Thanks so much for such a prompt response, availle.Availle wrote:HI Eunah!
let me quickly answer your questions:
1) Yes, all the forum posts since September 15 have been lost and cannot be recovered. I'm very sorry about this. Every project started after September 15 will have to be recreated from scratch, including weekly poetry etc.
2) Yes, the blog posts on the homepage posted after September 15 have also been lost and cannot be recovered directly. However, I have a (handwritten) copy of my staff picks post for October, and I will repost it a bit later. Maybe the admin who posted about the the 3rd party apps is able to recreate and repost her message as well. I will mention this in the admin forum.
4) The crash was not due to any kind of outside attack, it was a simple (?) failure of a type of software that we use to keep librivox online and working (yes, I see the irony of this ). We will try to make sure that this does not happen again.
As for the appdeveloper: We have contacted the one in question and he in turn has contacted his advertiser to exclude political advertisements in the future. This is all we can do about it, I'm afraid.
Really sorry to bother you again with questions, but...
One of the useful features I greatly missed from the LV catalog during the temporary server failure was "Subscribe with iTunes" and RSS feed feature available on every LV book catalog page.
Downloading an LV audiobook with the podcast method makes it a lot easier for me to figure out chapter titles, authors (if the book I am downloading is an anthology) or reader names. So, my question is, how does "Subscribe with iTunes" and "RSS Feed" feature work? Is this feature made possible only by the LV catalog database?