Some cross-world linkshells went missing after 7.4 maintenance

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Date & Time: 12/16/2025, 7:00 PM (GMT+8)
Frequency: Everytime I open the cross-world linkshell window
World name: Brynhildr
Character name: Fanelia Laflamme
Retainer name: N/A
NPC name: N/A
Monster name: N/A
Class/Level: Lvl. 100 Paladin
Party or solo: N/A
In-game time: 12:41 PM Eorzea time (as of this report)
Area and coordinates: N/A
Housing: N/A
Platform: Windows 10

Steps:
1. Log in to the game.
2. Go to Social menu > Cross-world Linkshells.
3. Check the list on the left side of the window.

The CWLS entries for slots 1 and 2 disappeared. I'm the master of the 2nd one and I'm 100% sure that I didn't delete this before maintenance started.

https://imgur.com/wHtsJn1
Missing CWLS image here

This is also happening to another friend who's in the same CWLS.

All the CWLS I'm in are intact.

Can you find the CWLS on the lodestone? https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...rld_linkshell/

I checked just now...not anymore 😭 We could still search it in the lodestone just fine approximately 6 hours ago.

This happened to me too, with two crossworld linkshells.

On Primal, both cwls owners were of Ultros. Both went missing today upon logging in after the patch. I checked on the lodestone and I can see the old entries for both of them, though they lead to a "page not found"

First cwls: https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes..._count=&order= you can see two entries here, the earlier one is the deleted original one, the newer one is the one I remade today
Second cwls: https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...dacc348248227/ (direct link to the page not found, as the new cwls is too new to appear in the search)

Ok, so, my CWLS didn't disappear, but my ownership was transferred from me to a member who has been deceased for over a year.......so I can't just ask for it back. I submitted this info as an account recovery ticket, but thought I'd check in here too. This really stirred up some bad feelings I didn't feel like revisiting tonight.

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...96e69554620b6/

Luckily all my linkshells seem to be intact so far. I forgot to check for ownership, though... will update when I do.
What an odd bug.

Quite a long time ago now, probably over a year ago, SE announced they had an issue where a lot of linkshells had been disbanded due to a change and they went through a lot of trouble to restore backups as best they could.

So it seems they may have repeated this. From what has been said by everyone here, it seems like they probably did some sort of rollback to a year ago or something like that.

Not a rollback for me. I've always been the owner of my CWLS (Now I don't even have leader perms)
The person who it got transferred to might have been the first person I invited though, but she's also been dead for a year an a half.......soooo yeah. This isn't great.

Both of my cwls were also very old, one was just two of us and probably made 2021/2022 at the latest, the other person in the two person cwls was the owner, neither of us were inactive. The other cwls that went missing was made when cwls was introduced, and it had about 20-25 people in it, with several leaders. We were able to remake them and reinvite everyone in them but it's weird that this happened and we had to (and it kind of sucks losing the original dates they were made..!)

Sorry about your situation, Jokester.

I don't think it's a rollback for us as well. The CWLS in #1 was created way back 2019. One of our friends took a screenshot of the page after I reported this to them.

I forgot when the 2nd one was created, because like Flaura's I'm getting a "Page not found" if I try to access the CWLS details, so I can't confirm the date.

Update: https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...2261b5e924568c

Thank you so much for looking into this, dev team!