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tFS was subject to an attack that brought down our hosting service just a short while ago. As it stands, we’ve lost a little under a day’s worth of content, and all of the ensuing comments (including the hilarious Rainbow Cake thread) from this Tuesday.

We’re working to figure out the source, cause and remedy. This is a new one, so bear with us.

Thanks.

Update: All in all, we’ve lost 4 total posts and close to 20 comments – almost all on the Rainbow Cake post.

We’re working with our hosting provider to diagnose the problem, but since our backups run nightly, there’s a high chance these posts / comments will be lost for good. Hopefully, that’s not the case, but it isn’t looking great right now. Expect another update once we get a final word from our techs.

Thanks everyone, and we apologize for some asshole (or group of assholes) out there causing this inconvenience.

Final Update: Boom. The great staff over at BulletHost diagnosed the problem, found a fix, and restored all of our posts and your comments.

Turns out it wasn’t any sort of malicious behavior, tFS received a massive amount of traffic from StumbleUpon, which combined with our generally “load heavy” website to cause some serious server stress. This actually corrupted some of our database tables, which have now been manually restored.

Over the upcoming weekend, we’ll work on optimizing tFS so that it’s more lightweight and prepared for any large influxes of traffic that come in the future. In the meantime, if you want a hosting company that cares, we highly recommend BulletHost.

Thanks for the patience everyone, we’ll have some fresh content for you all tomorrow.

+ tFS Team