What is broken on the forum
Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2024 8:25 am
As some of you may have noticed, there are some functions of the forum that are not working.
1. Email is dead.
It's not sleeping or pining for the fjords, its completely dead.
If you try to send an email you will eventually get a page full of error message in big red text, "General Error".
If this happens there is a link at the top right of the page of gibberish, "Return to the index page". Click it.
This includes email notifications such as registration, password reset, replies to posts, they won't happen.
2. Image upload is full.
You can link to images on other hosting sites (RIP Photobucket) such as Flickr etc, but be warned that Google Drive does not play well with links in the long term.
3. The main site is just a blank page.
The address www.trx850.com doesn't show anything. Just like the Leader of the Pack, now it's gone.
It used to show a nice picture and some details about the site, but now it doesn't.
The address for the forum, where you are now, is www.trx850.com/phpBB_forum
4. The registration system completely manual.
Please wait for a day to see if you get an email before trying to register again, otherwise the system will complain that usernames or emails are already in use. The confirmation email will come from trx850dotcom@gmail.com (see 1. above)
5. New posts don't appear to have worked.
They do actually work, but you just don't see it happen.
You'll just sit there, looking at the message you entered and waiting for the page to reload, which it won't.
Eventually you'll get a message in big red text, "General Error" and a page full of gibberish, just click the link at the top right of the page "Return to the index page" and your life can continue.
I'm trying to keep the system running but I only have access to the forum settings, not the server that it runs on, so there is very little that I can do.
If anyone actually knows Jak, ask her kindly if she could please get in touch.
I will update this post if/when I find more problems.
1. Email is dead.
It's not sleeping or pining for the fjords, its completely dead.
If you try to send an email you will eventually get a page full of error message in big red text, "General Error".
If this happens there is a link at the top right of the page of gibberish, "Return to the index page". Click it.
This includes email notifications such as registration, password reset, replies to posts, they won't happen.
2. Image upload is full.
You can link to images on other hosting sites (RIP Photobucket) such as Flickr etc, but be warned that Google Drive does not play well with links in the long term.
3. The main site is just a blank page.
The address www.trx850.com doesn't show anything. Just like the Leader of the Pack, now it's gone.
It used to show a nice picture and some details about the site, but now it doesn't.
The address for the forum, where you are now, is www.trx850.com/phpBB_forum
4. The registration system completely manual.
Please wait for a day to see if you get an email before trying to register again, otherwise the system will complain that usernames or emails are already in use. The confirmation email will come from trx850dotcom@gmail.com (see 1. above)
5. New posts don't appear to have worked.
They do actually work, but you just don't see it happen.
You'll just sit there, looking at the message you entered and waiting for the page to reload, which it won't.
Eventually you'll get a message in big red text, "General Error" and a page full of gibberish, just click the link at the top right of the page "Return to the index page" and your life can continue.
I'm trying to keep the system running but I only have access to the forum settings, not the server that it runs on, so there is very little that I can do.
If anyone actually knows Jak, ask her kindly if she could please get in touch.
I will update this post if/when I find more problems.