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Board Maintnance outage

Unread post by davesmith_au » Thu Oct 06, 2011 12:24 pm

With apologies in advance to those on site at present, I must take the board off-line in around 10 minutes for maintenance. I envisage it will not be offline for any more than 1 hour.

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Re: Board Maintnance outage

Unread post by tayga » Thu Oct 06, 2011 12:31 pm

Thanks for the warni
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Unread post by davesmith_au » Thu Oct 06, 2011 2:18 pm

I just had to really laugh out loud when I read your response tayga!

The board is now back online (obviously). Sorry for any inconvenience.

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Re: Board Maintnance outage

Unread post by nick c » Thu Oct 06, 2011 4:28 pm

I do not know if anyone else is having this problem, but I cannot get on the forum using IE as a browser.
Mozilla Firefox works fine, but with IE I just get a blank blue page.

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Unread post by nick c » Thu Oct 06, 2011 5:44 pm

It's working now :D

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Unread post by davesmith_au » Fri Oct 07, 2011 10:52 am

Hey Nick, it might be working for you, but not for me or probably many others using IE. I use Chrome as a daily browser, but I started getting notifications that people using IE were having this problem of just a blue screen (I'd call it blue-green, but maybe I'm color blind...). I'm trying to track down what the problem is. My own IE (v9) still won't display the forum for me, no matter what I do. As so many people use IE it's a BIG problem. That's one of the reasons I took the board off-line, to update to the latest phpBB in case that was causing an issue, but I've still got the background only in IE9!

Curioser and curioser...

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Unread post by Goldminer » Fri Oct 07, 2011 11:29 am

TPOD COMES UP, BUT NO TBOLT FORUM. IT'S A CONSPIRACY! Oops caps lock! The color on my IE9 is a blue-greenish grey; sort of the color of alien blood.
I sense a disturbance in the farce.

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Re: Board Maintnance outage

Unread post by tayga » Fri Oct 07, 2011 12:06 pm

Ahem. Chrome. Just saying. ;)
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Re: Board Maintnance outage

Unread post by nick c » Fri Oct 07, 2011 4:24 pm

Yes, I am using IE 9 right now.
I had that blank dark blue page, and I started clicking things, just to see what would happen. Finally, I clicked "translate" on the Google tool bar and the forum sign in page appeared. I signed myself in and have not had any trouble since. I have no idea why that worked.

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Unread post by kevin » Sat Oct 08, 2011 12:09 pm

Blue/green screen for aprox four days, here in the UK
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