Because of the recent attack on the site, a lot of past posts were deleted. While I understand that recovering them might be difficult, this gets relevant as the greatest game event draws near. For the years 2018 onwards the OG posts for the threads are missing (they were made by @mZuzek ). Is there a way to bring back these posts, especially on the result threads? I do not have a link to the result threads anymore, as I only bookmarked my own votes, so I only get to the voting threads. But in the missing OP should be links to the result threads of that year as well:

* 2018: https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/238272/the-9th-annual-greatest-games-event-official-thread-post-only-once/

* 2019: https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/241290/the-10th-annual-greatest-games-event-official-thread-post-once/

* 2020: https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/243768/the-11th-annual-greatest-games-event-the-official-thread/

* 2021: https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/245440/the-official-thread-the-12th-annual-greatest-games-event/

@Machina @trunkswd @axumblade 

Sorry to summon you, but as the event this year is close I feel like this is important.

Tagging @Bandorr as he has a way to bring back edited posts (although it's a slow method) so he may be able to bring back the OP results at least.

For now, a few can be found via Wayback Machine if you have a link, not all though, I don't know how much that helps.

• https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/238272/the-9th-annual-greatest-games-event-official-thread-post-only-once/">Voting for the 9th
• https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/243768/the-11th-annual-greatest-games-event-the-official-thread/">Voting for the 11th
• https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=239013">Results for the 9th
• https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=241748">Results for the 10th

Stupid hyperlink is breaking.

For now, our current idea is to rollback by about 2 years for only users affected by the hack (40+) whilst keeping all their current posts, as it stands right now, we've lost roughly 750k+ posts but rolling back only 2 years would restore the vast majority and only leaves us with ~170k to restore (the site only made 170k posts across the last 2 years) but since we're only rolling back for those affected, it would be less than 170k to restore.

From there, we still haven't figured out how to restore the posts in a mass scale, the current idea is to dump them all into a single thread and have users find their posts, I know it isn't ideal but with a few keywords we could probably find posts quickly and assign them to them (keywords in posts, I.E. Greatest Games Event).

:O I'm so glad I've been very inactive the last 2 years

At least for this thread in particular they could be copy pasted over from the wayback machine links or something?

I found the most recent results:
https://web.archive.org/web/20220518065316/https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/245741/gamrconnect-presents-their-1131-greatest-games-as-of-2021/

The good thing about this page is that the first post has links to all the other results pages. So you should be able to get to the results all the way back to 2010 from there. Just seems to take forever to load.

I'll sum up them all to you:
The Legend of Dragoon won every single time, being voted as #1 on every single list.
Hope it helps.