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For the last 10 days or so I was in Europe on vacation. I didn’t announce this in advance as it seemed like people might take advantage of my absence to cause havoc (it’s happened before!)

This problem arose due to a bug that existed with forum names that contained odd characters. It happened for the first time the night I left, even though we’d built dozens and dozens of forums since the bug was introduced. I fixed that one manually since I had to pack and such. I didn’t think it would come up again so soon because, hell, it hadn’t come up in a year before that! I was wrong Log in to see images!

Fortunately my hotel in Barcelona had limited and slow wireless internet. McB sent out a “HELP!” email and I fixed the broken forum. Fixing streaks and visits was not in the cards though, since it was very time consuming and would have been unrealistic with a slow connection.

We had to weigh the risks of telling people I was away and would be for another week and risk the site getting even more broken or not. Ultimately we decided to tell a few individuals who were visibly upset personally.

I got back last night, jetlagged, so I spent all this morning cleaning up. The original bug is fixed and will never happen again. I have given everyone the visits they lost and reported plus an extra 4. This might mean you have more than 12 visits!

Additionally, I restored all the forums that were pwned in your streaks before the bug caused them to erase. PLEASE DOUBLE CHECK YOUR STREAKS before pwning a forum. Restoring a streak is not always easy, so there might be a forum in there you didn’t expect.

Sorry about all this. I really needed a break and we did our best to fix things as quick as we could.

-ET