What do you think is currently happening here?
There are three other admins besides Thunderfall. Mind you, I don't know if the others have all the accesses that Thunderfall has. I suppose it comes down to who pays the bills to keep this place running.Question: If something were to happen to Thunderfall and he was rendered incapable of running the website, could it be "salvaged"?
For example, if he had some sort of accident or a disease, could CFC keep on running on the long run without an admin?
Padma, ainwood, and Plotinus. The ones you see at the top of the page when you come into this subforum.There are? Who?
Question: If something were to happen to Thunderfall and he was rendered incapable of running the website, could it be "salvaged"?
For example, if he had some sort of accident or a disease, could CFC keep on running on the long run without an admin?
In the long run, someone has to pay the bills to rent the server space. If TF stops doing that, the first we'd probably find out about it was when the server owner shut CFC down.
There's just so much content in here, it can't just go down because the admin is unavailable.
I think his point is that it would be unfortunate if the roughly 30,000 files on this site suddenly disappeared. Nothing about a bailout or anything like that.So in other words you're saying we're too big to fail... that's rather ominous.
True, but even after you catalog everything on the site that you think is important, you will still be missing something that's important, whether it be by mistake of missing it, or by hardware malfunction. (Trust me, it's happened to me twice, and twice I have groaned because I lost something of great value to me.)That's why you should make backups, screenshots, or downloads of whatever you consider important.
Yeah, I do that, and I have a whole section of downloads that I keep, but unfortunately, it isn't invincible. (At least, that's what the 100 file disappearance taught me. )That reminds me of the question I got asked in a computer programming job interview once:
"What is the most important thing computer programming has taught you?"
I changed my mind halfway through the answer to "make regular backups"
Yeah, I do that, and I have a whole section of downloads that I keep, but unfortunately, it isn't invincible. (At least, that's what the 100 file disappearance taught me. )
But I'll end it here. This goes off topic and the Staff is probably putting the scopes on there sniper rifles. Or at least digging through their drawers looking for that lock.
That reminds me of the question I got asked in a computer programming job interview once:
"What is the most important thing computer programming has taught you?"
I changed my mind halfway through the answer to "make regular backups"
I think his point is that it would be unfortunate if the roughly 30,000 files on this site suddenly disappeared. Nothing about a bailout or anything like that.
Why are you so paranoid of the moderation on this website?