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[Zarak]

Thank the baby Jesus it's back.

 

[Darchaos]

Happy we are back, good work team! Now im gonna take a long shower after my fast visit over at the purple place.

 

[MudoSkills]

 

[RayBoy]

 

[Lux R7]

 

[TheDarkPhantom]

Anyone who immediately ran to the "purple place" at the first sign of trouble should fuck off, ban 'em. There are literally hundreds of other places where you could get gaming news. Let me try it with an analogy: you really want to swim but find that your favourite pool is closed for the day. Well, there's a lake over there! No. There's a river! No. Perhaps the pond? No. Oh look, let me go bathe in that bathtub of nuclear waste instead! Makes sense

I'm just poking fun of course...but not really.

 

[SJRB]

Real-life footage of Evilore summoning GAF users from their slumber

 

[Kenneth Haight]

Thank goodness. Had to go outside for a while during that outage.

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

I def see some missing stuff, but glad to see most of it was recovered

 

[RavenSan]

Pour one out for the Sys Admin homie dealing with that. Dealt with a few catastrophic failures in my day, and they suuuuuuuuuck.

I'm just curious, if we're willing to share that info -- what kinda failure was it? Most common I've seen is a raid failure. Raid5 is not your friend and should not be trusted.

 

[mèx]

Yesterday was the most productive day of my life.

Back to being a lazy procrastinating slob now.

 

[EviLore]

Pour one out for the Sys Admin homie dealing with that. Dealt with a few catastrophic failures in my day, and they suuuuuuuuuck.

I'm just curious, if we're willing to share that info -- what kinda failure was it? Most common I've seen is a raid failure. Raid5 is not your friend and should not be trusted.

We had a snappage

 

[hemo memo]

Yesterday was the most productive day of my life.

Back to being a lazy procrastinating slob now.

I can't believe that I visited IGN website yesterday. I was so desperate.

 

[CastorSoze]

Good to see the site back.

I assumed it was down in mourning after the 2 big deaths.

Actually played a game instead.

 

[SweetTooth]

Happy we are back, god work team! Now im gonna take a long shower after my fast visit over at the purple place.

 

[Stafford]

Good to see it back up. But what is meant with all posts gone? Because I can still view posts of a few days ago.

I'm probably misunderstanding.

 

[RoadHazard]

Good job being prepared for something like this. Way too many companies and organizations are not.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Thank goodness. What am I supposed to do at work if not gaf?

 

[CuteFaceJay]

Thanks you.

 

[Shifty1897]

Where were you on the day GAF stood still?

I was more productive at work yesterday then I have been in years. Might need to do something about that.

 

[808mate]

This explains why my F5 button wasn't working.

Glad we're back!

 

[phant0m]

Actually played a game instead.

 

[GHG]

Glad to see we're back again.

EviLore if I'm not mistaken prior to the site going down I saw that Soodanim had gifted me gold (not sure what for exactly, but thank you, much appreciated) and it doesn't appear to have come through post server meltdown. If it's not able to get sorted easily then please refund him.

 

[PeteBull]

Things will be a little slow until tomorrow when we finish moving over to new hardware.

Reminder that if the site ever goes down again some time in the future, I'll post updates on our Discord and on Twitter. NeoGAF will not just vanish.

 

[mdkirby]

Yikes, I did wonder what was happening. Glad it's all back up and running

 

[hemo memo]

Actually played a game instead.

Yeah sure...

 

[Kacho]

Glad it's back up. The internet is boring without GAF.

 

[Sevyne]

I was so desperate that I had to go see Alyssa Mercante to get my gaming related content yesterday. It was really annoying; She kept asking if I wanted fries with that.

 

[Nankatsu]

I was starting to think that the company where I work had blocked my access to GAF since I spend quite a bit of time here during working hours.

 

[GudOlRub]

First it was 4chan then GAF, I got quite bored yesterday during my late night surfing ngl, if all I had to discuss about vidya online was reddit and the purple site then I might as well just quit gaming forums altogether...

 

[Nonehxc]

Hi everyone. We experienced a catastrophic hardware failure and had to restore from backups. Unfortunately we lost all posts since last night, but much better than the alternatives, I'm sure you would agree!

On the plus side, it was a chance to significantly upgrade our servers, which should help going forward. Thanks for your patience.

I told you buying and OCing that 5090 was a bad idea.

 

[Hypereides]

Happy we are back, god work team! Now im gonna take a long shower after my fast visit over at the purple place.

You should probably go through a proper sanitization and decontamination process instead.

 

[hemo memo]

First it was 4chan then GAF, I got quite bored yesterday during my late night surfing ngl, if all I had to discuss about vidya online was reddit and the purple site then I might as well just quit gaming forums altogether...

Honestly outside of GAF, I don't see myself actively following or discussing games. If GAF isn't an option, then reluctantly it would only be on X/Twitter.

 

[Vyse]

 

[TerribleAtThisGame]

 

[Punished Miku]

please refund him.

Do you have a death wish or something?

 

[Vyse]

 

[PeteBull]

 

[Vyse]

NeoGAF was lost in mist,
silent screens and empty threads—
now the flame burns bright.

 

[struggler_guts]

Don't believe the hacker's lies!!!!

 

[Plague Arisen]

"Rise, if you would...for that is our curse"

 

[YCoCg]

After further investigation it appears that EviLore 's security details were shared in a private Signal group chat by the head security of the site.

 

[TGO]

See being an ol' school gaffer I actually thought some mega tone announcement had happened and the servers crashed like they used to, remember when that used to happen?

 

[Solarstrike]

I was genuinely concerned. Was not able to function or even togehter put sentences remotely even really cohherant. I want names! I'm shook!

PS: Thank you

 

[ultrazilla]

Hi everyone. We experienced a catastrophic hardware failure and had to restore from backups. Unfortunately we lost all posts since last night, but much better than the alternatives, I'm sure you would agree!

On the plus side, it was a chance to significantly upgrade our servers, which should help going forward. Thanks for your patience.

My brother Solarstrike and I exchanging texts yesterday:

zilla: What's up bro?
strike: Can't get through to GAF. Can you?
zilla: No.
both of us: this sucks .

Glad things are back up and running well EviLore !

 

[Shadowstar39]

Seems yesterday was a crazy time for many IT places. My company's azure sync went down all new password changes didn't work for o365 apps as well as a bunch of manufacturing servers taking a dump as they decided to do upgrades on over the weekend. Reddit and a few other sites were down yesterday too. I was too busy to to be over here, so I didn't really notice until last night.

Glad its back and nothing catastrophic.

 

[Hollowpoint5557]

Glad it's back even though the site is super slow now.

 

[EverydayBeast]

 

[Peroroncino]

I thought for a moment the commies got us.

 

[pudel]

Glad it's back even though the site is super slow now.

Site is slow since the new updates for me. Today its even quite okay.