Site Downtime

Dave Stephenson · May 24, 2016

update 26/05;

Email systems are now back online, registration is open.

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update 25/05;

All issues should now be resolved with the exception of mail notifications and user registration. Theses will be returned to normality asap, with likely resolution tomorrow.

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As you may have seen in our Twitter and Facebook posts unfortunately we suffered a hardware failure on Sunday afternoon which put the webserver out of commission until the hardware could be replaced.

I'm glad to say the work went well as did installation and restoring our data from backups. The last backup took place around 3-4 hours before the failure so you may find that if you changed avatar, uploaded attachments, or added media etc after that time (approximately 8am-9am GMT) links may be broken or images missing.

In the meantime, email services are still to be restored so registration is currently closed an you won't receive email notifications. Aside from that it's business as usual apart from a little tweaking here and there.

If you do spot anything please drop me a message in this thread and I'll take a look.

rudie · May 24, 2016

Didn't work, but i cleared my browsers history, and it's back to normal now.

jimortality · May 24, 2016

How come there are no signatures when people post? Have I missed something?

Bram Hengeveld · May 24, 2016

Yours shows fine to me @jimortality

jimortality · May 24, 2016

Bram said:
Yours shows fine to me @jimortality

Oh, I can't see anybody's signature. Ignore me, I'm such a numpty as I hadn't checked the box in my profile doh! Mind you I can only see mine and the link doesn't work. I can now see signatures but my twitch link doesn't work.

Bram Hengeveld · May 24, 2016

jimortality said:
but my twitch link doesn't work.

You need to set that in your profile similar as you did for twitter.

jimortality · May 24, 2016

Bram said:
You need to set that in your profile similar as you did for twitter.

Yes but it keeps saying it's not the required format?

Bram Hengeveld · May 24, 2016

Works fine here.

Dave Stephenson · May 24, 2016

jimortality said:
Oh, I can't see anybody's signature. Ignore me, I'm such a numpty as I hadn't checked the box in my profile doh! Mind you I can only see mine and the link doesn't work. I can now see signatures but my twitch link doesn't work.

links are never parsed in signatures.

Dave Stephenson · May 24, 2016

I know there's still some gremlins now but persevere with it for now. I need to work on it when things are quieter, it's too busy at the moment.

jimortality · May 24, 2016

Ok no problem cheers

alexSchmurtz · May 24, 2016

Thanks for all your time and efforts, Dave! Most of the forum seems to work, that's already a big relief!

Dave Stephenson · May 25, 2016

ok gents the inserting attached images in your post issue is resolved.

That one was my bad, I missed a dependency

Kenny Paton · May 25, 2016

Now finally I can say it publicly

And thanks for the effort you've put in to get things back up and running.

Dave Stephenson · May 25, 2016

btw guys, this should also have solved the issue with thumbnails on racetube uploads.

Goozys · May 25, 2016

Is the problem with images already solved?
I've uploaded yesterday a file with images, but they didn't appear

[EDIT]
Problem solved. I reuploaded my images and it works

Dave Stephenson · May 25, 2016

Goozys said:
Is the problem with images already solved?
I've uploaded yesterday a file with images, but they didn't appear

[EDIT]
Problem solved. I reuploaded my images and it works

yeah you'll need to redo any, I should have thought to post that. Glad you sorted it

Ben Milden · May 25, 2016

Thanks @Dave Stephenson And good luck to the Owls this weekend

Ricardo Campos · May 26, 2016

Dave Stephenson said:
btw guys, this should also have solved the issue with thumbnails on racetube uploads.

Ok, thanks,
But what about this msg,,,

Dave Stephenson · May 26, 2016

Ricardo Campos said:
Ok, thanks,
But what about this msg,,,

From my quick research it's possible you have a malware infection on your pc. The browser popup is protected you from it and you should consider scanning and cleaning your system with security software.

Dave Stephenson · May 26, 2016

Mail system is back up, registration is open.

Same ongoing issues as before with Hotmail/Outlook etc. I've made the submission again to free that up though might take a while. Honest advice, change provider if it's an issue.