De-Spamming Accident Kills 20 — Film at 11
I screwed up while de-spamming my photoblog with the latest MT-Blacklist and ended up deleting all of the last 20 comments. If you said anything there in the last four months (yeah, 20 comments in 4 months — pretty sad) then it’s now toast. My condolences.
Please don’t try to re-post any comments, at least not yet. I’m working with my hosting provider to try and get a more current backup than the one I have from late September (doh!), and even that one will still cover 2/3 of the lost time period. Just a heads-up.
Updates:
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11-17-2004, 6pm-ish — The lost comments haven’t been restored yet, but an upgrade to MT 3.121 has taken care of the error Chris mentioned in the comments. Meanwhile, I’ve disabled comments on the photoblog until the backup comes through from tech support so I don’t get any new comments I’ll have to replace by hand or something. MT really just shouldn’t display a comment form at all once you’ve disabled comments in the weblog configuration. Instead, it continues showing the comment form and gives your visitors an obscure error message about needing to register. But I turned off comments from even registered members!
Oh well. One more reason to be frustrated with Movable Type.
- 11-29-2004, 11:41pm — I’ve re-enabled comments on the photoblog, and I’m writing off the ones that were deleted as lost. My apologies to anyone whose comments were affected.
