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Old Apr 10, 2009 | 2:14 pm
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IB-Dick
 
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Originally Posted by lin821
I believe my post count was correct up till my most recent post about 1 hour ago. Sometime between then and now, I lost about 50 post. last time I check, I was much closer to 2900.

I thought IB is working on the db and bringing back the data, instead of deleting more.

Is this missing post count part of the 12-hour window of data loss IB-Dick is referring to?
We are NOT deleting data. We ran an update that recalculated post counts. No information was deleted.

Originally Posted by FlyingOnceMore
In this case I believe the count problem is related to the number of posts members made in OMNI before it was decided they would no longer be counted. The change was made last year.
You are correct.

Originally Posted by lin821
As far as I know, back when everything was working, if a thread (or post) was deleted by the mod, it wouldn't be counted. It had always been like that.

Are you saying there's a "different" kind of deleted threads now?

ETA:
OMNIites just figured it out.

It's not about deleted threads. It's about the OMNI post count. IBB you guys really don't get how big the OMNI post count is to some OMNIites.
In previous versions of vB, this was not the case. In recent versions, deleted posts are removed from post counts.

Us IB guys DO understand how important post counts are to some people, which is why we plan on updating them off the backup as soon as we get everything else fixed.

This was unfortunately necessary. The only other option after the corruption was to reload a backup from 12 hours back, losing a half day of posts.
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