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I'm not 100% on this, but it's highly likely this board wasn't singled out for attack. Phpbb is a pretty popular piece of software and exploits are constantly discovered and patched. Most of the time a hacker will simply search Google for vulnerable forums based on a certain filename (example: http:...

Third time is a charm, right? I renamed the files 0-*.html - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/602885/sonicscentral.zip

Hmm, here is a zip file instead - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/602885/sonicscentral.com.zip (32mb). Hopefully that will work.

Looks great. I noticed a display bug in the Player Utilization section. I'm running the latest chrome dev (12.0.733.0 dev) on Mac 10.6.7, so it could be a result of that.

There are some bots around to do that sort of thing--do you think if you got in contact with the admin (Kevin Pelton) you could work out a way to adjust the forum settings to allow automated posting? If not, it would be good to post the whole reconstructed tree to a web domain. I may do that myself...

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get phpbb to accept an automated posting. I'll leave the content that I was able to grab up as long as you need. I wish I could've helped more, but it's great to see you're still restoring posts.

Just an update before I call it a day. Phpbb is being stubborn. I'm able to automate the form posting, but the topic just isn't showing up. I'll look at it more tomorrow and see if I can't figure out why that's the case. I'm not sure if phpbb has any spam protection that could be blocking it? Regard...

It looks like warrick only supports time spans using The Internet Archive, so I don't think we could do that. I'm still banned from Google's cache, but if anyone is familiar with Ruby (the programming language) and the process of running a script then I could write a script that could fetch a range ...

Google's cache would be the ideal place to recover the most topics, but I'm not sure it let me get to 100 requests before it blacklisted me. I didn't want to incur the full wrath of Google and be permanently blacklisted, so I stopped the script. I mean, how else will I find cat pictures if that were...

I'll go with the single post method and see how that works out. Threads might show up and then get deleted while I work out the kinks. I'll do a trial run and update this thread.

Happy to do what I can to help. Here is a topic list of what I recovered - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/602885/sonicscentral-topics.txt Here is the actual data (30mb) - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/602885/sonicscentral.tar.gz Unfortunately, thewaybackmachine only had about 430 unique topics. It looks like eac...

Wow, this is heartbreaking! I've only lurked since I discovered this board a couple months ago, but I've been inspired by the quality of discussion. I feel if those discussions were left to fade into Internet Oblivion, a little bit of history would be lost. I want to be proactive and offer my help a...