Lost Video Island

[lostcalier]

As most of you know by now LVI was hacked late Friday night. The attack was vicious and its intention was to take LVI down. Apparently the hacker didn't know that LVI has overcome a lot and some hacker isn't going to be enough to get rid of us.

We completely lost our old message board. But through the quick thinking and quick action of Enchirito our message board member profiles and our threads were saved. He recreated a whole new message board while keeping everything from the old. I want everyone to know that this could have been a lot worse but thanks to Enchirito we have our message board back.

We are still not at a hundred percent but we're getting there. We won't be able to accept any video entries for at least a week or more. Enchirito has had to disable our video entry system to clear out any left over damage from the attack and make sure it is completely secure. He has given me an estimate of a week maybe longer so as soon as we have a concrete day that we'll reopen for formal entries I will let all of you know.

Also, our SPAM forum policy has changed a bit. To keep size down on the message board we have had to enable auto-purge in that forum. After a topic has not been posted in for a week the topic will automatically be deleted. Now this process has only been enabled in SPAM forum so all other forums will be as they were before. To those that use the SPAM Forum I hope you understand that this is something we had to do for the boards. If we ever, God forbid, encounter a situation where we have to quickly do an emergency backup of the boards we need to make sure that it'd be as quick as possible. Other then the above change that forum will run basically the same as it did prior to the attack.

I'd also take a minute to thank the council for their quick reactions to the crisis and their handling of the situation. We'd also like to thank all of you that visit our site for your support during this situation. I can't begin to understand or comprehend why someone would want to attack LVI but apparently at some point we made an enemy out there in cyber space. But it's that support from all of you that has kept LVI going strong through every crisis LVI has been through. I hope that this will be our last issue for a long while but things can always happen and when they do we will always get the site back up and running. That's because we know that we are here to serve the Lost and vidding communities. As long as all of you keep coming back I promise that LVI will be here.

The person that deserves all the credit for getting LVI back to this stage of operation is Enchirito. When it is back to full working order it'll be because of the work he's done. I never expected us to be back in any working order this quickly and it's just a testament to his incredible webmaster skills. Just make sure to take a second and thank him for all the hard work he put in the past three days. He went above and beyond the call of duty to get us back up. So E, thank you for being the best damn webmaster I've ever had the honor of knowing.

Our board is back, our site is up, and soon we'll be back to full working order. Enjoy the boards and we'll get new videos to all of you just as soon as we can ensure that the site is safe and secure so we never have to go through this again.

Remember have fun and let's get the board alive again!

[MovieGuy]

WHOO! ENCHIRITO!



Fuck the hackers of the net

[lostzilla]

I dont think we could thank Enchirito enough, but anyway...thanks again E!!

[Enchirito]

hey, thanks for all the thanks guys.

[Uruviel]

Thanks for getting everything back up so quickly Enchirito!

[Hobbes]

Forums up AND less SPAM! You're a God, E.


We'll do all we can to try and get all the members we're missing back, but any help rounding them up would be much appreciated!

I fear what will happen when we open the floodgates and allow video entries again.... can anyone say "60 entries"?

[MovieGuy]

Hobbes wrote:

Forums up AND less SPAM! You're a God, E.

WE're always nice to you adn then you do that.

[MoreLight]

Great job Big E!

Thanks for all your hard work!

[Hobbes]

MovieGuy wrote:

Hobbes wrote: Forums up AND less SPAM! You're a God, E. WE're always nice to you adn then you do that.

Oh it's not the spam itself, it's my precious postcount LOL

[Enchirito]

Welcome back everybody.

Today's forum outage was brought to you by Enchirito who had a one small phpBB config setting wrong... Sorry but you can't blame hackers for this one.

I anticipated some post changover hiccups and that was the first. Believe it or not, the ipowerweb live chat actually helped me out on that one. They knew just what to do. yay.

[lostzilla]

so it wasnt the spam!
I knew it @

[Enchirito]

no it wasn't the spam...

...but can we blame it on the spam anyway?

[lostzilla]

LMAO yea well...blame it on the spam!!

[Hobbes]

Whew, I'm just glad it wasn't a hacker.

[Rocksiren]

Welcome back dudes, missed you!