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Leynos on 02 October 2022

lol keep calm. I thought it funny. I've seen so much worse in my time when forums got hacked. I remember in 2006 a forum I was a mod of got hacked and a dude posted thousands of scat porn pics and another time another guy posted tubgirl. This was mild. I figured it would be over by morning lol.



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trunkswd on 02 October 2022
Bofferbrauer2 said:
trunkswd said:

JLauro and the other coders are going through the entire site to find everything that was "deleted" to restore it (It actually isn't deleted just hidden somewhere). So anyone who has been wrongly banned we are working on getting your accounts restored. 

All the posts with the tables from the COMG! thread (maybe including the user account who posted them) are gone, that's gonna take a while to repair if ou have to do those one by one...

We are hoping we can restore missing posts. That is on JLauro and Talon in figuring that out.



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I post and adjust the VGChartz hardware estimates, with help from Machina.

Writer of the Sales Comparison | Monthly Hardware Breakdown | Monthly Sales Analysis | Marketshare Features, as well as daily news on the Video Game Industry.

trunkswd on 02 October 2022
kirby007 said:

I cant seem to confirm any PL rounds

edit: ah i see it was bad bad lmao

It was rather bad. The team is working through things. 



VGChartz Sales Analyst and Writer - William D'Angelo - I stream on Twitch and have my own YouTube. Follow me on Bluesky and Threads.

I post and adjust the VGChartz hardware estimates, with help from Machina.

Writer of the Sales Comparison | Monthly Hardware Breakdown | Monthly Sales Analysis | Marketshare Features, as well as daily news on the Video Game Industry.

trunkswd on 02 October 2022
curl-6 said:

So is this why trying to enter certain threads just sends me back to the frontpage, like Club Nintendo and Most Wanted October?
Also, has the rollback occurred, and if not, is there not point in posting til it does cos any posts now would just be erased?

Sorry for all the questions, just trying to figure it all out. Thanks to the staff for all your work.

Yeah that is likely why it sends you to the front page. A lot of the staff haven't been able to get on the site. I was one of the few accounts we were able to get running again. 



VGChartz Sales Analyst and Writer - William D'Angelo - I stream on Twitch and have my own YouTube. Follow me on Bluesky and Threads.

I post and adjust the VGChartz hardware estimates, with help from Machina.

Writer of the Sales Comparison | Monthly Hardware Breakdown | Monthly Sales Analysis | Marketshare Features, as well as daily news on the Video Game Industry.

Runa216 on 02 October 2022

Wait, so what happened? what kind of filth was posted?



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kirby007 on 02 October 2022
Runa216 said:

Wait, so what happened? what kind of filth was posted?

looking at talons profile i suspect penis



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trunkswd on 02 October 2022
kirby007 said:
Runa216 said:

Wait, so what happened? what kind of filth was posted?

looking at talons profile i suspect penis

Exactly that. Talon is working through the code to fix what he can. 



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I post and adjust the VGChartz hardware estimates, with help from Machina.

Writer of the Sales Comparison | Monthly Hardware Breakdown | Monthly Sales Analysis | Marketshare Features, as well as daily news on the Video Game Industry.

Leynos on 02 October 2022
kirby007 said:
Runa216 said:

Wait, so what happened? what kind of filth was posted?

looking at talons profile i suspect penis

big black peen



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G2ThaUNiT on 02 October 2022
kirby007 said:
Runa216 said:

Wait, so what happened? what kind of filth was posted?

looking at talons profile i suspect penis

The winning Cards Against Humanity card! 



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Metallox on 02 October 2022
Leynos said:
kirby007 said:

looking at talons profile i suspect penis

big black peen

That's not nice. 



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