Dear Memory Prime users,
Well, you have eyes, so obviously you've noticed that Prime has been offline since early December. The reason the site suddenly shut down appears to be very simple, and quite difficult to fix: My longtime host, Hostmonster, simply deleted the tables that contained all the page data. This appears to have been by accident, but they have so far totally failed to offer any kind of restoration, or even a clear explanation. I had not yet made backups, because I usually do backups when I do upgrades, and Prime was so new it hadn't needed any yet. That is 100% my fault. I should have had backups.
The only thing to do now is to rebuild Memory Prime from the ground up. Fortunately, Hostmonster didn't lose the image data. Unfortunately, even just getting the articles back is not a simple matter. It took a couple weeks to get Prime online the first time. This was mostly lots of babysitting mass page imports and then fixing the million and one templates Memory Alpha needs, but also quite a lot of rewriting around the hub pages. I don't know when I'm going to have a couple weeks like that again, given my large commitment to the Starship Excelsior audio drama.
If someone wants to take up the torch, write to me at starshipexcelsior@gmail.com and I'll be happy to hook you up with files and advice. (You'll have to figure out many vagaries of wiki software by yourself, though.) Otherwise, I will eventually migrate to a new host (I hear Hostwinds is good?) and will inevitably get so annoyed at something on Alpha that I'll end up rebuilding Prime. I just don't know when that will be.
To the handful of people who were in the process of making Memory Prime awesome when it went: my sincere thanks. Now that /r/star_trek has been tragically crushed under the boot of corporate cheerleading, I will hope to see you on /r/trektalk or (if we're lucky) elsewhere on the Internet. Live long and prosper.
~James H., "BCSWowbagger", 21 March 2023