As you may have noticed, this website died nearly a decade ago and I was forced to take it down since paying for a site with no users didn't make sense. I was also focusing on school and real life and didn't have time or energy to give it the maintenance it deserved. As part of an effort to archive a lot of my earliest recorded works in the domain of Computer Science, I set up a Github with a bunch of my random projects and Minecraft mods on it when I shut the site down, so not all was lost, but this website is a living breathing entity and losing it was a great shame.

Unfortunately, when the site shut down I was rather unceremoniously booted off my hosting service and they refused to download anything off the server for me to hold on to. At this time I used to very literally write PHP code into the server files via an FTP client, so that was basically total disaster. Luckily, I ended up finding a tarball of a (mostly up-to-date seeming) filesystem backup, so a lot of the code is recoverable. Some effort is required to port stuff from PHP5 to PHP8 and remove a lot of absolute pathing that was pretty entrenched in the style in which this site was written, but it's not exactly rocket science to restore. What we don't have, however, is anything that lived in the MySQL database, which is utterly gone and unrecoverable. This is fine-ish, as I'm able to pretty much guess what table schemas should look like and reconstruct them, so functionality is in tact but all data is gone. Any data that lived in an SQLite database (which is a surprising amount) is also in tact.

In Short: Site config is in tact, image storage is in tact, nav info is in tact. User accounts are wiped, bans are wiped, global signatures are wiped, and forums are wiped. Features require some manual plunging to bring back online, and will be added back to the navbar as I get around to doing that. We're back, baby!

P.S. I don't think the forums are coming back. The medium was already unpopular when we shut down in 2017 and I don't see any demand for it unless sites like Reddit crash and burn (which I would welcome, but that's not up to me...). This site is mostly being brought back for nostalgia and archival purposes, I don't think a vibrant community is quite necessary at the moment.