UPDATE to the UPDATE to server outage

[madmax]

on the bright side it was only about 3 weeks worth of data. it could have been a lot worse. Hopefully this doesn't discourage those who worked hard during those 3 weeks :/

[desocietas]

on the bright side it was only about 3 weeks worth of data. it could have been a lot worse. Hopefully this doesn't discourage those who worked hard during those 3 weeks :/

Good thing I stopped working hard about 3 weeks ago. ;P

[foxhack]

In my case it was around 85 new / edited Steam entries. So yeah, I'm ticked.

[madmax]

Some images seems to be broken now?

http://vgcollect.com/item/5305 is an example.

ifg you do a search for "Final Fantasy" In the search bar, a lot more images are coming up like this.

[scott]

Oh hey, we're gonna get to hit the 2,000 users and 19,000 items mark.... Bonus?

:/

[matt]

@madmax We are still missing about 5000 images. I'll be pushing out those as soon as I can.

[foxhack]

We were way past 20,000 listings before the loss.

[scott]

Actually we weren't. Those item numbers are off by about 1,000. Thanks to dupes and merges.

[foxhack]

Ah.

Well I just got a server error when adding a game so I'm gonna hold off for now. :p

[madmax]

@madmax We are still missing about 5000 images. I'll be pushing out those as soon as I can.

Guess we should hold off edits until these have gone through

[scott]

Yep, for example The Binding of Issac is item number 19966. But we only have 18854 listings, which means we are currently off by 1112 items. Its a database issue, the more dupes folks submit the further off we go unfortunately.

We had talked about replacing missing numbers with newly submitted items. But matt did some research and from what he found, database experts say its not worth the effort and just let the empty numbers hang.

[hexen]

Man am I glad I save all my box scans... Back to work resubmitting the group of PC games I got recently

[jobocan]

But matt did some research and from what he found, database experts say its not worth the effort and just let the empty numbers hang.

That, definitely. It's a huge hassle.

Good to know the situation. It's unfortunate, but it's definitely not as bad as it could have been... I would know. I just find it weird that you didn't get a "last notice" of sorts a day or 2 before, it's definitely strange for them to just leave you hanging like this. Well, I hope the new server is gonna be good.

[atariboy]

All my Atari 5200 entries have been deleted from my collection, and trying to go thru all other collections to see if anything is missing from them. Hopefully we won't have to go through this again. Oh well if we all pull together we should get this all back up and running in no time. I will start on Atari 5200 images sometime this week, good thing I have back up of all of them.

[foxhack]

Whoever's adding new entries, the images refuse to load, so my suggestion to stop people from adding new stuff stands. Especially since whoever's adding the Steam stuff is doing it wrong -_-;;