Official News

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It seems we have some official news on the Homepage. Apparently progress is being made and access should be available to the multiplayer servers again.

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As you might have noticed we are currently enduring some problems with our main server. That is: about one week ago we had a major harddrive failure resulting in the system not working at all. So far we don’t know exactly how much of the data on the system is completely lost since we are working on restoring things. So far the multiplayer servers (stable and development) are back up again and the subdomain redirects like gettext.wesnoth.org are working again. What is not working so far are the forums and the wiki. The problem is that parts of the database seem to be broken. Currently cycholka is trying to fix and restore whatever is possible. Some stuff is completely lost like the screenshots folder we were using including the ancient screenshots. If anyone of you has a backup of those, feel free to contact us. We don’t know how many of the forum attachments are broken but it is likely that some will not be restoreable.

We hope to have the wiki and forums usable again in some days but we don’t know how long it will take. We will soon migrate the main server to a different machine anyway. This one will offer more network bandwidth and due to this make the website feel smooth again. We are not 100% sure if we will restore the wiki and forum completely before the move, so it might be that you are on the new server when the forum and wiki are up again…

I will try to post updates every now and then and please keep in mind that asking “when will the forum be up again” in our IRC chans won’t speed things up at all. So please stay patient and play Wesnoth instead of using the forums. If you are interested in some more info, have a look at the (unofficial) Wesnoth Journals.

Yay! The Journals are linked from the main page

So things are looking good. We may not have access to fora or wiki but it should be coming back soon. It is unfortunate that screenshots and attachments might be lost and that it happened before I managed to copy them all to the gallery.

However if people are looking for a place to continue with artwork development you can easily use the gallery for that purpose. I’ll blog about it in more detail soon but in short, it provides personal albums for all registered users, bbcode commenting along with ratings and the like. You should be quite capable to collaborate from there until the forums are back up.