Dear All,
Many of you have posted about shoutbox, and posting issues over the last 12 hours. After looking into details about this, it seems to be my fault. I take full responsibility for this (unless can claim it for actions I'm unaware of!!!).
At about 6pm yesterday GMT, I wanted to add some additional calendar features. Examples would be a block on the homepage to show today's calendar events, which could show (say) the deadlines for the Fantasy Sports, to name but a few. Unfortunately the calendar app (a core product wasn't working correctly. As a result I uninstalled and reinstalled it (something I've done on third party apps many times). However after (what looked like a successful install), it seems to have messed up some other core apps, the forums, etc.
As a result I had no option but to restore, otherwise by the time I figured it out, we could be another week down the road.
I will be discussing with the Seniors and WebMaster the importance of creating change controls and incremental backups within the webmaster forum, which will require a majority vote, prior to implementing. This will minimise this and other issues that have occured in the past.
If you have any questions, please feel free to PM me.
Once again, I'm sorry for this incident, and all efforts will be implemented to minimise it in the future.
Regards,
Cavey