I have been splitting my responsibilities up and given Blade and JMT new roles on the forum.
Blade Genexis will be the new Lead Moderator in Fusions absence. He will oversee the moderator team and any concerns about Mod will go to him. He will ensure the staff are working appropriately and we have an active team. He will also be responsible for assigning new moderators and demodding current ones. Blade has been a moderator for a long time now and has a solid grasp on the system here. He will hopefully be very useful to new mods and helping them learn the ropes.
JmTsHaW now has the rank of Junior Admin. JMT has been helping me keep an eye on the forum for a long time now and has proven himself to be a strong member of the team and has a great awareness of the current ongoings of the forum. JMT will oversee the forum activity and ensure the atmosphere is smooth, as well as going over and changing any rules as necessary. Most changes/suggestions will not have to be approved by me and JMT has responsibility to make decisions himself.
That said he doesn't have access to all the administrator features right away but he will still be the one to decide if things get done.
A few more changes coming soon too.
As mentioned in JMT's topic here -> viewtopic.php?f=3&t=42560
there was an issue last night and as you may have noticed, we have gone back in time a day.
The first thing i noticed was that the SQL server had restarted, i raised this with my host urgently and unfortunately here's what happened:
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The mysql server had 2 disks suddenly fail last night, and they were unfortunately the matching pairs in the raid 10 array so the data on them was lost. We monitor the disks and SMART values but they did not give any indication that they were going to fail. Our admin team have replaced the disks, rebuilt the array, and have restored all databases from backups which were made 3rd April 2013 in the morning.
Unfortunately changes made after the time these backups were made is not recoverable.
The RP forums would have been affected by this the most, and i do apologise. If it helps Planet HippoTank had a bizarre time shift that the majority of the population would not have noticed, except for a select few who are questioning the event and putting together theories of their own. Mooncow himself is not revealing much, but was rumoured to have been seen with Funky G shortly before the event.
Sorry for the trouble guys, remember to check the twitter for latest updates during maintenance! 
Just a few changes made today as an April Fool's Day joke!
Firstly the Christmas Theme was made the forum default (and you could change to the Halloween theme).
Anyone above the max rank was shown to be a spammer.
But thank you everyone for continually stating your intent to serve me always!
