What Happened to R1DB?!

If you’ve been noticing odd changes or differences to R1DB then you may want to take a look at R1DB admin & founder, Jayhawk’s, official statement:

“OK! so, now that we’ve got the cover area working again…

here’s some small things that have changed, things we are still working on and aware of, and a general overview of what happened:

WHAT HAPPENED?!?!

well, basically we upgraded the kernel on the box (security) and support for PHP4 with the new kernel was dropped. We had to move to php5, which most of the scripts on the cover section didnt like (session info was broken). We’ve upgraded most of that, but almost all of our old scripts… no longer work.

Things we are still working on:

1. display credits under statistics in the cover profile
2. display credits on your posts in the cover section
3. display number of downloads on the cover

Things that changed:

1. we are no longer hiding who uploaded what. I don’t think this is really a big deal anymore. you can still give credit to the artist, and if they ever want to participate on the site, it will be easier for them to know that they dont own it.

2. no longer sorting by “most popular” on the index. given we dont vote… didn’t make sense. I may add one for “most viewed”

Things that need to be corrected or errors you see:

(well, im getting sql errors emailed to me by the boat load still, but that doesn’t affect you)

Post what problems you see, or features that need to be reinstated. Errors… etc.

Thanks!”