Good morning, afternoon, evening, and night... depending on your location.
Now that the formalities are out of the way... ZooVille is back. Here's what happened, a good portion of Zooville was hosted on Dogluver's server. Dogluver ended up disappearing for half a month (for no fault of his own), and unfortunately within that time, the company hosting the servers didn't receive their payment. After 7 days of non-payment, everything was wiped. Including Zooville, but Zoocadia and Zoo Writer's Guilde was also deleted as well. Luckily Beast.Chat was being hosted elsewhere.
Some of you maybe aware of Dogluver's partial device seizure a few months back. As far as we're aware, law enforcement would not have had access to the servers at any point before nor after deletion during Dogluver's absence. Everything was thoroughly walled off, obfuscated, and encrypted. However, by the time Dogluver came back online, it was too late. During this time, I was not able to get in touch with Sloppy on here. I was also not the individual that updated ZooVille's Telegram channel.
I'm going to try and get in touch with Sloppy to try and get some more information. I will update this thread when I have more info. For the time being though, expect errors and hiccups with the forum. There's going to be a lot of them, as most of our add-ons are broken and missing critical files.
To be honest, I'm surprised ZV wasn't gone for good. But not being able to reach Sloppy to verify if a backup even existed, I could not know what I could not know.
Now that the formalities are out of the way... ZooVille is back. Here's what happened, a good portion of Zooville was hosted on Dogluver's server. Dogluver ended up disappearing for half a month (for no fault of his own), and unfortunately within that time, the company hosting the servers didn't receive their payment. After 7 days of non-payment, everything was wiped. Including Zooville, but Zoocadia and Zoo Writer's Guilde was also deleted as well. Luckily Beast.Chat was being hosted elsewhere.
Some of you maybe aware of Dogluver's partial device seizure a few months back. As far as we're aware, law enforcement would not have had access to the servers at any point before nor after deletion during Dogluver's absence. Everything was thoroughly walled off, obfuscated, and encrypted. However, by the time Dogluver came back online, it was too late. During this time, I was not able to get in touch with Sloppy on here. I was also not the individual that updated ZooVille's Telegram channel.
I'm going to try and get in touch with Sloppy to try and get some more information. I will update this thread when I have more info. For the time being though, expect errors and hiccups with the forum. There's going to be a lot of them, as most of our add-ons are broken and missing critical files.
To be honest, I'm surprised ZV wasn't gone for good. But not being able to reach Sloppy to verify if a backup even existed, I could not know what I could not know.
