Is there any way for us to encourage or force the admin to restore all our lost things tha...

Girl the software that held the information is fried we aren’t getting them back

it's over. all hope is lost

The only thing you can do is start building your list from scratch... ╥﹏╥

I wrote an FAQ on the situation
https://www.mangago.me/home/mangatopic/21255174/
If you rated/tagged stuff then you'll likely be getting them back. If you know that you rated/tagged stuff and it's still not back, that is likely because site recovery is taking longer than usual.

I don't know why people are saying that recovery is over. It's not confirmed.

I advise not touching your lists, but I can't stop you. If you face issues, I warned you. Jk, if you face issues just let me know please.

What..you’re lying wtf

Everything in my read was rated and most were tagged, but the issue is I don’t think I’ve seen anyone else mention that everything of theirs was restored so I’m starting to assume they’ve just given up

Site recovery is taking more than usual. Once it's been confirmed that the developers are done recovering lists, and you still don't have works you know you rated/tagged back, you should email them. I see you have 284. Were there more?

I believe developers are still recovering things to lists today. I found a user's account who has a 2011 entry in between entries they put in their list today. For example, it looks like this:

TITLE: ADDED MARCH 7 2026
TITLE: ADDED 2011 (Rated)
TITLE: ADDED MARCH 7 2026

I know it's been a month but just wait. We don't know how much more works they're recovering. There is no timeline for when it will be finished. Lots of other people didn't tag stories, which is likely why they're not getting stuff back anymore.

I used to have around 800-900 in read I believe and 200 ish in reading, so it’s so disheartening to see so much is gone
I used to keep track of it but I start slacking in recent months so even if I restore myself 100+ titles will still be missing from both reading and read