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List of what is currently wrong with the forum

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I was wondering if most people who contribute here are fine with no current problems, so I thought a list might be useful.

I'm rather despairing at the moment of its brokenness and absence of communication from NAS about a timescale (or anything) for sorting these.

It's making me wonder whether to bother any longer.

1. I know that   has a message coming up in orange at the top saying his account may/will be deleted.

2. I keep being logged out (orange banner at the top with a seconds countdown).

Is anyone else getting anything still (or even unable to use their original account?).

Has anything been sorted?

Thanks.

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  • in reply to Alien0n3arth

    This is just a mess up by the people who administer the site (not really the admins, more the server engineers) where they made a mistake when updating a bit of software called a certificate to the site.

    It is what allows us to have a secure connection to the site and I suspect they either let it expire or had a problem applying the new one - a pretty common issue to be fair to them and one that is normally fixed fairly quickly with much flapping going on behind the scenes trying to work out whose email the certificate was registered under.

    This was probably part of the post upgrade housekeeping.

  • in reply to Iain

    This situation is disgusting.

  • in reply to pdaddio83

    I don't think this made it clear who I was agreeing with. To clarify, I was agreeing with Iain

  • in reply to Iain

    I agree. As someone who's job it is to build systems like this, I could immediately tell that someone somewhere let something lapse with the site certificate. There are humans behind all these things you don't see, and humans make genuine mistakes and for the most part are not actively trying to sabotage things or annoy people on purpose.

    It may look intimidating, but this is actually one of the more minor things that could go wrong with a website and can be fixed easily.

  • in reply to I Sperg

    I agree.We live in a digital age now.

  • in reply to Iain

    Actually it is not at all "Awesome".

    As a bona fide skint person I ONLY use free to use resources and this one is hands down the worst that I have ever encountered.

    I've encountered worse IT back office competency in the NHS but that was not a free to use service and has it's own unique challenges in terms of how it is run..

    WIth this platform I feel more like an experimental subject than a client. 

    I'm a bit busy right now, but am considering doing a bit of an investigation into this debacle. I'd like to know who runs this charity, what it's cash flow is and most importantly, who takes care of the I.T. 

    If  one bloke like the one who runs the 90 servers that comprise the freecycle network can deliver many years of seamless service to a vast base of users like they have how much money is being chucked away on this upgrade?

    I mean, can you name ANYTHING that has improved? Any change that has made it more "Autistic friendly"??

  • in reply to New beginning
    New beginning said:
    This situation is disgusting.

    That is a bit of a strong reaction.

    They are a charity so have limited resources to spend on this sort of tech and from the forum upgrade we know the management are not exactly on the ball.

    Considering all this is a free service we receive it is still pretty awesome.

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  • in reply to pdaddio83

    I don't think this made it clear who I was agreeing with. To clarify, I was agreeing with Iain

  • in reply to Iain

    I agree. As someone who's job it is to build systems like this, I could immediately tell that someone somewhere let something lapse with the site certificate. There are humans behind all these things you don't see, and humans make genuine mistakes and for the most part are not actively trying to sabotage things or annoy people on purpose.

    It may look intimidating, but this is actually one of the more minor things that could go wrong with a website and can be fixed easily.

  • in reply to I Sperg

    I agree.We live in a digital age now.

  • in reply to Iain

    Actually it is not at all "Awesome".

    As a bona fide skint person I ONLY use free to use resources and this one is hands down the worst that I have ever encountered.

    I've encountered worse IT back office competency in the NHS but that was not a free to use service and has it's own unique challenges in terms of how it is run..

    WIth this platform I feel more like an experimental subject than a client. 

    I'm a bit busy right now, but am considering doing a bit of an investigation into this debacle. I'd like to know who runs this charity, what it's cash flow is and most importantly, who takes care of the I.T. 

    If  one bloke like the one who runs the 90 servers that comprise the freecycle network can deliver many years of seamless service to a vast base of users like they have how much money is being chucked away on this upgrade?

    I mean, can you name ANYTHING that has improved? Any change that has made it more "Autistic friendly"??