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Is Apterous down? [COMMENTING HERE WILL ... Yeah, we know]
Posted: Thu May 07, 2020 4:12 pm
by Gavin Chipper
This thread is for general discussion about the downness of Apterous, especially when it might be inappropriate to post in the other thread which has such strict entry criteria.
Enjoy!
Re: Is Apterous down? [GENERAL DISCUSSION THREAD]
Posted: Thu May 07, 2020 7:08 pm
by Gavin Chipper
That's going to get you into trouble again. But luckily we have the thread for you now.
Re: Is Apterous down? [GENERAL DISCUSSION THREAD]
Posted: Fri May 08, 2020 8:16 am
by Charlie Reams
You can post whatever you want in here, since it isn't configured to send me an alert. It's also completely pointless since I won't see it. Enjoy!
Re: Is Apterous down? [GENERAL DISCUSSION THREAD]
Posted: Fri May 08, 2020 8:51 am
by Graeme Cole
Charlie Reams wrote: ↑Fri May 08, 2020 8:16 am
You can post whatever you want in here, since it isn't configured to send me an alert. It's also completely pointless since I won't see it. Enjoy!
That's a shame, because Apterous is currently down.
Re: Is Apterous down? [GENERAL DISCUSSION THREAD]
Posted: Fri May 08, 2020 8:57 am
by Fiona T
Re: Is Apterous down? [GENERAL DISCUSSION THREAD]
Posted: Fri May 08, 2020 10:48 pm
by Rhys Benjamin
[strike]Is the game side of Apterous down? The website is up, but I can't get into the game. Moreover, a look at chat logs shows this is possibly an issue with displaying to the user, as there's lots of coming and going but no playing.[/strike]
Edit: just as I post this, it's up again.
Re: Is Apterous down? [GENERAL DISCUSSION THREAD]
Posted: Sat May 09, 2020 9:39 am
by Fiona T
It was struggling all evening. Last games successfully completed were just after midnight.
Re: Is Apterous down? [GENERAL DISCUSSION THREAD]
Posted: Sat May 09, 2020 11:28 am
by Ronan M Higginson
Re: Is Apterous down? [GENERAL DISCUSSION THREAD]
Posted: Sat May 09, 2020 12:28 pm
by Charlie Reams
As I said, there is no point whatsoever posting in this topic.
Re: Is Apterous down? [GENERAL DISCUSSION THREAD]
Posted: Tue May 12, 2020 1:31 pm
by Ian Volante
Are those testicular electrodes now repurposed?
Re: Is Apterous down? [GENERAL DISCUSSION THREAD]
Posted: Tue May 12, 2020 1:45 pm
by Rhys Benjamin
Charlie Reams wrote: ↑Sat May 09, 2020 12:28 pm
As I said, there is no point whatsoever posting in this topic.
But what if one wants to discuss the general upness or downness of Apterous? What if one wants to wonder whether Apterous is, or indeed is not, down? And were that it were numberwang...
Re: Is Apterous down? [GENERAL DISCUSSION THREAD]
Posted: Sat May 30, 2020 8:31 am
by Ronan M Higginson
Well, it is now....
Re: Is Apterous down? [GENERAL DISCUSSION THREAD]
Posted: Sun May 31, 2020 9:54 pm
by L'oisleatch McGraw
Lads cmon it's pointless, Charlie clearly can't see any of this shit, just like... erm, Charlie said.
Re: Is Apterous down? [GENERAL DISCUSSION THREAD]
Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2020 5:32 pm
by Ronan M Higginson
Re: Is Apterous down? [GENERAL DISCUSSION THREAD]
Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2020 6:14 pm
by Jason William Larsen
Yes, Ronan is right. Apterous is literally down.
Re: Is Apterous down? [GENERAL DISCUSSION THREAD]
Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2020 9:35 pm
by Ronan M Higginson
And still down now
is there another way Charlie can be notified about Apterous being down?
Re: Is Apterous down? [GENERAL DISCUSSION THREAD]
Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2020 9:55 pm
by Charlie Reams
I'm aware. Nothing I can do at the moment.
THE GREAT PRO-RANKS CONSPIRACY
Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2020 12:27 am
by L'oisleatch McGraw
Theories so far:
1. Someone Charlie despises finally climbed to #1, and he is in a massive sulk.
2. We are getting a major Pro-Ranks upgrade / overhaul... and it takes time.
3. They're not coming back. Participation awards for all. Rating numbers next to go; due to be replaced by 'care' emojis.
4. They now live at a secret link, available to 'Sanctum' members and Jack Hurst's Zoomdown-y pals only.
5. Police raid! (Once they're fully convinced the 'pro' refers to something other than bottom bitches, it'll be back.)
6. Ashton Hancock of course!
7. Or maybe it was Ronan... because "Ro's prank"?
Hmmm, get your tin foil hats on immediately... We need to get to the bottom of this!!! (bitches)
Re: THE GREAT PRO-RANKS CONSPIRACY
Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2020 6:52 pm
by Ronan M Higginson
L'oisleatch McGraw wrote: ↑Fri Sep 04, 2020 12:27 am
7. Or maybe it was Ronan... because "Ro's prank"?
Yep, exactly this. For your information, I am a secret Admin, have been for 12 years, we used to have small (unlogged) chats in aptochat at the beginning, I kept pulling pranks on the couple of members who were on. I was also nicknamed Ro. We needed a name for a list of ranked players at the beginning. I had always been trying to work out the max from ROS PRANK
for weeks before the ranking idea came, and the day before the first list of pro ranks I fell asleep during the day, in my dream I was on the show, and found out PRORANKS was the maximum in a round. When I woke up, I remembered it, and logged straight into apto, told the couple of members on the site at the time, and Pro Ranks were made. The reason why the Pro Ranks went shall remain a mystery.... But, more importantly, what gave you, Mr McGraw the idea of Ro's Prank? Are you good friends with any of the other admins, or.... are you one of them?
Re: THE GREAT PRO-RANKS CONSPIRACY
Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2020 11:27 pm
by L'oisleatch McGraw
Ronan M Higginson wrote: ↑Fri Sep 04, 2020 6:52 pm
Are you good friends with any of the other admins, or.... are you one of them?
I'm best friends with pretty much anyone who ever solved an anagram!
Re: Is Apterous down? [GENERAL DISCUSSION THREAD]
Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2020 12:08 am
by Jason William Larsen
Thank you Eoin!
Re: Is Apterous down? [GENERAL DISCUSSION THREAD]
Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2020 11:05 am
by Gavin Chipper
Down.
Edit - Oh no, wait - it's been fixed!
Re: Is Apterous down? [GENERAL DISCUSSION THREAD]
Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2020 9:59 am
by Adam Dexter
Hi it seems to be down now. I can get onto the site but not onto the game -
"You have been disconnected from apterous. Please check your Internet connection. Internal server error"
Re: Is Apterous down? [GENERAL DISCUSSION THREAD]
Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2021 1:46 pm
by Johnny Canuck
It's down. In size, that is. The game window is restricted to a tiny box in the top left for some reason.
EDIT: fixed - thanks Charlie
Re: Is Apterous down? [GENERAL DISCUSSION THREAD]
Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2021 9:29 pm
by Rhys Benjamin
The recap writer has returned an error 500 for some weeks now. Can someone technical explain that?
Re: Is Apterous down? [GENERAL DISCUSSION THREAD]
Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2021 10:27 am
by Graeme Cole
Rhys Benjamin wrote: ↑Sat Jan 09, 2021 9:29 pm
The recap writer has returned an error 500 for some weeks now. Can someone technical explain that?
500 means "Internal Server Error" and usually indicates some misconfiguration on the server or an error in the script that generates the page.
None of this seems particularly relevant however, as
the recap writer looks fine to me and apparently it was
fixed three days ago.
Re: Is Apterous down? [GENERAL DISCUSSION THREAD]
Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2021 11:41 am
by Charlie Reams
Graeme Cole wrote: ↑Sun Jan 10, 2021 10:27 am
Rhys Benjamin wrote: ↑Sat Jan 09, 2021 9:29 pm
The recap writer has returned an error 500 for some weeks now. Can someone technical explain that?
500 means "Internal Server Error" and usually indicates some misconfiguration on the server or an error in the script that generates the page.
None of this seems particularly relevant however, as
the recap writer looks fine to me and apparently it was
fixed three days ago.
In this case it means that I (professional software engineer, PhD in computer science) misspelled the word "PHP".
Re: Is Apterous down? [GENERAL DISCUSSION THREAD]
Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2021 1:53 pm
by Fiona T
Rhys Benjamin wrote: ↑Sat Jan 09, 2021 9:29 pm
The recap writer has returned an error 500 for some weeks now. Can someone technical explain that?
I assumed you'd logged it Rhys - was surprised there was no ticket. Usually the best way to get stuff fixed
Re: Is Apterous down? [GENERAL DISCUSSION THREAD]
Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2021 4:42 pm
by Rhys Benjamin
Graeme Cole wrote: ↑Sun Jan 10, 2021 10:27 am
Rhys Benjamin wrote: ↑Sat Jan 09, 2021 9:29 pm
The recap writer has returned an error 500 for some weeks now. Can someone technical explain that?
500 means "Internal Server Error" and usually indicates some misconfiguration on the server or an error in the script that generates the page.
None of this seems particularly relevant however, as
the recap writer looks fine to me and apparently it was
fixed three days ago.
I thought I'd bothered Charlie enough and assumed it was a fault on my end.
Re: Is Apterous down? [GENERAL DISCUSSION THREAD]
Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2021 2:06 pm
by Rhys Benjamin
That said, it's still not working. All the numbers boxes are in the wrong places, and any "preview" buttons break the page.
Re: Is Apterous down? [GENERAL DISCUSSION THREAD]
Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2021 10:41 pm
by Johnny Canuck
Down as of now.
Re: Is Apterous down? [GENERAL DISCUSSION THREAD]
Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2021 7:27 am
by Fiona T
Been throwing wobblies all week
https://www.apterous.org/ticket_view.php?ticket=6200
"Our hosting provider is having some trouble. Looking into it."
Re: Is Apterous down? [GENERAL DISCUSSION THREAD]
Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2021 7:19 pm
by L'oisleatch McGraw
Yes,
yes it is...
Re: Is Apterous down? [GENERAL DISCUSSION THREAD]
Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2021 9:53 pm
by Jason William Larsen
Re: Is Apterous down? [GENERAL DISCUSSION THREAD]
Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2021 10:50 pm
by Fiona T
If only someone hadn't buggered up the official thread
Re: Is Apterous down? [GENERAL DISCUSSION THREAD]
Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2021 12:30 am
by Jason William Larsen
Fiona T wrote: ↑Thu Oct 07, 2021 10:50 pm
If only someone hadn't buggered up the official thread
Sorry
Re: Is Apterous down? [GENERAL DISCUSSION THREAD]
Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2021 1:51 am
by L'oisleatch McGraw
I am quite sure every time Apto goes down, Charlie hears about it...
The thread here would serve as yet another pester alarm, and thus surplus to requirements. (Probably the real reason he euthanised it.)
Re: Is Apterous down? [GENERAL DISCUSSION THREAD]
Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2021 4:37 pm
by Charlie Reams
Nope, the real reason is exactly what I said.
Re: Is Apterous down? [COMMENTING HERE WILL NOT HELP TO FIX IT AND WILL NOT ALERT ANYONE WITH POWER TO FIX IT]
Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2021 5:28 pm
by L'oisleatch McGraw
Yeah, of course.
But if the thread was something that you actually needed... you wouldn't have closed it. That's my point.
Re: Is Apterous down? [COMMENTING HERE WILL ... Yeah, we know]
Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2022 4:21 pm
by L'oisleatch McGraw
Weirdly Apto is fine on my phone... but on the laptop, I am getting "This site can’t be reached".
Given that no-one else has complained, I wonder is the problem mine alone?
Troubleshooter says this about it:-
"Your DNS server might be unavailable Detected [Detected].
Windows can’t find the host name "
www.apterous.org" using DNS."
.
EDIT: It's fine now.
Age-old solution. Turned the wifi off and on again!
Was a strange problem. fb, yt, c4c, google, etc working fine. Apterous and Netflix the only things noticeably down.
Usually when my internet goes, ALL of it goes. Weird.
Re: Is Apterous down? [COMMENTING HERE WILL ... Yeah, we know]
Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2022 10:30 pm
by Johnny Canuck
Wiki has been down for most of the afternoon - it says you need some new PHP extensions.
Re: Is Apterous down? [COMMENTING HERE WILL ... Yeah, we know]
Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2022 5:44 am
by Jason William Larsen
Any idea how we can get them?
Re: Is Apterous down? [COMMENTING HERE WILL ... Yeah, we know]
Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2022 7:12 am
by Fiona T
B&Q were all out of stock when I looked.
Re: Is Apterous down? [COMMENTING HERE WILL ... Yeah, we know]
Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2022 1:35 pm
by Dan Byrom
Down
Re: Is Apterous down? [COMMENTING HERE WILL ... Yeah, we know]
Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2022 1:48 pm
by Ronan M Higginson
Re: Is Apterous down? [COMMENTING HERE WILL ... Yeah, we know]
Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2022 2:00 pm
by Ronan M Higginson
Whole site down now...
Re: Is Apterous down? [COMMENTING HERE WILL ... Yeah, we know]
Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2022 2:11 pm
by Rhys Benjamin
Just for reference I've been greeted by this load of gobbledegook which someone technical might know about.
[redacted]
Re: Is Apterous down? [COMMENTING HERE WILL ... Yeah, we know]
Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2023 1:16 am
by Johnny Canuck
Have had a big orange bar saying
You have new messages from 3 users (last changes).
at the top of my wiki page for a couple of months. I've heard you can run
https://wiki.apterous.org/api.php?action=clearhasmsg
to remove the bar but this in turn leads to
{
"error": {
"code": "writeapidenied",
"info": "You're not allowed to edit this wiki through the API.",
"*": "See https://wiki.apterous.org/api.php for API usage. Subscribe to the mediawiki-api-announce mailing list at <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/lis ... nnounce> for notice of API deprecations and breaking changes."
}
}
I think someone has to edit a file on the backend to either clear my new messages notification or let me run the command in the middle. Expecting this fix is Charlie-only.
Re: Is Apterous down? [COMMENTING HERE WILL ... Yeah, we know]
Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2023 5:00 am
by Andres Sanchez
Johnny Canuck wrote: ↑Fri Jan 20, 2023 1:16 am
Have had a big orange bar saying
You have new messages from 3 users (last changes).
at the top of my wiki page for a couple of months. I've heard you can run
https://wiki.apterous.org/api.php?action=clearhasmsg
to remove the bar but this in turn leads to
{
"error": {
"code": "writeapidenied",
"info": "You're not allowed to edit this wiki through the API.",
"*": "See https://wiki.apterous.org/api.php for API usage. Subscribe to the mediawiki-api-announce mailing list at <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/lis ... nnounce> for notice of API deprecations and breaking changes."
}
}
I think someone has to edit a file on the backend to either clear my new messages notification or let me run the command in the middle. Expecting this fix is Charlie-only.
I've got that on my end with 4 changes, hope this can be fixed soon
Re: Is Apterous down? [COMMENTING HERE WILL ... Yeah, we know]
Posted: Thu May 04, 2023 10:54 pm
by Johnny Canuck
Wiki is currently down for me. Charlie, if you see this, can you please clear the new messages flag too?
Re: Is Apterous down? [GENERAL DISCUSSION THREAD]
Posted: Fri May 05, 2023 1:35 pm
by Tracey Anne Mills
Johnny Canuck wrote: ↑Sat Jan 09, 2021 1:46 pm
It's down. In size, that is. The game window is restricted to a tiny box in the top left for some reason.
EDIT: fixed - thanks Charlie
Episode 8010 the max needs correcting as it should read 121 not 120 8 points was not awarded in Round 2
