffed in the top of the toolbox, ever ready to leap into service?

While I frowned that the board was down when I randomly checked, I knew Dana would pull through!

[KwikBrik245]

I was definitely going through withdrawals hahaha
These things happen, and should only be chalked up to growing pains. Thanks for your work, Dana. I'll see you at Mountain Meet

[MikeJr.]

Thanks Dana

[swedishiron.com]

Thank you for restoring function!

[240 Swagon]

Thank you Dana!

[yamahapro]

Thank you!

[sloopy]

why not use phpbb? its a very mature open source project which is actively developed, has extensive documentation, and has a very active community support forum.

https://www.phpbb.com/
https://www.phpbb.com/about/
https://www.phpbb.com/about/features/
https://www.phpbb.com/support/docs/
https://www.phpbb.com/community/

notable phpbb forums:
https://forum.videolan.org/
https://forums.gentoo.org/
https://forums.debian.net//

id be happy to help make this happen

[boostdemon]

Originally Posted by John242Ti

Other sites I know of that use it:

https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php
https://audiokarma.org/forums/index.php
https://www.photrio.com
https://www.radiodiscussions.com
https://tinkerdifferent.com

There are some weird things about it. Whereas, on vBulletin and phpBB, there's a new post icon next to the title of the thread; on xenforo, the title of the thread takes you to the new post. To get to the original post, you need to click on the date and time stamp below the title. But, once people get used to it, it works pretty well. In the case of all of those forums, you still have to click "Mark Forums Read" when you're done. You can @mention people in your posts, as well.

yeah i'm doing some research to see what will work best for us - obviously i'd love to stick with vbulletin if not for the ease to import our existing board but also because people here hate change lol. We just need to make sure whatever we choose can handle the database at its future size. I personally would love to be able to upload photos from my phone directly to the post, upvote/like posts, and @people as well - all the modern social media features we all are familiar with.

[boostdemon]

Originally Posted by sloopy

why not use phpbb? its a very mature open source project which is actively developed, has extensive documentation, and has a very active community support forum.

https://www.phpbb.com/
https://www.phpbb.com/about/
https://www.phpbb.com/about/features/
https://www.phpbb.com/support/docs/
https://www.phpbb.com/community/

notable phpbb forums:
https://forum.videolan.org/
https://forums.gentoo.org/
https://forums.debian.net//

id be happy to help make this happen

We actually left phpbb to go to vbulletin due to issues where I had to add a bunch of plugins to phpbb to make it work like vb and at every update to the board code i had to redo everything... albeit that was 20 years ago (and that gentoo forum pre-dates turbobricks, man that hasnt changed a bit since the late 90's) at this point so definitely will be looking at them as well.

[sloopy]

Originally Posted by boostdemon

We actually left phpbb to go to vbulletin due to issues where I had to add a bunch of plugins to phpbb to make it work like vb and at every update to the board code i had to redo everything... albeit that was 20 years ago (and that gentoo forum pre-dates turbobricks, man that hasnt changed a bit since the late 90's) at this point so definitely will be looking at them as well.

hah thats interesting. and maybe we can run phpbb on gentoo :o)