PSA: CW downtime and data loss

[Dream of Omnimaga]

Now that I remember, smf 2 still uses IDs for sorting because if you check my Omni profile, the 2014 posts are mixed up with some of my 2013-14 posts.

[alexgt]

Basically pimathbrainiac snapped and deleted the entire contents of the server, luckily we had a backup so we could recover, but it still happened. He could because we forgot to remove his server access when he stepped down as an admin.

has Pimath left the ti community

[Dream of Omnimaga]

He didn't leave finally, although he is permbanned from CW now so he will only be on Omni and Cemetech. He is also no longer Omni newa editor for the time being.

[alexgt]

Well that is sad

[Dream of Omnimaga]

Indeed, even moreso that it was done out of anger. That said, I guess it's a better thing than someone doing it on his own or for entertainment. In such case it would have been a very bad form of trolling.

[alexgt]

Yeah, It is always a sad thing when you have to permban some one

[Unicorn]

Indeed, hopefully things improve for him in the future. I understand that there was some personal frustration involved.

[Dream of Omnimaga]

Some personal issues as well, although I can't really talk about pimath's private life publicly. But in the past, parents didn't help sometime and there are some old private matters threads on Omni explaining stuff. Now if anything bad happened in his life, combine that with the frustration about Omni lower activity despite his attempts at reviving it and his hard time with anger management during hard situations and bad stuff is prone to happen (although I didn't expect this). The issue, though, is that if a community figure attacks another site or even starts controversy about it then some people wrongly holds the entire site he comes from responsible. (kinda like how for example if someone visits New York and gets bullied by 1 person one night then he might claim that New York is a crime-ridden place)

[p4nix]

Yeah, people at Omni are fine too. Just watch their reactions during CW downtime in the IRC log.

[Dream of Omnimaga]

Indeed. The only issue was that one admin there that said to enjoy the c show then the next night told juju to basically cry him a river about the site attack. Thankfully, Omni later posted a news about the matter, but the other things mentioned above werr definitively not their best community relations move.

There was also someone who claims both site serves the same purpose, when it's not even remotely close to the case. If we take website mentalities into account then Omni basically serves the same purpose as Cemetech now, while CodeWalrus takes the place Omnimaga left in November 2013 or so.

[Lionel Debroux]

If we take website mentalities into account then Omni basically serves the same purpose as Cemetech now,

Eeems, geekboy and the Cemetech staff are good friends.

while CodeWalrus takes the place Omnimaga left in November 2013 or so.

Yup.

[novenary]

If we take website mentalities into account then Omni basically serves the same purpose as Cemetech now,

Eeems, geekboy and the Cemetech staff are good friends.

This, and geekboy is admin on both sites as well.

[p4nix]

Not sure if someone already asked, but what's the update interval now? Just curious

[novenary]

What do you mean ?

[Dream of Omnimaga]

If we take website mentalities into account then Omni basically serves the same purpose as Cemetech now,

Eeems, geekboy and the Cemetech staff are good friends.

This, and geekboy is admin on both sites as well.

Wasn't geek just global mod on Cemetech?