Shortly after upgrading to SMF 1.1.6 earlier tonight, we experienced downtime due to an unknown error that occured editing the forum theme, which rendered the board totally useless and database unuseable. I would like to thanks an old United-TI member, Raster, for saving Omnimaga from a potential restart from scratch or closing. We are unsure why this error happened in the first place, but we took precautions the second time we edited the theme and hope this doesn't happen again.

We also had to reupgrade to SMF 1.1.6 manually afterward because the board wouldn't connect to SMF server for some reasons. It should all be fine now, though.

Thanks again to Raster.

If you keep you comp on, you could make a bot that auto-backup's Omnimaga every xx minutes 

Glad we made it alright, but I hope it doesnt happen again!!! Jking

Close Call!

Sophisticated bot if it is...relatively speaking, of course, considering that "Witty"Adrian averages 3 words/post

Well, some bots are made purposely to not spell correctly all the time nowadays, so they look more like new forum members. It could either be a bot, or someone who tried to raise his post count just to use OmnomIRC (or vote on polls). It could be to send PMs, too, since to send PMs, there's also a post count requirement (spam protection)

Oh we had post count requirements on PMs for over a year. We even had it on the old board for a while in 2006-07. We just no longer had post count ranks

Let's not be unwelcoming to new members, though. He could be new to forums and everyone gotta start somewhere. But yeah I am personally unsure if he is an actual person.