Hi SG, I have some bad news today. In short, it looks like we're going to end up with entries missing from recent giveaways due to corrupt data. At the moment, about 90% of giveaway entries are not listed on the site. The majority of them are available in archived backups, and I'm downloading those now to see how much data we'll be able to recover. However, I'm certain the most recent entries for open giveaways are no longer available. That means you'll need to reenter those giveaways if you were previously entered. All giveaways that were set to end today have been extended 7 hours to offset the time the site was offline. Also, I just added 150 points to every user (up to 300 max), to help people reenter a few more giveaways.

This comes at a bad time because we're getting ready to move data over to a new database structure to help avoid situations like this from occurring in the first place. Nonetheless, I apologize for any headaches this causes and I'll keep you posted on the recovery process!

Edit: We'll be able to recover 90% of giveaway entries, and they'll be transferred when the site is updated to v2.

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Hi cg.

9 years ago
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Eh, it happens. All good. Thanks for the cool site cg.

9 years ago
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We forgive you. Thanks for the update, cg.

9 years ago
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hey cg, thanks for the headsup ;)

9 years ago
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Don't worry cg! Thanks for the update and keep up the good work!

9 years ago
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also we miss "Giveaways Entered" in the profile...

9 years ago
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Don't worry cg. We're using this free anyway.

9 years ago
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Thanks for caring about our headaches, but i think yours and the other mods will be much worse, so dont worry

9 years ago
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Yeah don't worry too much about it...
On the positive side: this will make us love SG2 even more when it's released! :)

9 years ago
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no no, a simple apology won't cut it, i demand some heads to roll!

just kidding :P

9 years ago
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Thanks for the update, cg.

9 years ago
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Thanks cg.
Don't worry, shit happens.
Keep going, you are doing a good work.

9 years ago
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Eh, it's all good! Thank you for doing what you have done to make up for everything. I appreciate it. :)

9 years ago
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cant enter every giveaway i had cause the points are not enough and some of the entries where private given on group chat :(

9 years ago
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Thanks for those points

9 years ago
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Thanks for all of your work, cg! I hope database will be ok :-)

9 years ago
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Make it sticky!

9 years ago
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Yeah, I lost all my giveaways entries and I hadn't even entered any recent ones.
Hope everything works out fine and thanks for everything, cg. Nice to see you're doing something about it, and helping those who lost out too.

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A GA gave 4 billion entries :D

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Thank you for the info cg.
Also, if you need any technical help with the site feel free to contact me. I know how hard it is to manually try to recover lost data due to database corruption.

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Thank for your work.

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"For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought."

9 years ago
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A giveaway I was the only one participating in ended but is still selecting a winner after 20 minutes, is this related?

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A shame, but what can you do. Hopefully the recovery goes well, good luck.

9 years ago
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Curse you! Is that why I pay you so much money... oh.

Now I feel bad for not actually having any giveaways running...

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Giveaways entered: 0
Games won: 4
Comments: 732
Gifts received: 296

Well, that worked out better than expected... I don't need my old entries restored, thanks. :-)

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Closed 8 years ago by cg.