Leaderboard

Certainly a temporary slogan, but we can stick with it for a while. I've been up for over 24 hours, absolutely no sleep. I did everything I possibly could to find a backup of our old database, but to no avail. Since it became evident that there was no chance of us recovering our 600,000 posts and 2,200 members, I've flipped the switch and made what I consider mandatory changes. We are on a new host, running the newest board software. Every player profile page I created will be checked for coding errors. WordPress will be scrapped for our homepage for the time being, and a new and very basic homepage will be created over time. A new skin will be created over time. Step by step, this place will be rebuilt over time. But my glass isn't half full right now. It's full. The way I see things, my drive to push you (as a community) straight to the top of the food chain is at its peak. Let me remind you that someone just ripped more than four years of hard work away from this site. There were around 20 members with 8,000 posts, possibly three or four over 20,000. If there is any one emotion you should be feeling right now, don't let it be anger. Be determined and focused. Every season you spent on OTR following your favorite team for 82 games or more, posting about them, commenting on rumors and big trades, following them to a playoff berth or even a championship, you made a name for yourself within our community of basketball minds. Then, disrespecting you and everyone else here, it's all wiped clean, sitting you aside as a rookie basketball fan once again and pushing you in the back to do something about it. Since January 2005, we've watched numerous sites fail. Some are hacked. Most are sold. If we're looking for something we've learned over that period of time, it's that there's no way we will break. I know I would carry this site on my back for years, even if we were down to five active posters, because I believe there's nothing that can put us to rest as long as there are leaders and dedicated members. Right now, I'm looking for leaders and dedicated members. Someone wanted you to find a new home as a rookie. I want you and everyone here to rebuild this place as veterans. There's a very large gap between coming here to stir up trouble, and disrespecting our hard work and dedication over the course of four and a half years. If you're pissed off, determined, focused, and/or upset at what took place on Friday, welcome back. It's time to do work.

So far I have noticed that there is a reputation Option, where you can add or subtract points from members. I think thats pretty cool. Post everything else different here.

You can invite people into your PM conversations...and it's actually like a topic, rather than an individual post.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5epzcME5U-M

They have a very Java-based interface now, sort of like Facebook. We hopefully will be adding the Facebook-linkage soon as well

Glad you all made it in. We built the site before and we will build it again

It's there still.

6:45am and I'm still up, haha. Sleep in till whenever then get ready for a date, should be a good day.

We will be stronger than ever.

It's those knees.

Anyone else?

Hmm I like that reputation feature. And I think Ill love the invite a member to a PM conversation.