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phil wrote:
Due to damnable server issues.

Must Reads » Important Information » Email server issues...

Due to damnable server issues, I'm currently not receiving any emails with a "philtanner.com" domain suffix. This applies to me and the rest of the family too.



I'm trying to resolve the issue at the moment, but I have no idea how long it might take, so in the mean time, if you need to get in contact with any of us, replace the "@philtanner.com" with "@p4tg.com" which we are receiving without any issues.



Fortunately, the web services don't (currently) appear to be affected by this problem.

Must Reads » Updates to the forum » Changes to the Registration

Spammers.



Argh.



Scum of the Earth. Lowest of the low. The bottom feeders of the bottom feeding world.



I hate them.



They've REALLY got my goat recently.



Can you tell?



So, changes have been made (yet again) to the registration proceedure.



The next thing I'm planning on doing is removing all users who have 0 posts. That's 0 existing posts, so if you've posted a spam, and are expecting to survive this purge... Don't.



Said purge should happen next weekend (16th/17th September). I'll blat out a global email to similar effect in a minute - this is just confirmation, and fore-warning to those of you reading the RSS feed

Must Reads » Updates to the forum » Your website...

Due to a proliferation of spammers signing up on the site merely to try and gain some Google-juice I blocked the addition of a website when you sign up.



Once you have registered and logged in for the first time however, you can enter your website, if you want to - just not at time of registration.



Regards,

Phil

Must Reads » Important Information » Server downtime

I'm almost certainly gonna be moving the server this weekend, along with the router and all the rest of the gubbins that actually makes PhilTanner.com work.



THat unfortunately means that the forums and everything else will be unavailable, and that it won't be possible for us to get out onto the internet for the hour or so that it'll take.



If you find that you can't access the site at some point (I really don't know when I'll get time to do it) check back in a bit, and we should be back online

Must Reads » Updates to the forum » Re-skin & authorisation changes

phil wrote:
The majority of these tie-in's are complete, with only the Wishlist functionality needing to be "fixed" - this will be my next project

Must Reads » Updates to the forum » Re-skin & authorisation changes

Ok, so I've spent a little bit of time re-skinning the forum so that it fits into the rest of my site slightly more snugly.



To avoid confusion, I've left your currently chosen theme's in place, rather than reset you all, but you can easily choose to use the new theme by following the "Profile" link (which is probably up there ^^ somewhere), scrolling down until you see the "Board Style:" section, and changing the option to "PhilTanner". Click Submit, and you're done



I've also dumped my old user authentification system, and I'm in the process of tying the old auth processes into one central system, which will include this forum. This means you'll have one username and password for my site, which will give you access to all the different areas nice & easily. Won't that be nice?



The majority of these tie-in's are complete, with only the Wishlist functionality needing to be "fixed" - this will be my next project

Must Reads » Updates to the forum » RSS Feeds - WOOT

rev_lovejoy wrote:
Will you fix the latest posts on mud.philtanner.com too?

Must Reads » Updates to the forum » RSS Feeds - WOOT

phil wrote:
At the moment, the site isn't running massively quickly, and I'm having a mare of a time with CF (which is what I'm using to generate the feeds).

phil wrote:
I'll fix it when I get time, but until that point I've taken them down for a bit....



Sorry. But then, there's very little posting going on anyway at the moment

Must Reads » Updates to the forum » RSS Feeds - WOOT

At the moment, the site isn't running massively quickly, and I'm having a mare of a time with CF (which is what I'm using to generate the feeds).



I'll fix it when I get time, but until that point I've taken them down for a bit....



Sorry. But then, there's very little posting going on anyway at the moment



Pxx

Must Reads » Updates to the forum » We should be up and working again...

There's a couple of areas of my main site (that require login access) that aren't set up yet - mainly because I want to re-write the login system so that there's just one username / password system for the whole lot... And that requires some serious redesign and rethink... Which i don't currently have time for, so I'll have to come back to it. Scream if you're missing something you want.



Oh, and the RSS is missing too. I'll see if I can work out WTF is wrong with it when I'm sure the rest of the server is working as expected...

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