Rise from your grave, NeoGAF

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

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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.
 
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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.
 
Glad to see we're back again.

EviLore EviLore if I'm not mistaken prior to the site going down I saw that Soodanim 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.
 
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.
 
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.

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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...
 
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. 🥺

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

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PS: Thank you
 
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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 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 :messenger_neutral: .

Glad things are back up and running well EviLore EviLore !
 
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.
 
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