Amiga.org New Ownership - Almost One Year Has Past

[Karlos]

@ Karlos

Thank you for trying to accommodate Amiga browsers.  It is sort of rediculous that a site  solely about Amiga computers and technology was "modernized" (before the change in ownership) beyond Amiga browser capability.  Perhaps the new CSS code is rocking someone's world now, I don't see what the fuss was about.  The purpose of the site is the same as is the content.  Yes, I read all the compelling reasons that were supposed to make the change manditory, the driving software was obsolete and unavailable.  There were supposed to be only a handfull of us logging in with classic Amigas.  I just don't buy it all.

Thanks for a great job this past year.  Sorry for the rant.

Well it was an interesting experiment to say the least )

However, the proof is in the pudding, as they say. My server stats show that it really is a small minority that are using the proxy.

[Karlos]

Long live amiga.org ! :-)

Salaam, bob.

Holy crap, has it been a long time since I saw you here?!

[Karlos]

Why not have amiga.org 302 redirect certain user-agents to the proxy? (IBrowse, Amiga-AWeb, AmigaVoyager)

Could be interesting. For a while I was 302'ing all non-amiga browsers back to the main site. Imagine the potential redirect loops

I stopped when we first got that dodgy iframe as it was trivially easy to filter via the proxy

Ideally, the proxy should live on a subdomain of this site.

Because everyone is spoofing mozille in the first place to see anything on the web?

However, "AmigaOS" still tends to appear in the user agent string

[Karlos]

Yes, please do that - send everything with "AmigaOS" and "Mozilla" in it to the proxy, that will work out just GREAT! :roflmao:

I meant that's how you can generally tell an amigaos browser spoofing something else. I wasn't suggesting the main site should redirect users to the proxy. If people want to use it, they can just use it.

Which reminds me, time to start bouncing out the non amiga browsers. I just checked the stats and, somewhat inevitably, most of the visitors were using IE/Windows.

I should just time them out, wasting my bandwidth like that

It's pretty lame, but:
if (!preg_match('@amiga|morphos|aros|linux@i', $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])) {
  header('Location: http://amiga.org/' . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
  die();
}

[Karlos]

Except that one browser would not be spoofing

I'm sure it would be easy enough to identify timberwolf if there was a need.

[Karlos]

Just out of interest Karlos, do you have figures for how many folk access this site using just an Amiga or using a PC/Mac etc..

Nope, only the ones that go via my proxy. There are probably about two dozen regulars that use it that are seemingly using amiga browsers.

As I said, not many.