[IceFire]

As everyone knows.  Volition Watch is shutting down and we've been transitioning things here as required.  Today an entirely different style of shutdown occured.

The VWBB has been shutdown.  This was done much further ahead of any of our projected schedules.  Someone decided that they would hack our forum and not only shut it down and plaster their name all over the place...but they also decided to delete everything as well.  The styles, the forums, all of the content that resided in.  

It makes me mad...very mad.  I'm sure I don't have to say it...but people like that make me sick.  We had enough things to do with shutting down our site and trying to make the transition as smooth as possible for everyone.

So I appologise if there was something lost...its likely gone completely.   Everyone had ample warning to backup stuff before we announced the closure but we were still thinking of moving a few last things and ultimately its the principle of the thing.  Such is fate.

Fortunally, a single pillar of light remains.  Hopefully for some time to come.

[Mr. Vega]

Edit- Nevermind, just the VWBB

[vyper]

Well that's bloody harsh that is.

[Jetmech Jr.]

wtf was their problem?

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Jetmech Jr.
wtf was their problem?

They were ******s.  Internet is like any large population in that it is, unfortunately, full of them.

[an0n]

If you build it.......

And correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't the people you get hosting from have one of the 24-hour 'So you don't sue us' MySQL backups somewhere?

[Bobboau]

I remember someone hacking the board a few days ago, posting with, I think remmy's account, and veryone kinda went "who gives a **** this thing's about to go down in flames anyway" I think they posted how they did it so it might not have been that person ,just someone who saw it

[jdjtcagle]

They couldn't hack this.... pffft....

Right?

[Bobboau]

when was the last time we backed up?

[jdjtcagle]

You mean it's possible? I know practically nothing about hacking...

[an0n]

The database should be about.......add 1, carry the 2.........700mb, plus attachments.

[jdjtcagle]

I wouldn't want that on my computer...

Too much space

[ChronoReverse]

I have 30GB sitting free...

[jdjtcagle]

How good is gamespy's firewall? Should we contact them about this threat?

[InfernoGod]

no, we should hunt down the little ****** who did it. burn him, no, use beam cannons on him! i mean... yes, we should.
EDIT: we should alert Gamespy. people who do that will most certainly do it again. Let's hope that it isn't HLP...

[Moonsword]

Calm down a little.

And I'm with him.  I'll make sure Hunter over at Sectorgame's tipped off about this, too, assuming he hasn't already seen it.

[Rictor]

I remember the first day that Volition Watch came online, so brand new and shiny. As a replacement for Freespace Chronicles, and with Summoner and Red Faction incoming.

...ah those were the days. I'm prone to bouts of nostalgia and sadness, but I think its just better if everyone is happy that VWatch existed, and not sad thats it gone. A great community was spawned, in large due to the efforts of VWatch and the staff, and I think that HLP would not exist in its current form, as popular as it is, without Volition Watch.

Just so longs as all the great people stick around on HLP, I'm happy.

Well, Freespace, Summoner and Red Faction 3 being released wouldn't hurt either :D

[IceFire]

Originally posted by an0n
If you build it.......

And correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't the people you get hosting from have one of the 24-hour 'So you don't sue us' MySQL backups somewhere?

That may exist..and I wouldn't be surprised if it does but obviously the position is that we are shutting down or are shut down.  Unlikely that restoring that would be something to be done.   As I said...its not so much the data loss...but the fact that it was done.

[Knight Templar]

Jesus, who the hell would want to hack VW anyway?

[Bobboau]

it must be them damned WC guys at it again.
they are after all the source of all that is evil in this world