Forum Crashing

[Ronin]

Originally Posted by steamship

Not something I personally would like to see. As you say, there is a vast amount of information both on the forum and in members heads, and it would be a shame if it was lost. As much as I browse the A8 groups on Facebook, there's no real way to see what information is there, and quite a lot of posts lack any semblance of caring. Those who ask for help upload a photo and ask "What's wrong?", or seem unwilling to provide any relevant information.

Yes, the quality of people using these forums is much better.

I would have gone bankrupt or crazy trying to maintain my car without these forums for sure, and I've met some pretty crazy people (in a good way) through them as well.

FB groups are full of the kind of people that sell cats off their cars to fund 22" alloy wheels and oil top ups instead of changes

[steamship]

Originally Posted by Ronin

I would have gone bankrupt or crazy trying to maintain my car without these forums for sure.

Me too. Up until owning the D2, the most I ever did on a car was check the oil, coolant and washer levels. Admittedly, that's also when I had a job and could pay a garage to do the work.

EDIT: Forgot to mention in my previous post. It would be nice to get the notifications issue resolved as well, as I think without them, there is less interaction at the moment as people aren't receiving them.

[MikkiJayne]

I'm sure Ian has a sound air-gapped backup of the forum We've discussed hosting and upgrades previously and he knows I'm happy to step up for whatever help is needed
At least it's not hosted in CloudNordic

I do worry if its the end each time we get a more serious error than the database server falling over though. This recent week I assumed Ian was on holiday and the server got lonely However, the assorted ransomware scum are getting more creative at destroying things and we've seen a lot of attacks recently on smaller companies with standalone web servers running older versions of things. Smaller companies generally have less to spend on security and upgrades and so are easier targets for the ransomware-as-a-service types.

Hopefully it goes without saying, but don't re-use passwords across different web sites. That at least mitigates some of the personal risk were the worst to happen to the forum.

[sarg]

Password updated to a random string suggestion, just in case

[Ronin]

and now magically the edit button has been removed at least for me..

[steamship]

Originally Posted by Ronin

and now magically the edit button has been removed at least for me..

Not just you. I noticed it a couple of days ago, when I went to edit a post to add additional info.

[Ronin]

I'd rather have signature size removed than no edit button.
Some people on here have signatures longer than the threads they post in

[Ronin]

signature length decreased*
sorry there's no edit button now so there will be loads of fluff like this.

[Markiii]

any likelyhood we might get https? duckduckgo is not happy and Im having to revert to chrome just for this site?

[IT]

Originally Posted by Markiii

any likelyhood we might get https? duckduckgo is not happy and Im having to revert to chrome just for this site?

It shouldn't be possible to connect over http. ?