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Originally Posted by 1UPGamer
Wow that's a pretty costly mistake  Sorry for your loss...
Actually even if you had a backup of the DB, forum communities can often be so fragile that even after restoring people often never come back after major incidents like that.
Good luck with starting it from scratch, I know it can't be that easy.
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Yup... Very soon after I joined 1upGamers, I received an invitation from another member to join their forum too.
After a week or so, the database was deleted & we were all asked to re-join & re-submit our messages.
I re-joined but not many of the original members did.
I won't name & shame the site, but I agree, as I said above, retaining a fickle audience can be the most challenging aspect of maintaining any web presence.
BFN,
fp.