Have you ever had all your hard work and happy memories just disappear without a trace? I reckon it feels like...like a photo album of your childhood being burned... sure you remember it (or most of it anyway) but that pile of ash ...
So this morning I wake up and go to my bookmarks of our RPG's (Role play games) on Fanfiction.net and I see that a lot of things are missing. Now I admit I thought we had been hacked and someone was deleting our topics . Then I eased my mind by assuming the site was spazzing , Like it does every weekend, and started poking the refresh button to death. Then I decided to take a look at the sites homepage and my good jolly mood was officially thrown out the window because of this
November 26th, 2010 -- Please note at 1AM US Pacific (PST) time, we will perform several matainance actions which will result in the temporary downtime of forum posting for about 30 minutes.
We will also at this time introduce an auto-delete feature of removing PM message with send timestamp of older than 9 months. The 9 months freshness limit will be enforced for both PM messages and forum topics to ensure fast response time for these systems.
For perspective, there are 17 million pm messages currently in the system and we need a self-cleaning system to move forward.
Lastly, both forums and pm/private messaging feature will come to the mobile site within a couple of days.
So that was it... just like that , any of the rpg topics that hadn't been posted in since March 23rd 2010 had been deleted...
nearly 5 years of storyline and hard work and memories were now non-existent. Not to mention that most of these topics were still being used in the RPG .
Now as a loyal member of this site and as a writer I feel as though they slapped me in the face. And I cant do anything about it because we can never get them back.
For those who don't understand the severity of this post or why I am in a bad mood you have to understand : Our imaginations were invested in this, our love was invested in this , we spent years putting this together and building OUR characters , OUR story. And now that story is for the most part ( as in Topics that haven't been posted in since March 23rd) are Gone Forever.
But ,as the Late Great Albus Dumbledore once said :
'Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.'
So here I am groping for a light switch in this darkness.
Seems as though the best option is to save what we have, and keep on truckin' .
You have to remember and keep it in your heart that this was just a sad moment in our lives. We have learned from it and must build up instead of giving up. I'm not giving up, and I hope no one else will either.
After all , “Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.”
xoxox,
Andi
I cant believe they did that! That bites.
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