3 Weeks and Dmoz is still down. Latest News.

Okay, so Dmoz is still down from it's server break on Oct. 20, 2006. In my last post I mentioned that Dmoz staff were in the process of restoring the directory's data. Well, with data restores you have to be careful because the data can become corrupted, and it seems like that's exactly what happened in Dmoz's case. They are now testing the data to make sure that everything is working properly, so that means that, yes, the editing server is now functioning, but, editors aren't allowed to edit because of a few issues they're still having with the data restore. Only a few editors, staff and admin, have been allowed to test the data and as soon as everything is working perfectly then everyone will be able to edit again. When that will be? No one has any idea. So, even though the editor server is up and running, Dmoz staff has made it unavailable until everything is working.