You're definitely not all alone because at least Midnite and I are here. Hopefully today things will get back to business as usual while I also slowly get the forum back to its former self...
As I posted in my message at the
http://www.dsboards.com/indexse05.html URL, back on Tuesday, after several phone calls to our host I learned that in the wee hours of Tuesday (around 2am ET) they moved the forum from one of their old servers to a new one. However, in the process somehow they managed to lose parts of the forum's database and without those parts the forum will not run correctly, which is why everyone had been getting a fatal error when they tried to visit.
Now, beyond that, there's good and bad news. The good news is that I make backups of the database at least once a month. The bad news is the last time I did one was August 24th, which means 18 days worth of posts are likely to be gone without the ability to recapture them in the form they were in, all thanks to whatever happened when our host moved us. Perhaps they'll show up somewhere from the ether, but lets not count on it. Though it could be much worse - all our posts would be gone forever if it wasn't for my backup. So, just 18 days of posts gone is but a very small fraction of more than 15 years worth of posts.
As I said though, I'll be working on restoring all the old stuff, but first I'm just going to restore some of the latest posts up to August 24th just so that we can get the forum back up and running, which it currently is doing. The 15 years worth of old stuff will trickle in as fast as I can possibly restore it...
You'll also notice that some features, like Spell Check, aren't working yet. That's because they also need to be reinstalled. But one thing at a time...
