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by Thom
Fri May 23, 2025 10:58 am
Forum: Important Site News
Topic: requesting admin help for dalem /dale
Replies: 4
Views: 241

Re: requesting admin help for dalem /dale

If you happen to get a response, kindly tell them about all the other problems as well. :wink:
by Thom
Thu May 15, 2025 5:52 pm
Forum: Important Site News
Topic: ATTN! the forum IS broken - NEEDS FIX
Replies: 198
Views: 193178

Re: ATTN! the forum IS broken - NEEDS FIX

I do think we have any Moderators active on this site anymore- if there are they log in very rarely. Most of the time this site does not even open for me ay any level- regardless of browser. I am still needing to access the thread I started in Real Space for the hi res imagery and I cannot do that ...
by Thom
Mon May 12, 2025 7:52 am
Forum: Important Site News
Topic: New Site Problem
Replies: 42
Views: 9690

Re: New Site Problem

Beware the things that fix themselves... :P LIke a doctor operating on themselves ... That's been done, 1961, Russian dude in Antarctica, self-appendectomy. And the thing has relevance to the spaceflight topic of this forum. Rogozov was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour which honoured g...
by Thom
Sun May 11, 2025 9:11 am
Forum: Important Site News
Topic: New Site Problem
Replies: 42
Views: 9690

Re: New Site Problem

Beware the things that fix themselves... :P
by Thom
Sat May 10, 2025 5:07 pm
Forum: Important Site News
Topic: New Site Problem
Replies: 42
Views: 9690

Re: New Site Problem

And suddenly it's acting normal* again. At least for me. Go figure... :roll:


*as normal goes nowadays.
by Thom
Thu May 08, 2025 9:52 am
Forum: Important Site News
Topic: New Site Problem
Replies: 42
Views: 9690

Re: New Site Problem

I'm having to reload a lot to get it to.. well... load. :roll:
by Thom
Mon May 05, 2025 2:42 pm
Forum: Important Site News
Topic: New Site Problem
Replies: 42
Views: 9690

Re: New Site Problem

Close to finishing the migration out. :(
by Thom
Fri May 02, 2025 7:41 pm
Forum: Important Site News
Topic: ATTN! the forum IS broken - NEEDS FIX
Replies: 198
Views: 193178

Re: ATTN! the forum IS broken - NEEDS FIX

southwestforests wrote: Fri May 02, 2025 7:37 pm Loading speed appears to vary with time of day.
...
I seem to be hitting all the high traffic times then. :D
by Thom
Fri May 02, 2025 6:14 pm
Forum: Important Site News
Topic: ATTN! the forum IS broken - NEEDS FIX
Replies: 198
Views: 193178

Re: ATTN! the forum IS broken - NEEDS FIX

Anyone noticing that the forum has been slow in loading pages the last few day..?
by Thom
Sat Mar 01, 2025 3:54 pm
Forum: Important Site News
Topic: ROLL CALL !!
Replies: 89
Views: 87433

Re: ROLL CALL !!

Merlin Jones wrote: Sat Mar 01, 2025 7:41 am Wanting to leave, but unable to do so. :(
One, I would wonder why you want to..? Don't need to explain, or course, just very curious and wondering if everything is alright.
Two, it's as simple as not logging back in again, really.
Be sad to see you go.
by Thom
Tue Nov 12, 2024 8:34 am
Forum: Important Site News
Topic: ATTN! the forum IS broken - NEEDS FIX
Replies: 198
Views: 193178

Re: ATTN! the forum IS broken - NEEDS FIX

The names have been changed to protect the guilty. Unless they confess in which case they were guilty already. guilty? is this a joke or are people going to be labeled now? Sounds like a joke. This is something we round here sometimes, take one sentence and throw out humorous variations. "He d...
by Thom
Mon Nov 11, 2024 11:19 am
Forum: Important Site News
Topic: ATTN! the forum IS broken - NEEDS FIX
Replies: 198
Views: 193178

Re: ATTN! the forum IS broken - NEEDS FIX

lohengrin wrote: Mon Nov 11, 2024 6:48 am ...

you were one of the first to join so there was no need for an invite. :)
I'm uncomfortable as a 'trend-setter' and being the center of attention, so let's keep that low-key... :wink:
:D
by Thom
Wed Nov 06, 2024 4:58 pm
Forum: Important Site News
Topic: ATTN! the forum IS broken - NEEDS FIX
Replies: 198
Views: 193178

Re: ATTN! the forum IS broken - NEEDS FIX

- Spamming inboxes with unwanted invites to his forum. - Attacking admins and the site owner. - Posts about AST forum states I was fine with him pimping for his site until that started. It is all unwanted content and not relevant discussion. And that's all he's contributed to this community over th...
by Thom
Tue Nov 05, 2024 6:00 pm
Forum: Important Site News
Topic: I broke AST. (Edit: fixed it October 29th)
Replies: 15
Views: 8426

Re: I broke AST. (Edit: fixed it October 29th)

Got nailed. Bonus.
by Thom
Tue Nov 05, 2024 5:43 pm
Forum: Important Site News
Topic: ATTN! the forum IS broken - NEEDS FIX
Replies: 198
Views: 193178

Re: ATTN! the forum IS broken - NEEDS FIX

He just offered to create a forum similar to SSM over on AST if/when this goes dark at any time, so why are people going nuclear on him? If you don't want to go onto AST, then don't , it is as simple as that. No obligations to do anything. Jesus, what's worse than SSM going out with a whimper..? Thi...
by Thom
Mon Nov 04, 2024 2:33 pm
Forum: Important Site News
Topic: ATTN! the forum IS broken - NEEDS FIX
Replies: 198
Views: 193178

Re: ATTN! the forum IS broken - NEEDS FIX

Okay, call we call this off now? :roll:
by Thom
Fri Nov 01, 2024 10:06 am
Forum: Important Site News
Topic: I broke AST. (Edit: fixed it October 29th)
Replies: 15
Views: 8426

Re: I broke AST. It will be fixed soon (yep it's funny).

AST is back up. Just FYI. :D
by Thom
Thu Oct 31, 2024 11:23 pm
Forum: Important Site News
Topic: why i am trying to help and my cautionary tale
Replies: 28
Views: 20654

Re: why i am trying to help and my cautionary tale

Meanwhile we've got the FB group to manage which is quite frankly exhausting. Which shows that the Facebook group needs to be deleted in the interest of collective health and well being. Plus, I've checked the FB page for SSM and nothing in at least 2 months if I remember correctly. Can't help but ...
by Thom
Wed Oct 30, 2024 7:41 pm
Forum: Important Site News
Topic: why i am trying to help and my cautionary tale
Replies: 28
Views: 20654

Re: why i am trying to help and my cautionary tale

Mods are offering nothing because it's private. If the site owners wants ya'll to know he'll let you know. One of the biggest issues, tho', is that the architecture this forum is built on is obsolete and moving it would be neigh impossible or at least extremely tedious. Meanwhile we're open to expl...
by Thom
Wed Oct 30, 2024 9:46 am
Forum: Important Site News
Topic: why i am trying to help and my cautionary tale
Replies: 28
Views: 20654

Re: why i am trying to help and my cautionary tale

I don't think anyone here is 'goading' the owner. More than anything, we just hope John and Linda are alright as their absence/silence is worrying . We just want to know what is happening. That's not a hard thing to ask for. Error creep is sliding in and we've found 'cheats' to get around it, and ju...
by Thom
Tue Oct 29, 2024 4:40 pm
Forum: Important Site News
Topic: why i am trying to help and my cautionary tale
Replies: 28
Views: 20654

Re: why i am trying to help and my cautionary tale

Just an FYI, John is not the only one with admin level access and the lack of movement here is due to people having real jobs and the general decline of forums all over. I'm sorry somebody pee'd in your Cheerios. The exit is over there. Do you have any idea what is going on? At the end to the day, ...
by Thom
Mon Oct 28, 2024 2:58 pm
Forum: Important Site News
Topic: why i am trying to help and my cautionary tale
Replies: 28
Views: 20654

Re: why i am trying to help and my cautionary tale

I like your weedios. and forgive me for being blunt here but john doesn't give a damn about this forum and he is the only one with access to fix it. John Lester has provided this space for us for over TWENTY-FIVE years ad-free. I am cutting him some slack in maybe starshipmodeler.com may not be the...
by Thom
Mon Oct 28, 2024 9:11 am
Forum: Important Site News
Topic: I broke AST. (Edit: fixed it October 29th)
Replies: 15
Views: 8426

Re: I broke AST. It will be fixed soon (yep it's funny).

Thanks for the head up!
by Thom
Mon Oct 28, 2024 9:09 am
Forum: Important Site News
Topic: ATTN! the forum IS broken - NEEDS FIX
Replies: 198
Views: 193178

Re: ATTN! the forum IS broken - NEEDS FIX

lohengrin wrote: Mon Oct 28, 2024 1:07 am ...just have to laugh at the irony.
When AST didn't load at all, I felt like I was in a lifeboat seeing the Carpathia - just before it hit an iceberg... :D
by Thom
Sun Oct 27, 2024 11:28 am
Forum: Lighting & Electronics
Topic: What is this?
Replies: 68
Views: 82986

Re: What is this?

For the first one, I may have to go through my phone and shut off any tracking data. Big middle finger to 'Big Brother.' For the last one, I think we should make the name Coast Guard Cutter as literal as possible. They see one of these narco subs, just run them down with a ramming bow and leave them...
by Thom
Sun Oct 27, 2024 10:05 am
Forum: Important Site News
Topic: why i am trying to help and my cautionary tale
Replies: 28
Views: 20654

Re: why i am trying to help and my cautionary tale

I don't know what's going on here. I hope John and Linda well, though I do wish there was at least some notification of whatever is going on.
Just for myself, I appreciate your effort and am taking advantage of it, so, thank you.
by Thom
Thu Oct 24, 2024 5:45 pm
Forum: Important Site News
Topic: ATTN! the forum IS broken - NEEDS FIX
Replies: 198
Views: 193178

Re: ATTN! the forum IS broken - NEEDS FIX

Saturn wrote: Thu Oct 24, 2024 11:43 am
etssp wrote: Thu Oct 24, 2024 12:29 am Has anybody tried phoning John? His number should be +1 224 372 7428 according the web store.
John's not dead/missing. Just ordered from the SM store last week.
I'm assuming it was delivered?
by Thom
Wed Oct 23, 2024 7:57 am
Forum: Important Site News
Topic: ATTN! the forum IS broken - NEEDS FIX
Replies: 198
Views: 193178

Re: ATTN! the forum IS broken - NEEDS FIX

Richard Baker wrote: Wed Oct 23, 2024 7:54 am The weird thing for me is that John, Linda and Every Moderator seems to have totally disappeared about the same time with no explanation
I hope none of then had a little ship named Minnow...
by Thom
Tue Oct 22, 2024 3:49 pm
Forum: Important Site News
Topic: ATTN! the forum IS broken - NEEDS FIX
Replies: 198
Views: 193178

Re: ATTN! the forum IS broken - NEEDS FIX

Just lacking oversight. I do hope John and Linda are well, but the mystery of the whole thing, not just them disappearing but the mods as well... I think we are coasting into oblivion here, which is why I'm trying for a little more of a presence on AST. It seems to be a real nice alternative.
by Thom
Mon Oct 21, 2024 10:17 am
Forum: Important Site News
Topic: No forum complaints this week. Is the forum fixed?
Replies: 4
Views: 5069

Re: No forum complaints this week. Is the forum fixed?

So I still get that 500 error but other than that everything okay? Go to the other sites about the forum problems. they have a link that has fixed the 500 problem for most of us. The SQL error remains. Not fixed , but there is a 'work-around' that has alleviated the problem. I found that using http...