Comments have vanished

Barr · 21-09-2022 3:11pm #1

Hi , looking for some help here.

All my comments from August 2018 to June 2022 have disappeared from the site . Before and after these dates seem ok . Something like over 3k comments gone.

The issue seems to have arisen when I was banned for no reason . Niamh kindly reinstated my account but it has not come back fully.

I’d appreciate if someone could investigate this for me and get my previous posts back

Thanks in advance

Spear · 21-09-2022 3:24pm

Checking here would seem to confirm that: https://www.boards.ie/profile/comments/Barr

Any idea what forums they were in?

21-09-2022 3:31pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119646719#Comment_119646719

Seems to have happened in multiple forums e.g.:

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058047848/house-bought-in-2013-no-tax

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058236254/samsung-galaxy-watch4-184-for-the-44-mm-version

Both of those discussions have other users quoting replies from the OP, but no sign of the comment they are quoting

Barr · 21-09-2022 3:59pm

It is across lots of forums over the years .

28064212 is spot on , the reason I copped it is people have quoted my posts that don't seem to exist anymore .

My posts were over 6 k, so something is wrong .

Spear · 21-09-2022 4:34pm

@Boards.ie: Niamh Any ideas on this one?

Barr · 04-11-2022 11:02am

Hi Niamh , just following up on this

Beasty · 04-11-2022 6:07pm

I've also noted a lot of posts disappeared for a mod when looking for something else. This may be linked. Niamh is unlikely to be around until Monday, but I did alert her to the example I saw a few days ago and she was going to look into it

I'll mention this thread to her in our Admin forum

Boards.ie: Niamh · 08-11-2022 1:07pm

Thanks guys, I had submitted a bug report for the mod Beasty mentioned and wll submit one for you too @Barr - sorry I missed the earlier discussion on this.

Boards.ie: Niamh · 21-11-2022 5:33pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119831849#Comment_119831849

Hi Barr, I am told that most if not all of your posts are restored now. However I can see that in the threads that @28064212 mentioned above, the posts are still missing, Can you check any other threads that you were aware had some missing posts and see if any of your posts there have been restored before I get back to them please? Thanks.

Barr · 21-11-2022 9:18pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119902739#Comment_119902739

Thanks Niamh , great to see progress

My post number has gone up roughly to what it used to be. However , any comments I made between Nov 2019 to June2021 are still are not on the site

It isn’t specific to any forum as it is across the board for this period.

This would be another example

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058196923/thinking-of-getting-a-juwel-vision-260#latest

Offspring quoting me, but there is no sign of my comment

Boards.ie: Niamh · 22-11-2022 4:03pm

Great, thank you @Barr . The tech team are doing another restore from backup on your comments and will let us know when that is completed. I'll keep you posted.

Boards.ie: Niamh · 30-11-2022 4:09pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119907278#Comment_119907278

I'm told that those posts have all now been restored @Barr 😊

Barr · 30-11-2022 8:05pm

Brilliant ,thanks Niamh 😀, my account looks back to normal again . Posts have reappeared and the amount looks right (6,723)

I cant be the only one this happened to , at least it can be fixed.