Quote from: cheekychap on January 30, 2015, 09:02:57 PM

Quote from: Xian01 on January 30, 2015, 05:23:09 PM

There have been reports of a massive bot registrations recently.

This could be related to a possible forums DDoS attack vector they have been attempting to exploit.

/tinfoil-hat

Just curious as to how would that be related to the search feature on the forum ?

No the disable has nothing to do with the bot account registrations, but the RAID failure.

Quote from: theymos on January 23, 2015, 06:03:44 AM

Due to a failure of the RAID array that bitcointalk.org was running on, the database became corrupted. It was necessary to move the OS and restore the database using a daily backup. About 8 hours of data was lost (anything after about Jan 21 21:44 UTC).

I've been busy getting the forum back online, so I haven't investigated this much yet, but it may be possible for me to manually restore lost posts/PMs by searching the recovered database files for keywords that you remember. If you lost a post or PM that you feel is absolutely irreplacable, PM me and I'll see if I can recover it.

Everyone's drafts were also all lost. These are not backed up because they're automatically deleted after 14 days anyway.

Search is temporarily disabled because I need to regenerate the search index before it will be usable again.