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It is right now.
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Down atm
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Presently down.
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I think Apto is down at the minute...
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We're having a power cut at Apterous Towers and the battery backup has now expired. Back in the next few hours with any luck.
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Down for me at the moment.
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Bradley Horrocks wrote: Fri Mar 30, 2018 12:58 pm Down for me at the moment.
Likewise....
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Still down:(
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Still down:(
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Been down for 8 hours now...
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Still down
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First down comment of the day.
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I'm away for Easter so nothing I can do. Will be back at some point.
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Charlie Reams wrote: Sat Mar 31, 2018 12:52 pm I'm away for Easter so nothing I can do. Will be back at some point.
It's okay, we've got our own mini apterous going as a topic for now :)
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Giving "The connection has timed out" for me right now.
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Extremely laggy at the moment...
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Appears to be down atm.
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Down since around 8.25pm
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Is down at the moment. Keeps coming back up then crashing again moments later.
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It's down again.
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Not technically down but the electroshock response may be needed here: Apterous Rex and Prime are currently wreaking havoc on the server like anagramming Godzillas (Godzillae?). Intervention appears to be necessary.
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Dunno about down, but every time I try and log in it says "disconnected :(", yet the website body is fine. Seems to be affecting others too as noone has been in the room for over 2 hours.
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The site is effectively down for Hallowe'en as usual.
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Yes. 'Internal server error'.
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Website currently down.
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Seems like the play window is down,

But the rest of the website is fine though.
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still down for me
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The whole site appears to be down atm.
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Power cut. Back ASAP.
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Still down :(
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Same thing again... play window is disconnecting when you go on it.

Rest of the site is working okay though.
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Back on now I think
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Seems to be down again, doing the same thing as last time where it disconnects immediately when trying to log in.
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"Internal server error."
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Down.
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'fraid so
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Fred W wrote: Sun Mar 31, 2019 3:44 pm'fraid so
Site is back up but in the room it says 'Disconnected'
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Whole site appears to be down atm.
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Currently down, I believe.
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Yeah must be
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Think so
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Will probably be unreliable over the next 24 hours. BT coming tomorrow to fix. (They were meant to come today but of course left me waiting for 5 hours before cancelling instead.)
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Down atm
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Whole site down atm
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Is Phil Collinge up?
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Matt Morrison wrote: Mon Jun 24, 2019 10:34 am Is Phil Collinge up?
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Ist kaput.
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Hasn't returned from Apocalypse yet.
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Can't log on
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this is so annoying. Charlie could you help out?
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By the time it gets to loading, we'll be fumin'!
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People were commenting -just before this evening's massive crash- on how many players were online at the same time. Maybe around 30 in the room. Would that have contributed to the crash? Excess traffic?

And if that is something that's unstable about Apterous (that it cannot handle medium to large numbers of users), is that [part of] the reason why Charlie doesn't advertise, why the site is pretty hard to find via Google search, and why it is never mentioned on the TV show?
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I don't know!
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I remember when Jen Steadman was on Countdown and she declared LLANEROS during her run. Nick Hewer then said, "I don't know where she got that one from." Nick didn't want to answer his own question, and you all know why!
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Agreed Jason.

As an aside, when did Apterous last get a mention on CD? Surely can't have been Charlie v Junaid but can't think of a more recent example.

Anyhow, back on topic, we're still not back after Apo time.

Editing myself : It's many a year back but I don't think it was mentioned during Charlie v Junaid in the final, it must have been earlier in Charlie's odyssey or the COC Q-F, as he was introduced as 'running a website', which surely must have alluded to the fact that it was similar to the show otherwise people like myself wouldn't have searched for it.

IIRC it steered me to c4c from which I then found links to Apterous, therefore Apterous probably wasn't mentioned on the show in 2009. I joined in March 2009 so I suspect the reference was most likely sometime during the 2009 COC.

Question then, has Apterous ever been mentioned by name on the show? And if so, when exactly.
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Phil Collinge wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2019 4:20 am Agreed Jason.

As an aside, when did Apterous last get a mention on CD? Surely can't have been Charlie v Junaid but can't think of a more recent example.

Anyhow, back on topic, we're still not back after Apo time.

Editing myself : It's many a year back but I don't think it was mentioned during Charlie v Junaid in the final, it must have been earlier in Charlie's odyssey or the COC Q-F, as he was introduced as 'running a website', which surely must have alluded to the fact that it was similar to the show otherwise people like myself wouldn't have searched for it.

IIRC it steered me to c4c from which I then found links to Apterous, therefore Apterous probably wasn't mentioned on the show in 2009. I joined in March 2009 so I suspect the reference was most likely sometime during the 2009 COC.

Question then, has Apterous ever been mentioned by name on the show? And if so, when exactly.
I believe it was this forum that was mentioned in Charlie's first show. But I agree with you there, Phil. That I am also struggling to remember a time when it was mentioned. IMO I don't think they're allowed to mention the name on screen. The word "practising" has been used a few times whilst octochamps/finalists have been on.
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I'm still surprised to see that Apterous is still currently down as we speak. Especially after apo! Question is now - how long are we looking at it still being down. I know there was a good 2 days over the Easter weekend in 2018 in which it was down. The unfortunate bit for that is that COREA 2018 didn't have any access to the whole site throughout the day. Therefore, Lexplorer couldn't be accessed. Luckily, for CoBrum 2018 whilst the site was down, they still had access to the main page so could access Lexplorer!
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Ronan M Higginson wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2019 7:13 am
Phil Collinge wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2019 4:20 am Agreed Jason.

As an aside, when did Apterous last get a mention on CD? Surely can't have been Charlie v Junaid but can't think of a more recent example.

Anyhow, back on topic, we're still not back after Apo time.

Editing myself : It's many a year back but I don't think it was mentioned during Charlie v Junaid in the final, it must have been earlier in Charlie's odyssey or the COC Q-F, as he was introduced as 'running a website', which surely must have alluded to the fact that it was similar to the show otherwise people like myself wouldn't have searched for it.

IIRC it steered me to c4c from which I then found links to Apterous, therefore Apterous probably wasn't mentioned on the show in 2009. I joined in March 2009 so I suspect the reference was most likely sometime during the 2009 COC.

Question then, has Apterous ever been mentioned by name on the show? And if so, when exactly.
I believe it was this forum that was mentioned in Charlie's first show. But I agree with you there, Phil. That I am also struggling to remember a time when it was mentioned. IMO I don't think they're allowed to mention the name on screen. The word "practising" has been used a few times whilst octochamps/finalists have been on.
Yeah it was the forum Ronan. I think it was mentioned during Dylan and Zarte's game but I could be wrong
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Oh I remember Dylan + Zarte and they mentioned that they played online
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