Topic: What happened??

[E_Look]

There's a missing block of time from about 9:30 AM to 6:00 PM EST on the forums!   Was this a planned outage or did something crash behind the scenes?

I just find it a tad worrisome that no one here even commented (or complained as "we" are wont to do)!

[James Formo]

the forums were closed. Probably for maintenance.  though that is speculation.   Atually its more fun to think of it as everybody got banned and then reinstated

[Praxis]

I think something crashed.  I saw the error there- SQL error.  It failed to connect to a part of the SQL database where all the post/member/forum info is stored.  Either the Database had been erased (unlikely since our old posts are still here :P ), or the SQL server had crashed, but not the whole computer running it or else the web server hosting Taldren would have gone down as well.  After a short time the entire page was down.  I figure they just had some bug in SQL, worked on it, then restarted the computer (accounts for failure to connect to SQL server, then failure to connect to web server).