This site sometimes pops up now when browsing the forum:
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54370231773_4b75797a0b_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2qQvDFc)
I've seen it many times; it's been more common the last few days, but I've known about it for years. You may notice the outdated stuff (PS3) and typos (singkes).
Ionos is shit.
Happened thrice for me recently.
This is such a pain in the ass, especially when you see a list of things that have nothing to do with roads at all.
Saw one site today that described the route of WY 789, but showed a map of I-81 :sombrero:
Quote from: hotdogPi on March 06, 2025, 08:49:10 PMI've seen it many times; it's been more common the last few days, but I've known about it for years. You may notice the outdated stuff (PS3) and typos (singkes).
"Singkes" are little sounds made when tossing a coin in a fountain or a small stone in a small body of water.
Entertainment:
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Happened to me yesterday for the first time. A reload of the page fixed it.
Just got a 500 Internal Service Error for a few minutes.
I was expecting something more along the lines of a AAToads website.
Quote from: Big John on March 08, 2025, 03:06:01 PMJust got a 500 Internal Service Error for a few minutes.
Ditto.
Weird thing for me right now on Sunday morning is that the forum loads fine on my iPad, but on my phone I get some sort of GoDaddy page saying the aaroads.com domain is taken (duh).
I'm on my desktop computer right now. In Firefox, the forum goes to "aaroads.com/lander" which is just a blank page. But the forum is working fine in Chrome. :hmmm:
Edit: On my tablet, Firefox is working fine for the forum.
Quote from: 7/8 on March 09, 2025, 12:10:41 PMI'm on my desktop computer right now. In Firefox, the forum goes to "aaroads.com/lander" which is just a blank page. But the forum is working fine in Chrome. :hmmm:
It was redirecting to GoDaddy holding page for me. New hosting?
Quote from: 1995hoo on March 09, 2025, 11:37:41 AMWeird thing for me right now on Sunday morning is that the forum loads fine on my iPad, but on my phone I get some sort of GoDaddy page saying the aaroads.com domain is taken (duh).
This afternoon this happened on both devices. I don't want to say I'm "glad" to see it happened to someone else, but I guess I'm glad to know the problem wasn't on my end.
Just saw this today.
Alex took all of AARoads down for a bit because of issues with GET requests from Hong Kong.
If Alex sees this, I'm wondering if perhaps taking it offline during certain hours on certain days might help? Perhaps start with Monday through Friday from midnight to 6 AM Eastern (which is when a lot of networks go into maintenance windows anyway), and then maybe just go random unannounced outages for a few days? Maybe if the GET requests are unsuccessful, they will slow down or stop? The middle of the night in the Western Hemisplhere is the middle of the working day in the Eastern Hemisphere.
The AARoads Wiki has had some intermittent outages as well. It seems that today all traffic is being routed through Cloudflare.
I would think setting up a firewall rule to block certain bad ranges would be more effective than intermittent outages. For performance reasons I had to set up some rules to handle certain spambots or crawlers on the wiki side.
Impostor?? amogus?!
Cloudflare was my suggestion. I'm on another forum that was getting 5,000 bots at a time, and they just implemented Cloudflare about a week ago, which removed all (and I mean literally all) the bots.
Somehow we still have 6,000, the same number as before it was added.
I blame the guy that was ripping off Shield Gallery photos and passing them off as his own on the Facebook group called Roadgeekery.
I too got a GoDaddy page this morning, but all seems back to normal.
When we say no DST threads, we mean it.
I got "too many redirects" trying to open the forum when the DST change happened.
And for the longest time since the upgrade, I would randomly get "The connection was reset" or a blank page when browsing the forum. Happened on different devices, connections, signed in or out, etc. but not today for some reason.
Was hitting a redirect loop for several hours last night. Working now, obviously.
As of the last few days it's Russian roulette as to where "AARoads.com" takes me.
Quote from: Scott5114 on March 09, 2025, 06:28:36 PMWhen we say no DST threads, we mean it.
Stolen joke alert!
(https://i.imgur.com/JzXpp6G.png)
Quote from: LilianaUwU on March 09, 2025, 08:36:58 PMQuote from: Scott5114 on March 09, 2025, 06:28:36 PMWhen we say no DST threads, we mean it.
Stolen joke alert!
(https://i.imgur.com/JzXpp6G.png)
@TheCatalyst31 beat you to it by a few hours.
(https://i.imgur.com/bwiaxQI.png)
Is that what a Discord server looks like?
Fun fact: with all the forum issues, something like a third to half of all posts within the past day have happened within the past half hour.
This seems to be the most traffic the forum has gotten on a Sunday in general for quite some time.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on March 09, 2025, 08:44:32 PMIs that what a Discord server looks like?
Yes, that's the wiki Discord server.
Quote from: vdeane on March 09, 2025, 08:45:45 PMFun fact: with all the forum issues, something like a third to half of all posts within the past day have happened within the past half hour.
Induced demand! Induced demand!!
The number of threads I'm ignoring is at an all-time high.
Quote from: Rothman on March 09, 2025, 08:54:41 PMThe number of threads I'm ignoring is at an all-time high.
Conversely: all time highs ignore the forum
(Check with local laws and statutes.)
Quote from: Scott5114 on March 09, 2025, 08:43:32 PMQuote from: LilianaUwU on March 09, 2025, 08:36:58 PMQuote from: Scott5114 on March 09, 2025, 06:28:36 PMWhen we say no DST threads, we mean it.
Stolen joke alert!
(https://i.imgur.com/JzXpp6G.png)
@TheCatalyst31 beat you to it by a few hours.
(https://i.imgur.com/bwiaxQI.png)
This is how I learn that I'm on the imposter AARoads Discord that has zero activity.
Quote from: Rothman on March 09, 2025, 08:54:41 PMThe number of threads I'm ignoring is at an all-time high.
If you scroll down to the bottom of the main page, you'll get the 'recent posts' section. It's increasingly common to see that 80 or 90% of recent posts are in off-topic or non-road threads, seemingly about trivial subjects.
Evidently there is a demand for this type of content (the forum has 1.2 million posts), but I can understand that you'd be ignoring such threads nowadays.
Quote from: Takumi on March 10, 2025, 12:05:51 PMQuote from: Scott5114 on March 09, 2025, 08:43:32 PMQuote from: LilianaUwU on March 09, 2025, 08:36:58 PMQuote from: Scott5114 on March 09, 2025, 06:28:36 PMWhen we say no DST threads, we mean it.
Stolen joke alert!
(https://i.imgur.com/JzXpp6G.png)
@TheCatalyst31 beat you to it by a few hours.
(https://i.imgur.com/bwiaxQI.png)
This is how I learn that I'm on the imposter AARoads Discord that has zero activity.
I didn't know there was an impostor AARoads Discord. The active one was started to coordinate the wiki, which is probably why it wasn't posted on here, but a number of other forum members have come over since then.
Quote from: Chris on March 10, 2025, 04:38:58 PMQuote from: Rothman on March 09, 2025, 08:54:41 PMThe number of threads I'm ignoring is at an all-time high.
If you scroll down to the bottom of the main page, you'll get the 'recent posts' section. It's increasingly common to see that 80 or 90% of recent posts are in off-topic or non-road threads, seemingly about trivial subjects.
Evidently there is a demand for this type of content (the forum has 1.2 million posts), but I can understand that you'd be ignoring such threads nowadays.
It should be noted that this isn't necessarily an accurate summation of overall forum activity—most people show up and make a string of posts on whatever conversations interest them, and it's not unusual that no other user will be breaking up this string (case in point, right now I'm seeing three posts in a row from JayhawkCO on my display). If a user starts at the top of the forum and works their way down, all of their posts in the off-topic section will show as the most recent.
The parking page that Rothman showed a screenshot of is from Ionos. I personally hate it with a passion, and it appears when the server has DNS issues.
The 500 Internal Service errors are a combination of the nearly million daily GET and HEAD requests from Hong Kong IP addresses that started by Wednesday last week. The "TOO MANY REDIRECT" errors coupled with the 500 Errors were a result of me trying Cloudflare and the disconnect between Cloudflare and internal redirects I have on AARoads for http to https. While Cloudflare did block 6,000 plus requests from Hong Kong, the overwhelming bulk still made it through while the site (especially the Forum) was subjected intermittently to infinite redirect loops.
The GoDaddy holding page was the result of me disconnecting the AARoads.com domain from the Cloudflare and Ionos nameservers and redirecting the nameservers on Godaddy to their parking page.
The managed server that AARoads has been on for the better part of 20 years has degraded significantly in options over the last few years. Ionos does not even offer managed servers as a hosting plan anymore (and from what I have seen very few companies do anymore). Their customer service had been awful with regards to the Hong Kong IP attacks and solutions. The only option they could give me for blocking those IP addresses was .htaccess code, which when I implemented it resulted in an 500 Internal Server error that took the entire website down.
I finally got ahold of someone extremely helpful at Ionos on Sunday. We ended up talking for around 2 hours. As I a result I am trying a VPS server for the site with Plesk (I have a 30 day money-back guarantee, so if this doesn't work out, mostly it will be a loss of time versus expense). With root access there are a number of things I can implement such as security or php packages. While I posted on Facebook that running a dedicated server is outside my knowledge wheelhouse, apparently with what I do know, I am 60-80% there.
I will not know if my efforts are successful until I complete the file uploads, which AARoads has around 900,000 files. The biggest issue I have encountered so far is implementing two installs of Wordpress.
Over the last two months I have been working nearly nonstop recoding the back end of the website to use object-oriented programming. Ultimately the custom scripts that Jake Bear wrote and my friend Matt assisted with will be wholesale replaced, as will Wordpress eventually. I was getting close to finishing the main site scripting last week when the server starting bogging down terribly.
@Alex I've been talking to the owner of another forum (https://conwaylife.com/forums, which is recreational mathematics and has absolutely no overlap with this community except myself), owner Nathaniel (username is simply his first name), since he was getting a whole bunch of bots, overloading the server. He implemented Cloudflare, which is why I suggested it here, and it got implemented. However, unlike there, I've noticed the number of bots hasn't decreased much here. (I have noticed a significant decrease in the number of "parked domain" messages, but it's not zero.) Here's what he has to say about it:
Quote from: NathanielHow long ago did they implement it? If less than 48 hours then they might have to wait for DNS to fully propagate — bots might still be accessing the site via the old dns servers
Quote from: NathanielKk for now I'd tell them to just wait then until the 48 hours mark. If they're still getting a lot of bot traffic then on their server they can block access from all non-Cloudflare IP addresses (the list is here: https://www.cloudflare.com/en-ca/ips/) to make sure that no bots can access their server directly without going through CF
Quote from: Alex on March 11, 2025, 09:06:46 AMhttp to https
I'm no computer nerd, but it sure does seem like that's responsible for an outsized number of web issues.
Quote from: Alex on March 11, 2025, 09:06:46 AMOver the last two months I have been working nearly nonstop recoding the back end of the website to use object-oriented programming. Ultimately the custom scripts that Jake Bear wrote and my friend Matt assisted with will be wholesale replaced, as will Wordpress eventually.
On the one hand, thank you so very much. I know you must enjoy working behind the scenes to make things run smoothly, but it's easy for the rest of us to forget how much hard work it takes.
On the other hand, get some rest. We were not made to work nonstop. Take a whole day to do nothing computer-related. Soon.
All I can say is a big thank you to Alex on all of this.
Quote from: kphoger on March 11, 2025, 09:15:56 AMOn the one hand, thank you so very much. I know you must enjoy working behind the scenes to make things run smoothly, but it's easy for the rest of us to forget how much hard work it takes.
On the other hand, get some rest. We were not made to work nonstop. Take a whole day to do nothing computer-related. Soon.
I appreciate that, thank you. The one issue with this code work is that it is not really usable until it is 100% complete. So all of the work put in thus far is only visible behind the scenes. That makes it hard for me to want to take breaks as I still cannot debut the new code (and replace the problematic old code).
Quote from: Alex on March 11, 2025, 09:06:46 AMThe only option they could give me for blocking those IP addresses was .htaccess code, which when I implemented it resulted in an 500 Internal Server error that took the entire website down.
I discovered when I was implementing 301 redirects on my site that having errors in the .htaccess file causes that. Fortunately, they make validators for .htaccess files; IIRC this one (https://www.htaccesscheck.com/) was the one I used.
I also remember reading something about needing Cloudflare to handle the HTTP/HTTPS redirect rather than the origin server if Cloudflare is used, so that might have been part of the redirects.
So... how are the people who weren't happy about the SMF default theme feeling about having no theme?
Quote from: vdeane on March 12, 2025, 08:13:03 PMSo... how are the people who weren't happy about the SMF default theme feeling about having no theme?
We should keep this to piss them off.
Anyways, my own suggestion was to hide most of the board to unregistered users. That way, there would be little to no content for scrapers to scrape to begin with.
The option to click "Not Following" to avoid a thread appearing in Unread Replies, which many people have asked for over the years, more than makes up for the lack of theme.
Quote from: LilianaUwU on March 12, 2025, 08:43:21 PMQuote from: vdeane on March 12, 2025, 08:13:03 PMSo... how are the people who weren't happy about the SMF default theme feeling about having no theme?
We should keep this to piss them off.
Anyways, my own suggestion was to hide most of the board to unregistered users. That way, there would be little to no content for scrapers to scrape to begin with.
I wonder if they tried that during the brief time when all the boards (and the theme) were up and the post counts looked right but no posts were showing up. I never signed in during that interval, so I only know what it looked like to unregistered users.
Yikes. If we hide most of the board to unregistered users, good luck generating new interest in the forum.
I maintain the opinion that the Urban Planning board should be visible to non-registered users. Not that I'm biased or anything. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/cjbetcher/details/projects/1274808290/multiple-media-viewer/?profileId=ACoAAAyTGUUBep9KxQ8i8M2-v1Hipp_wCjDITVQ&treasuryMediaId=1737250161608)
Most newbies to the hobby who are actually real aren't coming to the forum anymore anyways. More new people are going to other sources like mainstream social media platforms. As an example the AAroads Facebook page has 40,000 or so followers. I see not harm in hiding most stuff from unregistered users if it keeps the spam bots away.
I'm getting early Netscape and late era Prodigy Online vibes from the lack of forum format.
I'd certainly mourn the ability to quickly skim new posts without affecting my read/unread stats; right now I do those in incognito, so I'd need a new "boredom check" site if we went that way (also a more efficient way to check, for when I want to check on threads I'm interested in more often than twice a day).
Is there a way to view all new posts since last visit? With the theme down, the "new" indicators are not around, so checking the forum is very cumbersome, especially if I don't remember exactly when I was last on.
Would it be possible to restore the wiki.aaroads.com subname? While the server (separate from the rest of the site) has continued to run, the domain name isn't working so anyone who goes there just sees server not found.
Maybe we should let Alex work before worrying about this thing or that thing not being back online yet.
Quote from: vdeane on March 12, 2025, 11:00:51 PM.... With the theme down, the "new" indicators are not around, so checking the forum is very cumbersome, especially if I don't remember exactly when I was last on.
They're still there. They're just a lot harder to see because they're plain text links to the left of the main subject line. On the whole, though, TheHighwayMan3561 (who, to be sure, posted after you did) probably has the right idea.
I apologize for the sorry state that the Forum is in presently. It took from 5 AM to 6 PM yesterday to even get it to work on this VPS server. That said, I have restored the old files and the CSS templates are still not working with a number of queries still breaking. Barring hearing from James, who is vastly more familiar with SMF than I am, it may be awhile before I can figure out the rest of the debugging with A.I. to get it right.
I have a call back scheduled with support to restore the subdomain wiki.aaroads.com. That is associated with a different VPS server on my account, and when I had to remove the aaroads.com domain from the managed server I am canceling in order in order to move it to this VPS server, it disassociated all subdomains and email accounts as well. It is not readily apparent in my control panel how to associate a subdomain with a different server contract, so I'll get instruction on that later today.
Quote from: Alex on March 13, 2025, 09:47:50 AMI apologize for the sorry state that the Forum is in presently. It took from 5 AM to 6 PM yesterday to even get it to work on this VPS server. That said, I have restored the old files and the CSS templates are still not working with a number of queries still breaking. Barring hearing from James, who is vastly more familiar with SMF than I am, it may be awhile before I can figure out the rest of the debugging with A.I. to get it right.
I have a call back scheduled with support to restore the subdomain wiki.aaroads.com. That is associated with a different VPS server on my account, and when I had to remove the aaroads.com domain from the managed server I am canceling in order in order to move it to this VPS server, it disassociated all subdomains and email accounts as well. It is not readily apparent in my control panel how to associate a subdomain with a different server contract, so I'll get instruction on that later today.
Thank you for the update, Alex. Don't forget what I said, though: it's OK to take a break, even before everything is fixed. The world will go on, and we'll all survive, if it takes an extra day or two for this, than it otherwise would, to all get resolved—and I'm sure we'd all prefer that you stay healthy and sane than have it back to normal as early as possible.
(Well, that was weird. It just flipped during my edit.)
I think I fixed the remaining errors, and even default with a depreciated php function in the SMF source code! Please let me know what errors you encounter going forward and if any forum functionality is still broken.
Somehow the "not following" button that I mentioned twice
only existed without the CSS. Is there any way to add it as a button?
Quote from: Alex on March 13, 2025, 10:25:46 AMI think I fixed the remaining errors, and even default with a depreciated php function in the SMF source code! Please let me know what errors you encounter going forward and if any forum functionality is still broken.
In-thread search is still broken.
Quote from: Alex on March 13, 2025, 09:47:50 AMI apologize for the sorry state that the Forum is in presently. It took from 5 AM to 6 PM yesterday to even get it to work on this VPS server. That said, I have restored the old files and the CSS templates are still not working with a number of queries still breaking. Barring hearing from James, who is vastly more familiar with SMF than I am, it may be awhile before I can figure out the rest of the debugging with A.I. to get it right.
I have a call back scheduled with support to restore the subdomain wiki.aaroads.com. That is associated with a different VPS server on my account, and when I had to remove the aaroads.com domain from the managed server I am canceling in order in order to move it to this VPS server, it disassociated all subdomains and email accounts as well. It is not readily apparent in my control panel how to associate a subdomain with a different server contract, so I'll get instruction on that later today.
Please don't apologize. I know we all probably don't say it often enough, but thank you for providing the forum. It's certainly not something you're obligated to do and you don't charge us to use it, so we certainly don't have standing to grumble if there's a technical issue or if your life takes precedence over forum maintenance.
Quote from: Alex on March 13, 2025, 09:47:50 AMI apologize for the sorry state that the Forum is in presently. It took from 5 AM to 6 PM yesterday to even get it to work on this VPS server. That said, I have restored the old files and the CSS templates are still not working with a number of queries still breaking. Barring hearing from James, who is vastly more familiar with SMF than I am, it may be awhile before I can figure out the rest of the debugging with A.I. to get it right.
Thank you for your efforts. I wish we had some warning beforehand. For a while, I thought I had something wrong at my end.
Quote from: Alex on March 13, 2025, 10:25:46 AMPlease let me know what errors you encounter going forward and if any forum functionality is still broken.
I just did a regular [Entire forum] search three times and got a "504 Gateway Time-out / nginx" error all three times.
kernals12 is certainly showing his true character in the "Random Thoughts" thread:
Quote from: kernals12 on March 12, 2025, 07:22:45 PMThe website crashing for hours on end is very annoying
Quote from: kphoger on March 13, 2025, 10:40:02 AMQuote from: Alex on March 13, 2025, 10:25:46 AMPlease let me know what errors you encounter going forward and if any forum functionality is still broken.
I just did a regular [Entire forum] search three times and got a "504 Gateway Time-out / nginx" error all three times.
I just looked this up with AI and part of it may be related to the forum@aaroads.com email not yet being restored.
QuoteYour cron.php might be sending emails or running database-heavy tasks, and if PHP-FPM's execution time limit
The error log is populated with 535 Authentication credentials invalid messages, which is because all of my email accounts with AARoads were removed when I had to disassociate the domain with the managed server in order to apply it to the VPS server. I plan on addressing that this afternoon with a scheduled support call I have.
Quote from: 1995hoo on March 13, 2025, 10:43:59 AMkernals12 is certainly showing his true character in the "Random Thoughts" thread:
Quote from: kernals12 on March 12, 2025, 07:22:45 PMThe website crashing for hours on end is very annoying
Heh, there is no way he was as annoyed as I was as the webmaster with regards to trying to debug the various scripts with the site as pages continually timed out, did not loading properly, loaded as a blank page, etc.
Quote from: 1995hoo on March 13, 2025, 10:43:59 AMkernals12 is certainly showing his true character in the "Random Thoughts" thread:
Quote from: kernals12 on March 12, 2025, 07:22:45 PMThe website crashing for hours on end is very annoying
It was certainly annoying to have to do my actual job at work... Ha!
When did the...
[tt][/tt]
... tags stop working?
Quote from: kphoger on March 13, 2025, 11:19:29 AMWhen did the...
[tt][/tt]
... tags stop working?
Are those related to TapaTalk?
Quote from: Alex on March 13, 2025, 11:21:50 AMQuote from: kphoger on March 13, 2025, 11:19:29 AMWhen did the...
[tt][/tt]
... tags stop working?
Are those related to TapaTalk?
No, they're BBCode formatting tags for 'teletype'.
For example, Scott used it in
this post (https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=10705.msg266626#msg266626). But now it doesn't seem to work.
[tt]wow very cringe
such clearview must photo
much clinch so misalign wow[/tt]
But that might have been an earlier change unrelated to this recent business.
I see it as intended in Scott's post but not in yours (or mine if I hit preview).
Quote from: hotdogPi on March 13, 2025, 11:27:34 AMI see it as intended in Scott's post but not in yours (or mine if I hit preview).
It should be as easy as quoting an example from a non-locked thread to see what the tags look like.
Quote from: webny99 on March 13, 2025, 11:30:33 AMIt should be as easy as quoting an example from a non-locked thread to see what the tags look like.
The signature for user Sanctimoniously is a quote of that exact post by Scott. Find literally any post by Sanctimoniously, and you'll see that I simply copy-and-pasted Scott's post, tags and all.
Oh hey, I guess we're back to the normal format as of right about now.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on March 13, 2025, 11:58:32 AMOh hey, I guess we're back to the normal format as of right about now.
Between 9:10 and 9:15 CDT.
Quote from: 1995hoo on March 13, 2025, 08:12:50 AMQuote from: vdeane on March 12, 2025, 11:00:51 PM.... With the theme down, the "new" indicators are not around, so checking the forum is very cumbersome, especially if I don't remember exactly when I was last on.
They're still there. They're just a lot harder to see because they're plain text links to the left of the main subject line. On the whole, though, TheHighwayMan3561 (who, to be sure, posted after you did) probably has the right idea.
Hence why I was wondering about better ways to view all new posts, but it looks like that's moot right now.
It looks like Twitter embedding is broken at the moment.
The most recent post in Road Sign UNO isn't showing for me, either. It's an http link rather than https, but that has never been an issue for me personally in the past.
Quote from: Alex on March 13, 2025, 09:47:50 AMI have a call back scheduled with support to restore the subdomain wiki.aaroads.com. That is associated with a different VPS server on my account, and when I had to remove the aaroads.com domain from the managed server I am canceling in order in order to move it to this VPS server, it disassociated all subdomains and email accounts as well. It is not readily apparent in my control panel how to associate a subdomain with a different server contract, so I'll get instruction on that later today.
Thanks for the update and thanks for the work.
Just wanted to add my name to all the people saying thanks for all your hard work on this. As someone who's had to do similar things before (albeit on a much smaller scale) I know it's often a thankless job.
@Alex thanks again for keeping things running.
Quote from: kphoger on March 13, 2025, 11:26:40 AMQuote from: Alex on March 13, 2025, 11:21:50 AMQuote from: kphoger on March 13, 2025, 11:19:29 AMWhen did the...
[tt][/tt]
... tags stop working?
Are those related to TapaTalk?
No, they're BBCode formatting tags for 'teletype'.
For example, Scott used it in this post (https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=10705.msg266626#msg266626). But now it doesn't seem to work.
[tt]wow very cringe
such clearview must photo
much clinch so misalign wow[/tt]
But that might have been an earlier change unrelated to this recent business.
I tried these tags a 2-3 weeks ago, but they didn't work then. So it's been that way before this outage or upgrade.
[tt] mimicked <tt>; an HTML markup tag to give default monospaced text from way back in the day.
It turns out that you can turn off following, and I just never realized it. The "no alerts or emails" button is not a button you click to make it apply; it's a toggle, and what it says on the button is the current setting. Click it, and you'll see four options. Turn off following from there.
Quote from: formulanone on March 13, 2025, 03:13:57 PMI tried these tags a 2-3 weeks ago, but they didn't work then. So it's been that way before this outage or upgrade.
[tt] mimicked <tt>; an HTML markup tag to give default monospaced text from way back in the day.
Ah, thank you. I figured it was probably something from beforehand, but I guess I just never tried using that tag between the BIG forum downtime/rebirth and this recent smaller one.
Hey, at least /me still works. :D
Quote from: ModernDayWarrior on March 13, 2025, 02:52:55 PMJust wanted to add my name to all the people saying thanks for all your hard work on this. As someone who's had to do similar things before (albeit on a much smaller scale) I know it's often a thankless job.
I add myself as well. I used to be pretty good with a Commodore 64 back in the day, but I have been a Clueless User since then.
Quote from: hotdogPi on March 13, 2025, 03:22:54 PMIt turns out that you can turn off following, and I just never realized it. The "no alerts or emails" button is not a button you click to make it apply; it's a toggle, and what it says on the button is the current setting. Click it, and you'll see four options. Turn off following from there.
Where is this button?
Edit: found it. It's just above the "quick reply" section, to the right of the in-thread page navigation links. If your browser window is narrow (such as if reading on a phone in portrait mode) you have to click "user actions" to get to it.
Quote from: vtk on March 13, 2025, 04:11:06 PMQuote from: hotdogPi on March 13, 2025, 03:22:54 PMIt turns out that you can turn off following, and I just never realized it. The "no alerts or emails" button is not a button you click to make it apply; it's a toggle, and what it says on the button is the current setting. Click it, and you'll see four options. Turn off following from there.
Where is this button?
Edit: found it. It's just above the "quick reply" section, to the right of the in-thread page navigation links. If your browser window is narrow (such as if reading on a phone in portrait mode) you have to click "user actions" to get to it.
It used to say "Notify" or "Unnotify" back in the days when the forum had an overall green theme, if that helps anyone.
Thank you Alex for the hard work you put into this forum to keep it alive.
I think everything works now, except that notifications still aren't functioning.
I've noticed on my random checks without signing in that here are a lot of Russian posts in Registration Questions as of late. Curious...
Quote from: vdeane on March 14, 2025, 12:32:45 PMI've noticed on my random checks without signing in that here are a lot of Russian posts in Registration Questions as of late. Curious...
Tell them иди на хуй
I wonder how hard it would be to create an extension that traps bots in a sandbox consisting of nothing but the Alanland thread.
Quote from: Scott5114 on March 14, 2025, 08:39:26 PMI wonder how hard it would be to create an extension that traps bots in a sandbox consisting of nothing but the Alanland thread.
In other words, a goat rodeo?
Quote from: Scott5114 on March 14, 2025, 08:39:26 PMI wonder how hard it would be to create an extension that traps bots in a sandbox consisting of nothing but the Alanland thread.
I really hope that would have a noticeable effect on AI learning.
Quote from: kphoger on March 17, 2025, 08:59:35 AMQuote from: Scott5114 on March 14, 2025, 08:39:26 PMI wonder how hard it would be to create an extension that traps bots in a sandbox consisting of nothing but the Alanland thread.
I really hope that would have a noticeable effect on AI learning.
Can't wait for the latest paper on Grand Unified Theory to include Warblers held together by Monican and Toaster wave-particles.