flicker - 5:33 pm on Dec 18, 2006 (gmt 0)

Why would I feel cheated?

It's something I do in my spare time, for fun. My work's still up there, available for anybody who happens to be interested in one of the same topics I am to use.

I'm not a tech person, but the explanation they gave in the internal forums for what went wrong seems plausible to me. I've been working with computers for a long time now, and it doesn't faze me.

Bottom line is, none of MY work was lost. I feel bad for the people on the tech end, having to reconstruct stuff from RDF's or whereever to the point where we can resume editing like we were before, in whatever (inscrutable to me) way they do that. But all the categories I organized and descriptions I wrote are still out there as we type, and they'll still be part of the new model, so what's there for ME to feel cheated about?

If I was a tech person on the project I'd probably be pulling my hair out, of course. But as it is, I'm just looking forward to seeing whether we get any neat new functionality out of this once everything's rebuilt. If AOL was going to ditch the project, I think they would have done it as soon as the big crash happened, and they didn't do that, so I'm not too worried. And besides, even if worst did come to worst, the archives aren't going anywhere. Anyone who needs to know about an obscure author would still be able to find everything I've organized and categorized about him if they want.

So no, not too stressed about it, to tell you the truth. *one librarian's two cents*