People Who Have Lost Account/ or Posts

**Pc_Madness** · Jul 26th, 2002, 03:58 AM

If you've lost your posts, put your old username and estimated post count before the crash here. It'll make it easier for Karl, if any thing can be done about it.....

**ashay** · Jul 26th, 2002, 04:00 AM

hi,

i hvnt lost the post count,but all my subscribed threads are lost..........

wat to write bout lost threads????????

regds,
ashay

**Bonker Gudd** · Jul 26th, 2002, 04:03 AM

Originally posted by ashay
all my subscribed threads are lost

Same here, but that's not a problem

I can't change my Avatar BTW.

**Slaine** · Jul 26th, 2002, 04:11 AM

I lost my account and had to re-subscribe. I had about 400 posts but I'm not that bothered about my post count resetting to zero - more upset by not being able to see all my subscribed threads :-(

**Pc_Madness** · Jul 26th, 2002, 04:12 AM

I wouldn't worry about your Avator for now. Subsribed threads are in the same boat.

**Pc_Madness** · Jul 26th, 2002, 04:14 AM

I'm guessing subsribed threads are gone. Threads would have been deleted and they ain't going to come back. The same thing is going for Users.

**Slaine** · Jul 26th, 2002, 04:21 AM

I'm also not able to see any newly subscribed threads.

**CHAMPGARY** · Jul 26th, 2002, 04:23 AM

Originally posted by Slaine
I lost my account and had to re-subscribe. I had about 400 posts but I'm not that bothered about my post count resetting to zero - more upset by not being able to see all my subscribed threads :-(

Same here,
I have to start with 0 ,
and I can't uploading my avtar ....
What happening ?????,

Gary

**Pc_Madness** · Jul 26th, 2002, 04:23 AM

Yeah... as I've said "Give it Time"

Another problem is that it appears that I we are being double emailed when someone replies to a Thread.

**ashay** · Jul 26th, 2002, 04:39 AM

hi,

no subject in the emails too!!

hope i get my subscribed threads back.....next time i will also make sure that i take additional backup of some imp threads....

regds,
ashay

**ashay** · Jul 26th, 2002, 04:59 AM

hi,

n one more thing........i m not getting subscribed to new threads also .....darn.....

regds,
ashay

**Behemoth** · Jul 26th, 2002, 05:22 AM

old username: Behemoth (with a capital "B"

)
old postcount: somwhere between 1200 and 1800 posts, I think.

**Slaine** · Jul 26th, 2002, 05:34 AM

I don't think it's necessary to post our 'guessed' post counts. If Karl wanted to correct them surely the best way would be to run a script that queried the post database for each user pulling the number of posts and updating the user profile.

**plenderj** · Jul 26th, 2002, 06:01 AM

Originally posted by Slaine
I don't think it's necessary to post our 'guessed' post counts. If Karl wanted to correct them surely the best way would be to run a script that queried the post database for each user pulling the number of posts and updating the user profile.

On an already busy forum, with over 30,000 members, and over 1 million posts, that could take hours to complete

**Slaine** · Jul 26th, 2002, 06:07 AM

Originally posted by plenderj

On an already busy forum, with over 30,000 members, and over 1 million posts, that could take hours to complete

Would it?

If the database is well designed with good indexes then I don't see why it should take that long - especially if it was done 'off-peak'. If it was likely to take hours then I presume back-ups are taken so why not use one of these on a seperate machine that could run the job then just migrate the results back to the live machine.

Besides it could take many hours to manually update peoples post counts.

**ayyasaran** · Jul 26th, 2002, 07:28 AM

Previously, I used to get one email per thread with new posts.
Now I am receiving one email per post. This is annoying.

**phrozeman** · Jul 26th, 2002, 10:28 AM

Wow,

This account is really old...
My previous one is gone (phrozeman) i almost had 200 posts, registred sice April 2000 or 2001...

So i wanted to register my old nickname back (phroze), but the register function doesn't work!!

Can anyone change this acount nickname to phroze and my posts back ?

Thanx

**phpman** · Jul 26th, 2002, 12:57 PM

Originally posted by Slaine
I don't think it's necessary to post our 'guessed' post counts. If Karl wanted to correct them surely the best way would be to run a script that queried the post database for each user pulling the number of posts and updating the user profile.

how can you do that? the reason nobody has posts anymore is becasue they are gone. duh, you can't query something that is not there.

I have a friend and his name was scoutt and his posts were like 2900.

**SoCalled** · Jul 26th, 2002, 01:13 PM

Originally posted by ayyasaran
Previously, I used to get one email per thread with new posts.
Now I am receiving one email per post. This is annoying.

I think that was a hack some one put in. And yes it used to do that here. Give it time and they will fix it.

I'm not worried by any of this stuff. Yes have lost over 2000 post counts but who cares, it's not going to be the end of the world. Lost some threads which l was keeping an eye on, but what the hey repost the question. Have done that and am still not getting an answer to a question.

Life goes on, be happy the board is back up and running, stop whinging.....

**Sastraxi** · Jul 26th, 2002, 02:08 PM

Yeah, with a good database (vBulletin manages it quite well, up to a point and I think that's where VBF is

!) it could take mere seconds.

**carp** · Jul 26th, 2002, 04:14 PM

I had a post count of about 600. Maybe even 600 becuase I remember breaking 600 then when I came back my account was gone

**SoCalled** · Jul 26th, 2002, 04:38 PM

Did you have more then one account carp, maybe another one is active....

**carp** · Jul 26th, 2002, 05:10 PM

No, This was my account before. I just recreated it yesterday.

**Pc_Madness** · Jul 28th, 2002, 02:35 AM

Well the Forums are back, and I think I'm the first one on.

All hail me!! lol

**JungleMan** · Jul 28th, 2002, 03:17 PM

JungleMan

5943 posts

OK Fine...I thought it would work..

1840-something

I don't care about my post archive, just give me my post count and user name.

**KarlMoore** · Jul 28th, 2002, 07:23 PM

Thanks to everyone that has contributed to this thread.

The following changes have been made:

- Behemoth > capitalised and 1500 posts (mean figure) added
- Phrozeman > username changed from blcrew, 200 post count with registered date in April 2000
- JungleMan2 > there's a problem changing your name back to JungleMan, so it's been altered to Jungle-Man for now (is that okay?), post count altered to 1850
- Spetnik > post count altered to 1400

Feel free to continue posting all genuine change requests. These will be actioned ASAP.

Also, please note that we are currently in the process of arranging for our sites to be moved to bigger and better machines.

Here's hoping, gang!

Warmest,

- Karlos

**beachbum** · Jul 28th, 2002, 07:37 PM

Well, all the girls loved me cos I had a 10 inch tongue and could breathe thru my ears but then I lost it in an accident with a slurpee machine ... can i have that back pls?

**JungleMan** · Jul 28th, 2002, 08:09 PM

1853 (574.64 posts per day)

Too frequent..

Thanks Karl. Best of luck

**phpman** · Jul 28th, 2002, 08:37 PM

Originally posted by phpman
scoutt, ruffly like 2900.

**SoCalled** · Jul 28th, 2002, 09:18 PM

LOL

no idea karl, somewhere between 10 and 3,000,000...

**MasterEvilAce** · Jul 28th, 2002, 09:33 PM

progeix, something around 600
i'd like to keep this name, if possible or rename the other member to this if you do it that way, whichever is easiest

Finally got registered again, had to have jungleman register for me, as i kept getting a blank error when trying to register

**Zaei** · Jul 29th, 2002, 12:10 AM

I dont really care about the post count, but having so many "Zaei Status: Guest"'s floating around is a bit strange. Is there anyway to change my User ID, back to what it was? If not, no problem, like I said, I dont really mind at all =).

Z.

**RobIII** · Jul 29th, 2002, 03:48 AM

RobIII:
Post-count about 650/700 ??? Dunno exactly....

**si_the_geek** · Jul 29th, 2002, 04:32 AM

woo-hoo! I can finally get in again

, it's been such a nightmare trying to re-register, but I'm back!

hope things are getting better at your end of this Karl, I'm sure you are having a complete nightmare...

anyway.. I had about 1300 posts, and I think I registered about a year ago

my welcome message was one of the few potentially important mails I didn't keep!

**Slaine** · Jul 29th, 2002, 05:59 AM

Post Count = 400
Registered = April 01

I may as well get mine fixed if you are doing them

Cheers Karl.

**InvalidUser** · Jul 29th, 2002, 08:31 AM

User Name = Stevie
Post Count = 560
Registered = March 00

Why is it that I am logged in as Stevie in the vb-world main site, but I can't log in as Stevie in the forums?

**Behemoth** · Jul 29th, 2002, 10:49 AM

Originally posted by KarlMoore
Thanks to everyone that has contributed to this thread.

The following changes have been made:

- Behemoth > capitalised and 1500 posts (mean figure) added
- Phrozeman > username changed from blcrew, 200 post count with registered date in April 2000
- JungleMan2 > there's a problem changing your name back to JungleMan, so it's been altered to Jungle-Man for now (is that okay?), post count altered to 1850
- Spetnik > post count altered to 1400

Feel free to continue posting all genuine change requests. These will be actioned ASAP.

Also, please note that we are currently in the process of arranging for our sites to be moved to bigger and better machines.

Here's hoping, gang!

Warmest,

- Karlos

Awww....I feel all warm and cuddly inside. Thanks, Karl

**carp** · Jul 29th, 2002, 10:56 AM

My post count was about 600. Thanks.

**gaffa_reborn** · Jul 29th, 2002, 06:55 PM

I wouldn't mind my user name back.... being reborn is all fine and dandy, but the extra 7 characters are killing me...

I had about 1350 or 1400 posts. If you can query the DB, it should be easy - search for "- gaffa" in the actual thread. I never used a signature, so my name is in every post I made... knew I did that for some reason

- gaffa

**Tygur** · Jul 29th, 2002, 09:29 PM

I'd like my post count fixed back up..

I believe it was probably somewhere between 1400 and 1700.

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