Animereactor

JanusX · January 13th, 2005

This is a question to anyone who frequents the AnimeReactor Forums.
Is it just me or is there something weird going on with the message board? Searches always fail, and it doesn't seem to have been posted on since before christmas. Did they move recently and I'm seeing an old mirror? Or is it something else entirely.

Unicron · January 14th, 2005

eh i think they were shut down...for good.

Blade556 · January 14th, 2005

Hopefully Animesuki won't be shut down. I know alot of people who love that site.

Btw, Unicron, you haven't gotten back to me on that NGEM thing. Do you read PM's?

RZetlin · January 14th, 2005

Check out their IRC channel and anidb for more information.

And no, they haven't shut down.

What happen was they were applying an update to the forums, but the update patch messed up the whole board.

When they will be back is anybody's guess.

Quote:

Ok,

as most of you have probably noticed :P
posting on this forum is currently broken.
unfortunatly I can't tell you when it will be fixed.
however gmni says he's working on it, so we'll just have to wait.

btw. editing posts is possible.

about the reasons.
we had to take the forums down a couple of weeks ago and update some software due to critical security flaws in the versions used so far.
however some of the custom modifications to this forum seem to be incompatible with the new software used and there are some major adjustments which need to be done to the forum software in order to make everything work again.
i can't tell you anything specific as this is gmni's domain and i have no idea what he's changing atm :P

BYe!
EXP

__Xzyx987X · January 14th, 2005

They keep saying it will be fixed soon, but it's already been a month with no apperant progress. How can they keep us waiting like this? It's too cruel.

RZetlin · January 14th, 2005

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Originally Posted by __Xzyx987X

They keep saying it will be fixed soon, but it's already been a month with no apperant progress. How can they keep us waiting like this? It's too cruel.

Anidb is still working and being updated. So you can get your stuff from there.

Blade556 · January 14th, 2005

It's really a matter of reinstalling Vbulletin or phpBB or IPB otr whatever they use. But perhaps they're trying to recover the Database, which wouldn't be too incredibly hard...I could do it if I wanted to, in less than an hour.

Anyway, if they just reinstalled the forums everything would be deleted, so be patient. If they haven't done it in a month, they're not coming back, probably because of loss of interest, or just lost all the FTP information.

As for the main site, if there is one, why would it go down? I don't get it, but whatever the problem is theres probably more to it than what they tell you.

**Kane** · January 14th, 2005

The animereactor database is massive. I'd guess that it were around the size of the NGEmu one.

> As for the main site, if there is one, why would it go down?

There is a site for it I suppose, but it's very rarely updated. All the action goes on in the forums.

>But perhaps they're trying to recover the Database, which wouldn't be too incredibly hard...I could do it if I wanted to, in less than an hour.

Then head over to the IRC channel and offer your services.

Blade556 · January 14th, 2005

Well it's not that hard. If they're using MySQL, which they probably are, then all the database items are stored in a folder (Interpreted by a BB as a Database). It's hard to explain, so let me do so:

When you install MySQL and whatever on your webserver, it creates a driectory wherever you install it. If you go to that directory, there is another folder called "Data", and inside that folder are the Databases (AKA folders, remember?). I do not know the mechanics of operating MySQL, but it would make sense if you imported that Database into the one you are using now.

Of course, if you just tell it to use that database while installing, it will say that the database already in use (Because of all the data inside it, and it requires a new one to be used). But I theorize (Because I have not tried it) that you could just copy all the files within the Database (It's a folder, remember?) and paste them into a new Database, but not before installing the BB with that new Database.

Anyway, that may not make sense to you, but it probably would to anyone who knows how to install BB's and operate SQL Databases. I could be wrong, so thats why I won't go to the IRC channel (That and I'm lazy

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__Xzyx987X · January 16th, 2005

For those of you who haven't noticed yet, posting on animereactor is working again!

I was getting a little worried that it would never come back after all that downtime.

RZetlin · January 16th, 2005

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Originally Posted by __Xzyx987X

For those of you who haven't noticed yet, posting on animereactor is working again!

I was getting a little worried that it would never come back after all that downtime.

Thanks for the heads up. It just took a year to get it back running again!

Time to click on the links!

January 13th, 2005	#1 (permalink)
JanusX Nu... Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: A small cluttered desk Posts: 471	Animereactor This is a question to anyone who frequents the AnimeReactor Forums. Is it just me or is there something weird going on with the message board? Searches always fail, and it doesn't seem to have been posted on since before christmas. Did they move recently and I'm seeing an old mirror? Or is it something else entirely. __________________ "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." - Plato

January 14th, 2005	#2 (permalink)
Unicron Git er done Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Raleigh, NC USA GO us! Posts: 2,828	eh i think they were shut down...for good. __________________ It is the soldier, not the court, that has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the agitator, who has given us the freedom to protest. It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag, who gives that protestor the freedom he abuses to burn that flag. -Senator Zell Miller

January 14th, 2005	#5 (permalink)
__Xzyx987X あの人 Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: In Front of My Computer Posts: 774	They keep saying it will be fixed soon, but it's already been a month with no apperant progress. How can they keep us waiting like this? It's too cruel. __________________ This week's top 3 songs: Xzyx987X - The man with the name you can't pronounce.

January 14th, 2005	#8 (permalink)
Kane 邪魔ゎ指せない Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Gosport, England Posts: 26,255	The animereactor database is massive. I'd guess that it were around the size of the NGEmu one. > As for the main site, if there is one, why would it go down? There is a site for it I suppose, but it's very rarely updated. All the action goes on in the forums. >But perhaps they're trying to recover the Database, which wouldn't be too incredibly hard...I could do it if I wanted to, in less than an hour. Then head over to the IRC channel and offer your services. __________________ >Site Live< Pop over to my site for help with setting up PSX emulators. Help for the Final Fantasies and other RPGs avalaible Celes: (Desktop) Athlon 64 X2 4200+, 2Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, MSI K8N Platinum, GeForce 8800 GTS 320Mb, 500Gb RAID HDD, Vista Business Erika: (MCPC) Athlon XP 2400+, 1Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, geForce 6800 256Mb, 80Gb Hdd, XP 2005 MCE Kimiko: (Desktop 2) Athlon 64 3000+, 512Mb 400MHz DDR Ram, Asus K8V, geForce 6800 128Mb

January 16th, 2005	#10 (permalink)
__Xzyx987X あの人 Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: In Front of My Computer Posts: 774	For those of you who haven't noticed yet, posting on animereactor is working again! I was getting a little worried that it would never come back after all that downtime. __________________ This week's top 3 songs: Xzyx987X - The man with the name you can't pronounce.

January 14th, 2005	#3 (permalink)
Blade556 Banned Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Barrie Posts: 118	Hopefully Animesuki won't be shut down. I know alot of people who love that site. Btw, Unicron, you haven't gotten back to me on that NGEM thing. Do you read PM's?

January 14th, 2005	#7 (permalink)
Blade556 Banned Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Barrie Posts: 118	It's really a matter of reinstalling Vbulletin or phpBB or IPB otr whatever they use. But perhaps they're trying to recover the Database, which wouldn't be too incredibly hard...I could do it if I wanted to, in less than an hour. Anyway, if they just reinstalled the forums everything would be deleted, so be patient. If they haven't done it in a month, they're not coming back, probably because of loss of interest, or just lost all the FTP information. As for the main site, if there is one, why would it go down? I don't get it, but whatever the problem is theres probably more to it than what they tell you.

January 14th, 2005	#9 (permalink)
Blade556 Banned Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Barrie Posts: 118	Well it's not that hard. If they're using MySQL, which they probably are, then all the database items are stored in a folder (Interpreted by a BB as a Database). It's hard to explain, so let me do so: When you install MySQL and whatever on your webserver, it creates a driectory wherever you install it. If you go to that directory, there is another folder called "Data", and inside that folder are the Databases (AKA folders, remember?). I do not know the mechanics of operating MySQL, but it would make sense if you imported that Database into the one you are using now. Of course, if you just tell it to use that database while installing, it will say that the database already in use (Because of all the data inside it, and it requires a new one to be used). But I theorize (Because I have not tried it) that you could just copy all the files within the Database (It's a folder, remember?) and paste them into a new Database, but not before installing the BB with that new Database. Anyway, that may not make sense to you, but it probably would to anyone who knows how to install BB's and operate SQL Databases. I could be wrong, so thats why I won't go to the IRC channel (That and I'm lazy )

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