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Started by Rothman, March 06, 2025, 08:43:43 PM

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Rothman

March 06, 2025, 08:43:43 PM  
This site sometimes pops up now when browsing the forum:

Please note: All comments here represent my own personal opinion and do not reflect the official position(s) of NYSDOT.

hotdogPi

#1
March 06, 2025, 08:49:10 PM  
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 You may notice the outdated stuff (PS3) and typos (singkes).
Clinched

Traveled, plus
US 13, 50
MA 22, 35, 40, 53, 79, 107, 109, 126, 138, 141, 159
NH 27, 78, 111A(E); CA 90; NY 366; GA 42, 140; FL A1A, 7; CT 32, 320; VT 2A, 5A; PA 3, 51, 60, WA 202; QC 162, 165, 263; 🇬🇧A100, A3211, A3213, A3215, A4222; 🇫🇷95 D316

Lowest untraveled: 36

Scott5114

#2
March 06, 2025, 09:02:54 PM  
Ionos is shit.
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Hunty2022

#3
March 06, 2025, 10:17:25 PM  
Happened thrice for me recently.
100th Post: 11/10/22
250th Post: 12/3/22
500th Post: 3/12/23
1000th Post: 11/12/23

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Hunty Roads - NC (also under construction):
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Henry

#4
March 06, 2025, 10:35:17 PM  
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.
Go Cubs Go! Go Cubs Go! Hey Chicago, what do you say? The Cubs are gonna win today!

jp the roadgeek

#5
March 06, 2025, 11:02:01 PM  
Saw one site today that described the route of WY 789, but showed a map of I-81 :sombrero:
Interstates I've clinched: 97, 290 (MA), 291 (CT), 291 (MA), 293, 295 (DE-NJ-PA), 295 (RI-MA), 384, 391, 395 (CT-MA), 395 (MD), 495 (DE), 610 (LA), 684, 691, 695 (MD), 695 (NY), 795 (MD)

formulanone

#6
March 07, 2025, 09:12:05 AM  
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 You may notice the outdated stuff (PS3) and typos (singkes).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.

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hbelkins

#7
March 07, 2025, 02:51:20 PM  
Happened to me yesterday for the first time. A reload of the page fixed it.
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Big John

#8
March 08, 2025, 03:06:01 PM  
Just got a 500 Internal Service Error for a few minutes.

Max Rockatansky

#9
March 08, 2025, 03:08:32 PM  
I was expecting something more along the lines of a AAToads website. 

Rothman

#10
March 08, 2025, 03:16:00 PM  
Quote from: Big John on March 08, 2025, 03:06:01 PMJust got a 500 Internal Service Error for a few minutes.

Ditto.
Please note: All comments here represent my own personal opinion and do not reflect the official position(s) of NYSDOT.

1995hoo

#11
March 09, 2025, 11:37:41 AM  
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).
"You know, you never have a guaranteed spot until you have a spot guaranteed."
—Olaf Kolzig, as quoted in the Washington Times on March 28, 2003,
commenting on the Capitals clinching a playoff spot.

"That sounded stupid, didn't it?"
—Kolzig, to the same reporter a few seconds later.

7/8

#12
March 09, 2025, 12:10:41 PM   Last Edit: March 09, 2025, 12:43:38 PM by 7/8
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.

formulanone

#13
March 09, 2025, 12:37:18 PM  
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?

1995hoo

#14
March 09, 2025, 03:29:12 PM  
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.
"You know, you never have a guaranteed spot until you have a spot guaranteed."
—Olaf Kolzig, as quoted in the Washington Times on March 28, 2003,
commenting on the Capitals clinching a playoff spot.

"That sounded stupid, didn't it?"
—Kolzig, to the same reporter a few seconds later.

Ted$8roadFan

#15
March 09, 2025, 03:47:20 PM  
Just saw this today.

wriddle082

#16
March 09, 2025, 04:12:22 PM  
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.

rschen7754

#17
March 09, 2025, 04:58:48 PM  
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.

LilianaUwU

#18
March 09, 2025, 05:08:53 PM  
Impostor?? amogus?!
"Volcano with no fire... Not volcano... Just mountain."
—Mr. Thwomp

My pronouns are she/her. Also, I'm an admin on the AARoads Wiki.

hotdogPi

#19
March 09, 2025, 05:16:57 PM  
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.
Clinched

Traveled, plus
US 13, 50
MA 22, 35, 40, 53, 79, 107, 109, 126, 138, 141, 159
NH 27, 78, 111A(E); CA 90; NY 366; GA 42, 140; FL A1A, 7; CT 32, 320; VT 2A, 5A; PA 3, 51, 60, WA 202; QC 162, 165, 263; 🇬🇧A100, A3211, A3213, A3215, A4222; 🇫🇷95 D316

Lowest untraveled: 36

Max Rockatansky

#20
March 09, 2025, 05:32:42 PM  
I blame the guy that was ripping off Shield Gallery photos and passing them off as his own on the Facebook group called Roadgeekery. 

Road Hog

#21
March 09, 2025, 06:00:03 PM  
I too got a GoDaddy page this morning, but all seems back to normal.

Scott5114

#22
March 09, 2025, 06:28:36 PM  
When we say no DST threads, we mean it.
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CovalenceSTU

#23
March 09, 2025, 06:42:44 PM  
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.

Thing 342

#24
March 09, 2025, 06:49:17 PM  
Was hitting a redirect loop for several hours last night. Working now, obviously.
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