Mayday! Mayday! Where do all these sounds come from?

Since the first week of may pdsounds is suddenly flooding with new sounds, alltogether 60 in a week. Amongst many others there's the honest recording of taking a shower, the street organ we've been waiting for, there's new animal voices, and delicious sounds of tea and wine.

What happened? It's the power of Librivox - pdsound's mother project dedicated to record all public domain literature in spoken audio form. Librivox has set itself to help pdsounds with a burst of its volunteer power. It's a project they call mayhem and they know microphones.
Thank you Cori, for setting this in motion.

This drive is enthralling! Thank all of you for participating. I am looking forward to the next wild three weeks.

Reconstructing pdsounds Help pages

In preparation for "mayhem" i painfully found out that for a long while, how long i don't know, the complete help section of pdsounds was out of order - gone. The pages about what, and how to record, about how to tag sounds etc. were not available to the public.

I have no idea what happened, whether something or someone screwed up the database or anything. But at least it is almost completely restored now. The help is without the former treelike structure now - but for the better of it, it's simpler. So there was something good out of this little breakdown.

Another good thing is that it made me aware to DO MORE BACKUPS and make sure the backups actually work - Rule Number 1 for web administrators. pdsounds is now safely backuped come what will.