Hard to believe this, but Facepunch has been down all day today, and yesterday it was down for nearly all night.
The last thing I remembered is Garry posting one of his “I’ll be right back” messages, saying he was testing something. Seeing how it was getting late, I went to bed.
Today, Facepunch was down, and has been down for hours. After I came back from the grocery store, Facepunch finally came up… but something was missing. The forum was. All that was left, was a YouTube video, with “ON NO YOU DIUUUNNNN.” over the video. The video is called “Akon – Sorry blame it on me”.
I honestly don’t know what this means. But to put it simply — Garry broke Facepunch. I don’t know if this means Facepunch is gone forever.
Angry’s the only one that has been following this, using mIRC. He first acts like Garry was smart enough to backup the database before he did this, which was to move between hosts. Then he says he didn’t.
I finally managed to get into Facepunch’s IRC server, and asked what’s going on, if Garry did backup the database, and the answer was a flat-out NO.
This means every thread that has been made since 2001 to now is.. gone. Every category.. gone. However, Facepunch isn’t truly dead. And here’s proof that Garry is working feverishly to get everything back to the way it was, well I think anyway.
If this is true that the old database is gone, this should mean when Facepunch comes back, the categories will be back, but the threads won’t. This will be up to us members and the mods.
This could take up to a week or two until the forum is back in operation. I personally find this a big setback, as I use Facepunch to give me something to do. Without it… (shrug) I dunno what I’ll do to keep my mind off of waiting ’till July 1st.
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And Facepunch has returned Monday. Garry was smart enough to make a backup of the database before he did this.