I'm about to get on the 5 and head home but before I do please note that I had to completely resurrect Airbag this morning from an old template backup and yesterdays entry export. I'm not sure what, if anything, is broken or looks out of place.
This is why all the comments from the last post all seem to have happened within minutes of each other. And I have no idea what this has done for RSS readers.
Once I am settled I will recount the story of how Airbag was nearly lost forever. Until then I will leave you with this quote from Shelly, a support person at Moveable Type.
The delete weblog issue is believed to be a bug with MT Blacklist.
Whoops. That information would have been handy to have twenty-four hours ago.
Join the fray by reading through and commenting at the end.
Feed makes last 15 entries unread, but that's no biggie.
I think the title of this post (or the one explaining the near death of Airbag) should be "Near Hindenberg."
Glad that everything is working again. Blame the terrorists.
Wordpress, despite its bugged-out interface, is calling your name :)
I have one word for you, TextPattern.
Hey, if anything, I'm pleased to see a full-text Airbag RSS feed. Sweet.
Hey, I have another word for you: ExpressionEngine. ;-)
Another vote for TextPattern.
It looks like the Airbag RSS feed also happens to contain Airbag:Longboard feed items.
I have four words for you:
Buy me a beer.
Greg, did you attempt to delete one weblog and it ended up actually deleting more than one?
I ran into this issue twice. One on my main site where it rained down all sorts of hell and then again while I was setting up a new site. In that case, I had two weblogs and decided to remove one of them and POOF!! Both were gone.
All the data appears to still be in MySQL but the main MT page wasn't detecting them correctly. The little sidebar even claimed I had one total weblog, but then none showed up. Weird. I posted the issue in the MT forums but no one ever replied.
Four Letters: UTFM, or Update The F-ing Manual.
I had the same issue as greg and brian... deleted one weblog, and had the second one I wanted to keep disappear as well. Although MT seems to still detect two weblogs, it just wont let me access the second one. I'd love to see a fix to recover this.
Switch to TextPattern and you can have all the beers your little tummy desires; )
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From the research I did on this issue for a client, the situation is probably that the permissions have been changed for the blog you can't see. The MT-Medic plugin would most likely allow you to reset your permissions to see and edit the blog again but there is a really good chance that templates, modules, etc will be gone once you get back in.
I can't say for certain this applies to everyone but it seems to be the most common situation.
I am SO writing my own blog system. MovableType will be a great idea when they get it out of alpha.
I read the same about MT Medic and it did reset permissions but all of the data was gone.
"I am SO writing my own blog system. MovableType will be a great idea when they get it out of alpha".
Eric, you have fun with that. In the meantime, you (and all of you recommending other weblog management systems) should probably realize that MT-Blacklist is simply an MT plugin still in beta. It is not MT and I am just an individual person and not Six Apart.
Greg (and brian and jeremy), I'm really sorry about your data loss and/or inconvenience this has caused. I feel terrible about this bug. No clue why it's happening but it surprises the hell out of me that it is.
Where's my beer?
Yes. TextPattern is definitely the way to go.
When I read that it was beta I figured that meant it might not catch spam or work properly. I had no idea a plugin had the power to crash MT so hard as to cause the loss of data, maybe because it was included in a plugin pack that appears to be an official release. Now that you work at Movable Type, at least I think you do, maybe you can help advocate for better warning language for those of us who are more designer than developer.
Thanks for your hard work, godspeed on the non-beta version.
I like the classy advocacy work by the commenters above. Nothing exudes confidence like chasing ambulances.
Sorry for the data loss problem, Greg, and I know Jay's taking the problem very seriously.
We all know Wordpress is better then TextPattern. :)
The clock on your comments seems off, BTW.
"We all know Wordpress is better then TextPattern. :)"
Whoops... didn't realize this was gonna be a pissin' contest. No problem, you win. Now would you mind putting that thing back in it's cave:)
TextPattern, WordPress... both great CMS's 8 ) Heck there's even a WordPress forum on the main forum.
It's all good, except when someone unzips.
Ambulance chasing indeed.
I'll just stick with the one I wrote. I know it more intimately and it handles my SPAM with ease. Sorry about your loss though Greg. I once lost a good bit of info when my server was moved without notice about a year ago.
stop it for now...