Restoration

[Kirauni]

wow, my post count had a "boom" (it were multiplied by 6) and seems my join date is "more accurate" now (even tough i think i joined even early here)

Great job Kirauni, it was nice see the old posts and old members.

Thanks, Thiago. The "join date" is basically the oldest post in the board. But I noticed that not all of Lea's posts are back. Probably because it was not included in the backup. Or maybe you joined earlier but didn't post or we could take your join date right off the backuped database... Anyhow, I'm glad it's more accurate now.

I didn't even notice that, mine went up with 5.000 haha, and my join date is 100 % correct.
10 years at lea now.

Glad to hear that, too!
I came across the ?nathalie? account... Should I merge it with your current one or is there a special reason for it to be there?

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Also, love the new Timon smileys.

Thank you. I'm glad you like them

Well, this is something I never thought would happen.
Thanks Kirauni!
This should be very interesting, yes indeedy! ^__^

You're welcome, Dare!

While there are a handful of threads that I'd be happy to re-read again (and perhaps find some lost information that I've been searching for since circa 2007-2008)...on the other hand, I think some things from Lea's past (omg the shenanigans) should probably stay there.

Good luck on that. Oh and don't worry about the "shenanigans". As far as I'm informed certain topics were pruned on a regular basis. Something about 1000 posts per topic? I don't know for sure... Like the "this or that" game.

Also, I think there may some formerly "staff only" threads that are now visible - dunno how the adminisphere folks feel about that or if it's an issue, but wanted to make a note of it.
*le shrug*

Yes, thanks for pointing that out. We've already talked about that, too. The problem is that with the thread-table gone, we have no way of knowing where a thread belongs to unless we check every single one manually. But it's being worked on. The question is if we should put certain topics in their proper forums or if we just keep them in the archive. But there were some interesting TLK topics I noticed. In my opinion they are worth to be moved to the right place. Like the Translation of TLK lyrics etc.
But that also remains to be seen.

Kind of weird to have my old "Wicked" account restored though - it seems I am now inadvertently violating forum rule #7.

Good that you mention it. So you were the user called "wicked"? I could merge the two accounts if you like. So you would not be violating the rules.

I can't believe I deleted my first account or I could join in and read some of the cool stuff that was left behind.

Uhm... you lost me there. What did you mean? Can you rephrase that, please?

Anyway Good work, congratulations and excellent for restoring the old data to the new site. I'm glad we could see this again, instead going to the time machine site just to see the content.

Thank you, Guntur. By Time Machine you mean the Way Back Machine, right? Unfortunately it hasn't stored much data so it hasn't been of much help. Too bad Lea 3 (well.... the one that came after Mufasa's Lea went down) was for members only. Otherwise the Way Back Machine could have saved a few postings and we could add them to the pile. Oh well... you can't have everything, right?