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Re: Thread for board issues
« Reply #90 on: January 24, 2016, 11:10:00 AM »
Yeah.  I tried to register and it says my account is still awaiting admin approval.
 

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Re: Thread for board issues
« Reply #91 on: January 24, 2016, 11:23:18 AM »
Yeah.  I tried to register and it says my account is still awaiting admin approval.

As before, with the deluge of new registrations I am only approving accounts once a day. If you have put one in, just wait a while. It will be approved. But don't put in more than one. That annoys me and I will either reject all of them, or randomly approve one. Depends on how I feel.
 
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Re: Thread for board issues
« Reply #92 on: January 24, 2016, 12:09:31 PM »
The forum seems to be running great, thank you your hard work Erik!
 

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Re: Thread for board issues
« Reply #93 on: January 24, 2016, 12:29:37 PM »
Wow... Forum went from 10+ seconds to register (or modify) my post, and frequent errors to 0.1 seconds. Awesome!

It's... lightning fast.
 

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Re: Thread for board issues
« Reply #94 on: January 24, 2016, 01:04:16 PM »
As there is no more cause for unrest on the forums, morale has increased by 0.957893 percent
 
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Re: Thread for board issues
« Reply #95 on: January 24, 2016, 02:13:58 PM »
I see nothing official about the host, so i'll drop a little 'thank you' to Erik. over here breaking the board issues streak.
 

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Re: Thread for board issues
« Reply #96 on: January 24, 2016, 03:01:15 PM »
Again, thanks for your efforts Erik; it will be appreciated by aurora forumites for years to come!  :D
 

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Re: Thread for board issues
« Reply #97 on: January 24, 2016, 11:18:12 PM »
Nice to see the forums back up, sure the downtime was painful but considering the voluntary aspect of Aurora and the forums we're lucky to have the effort put in that Steve, Eric, and the others give to make this community run somewhat smoothly overall.   
I do see what acid web is getting at though, but he should be thankful about the recent karma change, I imagine a few people might have gotten smite happy there.
" Why is this godforsaken hellhole worth dying for? "
". . .  We know nothing about them, their language, their history or what they look like.  But we can assume this.  They stand for everything we don't stand for.  Also they told me you guys look like dorks. "
"Stop exploding, you cowards.  "
 

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Re: Thread for board issues
« Reply #98 on: January 24, 2016, 11:34:17 PM »
I fully appreciate work of Erik Luken.

But I have major character flaw - I say what I think. And harsh truth is not always nice.
« Last Edit: January 24, 2016, 11:36:32 PM by AcidWeb »
 

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Re: Thread for board issues
« Reply #99 on: January 24, 2016, 11:40:09 PM »
Sorry to say this but you really dropped the ball with this migration.

Process that should take 10 minutes (not counting DNS records update) crippled forums for half week and caused pointless week long database rollback.

I hope that you will prepare better next time.
I did the backup on the 16th. Attempted to use their automated tools to restore it on the 17th and 18th. On the 19th I put in a ticket for them to do the restore. This was done, however created a second CPanel account (don't ask me why). The DNS change was pretty quick, but with the dual CPanel accounts, the subdomains were not behaving nicely. That's what caused the long rollback and such.

I didn't change the DNS until after I knew the backup had been restored.
 
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Re: Thread for board issues
« Reply #100 on: January 25, 2016, 12:19:44 AM »
Mirror, mirror on the wall who got the biggest E-penis of them all? ME! *screams with joy like a little girl*

Anyway, nicely said MarcAFK. 403 issues are fixed. New faster host. Win Win.
 

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Re: Thread for board issues
« Reply #101 on: January 25, 2016, 05:08:05 PM »
Registered under the user name: pulmwedge

Did not get confirmation email as of yet. 

Thank you. 
 

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Re: Thread for board issues
« Reply #102 on: January 25, 2016, 07:29:15 PM »
Registered under the user name: pulmwedge

Did not get confirmation email as of yet. 

Thank you.

That's because I don't send out emails. And I only do approvals once a day. So if you've registered anytime since noon central today, you will get approved tomorrow morning.
 

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Re: Thread for board issues
« Reply #103 on: February 06, 2016, 12:02:55 AM »
Are password resets sent out automatically or manually?

If it's manually you might want to change the "A mail has been sent to your email address. " message to something like "A mail will be sent to your email address within a day or two. " so people don't expect instant responses and spam the system tring again if they get nothing after a few minutes, assuming they made a mistake/typo or the system derped.

If it's automatic I've not recieved it; tried my user name and my email, just in case I registered with my old now-inaccessable email account and then reregistered with my new one and forgot about it(as the signup says my current email is in use here).
 

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Re: Thread for board issues
« Reply #104 on: February 06, 2016, 11:08:45 PM »
The email is coming from aurora@pentarch.org. That address is not monitored, so don't send to it.