Pawb.Social Announcements

EDIT, Update: We've been able to partially recover about 25% of the media uploaded to Pawb.Social.

Upon further investigation, data from pawb.social was priorly moved to the new server and was inadvertently deleted as part of the earlier incident affecting furry.engineer and pawb.fun's cache while we were preparing the new server.

furry.engineer and pawb.fun media is unaffected, but all media directly uploaded to pawb.social is unrecoverable and has been lost. A miscommunication on my part OK'd the removal without fully checking the scope of data that was being removed; This was intended to only remove test data we were using to stress test the new hardware, but affected live data as well.

A large majority of posts are externally hosted and referenced (e.g. images from media.kbin.earth, d.furaffinity.net, etc.) are NOT affected. Only posts directly uploaded via the Create Post > Image field on pawb.social are affected.

We had previously transferred pawb.social to the new hardware as a preliminary trial and I had forgot this occurred thus failing to bring it up prior to the deletion going through.

I'm looking into options to be able to in-place reupload media on behalf of posters, but as the UUIDs are randomly generated by Pict-rs (the media service used by Lemmy), I'm unsure how to facilitate this. Any advice or information would be appreciated, and can be sent to network@pawb.social.

I understand this is a serious incident and reflects poorly on us, and I can only apologize for this loss and work to prevent this happening again in the future.

EDIT: I believe this will also impact profile pictures and community images (logos and banners), so please re-upload them at your earliest convenience.___