[shotspine]

I registered with NO problem. Took my old username and password. No box of letters (he fixed that). I even posted with no problem. All forums up to L? I believe, are up. The rest should be up soon. As for asking questions, lets give him time to get it up and running first. I know there is a lot of hurt, anger and pain.........Hang in there, I'm sure everyone will have plenty of time to voice their feelings.

Doc John......you have been a savior to many and I expect you will continue to be. I'm not leaving here but I will also use OBT. I'm on the forums for the people, not the administrator (generally speaking). You have my greatest respect for what you have done here!

With my sincerest gratitude to Doc John and all the posters that have made this forum what it has become, in such a short time.

shotspine

[mrsD]

It wouldn't take my old name.

So I did a slight variant of it.
Then when I went back... it cookied to my old name and wouldn't let
me type in my new one...

ick ick... I finally got back in with my new name. I am very worried that
we have lost all that data. I had huge threads there, with thousands of
visitors/views...it would be a huge task to put it all back.

I think the world is big enough for two forums such as these! It is only a matter of personal commitment and time.

By making everyone reregister...sounds like "amnesty" to me. That was just a thought I had. Perhaps some of the old wounds can heal now?

[newbie]

Quote:

Hi Everyone,

As you can see, I've got the basic server up and running again, finally. I'm sorry it has taken so long to get this far.

I basically rebuilt the server from the ground up. Did a low-level wiping of the drives, installed the latest version of the OS, and the latest version of vBulletin.

I'm going to create the forum categories tonight and add some of the same templates. I need to let the system run for a day after that to make sure things are stable. I'll be adding the same chat system right after that. As for all the old posts, I'm going to see what I can salvage from the database backups. But right now, I want to make sure the system is up and available. Don't worry, whatever you post now will NOT be removed later.

Thanks so much for hanging in there.


-John

...Unquote. Taken from BT1

also Quote:

Oh, and yes, you'll need to reregister! Sorry about that, but I want to make sure the user database is reliable. Best way to do that is start from scratch!

Unquote.

and Quote:
OK, the "identify letters in a box" was a broken. :P It's a troublesome feature especially for folks with vision problems, so I've removed it.
unquote

[dahlek]

Other bb's have gone down in the past and have been down a long time..in ALL cases some to all prior info was lost. In ALL cases members had to sign on as if new. It goes with the situation's territory.

[linniec]

you will have to reregister--to add your name to the as-new database, but they can use their same name and password to register.

[mrsD]

block OBT messages as spam. Yahoo does not. So it was a typical recommendation for people to open a free Yahoo acct and use that for
your OBT registration.

I had problems myself this morning...and it was a "cookie" issue. It seems to
be fixed now. I had to register twice.

If I recall, the CHATS..were open for most of the down, and they used all
of the IDs and blocked the banned ones. I too am confused, Alicia... as I don't understand internet/software stuff well...maybe Evie could come back and
help us like before? And maybe my new IP provider, since Sat pm, is what screwed me up? OBT didn't recognize me? I don't know.

I just got home from work, and haven't been there yet tonight. (that says something doesn't it?)... but as I said before, the internet and world are big enough for both places..for many reasons. I myself don't know what I will do next week or next month. If the data base is restored, I will stay on at both places.
That is just more people, who need help, as far as I am concerned. But if we have to start from scratch over there, with a total loss of data, I will seriously think long and hard, about staying there.

I am confused, but not angry as such about it all. I know how fugitive the net is..how fickle. Having 10 yrs is a long time I think, that some of us had.
All the of friends I have made and people who I have helped, certainly outweigh my personal feelings.

And I am very impressed with the system and admins here...they are working hard, communicate with us well, and are CONCERNED. DocJohn is interested in education..his forum on HealthNews headlines is really great. Since I am a resource person too, I feel at home here more and more. Much of what I do in my job, besides protecting people from medical errors, etc, involves EDUCATION and communication. So I am very grateful for this place for those reasons..as well as the humanitarian point of view, that has been in place
from the beginning.

[HeyJoe]

I aint gonna work on Lesters farm no more

[loisba]

I re-registered, got my confirmation email instantly, and got in with no problems. I've posted on the MG forum, have had a lot of "views", but no postings to the thread. I think a lot of us are taking a wait and see attitude. Personally, I never had any problems with the administration at OBT. But I do feel very comfortable here. I probably will continue to post to both sites. The important thing is for everyone to find where they are comfortable, and get that feeling of SUPPORT going again, whether it's here, there, or both. I want to know what has happened to so many old friends during the "black out".

[Brian]

Well Braintalk must have started from nothing in the first place, and thats excactly and unbelievably happening again at Braintalk now, so i can't see any reason why this can't be done right here were most feel safe and comfortable.

I do really feel for those who had contributed so much of their time and effort to make BT what is was, then it only took a system crash [which can happen] fair enough, but all data was apperantly lost, which doesn't sound right to me, as a previuos poster said that they were still banned even though JL said he had started from scratch because he had done a low level format on the hardrive[s], after a low level format there shouldn't be anything left on it, it should have no data but only the MBR left on it.
As it stands now, its a split community that is just not going to work in the long run and most are jumping back and forth to either site, including me, simply because we don't really know what everyone else is going to do.

I personaly hope everyone comes here, it really shouldn't be a hard decision considering what has happened.

thats my 2 cents worth

[Chemar]

Originally Posted by shotspine

Doc John......you have been a savior to many and I expect you will continue to be. I'm not leaving here but I will also use OBT. I'm on the forums for the people, not the administrator (generally speaking). You have my greatest respect for what you have done here!

With my sincerest gratitude to Doc John and all the posters that have made this forum what it has become, in such a short time.

shotspine

shotspine, I sincerely commend you for that expression of thanks to DocJohn who has been so very gracious to us all.

I really hope the wealth of info at OBT can be salvaged...it was such a blow when we lost it from the old mgh servers, and everyone had done a stellar job of re-posting so much valuable info on hastypastry.

As has been said before, some will return to OBT and say goodbye here, some will only want to be here, and others will be happy to enjoy the best of both..........whatever the choices, our bonds as a community that care about each other remain unbroken