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[Split_Pin]

Still not working as of this morning. 

[Matty]

Just now, Split_Pin said:

Still not working as of this morning. 

Whose our top technician on the mod team?

[Dyslexic Viking]

5 minutes ago, Matty said:

Whose our top technician on the mod team?

It is a good question as there is little information on these pages about who has the technical part, who owns the site, etc.

Do the mod team even know about this problem? Because it has been quiet here from them.

[Matty]

@chaseracer morning. Is this a problem the mod team know about?

[CreepingJesus]

Would it be possible to provide a PO box address, then we can all nip out to the nearest supermarket and get our spots/ads/whatever printed out to post off, and they could be mounted into the website with double sided tape? At least that way, when the pics disappear in future it won't be Photofuckit's fault. Again. We'll just need some more tape.

[JJ0063]

4 minutes ago, CreepingJesus said:

Would it be possible to provide a PO box address, then we can all nip out to the nearest supermarket and get our spots/ads/whatever printed out to post off, and they could be mounted into the website with double sided tape? At least that way, when the pics disappear in future it won't be Photofuckit's fault. Again. We'll just need some more tape.

“FSH, PAS, RCL, RAD/CASS, MOON ROOF, REAR HEAD RESTS, VGC THROUGHOUT, £1275 OVNO”

[mercedade]

Current mod team are apparently:

@chaseracer
@brownnova
@Mrs6C
@Minimad5
@NorthernMonkey
@dozeydustman
@Talbot (finance)
@Slartibartfast (technical side)

Pikchurs broken plez help

[chaseracer]

37 minutes ago, Matty said:

@chaseracer morning. Is this a problem the mod team know about?

Hello.

Do now - trying to arrange a fix.

[Yoss]

41 minutes ago, CreepingJesus said:

Would it be possible to provide a PO box address, then we can all nip out to the nearest supermarket and get our spots/ads/whatever printed out to post off, and they could be mounted into the website with double sided tape? At least that way, when the pics disappear in future it won't be Photofuckit's fault. Again. We'll just need some more tape.

No, because the bloody postmen are on strike again! That's me, by the way. I can slag me off, you lot can't. 

 

[Matty]

4 hours ago, chaseracer said:

Hello.

Do now - trying to arrange a fix.

Many thanks 👍

[Matty]

4 hours ago, Yoss said:

No, because the bloody postmen are on strike again! That's me, by the way. I can slag me off, you lot can't. 

 

Said it before @Yoss. More power to you pal

[Six-cylinder]

I thought it was me as we have been without internet to the house for a week until this afternoon.

In the village that our internet comes from a car crashed into the BT cabinet and bent it over. It was bagged and taped for a year and finally they have replaced it. Trouble was they disconnected the power a week early and it is said needed battery to keep it running, trouble was they only lasted 3/4 hour, but were changed daily. 

[iainrcz]

I'm getting random errors when trying to upload photos. I know to the vast majority that's a good thing, but there are the odd few who like pictures of dogs and beer.

[Dyslexic Viking]

I tested now and images are still broken.

[High Jetter]

12 hours ago, Yoss said:

No, because the bloody postmen are on strike again! That's me, by the way. I can slag me off, you lot can't. 

How would you hear, tucked up in bed?

[Steve79]

Any news on the tech fix?

[Remspoor]

When the site is up and running again the it will crash because everyone will be posting images.

When I had a website there was a backup made quite often. Is there not one for this forum so that things can be rolled back ?

[Talbot]

We still don't actually know where the problem lies.  Will report back when there is any progress, although do bear in mind that the entire admin/mod team are at work.  (me included.. I shouldn't really be here at the moment)

[JJ0063]

For the time being guys you could use 

 

www.postimg.cc 

Upload pic

Copy the ‘direct link’

where you’d normally upload images on here just click the box to the right that says “other media” and then click “insert image from URL”

 

see: 

[Zelandeth]

Just massively frustrating that you can't just embed from an external source using normal BBCode IMG tags...

That's not your fault though, it's down to the forum software trying to be too bloody clever.  

I use ImgBB everywhere other than here, just use the native uploader here because inserting from an external source is so fiddly.  

 

As for the fault, I'm absolutely no expert in things like this, but storage quotas, disc space and possible write permission issues would be my first ports of call.  It *seems* that the file does successfully upload, it just borks when it tries to actually write the file to wherever it's stored.

I'm assuming that we're hosted out of a data centre somewhere rather than this being on a machine someone has ready direct access to, so diagnosis and resolution might be a bit more long winded.

[JJ0063]

I always use ImgBB too but when I tried to use that as my example, it wasn’t working either 😂 just kept saying failed.

[Zelandeth]

22 minutes ago, JJ0063 said:

I always use ImgBB too but when I tried to use that as my example, it wasn’t working either 😂 just kept saying failed.

That would explain why I've just spent the last ten minutes swearing at my laptop as about half my images/albums are just flat out refusing to load, just showing up as broken.

Guess I'll just give up on writing the update for my blog just now then, the planets have obviously just aligned to prevent it from happening!

[UltraWomble]

Hi

Anyone else having problems uploading photos to the site from their phone?

[GingerNuttz]

I can't upload from phone or pc.

[Zelandeth]

6 minutes ago, UltraWomble said:

Hi

Anyone else having problems uploading photos to the site from their phone?

 

4 minutes ago, GingerNuttz said:

I can't upload from phone or pc.

See the above recent posts - there's a problem with the image uploader at the moment which is being investigated.  External hosting is still available, even if ImgBB seem to be having issues of their own at the moment so you might need to use a different provider.

[yes oui si]

Presume this has been a rollback in an attempt to fix the image hosting? 

[Stanky]

update to follow shortly, I majorly broke it - will go into maintenance mode very very shortly again

[richardmorris]

3 minutes ago, Stanky said:

update to follow shortly, I majorly broke it - will go into maintenance mode very very shortly again

Thank you. I was having a panic attack!

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, Stanky said:

update to follow shortly, I majorly broke it - will go into maintenance mode very very shortly again

Thanks for fixing it again.

[loserone]

Is there a way we could look into moving storage into a more cost effective solution than what I assume are still virtual discs attached to a VM? (I.e. about the most expensive way of doing it).  Obviously it's what we've had for a while but if the costs are spiralling then perhaps it needs to be revisited - the outcome might well be "leave it as it is, the costs are more but it's lots less effort".