Progress is still slowly being made on repairing the PPMB database, but be sure to keep checking the news on the Paperpusher MB twitter feed while you talk to other Daria fans on The Sh33p's Fluff Message Board.
Once again, thank you to Kara Wild and Scissors MacGillicutty for all of your hard work in getting everything working again!
In the meantime, what has everyone else in fandom been up to while the board is down? I've been getting a surprising amount of writing in. How about you? Let us know in the comments.
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My current job is taking care of a newborn 24/7. Haven't had the chance to think of much more than that in the last couple of weeks.
Congratulations! It does get easier; I promise.
This has been a mini vacation for me. The past few weeks have been hectic in real life. (I mean, I collapse into slumber with all the lights still on a few times a week.) I'll be ready when PPMB comes back, though. I'm starting to miss the fanfics.
The purge of old posts is still running. The forums being pruned as of now are General, Nicks, Deep Thoughts, and Weapons of Mass Destruction: everything in those forums with a *TOPIC* whose last post was before 1 January of this year in those forums will be deleted. About 40,000 posts have been deleted, with 210,000 left to go. Then Site5 will have to run a database rebuild/optimize, and then we'll know how much space we've freed.
Is it possible to archive anything?
Re archive: there is a backup of the entire database prior to the deletions, so while people's old posts won't be accessible from the PPMB, they are not gone. The question is where and how will they be made available? I haven't thought about that. But if you really Really REALLY REALLY want your old posts from General, Nick's WMD, or Deep Thoughts, contact me (if you don't know how, ask someone who does, and plenty of people do) and I'll see what I can do—but I have to also add, I will get to it when I can, and these requests will not be a priority. Sorry, but that's the size of it.
I have decided to take this opportunity to start a little period of meditation, self-knowledge and hard work, as you can see in this video XD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKu4aEhNwBo
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