AARoads Forum

[rickmastfan67]

I'm working on trying to get the AARoads forum into a usable state to open it up as fast as possible.

[Jim]

Figured I'd split this off in case rickmastfan67 or others want to post updates about the AARoads forum.  AARoads gave TM discussions a home as the old CHM forum was crumbling away and before we got this forum off the ground.  We can certainly provide some space for updates here if the AARoads Forum admins deem it appropriate.

[froggie]

SQL server issue as I understand it, yes/no?

[rickmastfan67]

SQL server issue as I understand it, yes/no?

Was more than that.  However, I'm just about to reopen the forums after an insane night ironing out the bugs to get the forum ready to roll in the most basic setup (no forum themes for the time being as well).

[froggie]

Copy that.  Is there an intent to bring back themes?  I picked the one I did becausee it was easier to read with my eyes.

[rickmastfan67]

Is there an intent to bring back themes?  I picked the one I did becausee it was easier to read with my eyes.

Yes, but it will take time, as new themes have to be created from scratch.

[Jim]

It looks like the aaroads.com domain is showing a domain parking page this morning (I assume not just for me).  AAroads admins are welcome to post any updates in this thread if they wish.

[rickmastfan67]

It looks like the aaroads.com domain is showing a domain parking page this morning (I assume not just for me).  AAroads admins are welcome to post any updates in this thread if they wish.

Beats me what happened.

Isn't the first time this has supposedly happened recently.
https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=34840.0

[CoreySamson]

Just curious to see what the current state of the AARoads Forum is right now concerning its battle with bots. For the past two days I've been getting a 403 Forbidden error. I assume some work is happening behind the scenes?

[rickmastfan67]

Might be awhile sadly, unless we can figure out a way to stop the bots from going crazy.  The bots were making the site crash every few minutes the other day, and Alex just couldn't keep up rebooting, and he had other stuff he needed to get done.

[vdeane]

Are there any other places than here and Facebook for following roads stuff in the US/world?  The AARF was my primary source of everything, and Facebook makes groups cumbersome if you want to check them like forums rather than just view whatever posts the algorithm decides to put in your feed.  I've limited myself to 6 because that's what I can access easily with the left column shortcuts, and that only gets me the Northeast + Ontario and Québec.  Alas, it feels like the AARF might be "temporarily offline" in the same sense that some rest areas in NY have been "temporarily closed" since 2011.

Might be awhile sadly, unless we can figure out a way to stop the bots from going crazy.  The bots were making the site crash every few minutes the other day, and Alex just couldn't keep up rebooting, and he had other stuff he needed to get done.

Scott mentioned the thing the wiki is doing to try to combat them; how's that going and could that work for the forum?

[rickmastfan67]

AA Roads Forum is back up again. For now.