Changing hosts

phil · Feb 7, 2016

I survived the switchening of 2016!

jwhouk · Feb 7, 2016

Speak for yourself.

In case I failed to mention it, Tapatalk isn't working. And I keep getting errors when I try to go to the forum home (without the xenoforo link; apparently that's still attached to the tabs).

PatrThom · Feb 7, 2016

Thanks for continuing to look out for the well-being of the community you helped create, @Dave.
Unlike some people.

--Patrick

Ravenpoe · Feb 7, 2016

Oh god... I didn't exist for awhile there. It was an eternity.

How long were we down? Longer than you think...

Kez · Feb 7, 2016

Yay, it's back!

Dave · Feb 7, 2016

We had an Adventure.

PatrThom · Feb 7, 2016

Dave said:
We had an Adventure.

There and back again.

--Patrick

Kez · Feb 7, 2016

PatrThom said:
There and back again.

--Patrick

As long as it doesn't become an unnecessary trilogy.

drifter · Feb 7, 2016

I think this is the fourth iteration of the site, so I guess it's more like "There are some places in the internet you don't go alone."

Eriol · Feb 7, 2016

Glad it's working. Updated bookmark!

Considering the size and support crew of the site (ie: 1 Person, @Dave), I have no issues with the amount of downtime. Well done.

Denbrought · Feb 7, 2016

After everything is figured out, you might want to set up a redirect from www.halforums.com/xenforo to www.halforums.com for ease of use.

Fantastic job!

Dave · Feb 7, 2016

Already done the redirect. And I've been locked out most of the day. Seems I had a bit of a virus that set off the new host and barred me from the site. But we're better now.

WasabiPoptart · Feb 8, 2016

So I accidentally went on the xenforo Halforums (Chrome auto-filled the address) and it still has the banner, showed I have alerts (the correct number of them too), and so on. None of the threads were there, but it just looked like the site was down instead of being on a new server. Will all of that come down?

DarkAudit · Feb 8, 2016

WasabiPoptart said:
So I accidentally went on the xenforo Halforums (Chrome auto-filled the address) and it still has the banner, showed I have alerts (the correct number of them too), and so on. None of the threads were there, but it just looked like the site was down instead of being on a new server. Will all of that come down?

Try clearing your browser cache.

jwhouk · Feb 8, 2016

Yeah, that was the big problem with me and FF. Once I cleared the cache and the cookie, and re-logged in, everything was okay.

Well, as okay as this place can be, of course, but you know what I mean...

strawman · Feb 10, 2016

GasBandit said:
And it was before I actually even started posting videos to youtube, really. I begrudgingly made the transition just so I could continue posting comments.

http://i.imgur.com/70HAe84.gif

fade · Feb 10, 2016

Need a third spoon with all the unskippable ads on it.

GasBandit · Feb 10, 2016

fade said:
Need a third spoon with all the unskippable ads on it.

Adblock Plus takes care of those no problem.

fade · Feb 10, 2016

That would work if I didn't do like 90% of my YouTubing on a phone or tablet.

Ravenpoe · Feb 10, 2016

fade said:
That would work if I didn't do like 90% of my YouTubing on a phone or tablet.

I subscribed to youtube red, not for the ads (which is nice) but for the google music subscription, since Spotify has been being a dick lately.

GasBandit · Feb 10, 2016

fade said:
That would work if I didn't do like 90% of my YouTubing on a phone or tablet.

Adblock also used to offer an android app that basically served as an on-device proxy, but they seem to have let that fall off the map in favor of their android browser, which doesn't help on youtube very much because android basically puts a gun to your head to use the youtube app for viewing any youtube content.

Ravenpoe · Feb 10, 2016

GasBandit said:
Adblock also used to offer an android app that basically served as an on-device proxy, but they seem to have let that fall off the map in favor of their android browser, which doesn't help on youtube very much because android basically puts a gun to your head to use the youtube app for viewing any youtube content.

If your android device is rooted, there are many adblockers that work well on it.

GasBandit · Feb 10, 2016

Ravenpoe said:
If your android device is rooted, there are many adblockers that work well on it.

That was the nice thing about the adblock proxy... you didn't have to root to use it.

PatrThom · Feb 10, 2016

Doesn't Ghostery still let you do an on-device proxy?

--Patrick

evilmike · Feb 16, 2016

It looks like Halforums lost its favicon in the move.

Dave · Feb 16, 2016

I hadn't noticed that! Hmmm.

Dave · Feb 16, 2016

Should be back up in 24-48 hours.

GasBandit · Feb 16, 2016

Dave said:
I hadn't noticed that! Hmmm.

All that needs be done is to drop favicon.ico into the root html folder. I'd do it, but it seems the login info has changed in the move (which was probably a good idea).

Dave · Feb 16, 2016

GasBandit said:
All that needs be done is to drop favicon.ico into the root html folder. I'd do it, but it seems the login info has changed in the move (which was probably a good idea).

Yeah, I have to update the login information in the SUPER SECRET MOD AREA!