G’day all. fffsforums are now running on a bright & shiny, brand new web server. Drop in and say hello. fffsforums.com

It seems to run very slow on Windows Millennium.

Peak Warming Man said:

It seems to run very slow on Windows Millennium.

Lmao… Bless

Ffs

dv said:

Ffs

…. fully……..

Still seems to have the flagmen in attendance….

buffy said:

Still seems to have the flagmen in attendance….

What’s that mean?

sibeen said:

buffy said:

Still seems to have the flagmen in attendance….

What’s that mean?

It’s not doing anything. Under construction.

Re: Doling out wifi passwords for home

Postby Teleost » Tue Dec 16, 2014 6:25 pm

Working here.

Re: New Server

Postby sibeen » Tue Dec 16, 2014 7:55 pm
What goes on here then?

Nup….just “This site is being updated” as it’s been for some days now.

Try putting this in:

http://fffsforums.com/posting.php?mode=reply&f=3&t=570

Same…being updated…

works fine here..

but why do we need both here and there?

I wish we still had Nick’s place, that was nice and cozy.

I may be lying

sometimes it’s better to let the past stay in the past.

It works from here.

Why is it so hard to find nice Contact paper??

Anyone got any ideas why I’m not seeing it?

Have you tried clearing your cache?

I’ve tried typing the address in up the top. Still don’t get an operating forum.

>I’ve tried typing the address in up the top. Still don’t get an operating forum

if that’s the cobberwebs.com forum and same address you’re talking, works here, though didn’t try logging in….

…checked login works too

buffy said:

Anyone got any ideas why I’m not seeing it?

Have you tried turning if off and on?

poikilotherm said:

buffy said:

Anyone got any ideas why I’m not seeing it?

Have you tried turning if off and on?

…or giving it a good swift bang on the side.

transition said:

>I’ve tried typing the address in up the top. Still don’t get an operating forum

if that’s the cobberwebs.com forum and same address you’re talking, works here, though didn’t try logging in….

…checked login works too

Not cobberwebs. fffsforums.com.

I think I tried from work today too. Sill got the being updated page. I thought maybe the old link I had was wrong. That’s why I typed in the address.

I’ve been getting the being updated page for several days now.

working here ok.

Boris said:

working here ok.

Well that’s no help!

Have I got the right address?

http://

+ cobberwebs.com

gets you into homepage then the link takes you where you want to go

works here anyway

I also Googled it and followed links from there. Still keep getting forum being updated.

Didn’t they leave cobberwebs ages ago?

i’ve gone in here five times to test it in last fifteen minutes, works every time….

http://cobberwebs.com/

transition said:

http://

+ cobberwebs.com

gets you into homepage then the link takes you where you want to go

works here anyway

Tried that too….linked through. Got being updated. No details or posts or anything.

I tried it for about 5 mins yesterday.. It worked. Shrug

http://fffsforums.com/

Do I need to clear cookies or something?

you’ve been black listed and blocked, buffy….

;)

Boris said:

http://fffsforums.com/

yep, that’s what I’ve done. Just followed it again. Same thing.

transition said:

you’ve been black listed and blocked, buffy….

;)

Well, it’s puzzling.

try closing your browser and reopening it. then try the address again.

Cleared cookies and cache. Still no good.

Browser closed, reopened. Still no joy.

Could someone who can get in please see if fsm has any ideas?

>Well, it’s puzzling.

just post your login handle here and password and i’ll test it for you, everyone else can test it too

;) bein’ silly

better get out of here before disrepute finds me

It’s not that I can’t log in….I can’t even get that far. The page just loads with a message that it is being updated.

i tried with IE and no probs.

Try here

see if this opens up in this forums pane.

What is this forum?

it is the sssf forum that fish slapping maniac set up after nicks nose dived.

Buffy, do you have CCleaner?

Boris said:

it is the sssf forum that fish slapping maniac set up after nicks nose dived.

I wonder if Tell Someone Who Cares has taken on a zombie life of its own as a bastion of unmoderated freedom since I have locked myself out years ago.

http://fffsforums.com/viewforum.php?f=2

that’s the science forum bit.

maybe you are coming from a range of addresses that has been blocked

Boris said:

i tried with IE and no probs.

Try here

see if this opens up in this forums pane.

That opens at the front page, but says

“Information

This site is being updated…”

That’s what I get all the time. There is no listing of the sections and when I switch to full style (or whatever it is) there is nothing in the view by time .

sibeen said:

Buffy, do you have CCleaner?

No. What does that do and why would it be appropriate?

Boris said:

http://fffsforums.com/viewforum.php?f=2

that’s the science forum bit.

Same result.

I just prefer this forum

has same format as the proper forum

is not bogged down with countless forums

dunno.

long shot but i experienced a similar prob a little while ago, was to do with certificates. i had inadvertantly refused one so that page wouldn’t load. they are located in tools>internet options>content.

that is for IE, though my prob was using opera.

tried my IE browser security and privacy settings both on highest (usually set medium), couldn’t replicate what you get but cobberwebs let me in but not everything loaded, but the science link wouldn’t let me in there at all.

wookiemeister said:

I just prefer this forum

has same format as the proper forum

is not bogged down with countless forums

GSEOH

Oh, christ, did wookie actually say something sage like.

falls off chair

OK, beer may have something to do with that.

Dropbear said:

wookiemeister said:

I just prefer this forum

has same format as the proper forum

is not bogged down with countless forums

GSEOH

Yeah forums with squillions of subdivisions give me the squitts, it doesn’t make searching easier.

That forum may just be the backup(Holiday) forum for when this one goes on holidays.

Only for those luddites that don’t facebook, of course.

Kingy said:

That forum may just be the backup(Holiday) forum for when this one goes on holidays.

Only for those luddites that don’t facebook, of course.

I’m not a bloody Luddite!

Kingy said:

That forum may just be the backup(Holiday) forum for when this one goes on holidays.

Only for those luddites that don’t facebook, of course.

You ain’t getting my name. I don’t trust some of the forum members not to be arseholes.

sibeen said:

Kingy said:

That forum may just be the backup(Holiday) forum for when this one goes on holidays.

Only for those luddites that don’t facebook, of course.

I’m not a bloody Luddite!

Amish?

jjjust moi said:

sibeen said:

Kingy said:

That forum may just be the backup(Holiday) forum for when this one goes on holidays.

Only for those luddites that don’t facebook, of course.

I’m not a bloody Luddite!

Amish?

Pfft, wash your mouth out.

First church of the redemptionist unwashed alcoholic, and proud!

sibeen said:

jjjust moi said:

sibeen said:

I’m not a bloody Luddite!

Amish?

Pfft, wash your mouth out.

First church of the underpant wearing redemptionist unwashed alcoholic, and proud!

G’day Buffy. You have not been blocked from the forums. Your browser may have a problem. Try a different browser to see if that is causing the issue.

AwesomeO said:

Yeah forums with squillions of subdivisions give me the squitts, it doesn’t make searching easier.

You can search here???

I’d go for the same format as the old forums

biology / computer/ science

with the same format , I don’t see the need for a multitude of forums, how would you ever read them all ?

in fact all if the divisions do the very opposite , it isolates formers because you’ll have so few people in each forum

>it isolates formers because you’ll have so few people in each forum

you’d be needing an early night, wookie.

wookiemeister said:

I’d go for the same format as the old forums

biology / computer/ science

with the same format , I don’t see the need for a multitude of forums, how would you ever read them all ?

in fact all if the divisions do the very opposite , it isolates formers because you’ll have so few people in each forum

fffsforums has a VBT (View By Time) panel on the left (just like here) that shows every post in every forum, so you don’t have to miss a thing.

The six forums just help to stop everything from being too mushed together. If consensus decided that three (or some other number) would be better then that would be fine too.

I’d be using the old format of the forums

lets put it this way, one if the attractions of the old site was its simplicity , you only had three forums , within each forum despite it servicing the entire population it never reached capacity , there simply wasn’t that many people interested in discussing the subjects of interest

if the forum ever did reach capacity you’d just add another , for example you might have “ the straw man forum” and an “ad hominem” forum as an spill over from the straw man forum

I wouldn’t have any more than three to start with

stick with the black and white screen

you could always team up with the person who runs this forum and see what it would take to develop it? focus and concentrate your efforts with an existing forum rather than create another ?

buffy said:

I think I tried from work today too. Sill got the being updated page. I thought maybe the old link I had was wrong. That’s why I typed in the address.

If you tried from a different computer and had the same problem then the issue may be the DNS server that you are using. Is your work computer connecting through the same ISP as your home computer? If your ISP’s DNS cache is stale then you might just have to wait until the DNS server decides to update. That sort of problem should just resolve itself in a short period of time. Or you could change the DNS settings in your browser to bypass this problem. Google’s DNS servers are 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 (You may need to seek the assistance of a local geek to sort this out).

glow worm used to be a whizz on the computer as I remember

wookiemeister said:

I wouldn’t have any more than three to start with

stick with the black and white screen

you could always team up with the person who runs this forum and see what it would take to develop it? focus and concentrate your efforts with an existing forum rather than create another ?

The fffsforum format was chosen so that a few useful features could be easily added. Each user gets a ‘Gallery’ so that they can easily upload and use images in their posts. Each user gets a blog to use if they choose. And if any user felt sufficiently inspired then they could redesign the interface.

fsm said:

buffy said:

I think I tried from work today too. Sill got the being updated page. I thought maybe the old link I had was wrong. That’s why I typed in the address.

If you tried from a different computer and had the same problem then the issue may be the DNS server that you are using. Is your work computer connecting through the same ISP as your home computer? If your ISP’s DNS cache is stale then you might just have to wait until the DNS server decides to update. That sort of problem should just resolve itself in a short period of time. Or you could change the DNS settings in your browser to bypass this problem. Google’s DNS servers are 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 (You may need to seek the assistance of a local geek to sort this out).

I have setup a redirect on the old server so that the ‘being updated’ page now takes you to the new address. This should fix the problem regardless of the DNS status.

>>I have setup a redirect on the old server so that the ‘being updated’ page now takes you to the new address. This should fix the problem regardless of the DNS status.<<

Whatever you did there….it’s worked. Thanks.

And working from the Next G dongle at work also. And from here it does the proper page for entering a post too. Who knows what the problem was. Maybe BigPond was having a Christmas party out the back somewhere.