Forum Technical Issues

Same problem here . With this avatar . Photo bucket . If it is a hack then I suggest members change passwords . And mods change router passwords . I don't know how to change router password . Also mods should invite all trusted members to secret obscure website . To discuss in private any important matters . Then come back here with solutions .

back to the secret bat cave .

nomad .

Will this issue be fixed any time soon?

George and Russian Patriot and I only have the power to edit or delete messages or move them around.

Only Vlad can fix, so the next time he is on hopefully he will get a few PMs to ask that he takes action.

In the mean time is is not that big a deal... any text hidden by these images can be read simply by selecting the text using your mouse, which will highlight it and make it readable.

I doubt this is Russian hackers... more likely the website that stores image components has changed something and the links no longer work. Fixing the link is the only solution but as I say George and I don't have that level of access.


If you are really upset you could ask for your money back...

Dealing with it now...

GarryB wrote:Dealing with it now...

just curiosity what happened to Yak-141 thread? where did you move it? or perhaps it is not yet permitted by Borisov to talk about it?

Would it be possible for mods to leave more of a trail of their actions?
Fairly often chunks of threads/entire threads get moved or for all I know deleted without any visible notice of what happened.

Not saying they're wrong moves, just that without knowing where they went or why its hard to keep track or modify behaviour if doing something problematic.
There are a lot of possible sub-sections where stuff could be moved to, hard to find if its been moved without a note.

Just would like to see a little note like 'moved a bunch of posts to x thread' (with link) or 'deleted OT bollocks' etc.
I know some forum software has option to add those automatically, may not be possible with this software & I understand that can be a PITA to do manually.

With this forum software you open the full thread in one continuous page and have to scroll down and select each post individually to separate and then create a thread to temp dump them.

As you can probably imagine threads with a lot of multimedia were a nightmare and took so long to load as you scroll it normally times out, but now I have faster than dialup it is OK.

I try to leave a note to mention clean ups and where moved posts have been sent.

Will post request to other mods to ask they do the same.

GarryB

unable to host pics? its asking for a login? has the process changed?

d_taddei2 wrote:unable to host pics? its asking for a login? has the process changed?

Have you ever been able to host pictures? Upload them to an image hosting site and use the url.

It asked me for my password too... just click on the "forgot password" link and it will ask for your email address and send you a new password and a link to change it to that new password.
Check your email and it will have a link to change your password and the new password it changes it to, so click the change password link and then copy the new password from your email and then return to the russia defence page and enter that new password which should work to gain access to the media hosting service.

Vladimir79 wrote:

d_taddei2 wrote:unable to host pics? its asking for a login? has the process changed?

Have you ever been able to host pictures?  Upload them to an image hosting site and use the url.  

yes i have always been able to. it was only after the recent outage of the website this happened.

GarryB wrote:It asked me for my password too... just click on the "forgot password" link and it will ask for your email address and send you a new password and a link to change it to that new password.
Check your email and it will have a link to change your password and the new password it changes it to, so click the change password link and then copy the new password from your email and then return to the russia defence page and enter that new password which should work to gain access to the media hosting service.

thanks garryb. strangely i tried clicking on it today and its back to normal without me doing anything.

is there a way to delete your profile?

southpark wrote:is there a way to delete your profile?

never did it but if there are no options clearly visible admin can always help. Pity that you go BTW.

I'm getting intermittent redirections to https://www.forumotion.com/ last few hours, presumably a DNS/server setup issue?

hoom wrote:I'm getting intermittent redirections to https://www.forumotion.com/ last few hours, presumably a DNS/server setup issue?

Some problem with the host servers. All of the forums went down.

Getting some real slow page loads today.

Hi. Can't figure out how to post a tweet. Any assistance please?

slasher wrote:Hi. Can't figure out how to post a tweet. Any assistance please?

We usually just post the hyperlink, with a caption above or below it.

Prefer you post it as a link and with a short description... including any warnings if necessary.

The link button is next to the button for hosting a youtube video.