I checked out my neighborhood at BlogCatalog this evening and got a bit of a shock. Every thing was blank, I had no details in my profile, no messages in my shoutbox, no friends and no neighborhoods, even my avatar had gone.
It appears that they had suffered a data loss on their server and had had to restore back to 25th June. The blog data and user information were recovered up to 6th July. The net result of this was, that as I only joined late last week, I had lost everything except the fact that I had joined.
I have reset my profile and avatar and rejoined as many neighborhoods as I could remember and hopefully as I get some new visitors the widget will start to fill up again.
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Ouch indeed! Sorry for any inconvenience caused by this disruption. Many of our users so far have been very supportive and just shrugged it off and we are grateful for their understanding. This is not something that has happened to us before, nor do we plan on hving it happen again.
Hi Daniel,
Thanks for the visit and comment.
No problem, it gives me the opportunity to search the catalog and find a new set of blogs to add.
It must have been a sinking feeling to realise that you couldn’t restore all from the most recent backup. Hope it all sorts itself out for you soon.
Regards,
Ian