If you're new to the Ubercart community, you might be tempted to think there's not much going on here. Unfortunately, you'd be wrong and I'd have little evidence to prove otherwise. We have recently experienced a nasty power outage combined with a hardware failure on our Dell Poweredge 2900 that resulted in most of this site's content being doomed to oblivion as far as our server is concerned.

If you haven't seen it already, you can read more about it in the news post:
Ubercart.org is back!

Never fear, though, Google has saved the day! Google caches the pages they crawl for indexing purposes, an idea which has gotten them into copyright trouble in the past, but which has turned out for our good today. All our documentation, contributions, and forum content up until a few days ago is safely cached on Google serves for as long as they retain that stuff. The trick now is to get it back on here and get a distributed backup solution going to prevent something like this in the future.

I plan on reposting the various static pages, documentation, contrib pages, and live site listings over the next couple of days. I will also be reposting essential forum posts, but I am not going to try and do them all. I will grab them as I need them and leave it up to the community to do the rest as they see fit. I'll be posting instructions on how to post the old threads in a little while. The basic idea is to pull up the cached versions from Google and then post the threads back in the same forum they were in before. I'd love it if folks could get post/juice credit for their old posts, so if you're going to repost old threads, think about grabbing your own first.

Everyone will need to recreate their user accounts, and please PM me to restore your user badges (especially all our wonderful donors!). There have been some changes to the site and will be more, as I take advantage of this opportunity to fix bugs from the previous installation. Reply here if you have any time saving ideas or site suggestions that I can take into consideration at this time.

To find old threads on Google, you can specify a site/subdirectory of pages to pull up in a search. For example, searching for site:www.ubercart.org will bring up all the pages for Ubercart.org cached in Google. Searching for site:www.ubercart.org/site will bring up all the live site listings. Searching for site:www.ubercart.org/forums will search in the old forums, and adding any other keywords will help you locate your old threads. We're really interested in saving the old content so it can be re-indexed on our current site, so please repost all the comments along with your forum post formatted to include the comment poster's name and a clear break between posts.

I'll update this thread as more sections of the site spring back to life. We can coordinate recovery efforts through this thread as well.

Ciao!