The site I mentioned with the hacking issues is Fantasybookreview.co.uk, the site where I post my book reviews.
First, there were no updates (either my reviews or other people's), since November, then, the site went down completely, then bits of the site came back and not others.
I got an email from the webmaster telling me the site was hacked twice in the same month. He apparently is going to restore a backup with just the text reviews, but no links to books or cover images which were lost, and he said he wouldn't be putting up any new content, though I hope he'll change his mind on this , as there are a bunch of my book reviews he hasn't put up, plus of course, it's damnably difficult trying to write book reviews when you've got no where to put them.
Bare in mind fantasybookreview.co.uk has been around for about 15 years, and I've been writing reviews for them since 2012, so I'm really hoping that the webmaster; who I think is not having a good time personally at the moment either, will manage to get things sorted out, both for myself, and the other people who've contributed reviews, as well as the visitors who read them.
Funnily enough, our own webmaster, Sander Huiberts of audiogames.net has! been doing some awesome fixes recently, so news posting is obviously back up, as are database updates, which I've been working on myself.
Hopefully, I can now get back to the tradition of Sunday site updates, especially with the amount of awesome things going on gaming wise at the moment.
Actually, though I've still been playing a lot of genesis, a few games I had to refresh my memory on to do db write ups for, and I got quite suckered in to playing swordy quest on my phone yesterday .
In other news,I've introduced my lady to the Joys of Avatar the last airbender, which I've recently got an audio described copy of, it's really surprising how good the series still is, though I'm dreading the new netflicks remake, because these days remakes of anything tend to be pretty dreadful, and we've already seen just how amazingly and horribly wrong Avatar remakes can go; anyone who watched the terrible, terrible 2010 film will know what I'm talking about .
of course, outside the world of magic martial arts and games, things unfortunately continue to be a bit dire, but that's sort of the way things are.
With our dreaming and singing, Ceaseless and sorrowless we! The glory about us clinging Of the glorious futures we see,
Our souls with high music ringing; O men! It must ever be
That we dwell in our dreaming and singing, A little apart from ye. (Arthur O'Shaughnessy 1873.)