We're Upgraded

To the latest version of the forums.A few things.
1.) i had to kill the dark theme due to conflicts. It will be coming back but I need some time to get to it.
2.) The navigation is changed slightly. It's a whole new system for nav so I will be modifying that asap. Sorry for any confusion.
3.) This was nearly a full reinstall to get rid of any conflicts from old stuff so I see me tweaking things for the next week or so.


Hopefully this will address some issues.


I know have 3 of my 5 forums upgraded. 2 to go. The slowdowns may or may not be coming from any of them due to some vulnerability. Nobody can seem to tell me one way or another.sooooo....hopefully everything is generally in tact.

Thank you Alex. Everything seems to be working really well now.

Thanks! Like the handy new reply box.

Thanks - keeping a forum up and running smoothly is a challenge and a time-consumer. We appreciate what you do!

It's so bright and shiny! My eyes! My eyes! :p :D

Thank you very much, Alex.

Crikey. SC is now faster on my computer. Thanks Alex.

Yep - definitely working like greased lightning here, too.:D

lol i thought i was in the wrong place! BAM!

goes to get sunglasses for the glare :P

thanks Alex it is a lot faster!

Thanks Alex!

Definitely seems a lot faster to me.

Thanks for the upgrade

Seems to work much better on android devices too! Very nice.

Smile . Thanks friend.

Works perfect! Thank you!

I had to put my sunglasses on, but everything seems hunky dory. Thanks Alex!

Oh... just one bunny plea... could the first thing you restore be the nav bar at the bottom of the page? It's a pain in my little white fluffy tail to scroll all the way back to the top to hit auto refresh again. Anything else you can take your time with. :*

yep.. its on the list :-)

Hey, the reply box 'autosaves'. Nice. Not sure how to go about getting back a typed out post that got lost tho?

Question... when inserting pics from other sites, how do you want this handled? Or perhaps you can remove completely to prevent any copyright concerns. I think referencing links to pictures falls in fair use but copying probably doesn't.

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you can simply link up the image if you know the url using the image button on the top of the editor.

You dont need to actually retrieve it as an attachment.

if you have some concern about the image going away.. then go ahead and use the attachment.

As a private locked down forum, I am not overly concerned about it.

Cool. Just wanted to make sure.

Thanks for asking!

Just making sure all is well. I have upgraded all 5 of the forums on this server so hopefully it will help with wherever th random slowdown is coming from.

Everything good here?

Fine in every respect, except I now get a lot of blank space whenever someone posts a music clip or video clip etc - guessing that it is some sort of geo-blocking? Did not happen before.

But - fast, no hanging pages, time-outs etc ;) Thanks :)

Just a test post. I just posted something in another thread and when I hit 'Post Quick Reply" it not only erased what I was posting, but never posted it either.

Edit: Worked fine this time. Perhaps it was just a fluke!

Thanks NYL, things work great here in Oz, yeah, it is a bit bright. Thanks again for all you do here.

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yeah, it is a bit bright

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I finally broke down and cleaned over a year's worth of kerosene heater soot, nicotine, cigarette ashes and blown-in topsoil off my laptop screen - now I need sunglasses to look at this forum!;)

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Originally Posted by Doomsteader

I finally broke down and cleaned over a year's worth of kerosene heater soot, nicotine, cigarette ashes and blown-in topsoil off my laptop screen - now I need sunglasses to look at this forum!;)

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LOL! You too? I do that about once every six months and I feel like I just went shopping and bought a new laptop! :)

did a little more tuning today now that I had some time.
Should only be running faster now.
:-)

More tweaking in the background. Pretty sure I have just sped things up dramatically again.

Good at my end. TY

In reference to the problem I mentioned in the other thread, it seems that when this happens, I can't access anything that doesn't have the auto-refresh bar on it. This may not be a problem with your server at all. It might be Verizons crap DSL service. I've have more than one problem with them over the last three years. They say it's taken care off, but as soon as I get off the phone with them, the problem I have is still there, so take my observation with a grain of salt, Alex. However, the only other thing I can add is that when I have this problem with SilCo, it generally go to HA, or surf and I don't have any problems there. Hope this helps you.

The next time it happens just tell me as soon as you can and I will check the recent logs.

Okay!

You said to let you know about this Alex, so I am. It just happened at 9:27, followed by a few minutes of no access at all. This is the first time I got back in the forum. My SilCo cookie got corrupted as well. I'm clearing it now.

yep.. i was restarting server :-) figured you would catch it.

your first time back and it happens to be during a slowdown... lol

maybe its you! :-P

Lol!

Have found and shut down huge brute force attack/hack on silco/susco.
As a result, speed has increased dramatically for legitimate traffic.

May take a few days to get on top of it completely but I think I am off to a good start.

For example, my estimate is 1.5 MILLION fewer registration attempts over the next 7 days (based on the last 7).

I love computers...I love computers...I love computers...
just keep telling myself that.

Any idea who is behind it, Alex?

Dont suspect any one source. Somewhere along the way, there may have been someone that put the forums on the radar, but once youre in these type of malware databases they just keep coming after you.
I have been chasing ghosts in the server settings for weeks and am embarrassed to admit that i neglected to look for patterns in my access logs.

server tech 101... but at least I take comfort that the contractors didnt find it either...

Anyway, I think I may finally be on top of it.
We will see.

Thanks, Alex. Glad you love computers! ;)

sorry about the outage. It wasnt us. The provider went down upstream somewhere for about an hour

No prob, but I'm glad you told me what happened. I get a little twitchy when SilCo doesn't come up! :)

lol you... not only did I lose connectivity but switched over to my cell signal and still couldnt get anywhere lol.
That tweaked me.

Always afraid for the day when there's no power, no water, no cell and the car won't start.

Ditto on the power & car. I have water but no cell. Look forward to no bills & no mail but will it crash that far. Both world wars & the 1918 Flu stopped nothing. A couple of billion fewer people will not change much. Just prolong what we are doing to the world.