This has happened before and i had to hack the thread back into existence.
Logs do not show deletion by anyone.
Code/db has not been monkeyed with for months.
This is an elusive and extremely rare phpbb bug.
Ok, now i'm off to stitch together a 3gb database file..
I was being sarcastic neptronix I know it doesnt come across well online and I know how much time, effort and work you put into the forum just to maintain it let alone how much extra time, effort and work you're putting into the new forum setup.
Programming and I.T. was never my thing so the people that keep that side of things moving along is quite the task.
I think the database is getting grumpy in general. Last night/early this am (after nep fixed the stealth thread) all of the threads were throwing server errors when attempting to view them.
Nature of the beast once the db gets this bigly I guess.