Logging On

[Bill Murray]

Sigh!!!!!!!!!!!!

I know bugger all about forum setup/administration/upgrades etc. etc.

What I do know, or have experienced since January, is that almost every forum I am registered on, regardless of the provider, has been forced or convinced to upgrade their site.

In every case, let me repeat, in every case, it has been a monumental cock up. The Axis History Forum, it's English language partners and it's Scandinavian cousins were down more or less for over a month. Kuno's Deutsche Afrika-Korps forum has also had all sorts of problems.

A rather large part of the problem seemed to be what browser one used, in my case AOL. I started using Firefox and other browsers for a long time and then everyone seemed to get the "settings" right so AOL would communicate with these sites. For a while I could use AOL and everything was fine.

Now, in the last few weeks, it is going gunnysack again.

Regarding MLU, I keep losing my log in and/or I have to try to gain entrance to the forum several times before it connects. This is true on AOL, Firefox and MSN for example. As Cliff states, once you do manage to get on, moving around in the forum can sometimes take forever.

Note Well, I am not bitching about the MLU forum, it seems to be a problem for almost all of the many forums I subscribe to.

The problems, it seems to me, are causing a terrible drop in postings on a number of these forums as I gather that others like me just do not have the time today to try to log on to a forum multiple times and then when they finally do get logged on must wait sometimes from thirty seconds to up to 2 minutes when trying to move around in the various threads. Added to that is the number of times you get timed out or kicked off once you have gained access.

Not to be too redundant here, but one issue I have is that I always click the box to remember my user name and password on every forum I belong to.
It is safe to say that of the top 10 forums I belong to, every one of them refreshes itself or whatever you call it several times a week and I have to go through the whole log in process again multiple times. MLU as well as the others.

Not so much a problem here, but another aggravation is when you get access, you research a question or whatever, post an answer when you are supposedly logged in and when you send the answer, it tells you you are not logged in.

Something is "Rotten in Denmark" when it comes to these hosting sites, whether it be vbulletin or any of the other majors.

End of Rant.

Bill

[Jon Skagfeld]

x2. or x3, or x4, dog robber. You describe my situation exactly, exacerbated by being afflicted with dial-up!

Sunray: Do something...wave your magic wand...make all good!

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

This is all really bizarre, because aside from the odd slow bit, I've seen none of that here in Toronto! I do know that they had to take down the server a couple of days ago in order to change out a controller, but they had it done in a couple of hours and it seems to have worked well since.

I'll see what I can find out, but not experiencing the same doesn't help...

[Keith Webb]

The outages have become the norm rather than the exception this end.

[cliff]

Geoff I have only had the one total outage as such the other day for a short period but the slowness in opening forums and threads is ongoing and almost continuous and has been that way for some time at my end.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Stat report: .org is up again, albeit working slowly.

H. in Holland

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Bill Murray

Something is "Rotten in Denmark" when it comes to these hosting sites, whether it be vbulletin or any of the other majors.

You seem to have much more troubles with this than I have. I feel sorry for you, knowing how aggravation it causes me. At least you do not attribute it to something Dutch, like Going Dutch, Dutch Disease, etc.

H.

Class 5 almost always gets me in too when the others usually don't. And yes, things often extremely slow for switching/loading pages, still.

[Bill Murray]

I know it is here somewhere, but a search did not find it.

Can someone please post how to do the Class 5 thingie.
Today has been especially problematic.
Bill

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Bill Murray

Can someone please post how to do the Class 5 thingie.

Bill,

Try any of these URLs:
http://www.mapleleafup.org/forums/
http://tortuga.dnsrouter.com/~mlu/forums/
http://www.class-five.com/~mlu/forums/

HTH,
Hanno

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

Bill,

Try any of these URLs:
http://www.mapleleafup.org/forums/
http://tortuga.dnsrouter.com/~mlu/forums/
http://www.class-five.com/~mlu/forums/

HTH,
Hanno

Just a quick addendum to say that they have changed our server. In case of DNS errors on either MAPLELEAFUP.ORG or CLASS-FIVE.COM, please try the following to gain access here:

http://orbit.dnsrouter.com/~mlu/forums/index.php

Thanks,

Jif

[Phil Waterman]

Hi All

Well had to replace my computer that was running XP which would remember my MLU password. The new MacMini running Safari just will not seem to remember, any ideas?

Probably something simple I not seeing.

Cheers Phil