Hi everyone,
The rollback has completed as of this morning and the STs are diligently working on recapping and reposting some items. I *believe* they will post an all clear for threads or areas that are good to resume posting as normal. Thank you for all your patience over the last couple of weeks, and in hindsight I regret not pulling the trigger on rolling back the site earlier. I was hoping with finding the root of what caused this all to happen that I'd be able to either fix it or prevent it from happening again.
After last Friday it became apparent that the issue was actually spreading unpredictably through the database and any hope of tracking what had been corrupted and fixing it was lost.
Through all of this though I've identified some areas of opportunity so hopefully in the coming weeks/months I can implement some extra safeguards to make rollbacks less painful or for this situation in general to not likely happen again. I want to express the importance that if you see something weird occurring to please say something to me as soon as you possibly can about it.
Lastly, I'd like to throw a big shout out to West . He spent more than a few late nights and early mornings helping with troubleshooting and it made things a fair bit easier having his expertise handy.
Thank you, and let me know if you have any questions or concerns!