I’ve recently gathered up enough courage (and time) to go about installing forums on the site – the Quantumworx Anime and Manga Forums. As a new project, they happened to be a little bit of pride and joy – unfortunately, a few days later – my hosting server decided to throw a fit, dropping both the blog and the forum into the internet void.

Two days down the line, things are back up and running – my datacenter used a backup to restore things – the bad news is that the backup was a week out of date, which means the forum, and all the work I put into it, had disappeared.

The forum is currently offline, while I attempt to sift through my memories to recreate all the categories and subforums – this is likely to take a day or two. The theming and editing is likely to use up a couple of hours by itself *cries* Obviously, the restoration has also knocked the blog back a couple of days – no posts were lost, but a couple of modifications have made their way into the mists – and I’ll be spending some time getting the house back in order again.

I guess this will teach me to do everything by myself – so I’ll be on the hunt for some helpers – luckily, I already have KittiWithKatana and xxxtrillic helping with posting on the blog. All three of us have posts in the making, so things will be getting a little more active again.

In any case, I’d love it if my regular readers could swing by the forums and sign up and help me build a little community based around a shared passion. Since it’s still in it’s early stages, there’s still a lot more to come – keep checking back … the forums should be back up and running by tomorrow (Friday 12 December).