Someone set up us the bomb (ap I’m looking @ you)
Jonathan | Velocity: Tyler broke shit, others failed at fixing, wild synth appeared. Shit fixed, Vet Alive, MP updates coming.
Amy: The database housing FFR got into a wizard-of-oz like mess. It had to find its way to the wonderful wizard of oz to get its brain back. Along the way it met Synthlight, aperson and Sprite-. The end.
Amy: and yes… aperson is the cowardly lion.
Dom: tl;dr: verify yo backups
Dom: -FFR Staff
aperson’s Lesson of the day: If you’re going to restore from a backup make sure the backup itself isn’t corrupt.
That’s a tough lesson to learn. We lost our master VBulletin User table after aperson tried to roll back the user table to a backup he had just made that was corrupt.
The next morning, Synth got the user table from his backup that he used to bring the site back up in October. Lightdarkness patched in the new userids from our game statistics, and then Sprite and aperson went through and updated all of the table information to be coherent with the other tables. Fortunately, lots of the information was stored elsewhere. We were able to update the passwords that were changed during this period because VBulletin is nice enough to store every password ever used.
There were a few things we were not able to restore however. Custom Avatar information has become corrupted due to a mismatch in where the avatar is linking to for any users that changed their avatars since October 10. In the restore process, we have lost approximately 0.05% of the userbase on FFR. However, we will be glad to work with any of the affected accounts to restore them or transfer their stats to a new account. You may PM an admin for assistance if you have created a new account since the site came back online on October 10.
For some good news, we are rolling out veteran status. Initially, this will be set for users who have both 3 years since their join date and 3 billion grand total points. This limit is subject to opening up, but not becoming more restrictive. We will be changing the word ‘Subscriber’ to the word ‘Veteran’ over & over shortly, as well.
Also!
Expect some MP updates coming soon 
89 Responses to “Someone set up us the bomb (ap I’m looking @ you)”
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Posted at 2:22am on November 21st, 2010
Also the database did this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEgGE81joB8
before dieing.
Posted at 2:23am on November 21st, 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htzlhTvIQo4
Posted at 2:24am on November 21st, 2010
verify yo backups
-FFR Staff
Posted at 2:25am on November 21st, 2010
tail -5 theshitujustdumped.sql
Posted at 2:26am on November 21st, 2010
yall should update yall V bulletins to 4.0 i have it here what it look like its easy an sorted an easy to navigate tass also has it http://nightrider001.com/forum/index.php
Posted at 2:27am on November 21st, 2010
Welcome back guys
Posted at 2:30am on November 21st, 2010
Up for 5 mins and 100 people are already logged in…I like
Posted at 2:30am on November 21st, 2010
Post of the year
Posted at 2:32am on November 21st, 2010
Uhm, how is the Veteran status working exactly? I’ve been on this site for 3.4 years. And I don’t see it anywhere..Help?
Posted at 2:36am on November 21st, 2010
Your grandtotal is less than 3 billion points
Posted at 2:37am on November 21st, 2010
And this is why we can’t have nice things.
Posted at 2:37am on November 21st, 2010
How to become a veteran? i was already a subscriber.
Posted at 2:46am on November 21st, 2010
I like this “Veteran” idea
)
Posted at 2:49am on November 21st, 2010
aPerson, it said either OR. It didn’t say you needed both. Either 3 years+ OR 3bill score. =/. You guys lied..D:
Posted at 2:52am on November 21st, 2010
nice to be back. Hope FFR stops having major issues
Posted at 3:00am on November 21st, 2010
I don’t like the idea of having to have both a 3 year old account and 3 billion points, having either or is perfectly fine
Posted at 3:03am on November 21st, 2010
I don’t have veteran status currently but I have both a 3+ year old account and 3 billion+ points.
And I was a subscriber before.
Posted at 3:04am on November 21st, 2010
Welcome back, FFR =P
Posted at 3:07am on November 21st, 2010
nice token graphics guys
Posted at 3:08am on November 21st, 2010
im over 5 years. lets make a “senior veteran” bracket
Posted at 3:15am on November 21st, 2010
This is gay. Make me a veteran
Posted at 3:19am on November 21st, 2010
My account MrShermanboy I think was one of the accounts affected andi would really like it restored!
Posted at 3:20am on November 21st, 2010
leonid at least you are still blue. And lol i lost a bunch of forum posts.
Posted at 3:22am on November 21st, 2010
It wont let me log into MrShermanboy and it also says the email cannot be reconized…
Posted at 3:25am on November 21st, 2010
agree with Nytmares_R_Real im a 6.54 years an thats a good idea ppl over 4 yrs like 5/6/7 the beginning of the website should have that
Posted at 3:25am on November 21st, 2010
i lost about 350 forum posts rofl
Posted at 3:27am on November 21st, 2010
leonid thats not as bad as not being able to log into an account. >.>
Posted at 3:28am on November 21st, 2010
Well if you stay patient maybe youll get your account back huh? Or have your stats transferred?
Posted at 3:30am on November 21st, 2010
I lost 700 forum posts and my avatar. My new one is cooler anyway and my picture dictionary is still up so… I don’t care.
Loving the veteran status btw 
Posted at 3:41am on November 21st, 2010
Good game AP.
Posted at 4:41am on November 21st, 2010
Boo. I’ve been on the site for 5.35 years but I don’t have 3 billion points
Only 1.3 Billion…
Posted at 4:43am on November 21st, 2010
sooooooo close to 3 years :\
Posted at 4:47am on November 21st, 2010
I PITY THE FOOL
Posted at 4:57am on November 21st, 2010
Thanks for lettin us knoww hat’s goin on, guys. Lovin the new management.
Posted at 5:25am on November 21st, 2010
Is Veteran = Elite FFR Supporter? Because since today i’m the one of the elite supporters, lol.
Posted at 5:46am on November 21st, 2010
I’ve heard that at one point, the site crash was so dire as to Sprite predicting that we might’ve had to work our way from 2004 data – which meant that many users could’ve potentially been lost from existence. I am so glad that the site is almost perfectly intact. Great job guys.
Posted at 7:06am on November 21st, 2010
Maybe I don’t understand, but those who are/were subscribers are having FFR Elite Supporter changed to Veteran even if they have less than 3 years and 3 bill? I think old and current subs should get a bonus title or keep Elite Supporter
Posted at 8:36am on November 21st, 2010
Well, it’s good to see FFR running again. =) Great job, guys.
Can’t wait for MP.
Posted at 8:54am on November 21st, 2010
lolwut
Posted at 8:57am on November 21st, 2010
Wasn’t anticipating any of that to be the reason why FFR was down longer than expected. Glad to see the site is back up with fairly minimal losses!
So are FFR subscribers technically veterans at the moment? I still have all of my subby features still so I’m just wondering. Also, those who have subby time at the moment…are they going to have this time converted into veteran time or something if they don’t currently meet the requirements?
Posted at 10:50am on November 21st, 2010
I just lost like 1300 forum posts what just happened?
Posted at 10:58am on November 21st, 2010
lol I have 2.92 years/18.5Bil and I have Veteran Status ;P
Posted at 10:58am on November 21st, 2010
2.94 years*
Posted at 11:01am on November 21st, 2010
I lost a tenth of my forum posts. A.K.A. 1 forum post. Life didn’t change much for me.
Posted at 11:33am on November 21st, 2010
a wild derpachu appeared. ofuc
Posted at 11:37am on November 21st, 2010
I’m with leonid on this.
Posted at 11:53am on November 21st, 2010
I propose a case by case basis for users who have like 5+ years in and have under 3 billion. Because otherwise I wouldn’t qualify. Ain’t that some shit. :V
Posted at 1:13pm on November 21st, 2010
Just got 3 years a couple days gao : 3.01 years actually and over 4.7 billion, but I don’t have the veteran status :’(
Posted at 1:46pm on November 21st, 2010
Cool beans!
Posted at 2:12pm on November 21st, 2010
I lost about 500 forum posts.
Posted at 2:29pm on November 21st, 2010
I have 5.7 years and 1.04 billion score…
I play often enough though
So what can you do to help me out?
Posted at 3:08pm on November 21st, 2010
play more.
Posted at 3:09pm on November 21st, 2010
i have just about a year, and my grand total is almost 4 billion….
Posted at 3:17pm on November 21st, 2010
well, im one of the ones who lost their avatar…go figure it would be me, as if i havnt had enough problems with computer related stuff lately
Posted at 3:27pm on November 21st, 2010
okay then let just have a good FFR Thanksgiving everyone since we are back online for now….and someone pass me the cranberries plz
Posted at 3:31pm on November 21st, 2010
What happened to all the songs, lol just out of curiosity there is none when I load up the game to play, and my new account is vanquished hehe, love that word…im some glad i still remember this password xD
Posted at 3:36pm on November 21st, 2010
Nvm excuse that last post about the songs not on..they seem to be on now xP maybe im losing my mind haha.
Posted at 4:29pm on November 21st, 2010
I have a question are the FFR staff gonna count the yr you guys were offline and add that to our veteran status or no?
Posted at 4:38pm on November 21st, 2010
blue?
Posted at 4:47pm on November 21st, 2010
@aperson…
BUSTED!:D
People make mistakes haha(:
Posted at 5:11pm on November 21st, 2010
multiplayer updates! yes!
Posted at 5:19pm on November 21st, 2010
So nothing that was made or done before 11-16-2010 (the end of FFRs long downtime) aren’t affected?
Posted at 5:22pm on November 21st, 2010
Which is to say I’m not going to find a bunch of weird or missing stuff around here, which may or may not have been indirectly affected by this…..right?
Posted at 5:28pm on November 21st, 2010
It’s been a while since I’ve seen my account as Subscriber! Really happy
Posted at 5:38pm on November 21st, 2010
(BTW….the end of the downtime was 10-16-2010 IIRC, not 11-16-2010!)
Posted at 5:39pm on November 21st, 2010
This is awesome
Posted at 6:06pm on November 21st, 2010
Now, for some reason, I have an unread PM (even though I don’t).
Posted at 6:54pm on November 21st, 2010
i have yet to revieve any help from an admin on trying to get my account MrShermanboy restored..
Posted at 6:54pm on November 21st, 2010
let alone any responses to my PMs
Posted at 9:13pm on November 21st, 2010
Patience shammy.
Posted at 9:45pm on November 21st, 2010
Sorry shamwow I’ve been at work all day because I actually have a fucking job. I’m going to go read your PM titled “URGENT!! PLEASE READ ASAP!” now….
Posted at 10:01pm on November 21st, 2010
kekeke
Posted at 10:25pm on November 21st, 2010
emerald, I’ve had the same problem for over a year now. Even deleted every single post in my inbox and still had 1 unread message.
Also, I still think there should be separate brackets for veteran status >_>
3 year+ member time = FFR “resident” veteran
5bil+ GTS = FFR “gaming” veteran
1.5k+ forum posts = FFR “community” veteran
And maybe find some way to tag each user as a “resident/gamer/prolific poster”?
And just add each new title amendment as the qualifications are achieved.
I know I already suggested it before, but veteran status based primarily on member time is just… idk.
Posted at 11:27pm on November 21st, 2010
yeah I have 2 unread PMs for some reason, was thinking it was something to do with the veteran status but no.
Posted at 11:41pm on November 21st, 2010
admin have job = take awhile to restore an fix things on website i have also a job an i’m working on my own site. job = pay = pay the server to stay on line.Synthlight works alot also that’s why he ant on alot so new crew come on board an help out which speed the process 10x fast an better approve! ^.^
Posted at 11:59pm on November 21st, 2010
5 years or more with under 3 billion since i dont play the game. lets think about it
Posted at 1:53am on November 22nd, 2010
I LOVE TROLLS! <3
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Posted at 8:16am on November 22nd, 2010
Nytmares_R_Real,
You and me are in the same-ish boat, 5.7 years, 2.3 bil, so apparently I’m not a veteran . . .
apparently . . .
-.-
Posted at 10:31am on November 22nd, 2010
Well, then all you have to do is play a little more of the game. You know, the whole purpose of the site in the first place.
Posted at 5:04pm on November 22nd, 2010
I’ve been here 4.3 or so years and I’m at like 600mil grand total so I’ve got a way to go MrPoptart.
Posted at 10:08pm on November 22nd, 2010
Thx for the veteran! I’m checking if my comment is gonna show blue here.
Posted at 10:08pm on November 22nd, 2010
Guess not
Posted at 10:49am on November 23rd, 2010
Hey,every time i FC a song it doesn’t show up on the actual game saying FC.
only some of the songs do.
(BEFORE FFR DIED,The site>.<)
but is it just me or i am i doing something Wrong?
Posted at 10:49am on November 23rd, 2010
And i need Veteran been here for 3 years lol.
Posted at 7:53pm on November 23rd, 2010
color test?
Posted at 10:54pm on November 23rd, 2010
Color Test?
Posted at 4:10pm on November 27th, 2010
Wait so, I basically have the same status as a subscriber, and didn’t pay a penny?
Posted at 7:21am on November 30th, 2010
Ah.. I was already wondering why I was suddenly a veteran and why my name was suddenly blue in the chat..
Posted at 2:45pm on December 2nd, 2010
I wholeheartedly agree. Verify yo backups!
One mistake too many people probably make…..they don’t back up frequently enough. Another thing to take to heart.
And keep numerous backups, just incase one of them corrupts.
Also, one should keep a backup of the site before it went down (as close to Dec 20th as possible) for nostalgia purposes.