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Title: amigaworld.net down?
Post by: AmigaNG on October 07, 2024, 05:01:05 PM
Is amigaworld.net down for everyone?
Title: Re: amigaworld.net down?
Post by: zipper on October 07, 2024, 05:56:49 PM
Yes, a couple of days.
Title: Re: amigaworld.net down?
Post by: F0LLETT on October 07, 2024, 06:35:15 PM
Sigh, I have no server access to this site. Else it would have been sorted by now.
Title: Re: amigaworld.net down?
Post by: notel98 on October 08, 2024, 03:23:24 AM
I have never been able to log into that site anyway, according to the faq help,file I’m an idiot. Even though I clicked on the activation link and it says activated. When I try to log in it says either deactivated or not yet activated account.
I must therefore be that idiot. :(
Title: Re: amigaworld.net down?
Post by: F0LLETT on October 08, 2024, 09:43:40 AM
I have never been able to log into that site anyway, according to the faq help,file I’m an idiot. Even though I clicked on the activation link and it says activated. When I try to log in it says either deactivated or not yet activated account.
I must therefore be that idiot. :(

Or its set to Admin activation. I have no idea. As I said, I have no access to that site, :(.
Title: Re: amigaworld.net down?
Post by: zipper on October 08, 2024, 10:39:44 AM
Seems to be working now. Never had problems but it seems to need relogging about once a week.
Title: Re: amigaworld.net down?
Post by: AmigaNG on December 30, 2024, 10:40:51 AM
Seem to be down again.  :( Seems to happen a lot with that site.
Title: Re: amigaworld.net down?
Post by: amigakit on December 30, 2024, 10:46:36 AM
Unfortunately the very old server that has run the site finally has given up and died.   It is beyond economical repair so the site will be run on a new server in 2025.
Title: Re: amigaworld.net down?
Post by: nbache on December 30, 2024, 11:47:07 AM
Maybe you could in the meantime redirect it to a simple static page on another server which says this?

Best regards,

Niels
Title: Re: amigaworld.net down?
Post by: amigakit on December 30, 2024, 12:28:01 PM
We will be shortly, however it takes time to preload the new server and set the domains over Christmas holiday period.
Title: Re: amigaworld.net down?
Post by: notel98 on December 30, 2024, 12:58:20 PM
I’ve never been able to log into that site anyway even after responding to confirmation email it says account disabled or not enabled yet.
Title: Re: amigaworld.net down?
Post by: IanP on December 30, 2024, 10:19:01 PM
Hope it isn't down so long it ends up going the way this site has.
Title: Re: amigaworld.net down?
Post by: amigakit on December 30, 2024, 10:25:18 PM
@IanP

What is wrong with this site?   It is active, no trolling, good community members and a great place to discuss anything Amiga.
Title: Re: amigaworld.net down?
Post by: Minuous on December 31, 2024, 07:47:08 AM
Yes, this site is good, AmigaWorld has been mostly pointless flamewars for years though unfortunately :-(
Title: Re: amigaworld.net down?
Post by: BozzerBigD on December 31, 2024, 10:37:39 AM
What happened to this site is what's about to happen to AmigaWorld; a protracted period of outage leading to members migrating to the English Amiga Board, Facebook and Discord!
Title: Re: amigaworld.net down?
Post by: amigakit on December 31, 2024, 11:25:36 AM
@BigD

This site seems busy with many contributors enjoying discussion here.   
Title: Re: amigaworld.net down?
Post by: kolla on December 31, 2024, 05:25:44 PM
But why run such sites on fragile bare metal installations?!
Title: Re: amigaworld.net down?
Post by: AmigaNG on December 31, 2024, 06:05:01 PM
I dont know why, but I do like amigaworld the most out of all the community site, it got the news, and some generally interesting discussions, debates.

Its by far the forum I post on the most and check the most. I do check up on amiga.org / EAB forum now and again. But dont post much. There is something about amigaworld that makes me go back there. So I hope its back up soon.
Title: Re: amigaworld.net down?
Post by: Karlos on December 31, 2024, 10:53:04 PM
@BigD

This site seems busy with many contributors enjoying discussion here.

I don't want to be that guy, but this isn't busy. Believe me, I was here when it was busy. You had to keep your finger on the refresh button just to keep up, lol.
Title: Re: amigaworld.net down?
Post by: Terminills on January 01, 2025, 07:23:03 PM
I don't want to be that guy, but this isn't busy. Believe me, I was here when it was busy. You had to keep your finger on the refresh button just to keep up, lol.

bring back moobunny!
Title: Re: amigaworld.net down?
Post by: amigakit on January 01, 2025, 07:25:58 PM
@Karlos

This was in the days before social media took over from traditional forum websites.  Given that AMIGA.org competes against mainstream social media platforms, it is doing well.
Title: Re: amigaworld.net down?
Post by: zipper on January 01, 2025, 11:14:29 PM
The most pointless site...but good arguing...
Title: Re: amigaworld.net down?
Post by: Karlos on January 01, 2025, 11:52:28 PM
Moobunny was ... unique. One or two very unhinged posters on there.
Title: Re: amigaworld.net down?
Post by: Terminills on January 02, 2025, 01:25:29 AM
Moobunny was ... unique. One or two very unhinged posters on there.

Are we sure ppcamiga1 isn’t Thierry?
Title: Re: amigaworld.net down?
Post by: Jose on January 02, 2025, 02:39:16 AM
@amigakit
Personally I never liked the way amiga.org's mainpage was changed on the "new" version... I know it's only a click away from the forums / news but for some stupid reason it never felt the same for me...

"What is wrong with this site?   It is active, no trolling, good community members and a great place to discuss anything Amiga."
Title: Re: amigaworld.net down?
Post by: Karlos on January 02, 2025, 02:34:42 PM
I wonder how much page rank this site loses for not having the home page served securely.
Title: Re: amigaworld.net down?
Post by: yssing on January 02, 2025, 03:35:10 PM
It needs active moderators. Trolls kills sites..
Title: Re: amigaworld.net down?
Post by: Karlos on January 02, 2025, 06:34:53 PM
Are we sure ppcamiga1 isn’t Thierry?

I'm not even sure Thierry was Thierry most of the time, at least on moobunny. So easy to impersonate someone else on there.
Title: Re: amigaworld.net down?
Post by: AndyFC on January 03, 2025, 09:36:56 AM
Is amigaworld.net down for everyone?

It's back up now. No new posts after 27 Dec (at time of writing).
Title: Re: amigaworld.net down?
Post by: sibbi on January 04, 2025, 07:22:45 PM
@F0LLETT

If you want to take over the amigaworld.net server I'll step away in a heartbeat.

You can send me a public key and an IP address from which you wish to login (through Matthew would probably be best), I'll setup an account with sudo privileges and it can be all yours for the principle sum of $0.
Title: Re: amigaworld.net down?
Post by: number6 on January 19, 2025, 12:31:21 AM
@thread

No panic. Just an observance of a point in time.

"It's not just you! amigaworld.net is down.
Last updated: Jan 18, 2025, 7:28 PM (3 seconds ago)"

#6
Title: Re: amigaworld.net down?
Post by: ZXDunny on January 19, 2025, 02:26:23 PM
I've had a pending registration on that site for months now, and never once received a confirmation email.

Now if I try to register again, most of the registration page is text boxes with no caption to indicate what they're for.

Which is a shame because most of my friends are on there, as well as ppcamiga1 who is unlikely to be a friend but seems fun.

Is there any chance at all that the site could be fixed?
Title: Re: amigaworld.net down?
Post by: number6 on March 17, 2025, 03:48:48 PM
@amigakit or whom it may concern,

When you get a chance, could you please address what's happened to Amigaworld.net?
btw-report function at AW still not working.

Thank you.

#6
Title: Re: amigaworld.net down?
Post by: number6 on March 20, 2025, 01:30:15 PM
@amigakit or whom it may concern,

When you get a chance, could you please address what's happened to Amigaworld.net?
btw-report function at AW still not working.

Thank you.

#6

Since Amigaworld has once again been assaulted with hundreds of bumps of ancient threads and no one in management has even made a comment about this...

I'll quote Trevor from the time of the purchases:
Quote
I also believe that both community forums should be run by the members for the benefIt (benefit) of the members.

Source (https://forum.amiga.org/index.php?topic=68238.msg775775#msg775775)

As there is no management and no staff (ergo no members in charge), I'd like to ask how you propose to deal with situations such as this?

Thanks for your reply.

#6
Title: Re: amigaworld.net down?
Post by: number6 on March 20, 2025, 09:53:19 PM
@amigakit

Issue resolved.

Thank you.

#6