Sir Kalthorine Posted January 24, 2005 Share Posted January 24, 2005 Not this one Just a little concerned that first Forgotten Wars forums go down... now it seems that Chosen of Mystra is offline! Maybe a coincidence... but does anyone in contact with any moderators of those forums know what is going on? Link to comment
jcompton Posted January 24, 2005 Share Posted January 24, 2005 CoM is also hosted by Telefragged, so. Link to comment
Sir Kalthorine Posted January 24, 2005 Author Share Posted January 24, 2005 CoM is also hosted by Telefragged, so. Ah, thank you my friend Link to comment
Rastor Posted January 24, 2005 Share Posted January 24, 2005 Forgotten Wars is working fine for me. Link to comment
Polarbear Posted January 24, 2005 Share Posted January 24, 2005 But not for me! All day error messages were all I recieved when trying to reach forgotten wars. Looks like something is wrong! Hope it'll be back online soon. Link to comment
Polarbear Posted January 24, 2005 Share Posted January 24, 2005 Hmm. Just checked back, and it works! Even if with errors occasioanly. Link to comment
CamDawg Posted January 24, 2005 Share Posted January 24, 2005 It appears to be breathing, barely. I was able to access Neil's... informational... post after a few attempts. Link to comment
Baronius Posted January 24, 2005 Share Posted January 24, 2005 There seem to be heavy problems, and as far as I have noticed, this is not the first case. It seems Telefragged can't provide the (free) service properly, which results in such problems unfortunately Link to comment
Domi Posted January 24, 2005 Share Posted January 24, 2005 Heh, every forum has its problems, as far as I can judge: FW - is crashing a lot and has annoying advertising, color choice too bright on their main page. PPG - color choice is too bright on the main page, displays time you spent there, it is difficult to find profile editing options G3 - crashes from time to time BW - is way too slow and has all sort of problems with Guest posting, never tried any profile editing, because - too slow CoM - horrible colours, other than that never used it much to know if it has other quirks Bioware - horrible colours, ridiculous log in procedure that kicks you out of the forum once you logged in when trying to reply to a post; not much luck with Guest posting either. Link to comment
Baronius Posted January 24, 2005 Share Posted January 24, 2005 I wonder what forum can satisfy your needs Actually I do agree with your listing, except in the case of G3: I had no problems with it so far, it is very fast, has good design etc. FW's downtimes and advertising also disturbs me a lot: perhaps a PayPal account could be set up and the community could help Neil to run the site (so not just the domain but all other services of Telefragged would also be payed for). We live in the era of (cruel) capitalism, so unfortunately we can't expect anything if we don't pay (enough). As you have said, unfortunately Black Wyrm is very slow due to some technical difficulties. All I can promise to our dear visitors is that I'll see to it in the next 3-4 months and will definitely solve the problem. As for guest posting: there are no problems at all, guest posting is disabled... Link to comment
Domi Posted January 24, 2005 Share Posted January 24, 2005 Actually getting G3 to crash is not that bad, because you get to see "Now you broke my site. Thanks a lot!" or something like that note instead of some weird stuff. It makes up for the experience. As for ideal forum set up, I like the latest Attic's set up and options, appart from forbidding Guest posting in the recent years... Link to comment
Baronius Posted January 24, 2005 Share Posted January 24, 2005 lol That's not crach but simple http404: if you see that text at G3 it means you have tried to visit a non-existent page, i.e. non-existent URL! To my knowledge, at least. Link to comment
Domi Posted January 24, 2005 Share Posted January 24, 2005 Not being a computer guru I use 'crush' interchangeably with 'I cannot access forum' Link to comment
NiGHTMARE Posted January 24, 2005 Share Posted January 24, 2005 Maybe Neil should ask UGO (the company who owns the Telefragged network, or is "affiliated" with them, or somesuch) to consider moving FW from TF's servers to theirs. I 've been visiting a UGO site regularly for almost a decade, and have hardly ever had any problems with it . Link to comment
Baronius Posted January 24, 2005 Share Posted January 24, 2005 Steps should be taken, that's a fact. I just read a topic at FW and noticed that someone also recommended PayPal as I did. I think that would help. However, I also had to realise that the owner seemed to be surprised because of people's complaints: this is a normal phenomenon, FW has lots of visitors so these people are disappointed if the site has problems. Pointing to others won't help: steps must be taken. FW supports many mods and it'd be a pity if the development of these mods had to be stopped several times, due to these technical difficulties. Back to the main train of thoughts, the FW forum now produces less errors for me, I hope this tendency will remain. Link to comment
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