Lost Posts on Google - READ!

[Knight Otu]

As you can see, we lost all posts since December in the database corruption. That's a devestating blow to many play by post games, but not all hope is lost. Google and most (if not all) other search engines keep pages in a cache. Search for your game/thread/etc in Google to see how much of the game you can find. DO use that possibility, and do so as early as you can!

 

[MavrickWeirdo]

Also find out if anyone was subscribed to the thread you were looking for, They may have the text of your thread in an e-mail

 

[Jdvn1]

do so as early as you can!

That's right! Before the cache 'updates' and they're just gone.

 

[JDragon]

This is a good suggestion, I have already grabed 4 or 5 pages of info for the game I was in.

 

[Agamon]

Unfortunately, we only found 10 of about 60 lost IC pages for Generation Legacy in Google cache. Looks like subscribing and archiving to Gmail is the way to go from now on, assuming we stay here, which doesn't look likely.

 

[Jdvn1]

I'm noticing the cache is going away fast, though.

 

[Bront]

" site:www.enworld.org "

But that before any search, and that will eliminate any non-enworld hits.

Look for archive hits, they tend to be more complete/more on a page.

 

[Dog Moon]

This, of course, assumes you remember what threads you're missing and want to retrieve.

 

[Jdvn1]

This, of course, assumes you remember what threads you're missing and want to retrieve.

Yeah, I had to try to think of ideas... some of them are lost forever.

 

[D20Dazza]

But what about the 1000 or so posts I lost in my counter I've slipped back down to under 2000

On the up side I guess I get to celebrate the milestone again

I can't remember what half the games I was in were called? And, this means we've lost PCs posted since then as well? What we need is a method whereby each DM can email each player with a link to re-establish thread subscriptions. Is it possible to open up the emailing option to everyone for a week or so?

Cheers

Daz