Mailwatch(ed) Forum

Is it just me, or have the "reaction" emojis (Oh yes, Hugs, You're talking shit etc) and the little red tab on posts to view/post them been removed?

No real issue if they have - just curious.

It was playing up, all of a sudden, so I merely deactivated it until I get a moment to investigate the whys and wherefores.

Sorry to report that the Host Errors are continuing - couldn't connect at 8am. This has been ongoing for the past week, but seems to be getting worse.

Also, posting sometimes takes minutes to respond. It's tempting to hit Submit again in desperation, which could be the source of the double posts we occasionally see.

It is. I've been seeing the Cloudflare stuff for some time and posts sometimes do take a long time to load. If you do hit 'submit' again, you usually get a message saying "At least one other post etc." and there will be your post so at this point, I just click and cancel the second post before it loads.

I have noticed of late on other forums that they've been besieged by spammers, for what reason I know not: one forum I follow used to get over 2,000 people online at once (a normal figure was under fifty) and as a result, their allocated data got eaten up in a few days and took them off-line until the new calendar month reset the data allocation, at which point it repeated. Other forums I use have now geo-restricted posters to the UK and e.g. Australia *only*.

Fact is, this software is old and really starting to show it. I have made some changes to the php configuration and, whilst I don't imagine that it will mitigate all the bugs, I am merely trying to manage them out of the overall experience.

Onwards and sidewards.

Is this a new feature?

Same.
I don't seem to be able to log on from my phone any more. Laptop is OK, but that's through a VPN.

1, the 521 errors are not specific from our CDN and generally (briefly) occur when the server is under heavy load, or when maintenance work requires a restart.

2. requests to http://mailwatched.co.uk will usually fail. Requests to https://www.mailwatched.co.uk usually not. As has oft been suggested, cache hygiene is a good thing.
2.b. VPNs are great for porn but bring nothing to our rather more civilised and less sticky party.

I get cloudflare occasionally, although hitting refresh usually clears it. I also have trouble using Quick Reply lately.

VPN lets me watch the grands prix when in France...

Malcolm Armsteen wrote: ↑Mon Aug 04, 2025 10:37 pm VPN lets me watch the grands prix when in France...

Yeah. That's what Kreuz was saying.

(You tee 'em up, I'll toe-poke them into the onion bag.)

Apologies for the outage this afternoon.

The DNS needed to be changed in order to resolve the intermittent Cloudflare error. It took a while to refresh.

Is that why I was getting security certificate errors even though I'd deliberately done the https stuff?

Probably because it was pointing to the domain registrar until everything refreshed. Our SSL is tickety-boo.

I found this quite amusing. Quite what Trainline has to do with it is anybody's guess.

I was having ishoos, getting the message below when I tried to post. Once again, Kreuzie has come riding to the rescue and everything is currently tickety-boo.

That feller's an absolute star.