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Board Changes
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 12:09 am
by monchavo
Hello folks. A few messages for you that you may be interested in.
The recent outage was caused by a malicious attack on the server hosting this board. This resulted in the board being taken down by the hosting provider.
The board admin is changing. monchavo will be taking over from Frank as the host and provider of the board
The changeover has begun; the new board is already up and running with a new skin, latest version of PHPBB3 and is now smartphone and tablet friendly, with a responsive layout. I would appreciate your feedback as and when we move
The switchover will retain user accounts, password, private messages and all data posted on the board up until Midnight BST on April 11th 2014, when the board will be closed and the database shifted to the new provider
The new board will open on (or possibly even before!) Monday 14th April 2014 at the same URL
I'd like to thank Frank for his part in creating this place, for hosting the platform and for his considerable generosity in allowing me to repair and bring back the board after the malicious attack. I very much hope that I'll be able to keep the conversation going on this marvellous, disfunctional and crazy place long into the next decade.
--monchavo
Update:
The board has been moved successfully. I believe most things are intact. The domain will follow next week, so for now the test domain "clitar.com" will remain. Enjoy.
Re: Board Changes
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 1:20 am
by Not_Karl
Re: Board Changes
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 1:32 am
by 3WE
...monchavo will be taking over from Frank as the host and provider of the board...
Are you drunk?
Re: Board Changes
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 12:55 pm
by 666
Long version: see first post.
Short version: da monch attacked server, p3wnd franks passwordz, now all you airdisasterz are belong to us.
Re: Board Changes
Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2014 1:18 pm
by flyboy2548m
New skin looks great!
Re: Board Changes
Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2014 4:34 pm
by Not_Karl
New livery looks great!
Fixed and
concur!
Re: Board Changes
Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2014 2:40 am
by ZilogMan
Hey, already feel at home!
Thanks!!!
Re: Board Changes
Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2014 8:16 am
by Ancient Mariner
Good stuff, well done Monchie!
Per
Re: Board Changes
Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2014 4:36 pm
by 3WE
...and a rare serious moment- Thank you Monchavo for keeping us up and running.
Here's to continued, sluggish discussions of aviation issues...
Re: Board Changes
Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2014 6:40 am
by Sir Gallivant
Thank you, monchavo. I will take a look around and let you know if I find anything to worry or whine about
Re: Board Changes
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2014 3:53 pm
by tds
Nice work, Monchavo. Might be time to update the moderators in the aviation fora - many of them are no longer involved. I don't know if DMMoore was retained as a tribute, but since there is a permanent subforum devoted to remembering Don I don't personally see a need.
Re: Board Changes
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2014 5:40 pm
by monchavo
Thanks guys. I haven't really kept up to date on who's involved and who's not - I did a mail shot to the existing mods, nobody replied.
I don't want to put people's noses out of joint. I would like to put out a flag asking for volunteers for moderation.
I had thought of doing a full mailshot once the airdisaster.info domain is properly transferred (4 days?) and then starting some judicious pruning.
Any thoughts on driving traffic to the site would be useful too.
Cheers
Re: Board Changes
Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2014 7:01 am
by el
Thanks guys. I haven't really kept up to date on who's involved and who's not - I did a mail shot to the existing mods, nobody replied.
I don't want to put people's noses out of joint. I would like to put out a flag asking for volunteers for moderation.
I had thought of doing a full mailshot once the airdisaster.info domain is properly transferred (4 days?) and then starting some judicious pruning.
Any thoughts on driving traffic to the site would be useful too.
Cheers
Never got a mail, at least I got the second one (about moving the board) this morning. Good to see that the board is still alive.
Re: Board Changes
Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2014 10:37 pm
by Sickbag
May David walk with you in righteousness.
Re: Board Changes
Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2014 12:16 pm
by Riptide
May David walk with you in righteousness.
Not wearing those sweaters he won't. Back to the Zoo
Now I hear
IGSPOTM
is still AWOL for over a year now
. He must come back. Can anyone bribe him with a cheap gold watch, a moderator's post whatever it takes . Or has he indeed left this earth and gone to play harps while dodging cheap composite crackerboxes up there.?
Re: Board Changes
Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2014 1:08 pm
by flyboy2548m
Now I hear IGSPOTM is still AWOL for over a year now . He must come back. Can anyone bribe him with a cheap gold watch, a moderator's post whatever it takes . Or has he indeed left this earth and gone to play harps while dodging cheap composite crackerboxes up there.?
I'll see what I can do. I have some VW parts laying around that he may be in need of.
Re: Board Changes
Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2014 5:20 pm
by Riptide
I'll see what I can do. I have some VW parts laying around that he may be in need of.
Fantastic and I can add a bucket load of moped parts to that. That has to mean something to him. Wait. I think I just heard the strumming of a banjo down in Deep Monkey River just stop mid chord and a door open on a tear drop trailer
Re: Board Changes
Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2014 3:41 pm
by tds
Looks like the domain's switched over now, nice work again Monchavo.
Not a huge deal, but this URL which was my bookmark for the old site, and may have been used by others too -
http://airdisaster.info/10/forums/ - now 404s. Might give the impression that the forum is down.
Re: Board Changes
Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2014 11:21 pm
by monchavo
Looks like the domain's switched over now, nice work again Monchavo.
Not a huge deal, but this URL which was my bookmark for the old site, and may have been used by others too -
http://airdisaster.info/10/forums/ - now 404s. Might give the impression that the forum is down.
Gotcha bro. Putting an .htaccess in there now to force a permanent redirect to the root -
http://airdisaster.info/10
Thanks!
Re: Board Changes
Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2014 2:44 am
by Gabriel
Looks like the domain's switched over now, nice work again Monchavo.
Not a huge deal, but this URL which was my bookmark for the old site, and may have been used by others too -
http://airdisaster.info/10/forums/ - now 404s. Might give the impression that the forum is down.
Gotcha bro. Putting an .htaccess in there now to force a permanent redirect to the root -
http://airdisaster.info/10
Thanks!
Better now.
Now it's not longer a 404. Now it's a 403
Error 403 - Forbidden
You tried to access a document for which you don't have privileges.
Re: Board Changes
Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2014 8:47 am
by Not_Karl
Now it's not longer a 404. Now it's a 403
I blame
Peugeot.
Re: Board Changes
Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2014 9:13 pm
by blueblack
All is good
If not -do you like-----Inside this quiet form, there's a roaring Thunderstorm
Ha -its poetry - from----?????
Re: Board Changes
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2014 8:01 pm
by Mr. Snappy
Thank you for your kind and diligent efforts Mr. monchavo
Mr. Snappy is your friend
Re: Board Changes
Posted: Mon May 05, 2014 3:37 pm
by capslock
...forums kept grating me, so good riddance!
Re: Board Changes
Posted: Mon May 05, 2014 3:38 pm
by capslock
Wow, that's one smooth transition. I didn't even have to log in to post, it recognized the cookie from my last visit ages ago. Some fora will require my to log in to post even if I haven't vistited them for half a day only.