Forum Status

Here’s an update in where we are with our forums. We were able to put a significant amount of work into them this weekend and they are coming along, but they probably won’t be ready for actual posting until later this week. We don’t want to promise an exact day,then hit a snag, and then have to renege.

Here is what we know for certain so far:

1. If you want to participate in the forums, you will need to re-register(the blog is not affected). Please use your old forum name, or go for something entirely new. Be nice don’t snag someone else’s name. As a suggestion (if you are looking for a new name) but by no means a requirement, pick something non-Twilight related. People remember who you are more if it’s a non-twilight related name. Roughly 800 of you have found the forum already and done that.
2. We were able to save in archive form what the forum looked like when we backed it up on August, 5, 2008 just prior to re-opening. We will be loading that and providing a link to it. We were unable to import the old forum into the new one. It was just too old and too broken. A lot of haphazard modifications had been done to it over the years, and it was just  a mess. It seemed a lot more prudent to start again than to constantly be struggling with something broken to begin with.
3. What happened to the items posted between August 6 and August 8?  There was no clean backup available. By the time was got the server company on the phone we were too late to salvage the Thursday night (non-hacked) database. The only clean copy they had was exactly what we had the Friday night hacked version which amounted to only about 10% of the original forum structure. So, just as was the case with the blog, we lost about 4 days worth of stuff.
4. We are in the process of copying over  the most popular threads and starting new ones. By "copying" we mean highlighting, cutting, and pasting the most recent post or the post that explains the purpose of the thread and starting the thread from scratch. This takes awhile. We will have our usual topic request thread because no doubt we will have missed something, and we will be happy to put whatever back.
5. We will have Breaking Dawn discussion available in all forums. Origianlly we had thought about segregating Breaking Dawn discussion into one forum until September. However given the vast post Breaking Dawn publicity, you would have to have been sleeping under a rock not to have stumbled on the major plot points. So, it seems silly not to have Breaking Dawn discussion in all forums.