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Site finally back!!!

Seems like the site is down more than it's up the past few days. And I remember this being an issue before as well.

They're paying someone for hosting. Hopefully they are starting to shop around for a provider that is more worthy of that money. I haven't seen a website this fussy since around the Y2K days. And that's not rhetoric.
 
Spartan said:
Seems like the site is down more than it's up the past few days. And I remember this being an issue before as well.

They're paying someone for hosting. Hopefully they are starting to shop around for a provider that is more worthy of that money. I haven't seen a website this fussy since around the Y2K days. And that's not rhetoric.
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A few hundred people are paying $1.25 a month to support a huge database of information, a nationwide classified section, and interactive conversation on topics from life or death safety issues to giant beavers that has to be constantly moderated and somehow is still ad free.
The fact the site works at all let alone 362 days a year on the scale it does is a testament to the people running it.
 
HuskerInIowa said:
A few hundred people are paying $1.25 a month to support a huge database of information, a nationwide classified section, and interactive conversation on topics from life or death safety issues to giant beavers that has to be constantly moderated and somehow is still ad free.
The fact the site works at all let alone 362 days a year on the scale it does is a testament to the people running it.
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Ok. Well, to me it seems poorly run for a website/forum in 2023. It's by far the "crashiest" website/forum I have ever used. "The people running it" are not running it as well as the people running every other website/forum I have used.

This doesn't mean that I don't enjoy the forum. I do enjoy it. But as a paying member, I will reserve the right to be critical of "the people running it" when it takes me a day and a half to send another member a simple tracking number for a purchase they made. And this happens all the time.

When the fat kid takes 20 minutes to run the mile around the track some people will tell him what a good job he did and they're proud of him for trying (that's what your post reminds me of). Some other people will point out to him that he was the slowest in the class and that he needs to eat less cheeseburgers and get himself in shape.
 
HuskerInIowa said:
A few hundred people are paying $1.25 a month to support a huge database of information, a nationwide classified section, and interactive conversation on topics from life or death safety issues to giant beavers that has to be constantly moderated and somehow is still ad free.
The fact the site works at all let alone 362 days a year on the scale it does is a testament to the people running it.
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I bet it was the giant beavers.......beware of the giant beavers!
 
After it went down the first time, I tried to click on this thread... And it crashed for me again. I was a bit wary of clicking on it again this time lol...

I also think it's fine, I do NOT want to deal with more advertisements etc (ugh archerytalk sucks now compared to "back in the day". So. Many. Ads. ) so the current level of uptime/function is awesome to me.
 
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Ok, so the website has been acting up and it wasn't just me. I changed the oil in my laptop for nothing, lol.
thedutchtouch said:
After it went down the first time, I tried to click on this thread... And it crashed for me again. I was a bit wary of clicking on it again this time lol...

I also think it's fine, I do NOT want to deal with more advertisements etc (ugh archerytalk sucks now compared to "back in the day". So. Many. Ads. ) so the current level of uptime/function is awesome to me.
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Agree 100%. I went to some other website the other day and I had to dig around for a while just to find the actual content of the site. It was wall to wall ads, and the annoying moving kinds too that I bet can induce seizures in some people. While I'm on my little soapbox, can I just say I hate, absolutely hate those cookie popups that hit you just as you are going onto a webpage. These are the kind that you have to acknowledge and accept cookies before you can proceed. Their cookies cost some folks money the other day. I went to a site to buy something with card in hand and bam! Immovable cookie prompt. I X'd out of the site and never went back. I hope they like cookies because they didn't get a sale. Vent over, lol.
 
Swampwalker said:
No offense gents but it's only a website. Life goes on, believe it. I'm just wondering what people will do when the intraweb goes down. Holy moly. Life as it should be. And it probably will happen.
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Just showing a little praise and gratitude for this community and the good people hard at work to keep it alive and well.
 
Sorry guys. I'm away from work and the site went down while I was traveling. I reached out to the host and it came back up but went down again the next day. All that happened is the backups became too big and an old backup had to be erased. This happens periodically and causes a little downtime until I reach out to them to delete it. I'm not an IT guy, I'm just trying to keep this site together with the tech skills I have in my spare time anymore. Thanks everyone for supporting the site!
 
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