Hi Folks,

The boards had a major crash. Not sure what happened, but Ryan from Hostbaby saved the day. We may have lost SOME stuff and we're still trying to figure out the exact cause. He feels most likely it was simply a weird glitch of timing where the board was updating 1 thing and part of it's config files were also being updating and the conflict cause it to reset to zero and then once someone else posted something the board didn't know what to do and started to erase stuff. Even I was locked out of the board for the night. Once again the Hostbaby folks have gone above and beyond to help save our board, but it's clear we MUST update the board or we face this happening again and Ryan may not always be there to save the day. I have contacted the manufacturer to see how much it will cost. If you remember, they stopped supporting this board 2 weeks ago, so we really have no other option. The cost is going to be OVER 1000 dollars. In the past, users have offered to financially support the upgrade, but the last time we did an upgrade 122 people agreed to help and only 2 people actually followed through and made any donations at all. Hopefully this time around, those who use the boards the most will chip in a bit. I may simply post the list of all who chip in to acknowledge the folks who helped keep the boards going and a running dollar total of donations until we hit the break even point.

This is a reminder to everyone using computers to BACK UP your music, lyrics and other important files right now. People always get lazy (myself included) then we a glitch happens, you may forever lose stuff you can't replace. That happened to me on an entire collection of songs back in 1991 when my Mac SE hard drive crashed and I lost 40 songs that had been sequenced with no back ups. I was only able to recreate a single song. Don't let that happen to you. Fortunately Hostbaby does regular back ups so most of our posts should still exist.

Thanks again to Ryan and the folks at Hostbaby for saving the day!

Brian

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