Basilisk extended downtime 08/09/2017

[shadow2kx]

more information is preferable to less. Without updates there would be so much speculation with little to no fact. threads blaming everything from hardware malfunctions to ninja attacks would be sprouting up like weeds. I thank the dev team for keeping us informed

That's the thing. There is no real information beyond the server being down. That's all they had to say. Hey, there's an issue with the merge, server will be down a few days. Will update when we have more information.

What would we speculate? A wipe? They've already done that for us, and look at the nonsense that gets posted in response.

I mean, they've upset people who think they're going to lose everything. And if it doesn't wipe, they'll have upset people who have wanted a wipe for years. There was literally nothing to gain by announcing a possibility of a wipe if it isn't going to actually happen.

Not sure why they would wipe if they have "routine backups" as stated in the post about the hard drive failure. They could just restore one of the more recent "routine backups".

I've gotten the impression that they keep all their backups on the same drives. I mean, if they had another drive with an older backup, they wouldn't be announcing the possibility of a wipe. They'd know they have an older DB to work with.