Titfighting and Sexfighting Forum gone

I wrote about this at the Help Desk but since JB’s post was mysteriously removed, I may as well try here too. The forum started by XP, better known as the Titfighting and Sexfighting forum, is completely gone. I don’t know how this happened but I hope it can be undone. It’s over 20 years old and contains many great works by many talented authors. A lot of those works are not available anywhere else either.

All links to it are dead ends and all posts in it cannot be found on search. A lot of us have sunk a great deal of our free time into this passion and to see it all erased would be very disheartening for all of us. Even some of its owners have no idea how this happened. There has to be someway for it to be restored.

I've tried to sign on for a couple of days. No luck. What is going on?
AP

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Originally Posted by apenman

I've tried to sign on for a couple of days. No luck. What is going on?
AP

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So, owners have to sign into the forums they own? Does a single owner have the power to completely delete a forum? Because AL in the Help Desk suspects that.

Yuri,
I started a forum MANY years ago about music. I got absolutely NO RESPONSE so I haven't signed in on it for years. But what, if anything, would that have to do with this? Curious.
AP

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Originally Posted by apenman

Yuri,
I started a forum MANY years ago about music. I got absolutely NO RESPONSE so I haven't signed in on it for years. But what, if anything, would that have to do with this? Curious.
AP

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In the Help Desk, AL75 suspects that DHH, the owner of the forum, might have deleted it. He logged in just before it happened and that was the first time he had logged on in years. I’m not sure if a single owner has the power to do that to a forum with multiple owners.

In the meantime, AL75 has started his own backup forum which we can use. Here it is:
https://www.hostboard.com/forums/f17...20%20more.html

Once marked for deletion the system is supposed to mark it is inactive for 30 days prior to removal. I actually am not seeing it on my end. I do have 30 days' worth of backups, however. This is going to be a major PITA and take a bit of time. First is to get copies of the DB off the backup system so they are not over written. Sigh...

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Originally Posted by Team Hostboard

Once marked for deletion the system is supposed to mark it is inactive for 30 days prior to removal. I actually am not seeing it on my end. I do have 30 days' worth of backups, however. This is going to be a major PITA and take a bit of time. First is to get copies of the DB off the backup system so they are not over written. Sigh...

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My guess is that both DHH (acting as owner) and XP (actual owner) were hacked. DHH hadn't logged in for almost a year and XP hadn't logged in for at least 2-3 years, but suddenly both accounts logged in on March 21 and the board was deleted. It's possible that they both were communicating somewhere else and decided to log in and delete the forum, but that seems highly suspicious.

I hope it has not gone, I meant to save all Guilty Sparks War of Lust tales and now they have vanished! Was some excellent work on that forum, I hope someone has copies at the very least!

What an incredible coincidence, I too have wanted to revisit the War of Lust saga Tales of Guilty Sparks

I hope the forum can be recovered, there are many valuable stories.

The positive thing is that JB57 has its own community

Is this
https://www.hostboard.com/forums/f15...20stories.html