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Charlie could you help?
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Ronan M Higginson wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2019 12:49 pm Charlie could you help?
Life lesson: Always have something in your life other than Apterous in case it ever goes down.

In your case school.
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Ronan M Higginson wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2019 8:56 am Oh I remember Dylan + Zarte and they mentioned that they played online
Yeah that's it.
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Gavin Chipper wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2019 1:28 pm
Ronan M Higginson wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2019 12:49 pm Charlie could you help?
Life lesson: Always have something in your life other than Apterous in case it ever goes down.

In your case school.
Toby!
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Jason William Larsen wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2019 2:19 pm
Gavin Chipper wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2019 1:28 pm
Ronan M Higginson wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2019 12:49 pm Charlie could you help?
Life lesson: Always have something in your life other than Apterous in case it ever goes down.

In your case school.
Toby!
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Jason William Larsen wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2019 2:19 pm Toby!
Toby? :o
:?: :?: :?:
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Phil Collinge wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2019 4:20 am Question then, has Apterous ever been mentioned by name on the show? And if so, when exactly.
I don't remember if he used the name, but certainly I became aware that such a thing existed, at the end of October 2010. This was because Jack Hurst went on a massive rant about Apterous and how cool it is... how you can play and hone your skills online, and that all the Series finalists from the last few years could be found playing there.

Sounded too good to be true. Still is.

(I had to Google VERY deeply to find it, mind you... so either he didn't mention the name, or I didn't catch it.)
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Hope the site is back before long
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L'oisleatch McGraw wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2019 6:21 pm
Jason William Larsen wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2019 2:19 pm Toby!
Toby? :o
:?: :?: :?:
I was trying to reprimand Toby, aka Gavin Chipper, for scolding Ronan.
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I know everybody's busy, but a brief update would be nice.
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Jason William Larsen wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2019 9:15 pm I was trying to reprimand Toby, aka Gavin Chipper, for scolding Ronan.
Do you remember Superman II when Clark Kent revealed himself as Superman to Lois Lane?
Such intrigue!
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No, but I love saying no in this case because Apterous is not down for now!
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L'oisleatch McGraw wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2019 9:49 pm
Jason William Larsen wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2019 9:15 pm I was trying to reprimand Toby, aka Gavin Chipper, for scolding Ronan.
Do you remember Superman II when Clark Kent revealed himself as Superman to Lois Lane?
Such intrigue!
Of course, I am only known on this forum as Gavin or Gevin. Anyone mentioning any other name is clearly acting in a terrible manner.
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re: names - forum posts are indexed by google. Many people would prefer that, if (for example) a future employer was googling them, nonsense posted on a forum did not show up as the top result.

Fine if you're called John Smith, but less so if you've got my name or Gev's, which are less common.

So if people do choose to use a forum alias, that should be respected and they should not be "outed" on the forum.
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Charlie Reams wrote: Mon Jan 13, 2014 1:52 pm Please don't chat in this thread, I have to drop everything to read new posts in here (including my trousers).
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Matt Morrison wrote: Tue Oct 08, 2019 7:45 am
Charlie Reams wrote: Mon Jan 13, 2014 1:52 pm Please don't chat in this thread, I have to drop everything to read new posts in here (including my trousers).
His trousers would already have been down after the first comment.
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Matt Morrison wrote: Tue Oct 08, 2019 7:45 am
Charlie Reams wrote: Mon Jan 13, 2014 1:52 pm Please don't chat in this thread, I have to drop everything to read new posts in here (including my trousers).
Sorry
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We appear to be down.
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Phil Collinge wrote: Fri Nov 01, 2019 3:16 am We appear to be down.
It was effectively down all yesterday.
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Gavin Chipper wrote: Wed Oct 31, 2012 6:02 pm It might as well be down now (the web side of things anyway - dunno about the game), considering that it's completely illegible with the "hilarious" Hallowe'en font!
Seven years ago.
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Gavin Chipper wrote: Wed Oct 31, 2012 6:02 pm It might as well be down now (the web side of things anyway - dunno about the game), considering that it's completely illegible with the wonderful Hallowe'en font!
Fixed! :)
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L'oisleatch McGraw wrote: Fri Nov 01, 2019 4:01 pm
Gavin Chipper wrote: Wed Oct 31, 2012 6:02 pm It might as well be down now (the web side of things anyway - dunno about the game), considering that it's completely illegible with the wonderful Hallowe'en font!
Fixed! :)
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Nor me
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It's not in Hallowe'en mode any more so it's fixed in that sense. I assume that was the point.
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Is the word list available anywhere online other than Lexplorer? All my other ducks are in a row as far as the recap is concerned.
I'm not dead yet. In a rut right now because of stress from work. I'll be back later in S89. I also plan to bring back the Mastergram - if I can find a way to run a timer or clock through pure MediaWiki without having to upload to Vimeo every time.
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Johnny Canuck wrote: Fri Nov 01, 2019 9:52 pm Is the word list available anywhere online other than Lexplorer? All my other ducks are in a row as far as the recap is concerned.
I have now given you the maxes on the wiki.
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Ray Wilding wrote: Fri Nov 01, 2019 10:47 pm
Johnny Canuck wrote: Fri Nov 01, 2019 9:52 pm Is the word list available anywhere online other than Lexplorer? All my other ducks are in a row as far as the recap is concerned.
I have now given you the maxes on the wiki.
Thanks! Sincerely hoping this will be the only weeknight you'll need to do this.
I'm not dead yet. In a rut right now because of stress from work. I'll be back later in S89. I also plan to bring back the Mastergram - if I can find a way to run a timer or clock through pure MediaWiki without having to upload to Vimeo every time.
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I hope Apterous is fixed soon. This is getting in the way of my plan to break my highest score.
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Owen Carroll wrote: Sat Nov 02, 2019 1:28 am I hope Apterous is fixed soon. This is getting in the way of my plan to break my highest score.
I was 119 maxes into a mocktorun with one round to go. I fear it's lost.
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Gavin Chipper wrote: Sat Nov 02, 2019 7:25 am
Owen Carroll wrote: Sat Nov 02, 2019 1:28 am I hope Apterous is fixed soon. This is getting in the way of my plan to break my highest score.
I was 119 maxes into a mocktorun with one round to go. I fear it's lost.
Uh oh. Sorry to hear that.
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Down this morning.

500 error.

I might have to do something constructive with my day off.
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Yes, the database is running so slowly that it's very hard to log in. I will take a look but it might take a while to fix.
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Yep unfortunately so
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It is.
meles meles meles meles meles meles meles meles meles meles meles meles meles meles meles meles
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Back now.
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Game play looks to be down.... I can't get on via firefox or chrome
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Game play down since 12:27 today
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Not specifically Apterous, but the wiki has been down all morning.
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Been stuck on Logging In for the last few minutes.
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Please don't use this page to report bugs or ask for technical support. Other people are playing successfully: https://www.apterous.org/browsegames.php?date=737885 .
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Gameplay down since yesterday evening just after 9pm
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Sorry - had no idea people were still playing successfully at the time.

It was the Wiki's turn to self isolate, now Apterous' :)
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It was a bit slow this morning.
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It was a bit slow this morning.
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Please don't use this thread for anything other than signalling that the site is down. There is a ticket system on the site and all other problems can be flagged there.
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Charlie Reams wrote: Mon Apr 13, 2020 9:37 am Please don't use this thread for anything other than signalling that the site is down. There is a ticket system on the site and all other problems can be flagged there.
Sorry, I didn’t know that. Did you receive the email I sent you regarding a subscription?.
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Down now, I believe.
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Play button is not working, rest of the site is fine.
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Yes. (Essential maintenance.) Back later today.
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Back down for me.
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Internal server error on gameplay. Main site looks ok.
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Was back up briefly at 8:30pm but is back down again.
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Investigating.
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Internal server error on gameplay. Rest of site seems to be fine.
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Gameplay down again at 20:15:34. Rest of site seems to be fine.
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Should be back in 20-30 mins.
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Game interface has been down for 3 hours or so, since the apocalypse.
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Is the number of tourneys currently being played the cause of these crashes ?
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Looks like the subject line was too subtle.
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I can't log in now
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