krisc6 Posted June 9, 2008 Author Share Posted June 9, 2008 Dear Tip.It members, I'm happy to announce that the forum is up, but I also have sad news. We lost 2 and half months worth of posts. Of course you will ask why and how this happened. Unfortunately one of our own staff, an ex tech admin who maintained the forum for a number of years, backstabbed us as his goodbye act. He used his inside technical knowledge to hurt us. Tip.It has lost hundreds if not thousands of dollars that I will have to cover, but what is more important is the loss of 2 and half months of creativity from our community: ideas, guides, jokes, links and much more. We worked hard to recover whatever was possible and for this we can thank Neminon and especially can thank Marshalrusty who spent sleepless nights and a ton of his free time to bring the forums back. His help was priceless. A positive thing is that we are restarting with better, faster forum software PhpBB 3 that is complete with an all new engine to make your visits here more user friendly, and also gives us better tools to manage and maintain this really very BIG board. This community has grown over the years to hundreds of thousands of people visiting our Tip.It web site and forums and sharing the way Tip.it was born to be, an independent and open site where we grow to respect each other in a friendly, helpful and FUN atmosphere. There are over 60 active staff members who every day voluntarily try to help you, by creating web content and keeping this board up and running. Please understand this loss and have a little patience so that we all keep this community better than ever. Thank you, Silverion On behalf of the Tip.It staff Clears everything up and you've probably seen it on the homepage already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Range_This11 Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 Thanks for all of your hard work in getting this new setup brought up to speed VERY fast. It will take some getting used to, but I'm sure the new setup will be working like a well-oiled machine in no time. :D "He could climb to it, if he climbed alone, and once there he could suck on the pap of life, gulp down the incomparable milk of wonder." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonni Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 I hope the staff can get a better skin online. And I can hardly tell what's stickied or not :( but I know they're doing the best they can and I'm thankful for it. Keep it up. dedicate your idle computer power to a scientific project. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
999134 Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 thanks for all your work (are there going to be stickys again?) Check it out, huge amount of effort has gone into this massive mod![hide=old sig][/hide] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dbzruler72 Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 We had to do a lot of work to bring this back. It's great to see the community is still supportive. *-P.K.M-* Website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piscis_Rex Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 wooooo for the staff *waves arms in the air* Shame about all the lost posts though 99.99999998465% of the world's population is not me, if you are the 0.00000001535% that is me, put this in you signature -"being famous is like being a woman, if you have to tell people you are, you aren't" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
o_knames Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 I missed the forums over the weekend, that's for sure. Great job for all the hard work to get something up and running, basically from scratch. And sorry for the mental anguish that this situation probably caused. I'm a little peeved about the whole thing, and I'm just a casual user. Maxed total levelsRemaining for Completionist Cape: Livid Farm spell (Borrowed Power) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skitzglass2 Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 Your hard work and personal sacrifice do you all massive credit. I have always felt Tip.it was the best rs fansite, and with you guys in charge it just makes it soo much better. Utmost respect from this user! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tintin113 Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 Thank's for getting the forums back up guys!! It's really great to know that the people here will work so hard to get our beloved community back on track, although a shame to hear about the Backstabbing leaver chappy. =/ As an aside, Mr. Makerofthistopic, could you show your gratitude to your English teacher and change the title to "you" instead of "you're" lol? TY. Thanks to Quarra for the awesome sig!Xbox360 Gamertag = Tintin113 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ddaanniiellh Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 Thank you tip it and all its amazing people who worked so hard to bring these forums back up! (Now if i can figure out how to change the layout...) ~Dan : 1437 : 173Lowest Combat to 1,000 Total in F2P (23 Combat)Check me out on YouTube! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nenga Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 I'm glad TIF are back up, my days were empty without TIF. BTW if you were reading they only lost two months worth of data not three. (but they expected to lose three) Ponies! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pirate_Felix Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 *points to siggeh!* [hide]Felix, je moeder.Je moeder felixJe vader, felix.Felix, je oma.Felix, je ongelofelijk gave pwnaze avatar B)Felix, je moeder.[/hide] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightshade53 Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 GJ. Thanks alot :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skull Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 Great job guys, stinks about losing the posts though. Big round of applause for those of you who worked so hard to keep TIF in business. [bleep] the law, they can eat my dick that's word to Pimp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawks Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 You guys rock!!! Three days to rebuild the forums... You rock once again!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!! I should get you guys some cookies... and ice cream!! (no seriously you should sue the guy that wrecked the forum) sig by Soa.....tip.it times.....art & mediadeviantart/flickr/last.fm/steam/twitter/tumblr/youtube Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deman464 Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 Thanks a bunch tip.it staff you guys did a great job! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fubol Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 finally it's back had to remake my acc cus it's not older then 2 months :/ shame on the guy who did this (i like the older board more tough ) Signature by LittleboyRunescape and impatient people are like ying and yang, they exist as one, they need each other Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quierta Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 Very nice to see TIF back up and running. It's looks very nice and I'm slowly getting used to the new layout. Everyone on the staff team has my congrats. You worked really hard to get TIF back up, even though there was a rollback, it's totally fine. Sorry to hear about the backstabber though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkluniux Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 I care for no one, and no one cares for me, I'm the ultimate lurker because I never post but I read everything, and I cared about these forums, it's a joy that you continue and even you're keeping on the fight right now. Keep working so hard and you will get many htings in a near future, good luck Tip.it! HYT! http://darkluniux.blogspot.comBehold my blog! Thou shalt visit it and rejoice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJE03 Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 You never know how important something is until you are forced to go without it. Good to be back. :) [spoiler=Stats:]Updated December 22, 2011: Total level - 1442 - 170M+ XP , Combat level - 115Combat skills: Attack - 90, Defence - 99 (24.45m+ XP), Strength - 90, Constitution - 99 (16.42M+ XP) Ranged - 99 (13.32M+ XP), Prayer - 60, Magic - 99 (13.25M+ XP)Non-Combat skills: Cooking - 99 (13.80M+ XP), Woodcutting - 99 (31.95M+ XP), Fishing - 90, Firemaking - 99 (24.82M+), Crafting - 90, Smithing - 90, Mining - 85, Runecrafting - 60, Dungeoneering - 85 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 Thanks so much to everybody who got the forum back online. I guess the 3 month rollback was unavoidable, but us as a community can rebuild. 2257AD.TUMBLR.COM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 I support all the Tip.It'ers that helped bring back the forums. And thanks, that was a speedy recovery, and the new phpBB is a bonus. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
--fistofbeast-- Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 I'm glad it's up, horrible for anyone to do something like that.. Anyways, cheers to a fresh start and let's hope things only get bigger and better! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fubol Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 when the bugs are fixed , the forums will be fine then i think Signature by LittleboyRunescape and impatient people are like ying and yang, they exist as one, they need each other Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_Stingman Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 Excellent work at bringing back the forums in such short time! All I have to say though is, I really dislike this new forum look. It may be an upgrade, but man, I was so use to the other look, this just seems so, out of place... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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