Is anyone in charge of technical issues and responding to new member applications?

[Chemist45]

Seems to be working like it used to.
Kudos to whoever fixed it.

[carlson1]

Mr. Cotton is the only one than heal the Forum. He hasn't been on since May 10. I guess it was God's healing hand, but it is working fine for me. I am happy.

[puma guy]

Mr. Cotton is the only one than heal the Forum. He hasn't been on since May 10. I guess it was God's healing hand, but it is working fine for me. I am happy.

It's functioned pretty consistently for me the past week.

[puma guy]

The forum has been consistently accessible lately, thankfully. The usage by members is very low. I noticed that long before the technical issues popped up. Interest has been waning for some time. It seems there are but a handful of members posting. This is the usage info from just before I posted. 3 members. I don't know if the other non members are bots or what.

Who is online

In total there are 552 users online :: 3 registered, 0 hidden and 549 guests (based on users active over the past 5 minutes)
Most users ever online was 1542 on Thu Apr 25, 2024 6:43 pm

[Ruark]

I have quite a bit of experience with forums, mailing lists ("listserves"), groups, etc. and one thing I've observed over the years is that these things can be very, very sensitive to disturbances such as software crashes, platform changes, and the like. I've seen several busy, active forum sites that had software crashes where everybody had to re-register, and they just died. Same thing with some forums that changed to a new software platform. For example, going from a threaded layout to a PhBB-type design. Even though the new platform was 500% better, it just killed them dead, like going from 50 posts a day to zero, or maybe 1 or 2 posts a week.

That could very easily happen here, if it hasn't already. I hope this one stays around; the level of conversation on here is several layers above the drivel on other sites. Online forums are very touchy critters; their change-tolerance is about zero.

[JRG]

I, too, have had much success the past week or so checking out this site. It is speedy and also remembers my log-in, so that's a plus!

The usage dropped tremendously with Covid, and has not recovered since. With the ATF on the prowl, that may have contributed to members not posting also. I know in my own case all of the above has played a part. I also know that the terrible effects of Bidenomics has kept me from doing much spending on guns, ammo, and accessories the past three years. I still do some, but now like before.

Anyways, just glad the board is back to normal and hope it stays that way.

Joe

[puma guy]

I have quite a bit of experience with forums, mailing lists ("listserves"), groups, etc. and one thing I've observed over the years is that these things can be very, very sensitive to disturbances such as software crashes, platform changes, and the like. I've seen several busy, active forum sites that had software crashes where everybody had to re-register, and they just died. Same thing with some forums that changed to a new software platform. For example, going from a threaded layout to a PhBB-type design. Even though the new platform was 500% better, it just killed them dead, like going from 50 posts a day to zero, or maybe 1 or 2 posts a week.

That could very easily happen here, if it hasn't already. I hope this one stays around; the level of conversation on here is several layers above the drivel on other sites. Online forums are very touchy critters; their change-tolerance is about zero.

Interesting information and input. I have seen whatnyou described occur on a couple of other gun forums to which I belong; one based on ownership of a particular very popular gun manufacturer ended up having a rival forum established. I intended to mention the fact that this forum is outstanding for member input, decorum and informative posts. I have un-joined several that allow vulgarity and abusive posts. One was based on the most popular long gun in modern times and I was astonished at the language allowed.

[Greybeard]

Thankfully, my logins go mostly ok. I don't post very often there days, but do check in at least weekly. And appreciate you guys who keep things interesting.

[carlson1]

Something has happened because it working 100% on my end.

[puma guy]

Something has happened because it working 100% on my end.

Indeed it has.

[puma guy]

I am of the opinion that perhaps someone who has far more important issues to deal with, made a furtive visit to the website to repair it with no fanfare or notifications that might solicit reactions. But then again maybe it healed itself!

[philip964]

Something has happened because it working 100% on my end.

Indeed it has.

It’s doing real well, thank you !!!

[mayor]

... maybe it healed itself!

This

[The Annoyed Man]

I’m trying to post this here, because putting it in the "Forum Login Issues" thread doesn’t let it show up on the active thread list….

There’s been an improvement in accessing the site for a while now, but now I’ve got another problem. I use NordVPN for all of my connected devices, and I’m using a Dallas IP address nearly all the time. A while back, I experimented several times by choosing Los Angeles and NYC IP addresses. With those IPs, the board gives me a message that I’ve been permanently banned from the board. If I then reset my IP to a Dallas IP address, it would let me log in.

Now there's a different issue. If I log in using a Dallas IP address today, I get the same message about being permanently banned as if I were on an LA or NYC IP address. So to get logged in, I have to actually disable my VPN entirely, or I can’t access the site. For obvious reasons, I’d rather not have to do that.

I know it’s not a basic issue with the board software, because I can log in to my forum.texas3006.com account with my VPN active, without any problems. So it seems like it HAS to be an issue with the board settings on this website.

Does anybody have any ideas?

[Grayling813]

I’m trying to post this here, because putting it in the "Forum Login Issues" thread doesn’t let it show up on the active thread list….

There’s been an improvement in accessing the site for a while now, but now I’ve got another problem. I use NordVPN for all of my connected devices, and I’m using a Dallas IP address nearly all the time. A while back, I experimented several times by choosing Los Angeles and NYC IP addresses. With those IPs, the board gives me a message that I’ve been permanently banned from the board. If I then reset my IP to a Dallas IP address, it would let me log in.

Now there's a different issue. If I log in using a Dallas IP address today, I get the same message about being permanently banned as if I were on an LA or NYC IP address. So to get logged in, I have to actually disable my VPN entirely, or I can’t access the site. For obvious reasons, I’d rather not have to do that.

I know it’s not a basic issue with the board software, because I can log in to my forum.texas3006.com account with my VPN active, without any problems. So it seems like it HAS to be an issue with the board settings on this website.

Does anybody have any ideas?

No ideas. I've started having issues again with being logged out every time I visit the site. Last night I was logged in and trying to respond to a post, every time I click "submit" it took me back to the login page. Finally gave up.