Topic: Forum News, Announcements, Updates, Errors, etc..... (Read 862208 times)

cos918 · « **Reply #650 on:** February 13, 2015, 06:10:57 pm »

Can I ask were yestrdays posts are ?

john

Colin Bishop · « **Reply #651 on:** February 13, 2015, 06:17:14 pm »

As Martin says, they have been lost. If it is anything important then repeat your post. Unfortunately these things happen.

Colin

Martin (Admin) · « **Reply #652 on:** February 13, 2015, 06:39:33 pm »

Look at the date!

He said, fumbling around for any feeble excuse....

dougal99 · « **Reply #653 on:** February 13, 2015, 07:23:53 pm »

We all know you were busy signing numerous Valentine cards for your horde of admirers.

Peter_s · « **Reply #654 on:** February 13, 2015, 08:42:06 pm »

Haha! Brilliant!

Mad Scientist · « **Reply #655 on:** February 13, 2015, 10:12:24 pm »

Strange thing - these Forum crashes are occurring only on days when I don't log in. Coincidence?

And, happy Valentine's Day to all! - Tom

RAAArtyGunner · « **Reply #656 on:** February 13, 2015, 10:49:26 pm »

It appears that in one instance the entire thread has been lost.

http://www.modelboatmayhem.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=50133.new;topicseen#new

Could it be a new way of moderating eg sorry your post/s have been lost

What that IT person saying, back up the back up with a back up and make sure it is backed up

Lost me a long time ago. Ah the simplicity of computing.

Later, been to another thread and the last posting was 10 Feb so looks like more than one day has been lost, more like from the 10th onwards,
see here, http://www.modelboatmayhem.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=49324.new;topicseen#new

rickles23 · « **Reply #657 on:** February 14, 2015, 05:55:49 am »

Hi,

The website was down yesterday, 13 02 15 but back today 14 02 15 here in Oz.

I do like the email that arrived to let me know the site had returned.

Regards

U-33 · « **Reply #658 on:** February 14, 2015, 08:09:42 am »

Hmm...

Peter_s · « **Reply #659 on:** February 14, 2015, 08:54:02 am »

Martin does background maintenance

sparkey · « **Reply #660 on:** February 14, 2015, 09:06:55 am »

Don't make him a bad person, I prefer black leather.

grendel · « **Reply #661 on:** February 14, 2015, 09:54:26 am »

surely the answer is to run a backup before starting routine maintenance...

Martin (Admin) · « **Reply #662 on:** February 14, 2015, 05:41:57 pm »

Backup runs automatically every 24 hours.
There another underlying issue that we've yet to resolve but at least I now know how to avoid this problem....

malcolmfrary · « **Reply #663 on:** February 21, 2015, 07:24:32 pm »

Well, there's a first, a few minutes ago I was looking at a thread on RCGroups and it suddenly flipped to "error 500". Yesterday another site I look at regularly (majorgeeks) fell over. Even the mighty can be afflicted. I wonder if "they" are conspiring?

malcolmfrary · « **Reply #664 on:** February 21, 2015, 08:00:17 pm »

..........and goodness me, it has returned.

Martin (Admin) · « **Reply #665 on:** February 21, 2015, 08:54:19 pm »

... yeah... that was me!

Tug Fanatic · « **Reply #666 on:** March 07, 2015, 09:27:00 am »

Is it just me or does "search" only give 2006-2007 results for everyone?

NFMike · « **Reply #667 on:** March 07, 2015, 10:11:57 am »

Quote from: Tug Fanatic on March 07, 2015, 09:27:00 am

Is it just me or does "search" only give 2006-2007 results for everyone?

No, used raw it does seem to prefer older posts. Somewhere, probably in 'Advanced' (I haven't done a search for a while), I think there is an option for the 'last nnn days' which helps.

Martin (Admin) · « **Reply #668 on:** March 07, 2015, 08:22:46 pm »

Use the global search, it more options!

Tug Fanatic · « **Reply #669 on:** March 08, 2015, 09:03:31 am »

There is something very odd.

Searching for the term "thruster" as an example.

If I put "thruster" into the box top right I get 20 hits all 2006-2007
If I put "thruster" into the search icon as suggested by Martin at the default 730 days I get 20 hits April 2013 on.
If I put "thruster" into the Martin box with the oldest set at 2000 days I still get 20 hits but now around 2009.
If I put "thruster" into the Martin box with the oldest set at 9730 days I get the same 20 hits that I got when using the search box page top right.

My conclusion is that I get the oldest 20 hits from whatever date I allow as the oldest post. There is no way that I can get more than 20 returns.

This did not use to be the case.

Tug Fanatic · « **Reply #670 on:** March 08, 2015, 10:19:08 am »

PS Roadrunners using the search facility sticky is well out of date.

NFMike · « **Reply #671 on:** March 08, 2015, 12:27:43 pm »

I get frustrated with a lot of forum search engines and sometimes resort to Google's 'site' search.
For example:
site:http://www.modelboatmayhem.co.uk/forum/ "thruster"
is roughly equivalent to your search above. Note there is a space between the website URL (here ending in forum/) and the terms you want to look for.
But Google gives you some extra power:
site:http://www.modelboatmayhem.co.uk/forum/ "thruster" -"bow"
excludes 'bow' from the search, or:
site:http://www.modelboatmayhem.co.uk/forum/ "Gry Maritha stern thruster"
searches for that exact phrase. (It can't find that but offers suggestions which may be useful.)
If you omit the " " then it will look less specifically.
There is probably more help and functions available online, but this has met my needs so far.

Tug Fanatic · « **Reply #672 on:** March 08, 2015, 03:22:31 pm »

That is useful & I hadn't heard of it but you would have thought that with all these options for "search" in the forum that there would be one that worked well - or was within my mental capacity to work out.

Martin (Admin) · « **Reply #673 on:** March 08, 2015, 04:32:35 pm »

I didn't known that either?!?!?!

Martin (Admin) · « **Reply #674 on:** March 08, 2015, 04:58:26 pm »

I just did a test search, I get different results to you???

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