https://drlforum.co.uk/ Tue, 13 Dec 2016 01:29:16 +0000 MyBB https://drlforum.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=1397 Mon, 03 Nov 2014 14:08:03 +0000 https://drlforum.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=1397 https://drlforum.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=1344 Mon, 08 Sep 2014 18:36:02 +0100 https://drlforum.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=1344
This forum is run by volunteers for the benefit of the community. We spend our spare time making sure that the forum is a helpful resource for everyone who visits. We are also human beings.

Whilst we are tolerant of most things, we will not accept any kind of abuse towards any of our members, moderators and administrators.

After certain events have taken place, actually mainly due to the actions of the user mentioned in this thread, the forum has a warning system in place. In extreme circumstances, a warning will be issued against a user's account. Once the user has recieved three warnings, the forum software will place a ban on that user.

As we've said before on this forum, we don't censor or remove posts unless we absolutely have to and we certainly don't ban people unless, after several warnings, they are unable to behave in an acceptable manner.

In the case of KingAl, this user made some very racist comments towards Origin Broadband which compared them to a former dictatorship. Initally posts were moderated to exclude certain language in the posts which the user was warned about. The user did not heed this warning, a member of the Forum Team decided it was neccessary therefore to put all of this users' posts under moderation, this means that they have to be approved by a member of the Board Team before they appear publically on the forum.

This user continued to make inappropriate remarks and then turned to attacking myself in particular (after previously helping this user) which included threatening e-mails to my personal e-mail address. In the interest of being transparent, I have posted these below as links. They contain very strong language.

https://drlforum.co.uk/attachment.php?aid=220
https://drlforum.co.uk/attachment.php?aid=221

The attached screenshot is the notification that the user was banned after receiving the second e-mail. There were subsequent e-mails to this one which are of a similar vein.

The user has also accused me of being an Origin Broadband employee, spy and other such things. I can confirm in writing that other than being a customer of Origin Broadband, I have never been affiliated with them in any other way.

Today has been my first day off work this calendar year, and to visit the forum with this particular user starting to behave in the way they had previously was not something I needed to be dealing with. I hope the forum understands why this particular user had to be dealt with in the manner that they were dealt with today.]]>
This forum is run by volunteers for the benefit of the community. We spend our spare time making sure that the forum is a helpful resource for everyone who visits. We are also human beings.

Whilst we are tolerant of most things, we will not accept any kind of abuse towards any of our members, moderators and administrators.

After certain events have taken place, actually mainly due to the actions of the user mentioned in this thread, the forum has a warning system in place. In extreme circumstances, a warning will be issued against a user's account. Once the user has recieved three warnings, the forum software will place a ban on that user.

As we've said before on this forum, we don't censor or remove posts unless we absolutely have to and we certainly don't ban people unless, after several warnings, they are unable to behave in an acceptable manner.

In the case of KingAl, this user made some very racist comments towards Origin Broadband which compared them to a former dictatorship. Initally posts were moderated to exclude certain language in the posts which the user was warned about. The user did not heed this warning, a member of the Forum Team decided it was neccessary therefore to put all of this users' posts under moderation, this means that they have to be approved by a member of the Board Team before they appear publically on the forum.

This user continued to make inappropriate remarks and then turned to attacking myself in particular (after previously helping this user) which included threatening e-mails to my personal e-mail address. In the interest of being transparent, I have posted these below as links. They contain very strong language.

https://drlforum.co.uk/attachment.php?aid=220
https://drlforum.co.uk/attachment.php?aid=221

The attached screenshot is the notification that the user was banned after receiving the second e-mail. There were subsequent e-mails to this one which are of a similar vein.

The user has also accused me of being an Origin Broadband employee, spy and other such things. I can confirm in writing that other than being a customer of Origin Broadband, I have never been affiliated with them in any other way.

Today has been my first day off work this calendar year, and to visit the forum with this particular user starting to behave in the way they had previously was not something I needed to be dealing with. I hope the forum understands why this particular user had to be dealt with in the manner that they were dealt with today.]]> https://drlforum.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=1341 Sun, 07 Sep 2014 11:48:56 +0100 https://drlforum.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=1341
I have pressed the provider for an update but we're certainly not the only ones affected or annoyed by the lack of updates.

Along with this and the issues over the last few months, I will be considering moving the server to an alternative provider in the near future.

Unlike the provider, I'd like to say sorry for the inconvenience!]]>
I have pressed the provider for an update but we're certainly not the only ones affected or annoyed by the lack of updates.

Along with this and the issues over the last few months, I will be considering moving the server to an alternative provider in the near future.

Unlike the provider, I'd like to say sorry for the inconvenience!]]> https://drlforum.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=1279 Sun, 17 Aug 2014 23:10:36 +0100 https://drlforum.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=1279
It makes accessing the forum from public hotspots extremely risky as anyone could steal my session quite easily. Not generally a problem, but obviously right now I am relying on a public hot spot so its kinda worrying.]]>
It makes accessing the forum from public hotspots extremely risky as anyone could steal my session quite easily. Not generally a problem, but obviously right now I am relying on a public hot spot so its kinda worrying.]]> https://drlforum.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=1255 Fri, 15 Aug 2014 23:58:59 +0100 https://drlforum.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=1255 https://drlforum.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=1244 Thu, 14 Aug 2014 21:21:49 +0100 https://drlforum.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=1244
We're probably going to expect forum slowness for about a week or so. With Digital Region connections being severed I expect an increased amount of traffic from visitors to maybe (hopefully) some new members.

I mentioned to @Chalky tonight about the forum issues and he believes it could well be outside influences affecting performance. Some events have come at the same time news is broken or us being mentioned.

Mobile performance seems to be unaffected (somehow) at the moment so that option is always there for members who will be cut off from the network tonight.]]>
We're probably going to expect forum slowness for about a week or so. With Digital Region connections being severed I expect an increased amount of traffic from visitors to maybe (hopefully) some new members.

I mentioned to @Chalky tonight about the forum issues and he believes it could well be outside influences affecting performance. Some events have come at the same time news is broken or us being mentioned.

Mobile performance seems to be unaffected (somehow) at the moment so that option is always there for members who will be cut off from the network tonight.]]> https://drlforum.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=1214 Thu, 24 Jul 2014 18:15:58 +0100 https://drlforum.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=1214 ..Lasts for a couple of mins and then everything is back to normal.


  503 error.jpg (Size: 84.3 KB / Downloads: 113) ]]> ..Lasts for a couple of mins and then everything is back to normal.


  503 error.jpg (Size: 84.3 KB / Downloads: 113) ]]> https://drlforum.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=1192 Thu, 10 Jul 2014 18:19:46 +0100 https://drlforum.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=1192
It looks like MySQL server just died. Thanks to @Chalky (Our server man) who managed to get it going again.

Oh and just to show that we care, we even updated our Twitter (even though we don't use it now) with updates as we can't call you good people..you know, communication and all that


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It looks like MySQL server just died. Thanks to @Chalky (Our server man) who managed to get it going again.

Oh and just to show that we care, we even updated our Twitter (even though we don't use it now) with updates as we can't call you good people..you know, communication and all that


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Just to let you know that I'll be performing some maintainance on the Server this evening around 9pm. The fourm will be unavailable for approximately 20 minutes whilst this is taking place.]]>
Just to let you know that I'll be performing some maintainance on the Server this evening around 9pm. The fourm will be unavailable for approximately 20 minutes whilst this is taking place.]]> https://drlforum.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=1065 Thu, 02 Jan 2014 13:11:34 +0000 https://drlforum.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=1065
On Monday 30th December, you may have noticed that the Forum was unavailable for approximately an hour and a half depending on how quickly your ISP (or Google DNS/OpenDNS) updates their records.

This was so that we could move the Forum to a new Server and also install the latest MyBB update.

The reasons for moving the Forum have probably become evident to most regular users to the forum. The old Server had developed a couple of issues which resulted in us not being able to update the server and that after each daily backup, the server would fail to remove the Temporary Files associated with the backup and would therefore fill it's Hard Drive completely leaving no room for the Temporary Files that are created every time someone accesses the Forum.

The new server is running much more smoothly than the old server and has more resources available to it and doesn't have the same backup issue.

I have noticed the forum seems to run as quick as ever and have also noticed that the New Reply e-mails are also working again, something I've been missing but had not yet been able to get to the bottom of:


  New Reply e-mail.png (Size: 22.31 KB / Downloads: 121)

I hope the new Server will 'serve' us well over the coming months.

Whilst we're on a drive to make things better, if any of you have any suggestions or ideas for the forum, to perhaps spark a bit more activity, please don't hesitate to reply here, or if you want to make the idea more private, send me a PM or even drop me an e-mail using the links at the bottom of this post.]]>
On Monday 30th December, you may have noticed that the Forum was unavailable for approximately an hour and a half depending on how quickly your ISP (or Google DNS/OpenDNS) updates their records.

This was so that we could move the Forum to a new Server and also install the latest MyBB update.

The reasons for moving the Forum have probably become evident to most regular users to the forum. The old Server had developed a couple of issues which resulted in us not being able to update the server and that after each daily backup, the server would fail to remove the Temporary Files associated with the backup and would therefore fill it's Hard Drive completely leaving no room for the Temporary Files that are created every time someone accesses the Forum.

The new server is running much more smoothly than the old server and has more resources available to it and doesn't have the same backup issue.

I have noticed the forum seems to run as quick as ever and have also noticed that the New Reply e-mails are also working again, something I've been missing but had not yet been able to get to the bottom of:


  New Reply e-mail.png (Size: 22.31 KB / Downloads: 121)

I hope the new Server will 'serve' us well over the coming months.

Whilst we're on a drive to make things better, if any of you have any suggestions or ideas for the forum, to perhaps spark a bit more activity, please don't hesitate to reply here, or if you want to make the idea more private, send me a PM or even drop me an e-mail using the links at the bottom of this post.]]> https://drlforum.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=1057 Mon, 02 Dec 2013 11:04:44 +0000 https://drlforum.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=1057 @Chalky, we expecting any further issues with the server as I noticed it was rather unstable over the weekend]]> @Chalky, we expecting any further issues with the server as I noticed it was rather unstable over the weekend]]> https://drlforum.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=678 Sun, 18 Aug 2013 12:31:17 +0100 https://drlforum.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=678 @SpencerUK will you be shutting this site down when DRL finally closes or are you going to let it still run as is or possibly rebrand it depending on the outcome.]]> @SpencerUK will you be shutting this site down when DRL finally closes or are you going to let it still run as is or possibly rebrand it depending on the outcome.]]> https://drlforum.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=555 Mon, 15 Apr 2013 13:57:30 +0100 https://drlforum.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=555 https://drlforum.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=543 Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:37:53 +0100 https://drlforum.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=543 https://drlforum.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=457 Sat, 15 Dec 2012 15:35:41 +0000 https://drlforum.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=457
He's currently posting in every thread possible and i have Informed the admins.

Thanks,

Jimmy06]]>
He's currently posting in every thread possible and i have Informed the admins.

Thanks,

Jimmy06]]> https://drlforum.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=440 Fri, 16 Nov 2012 17:29:41 +0000 https://drlforum.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=440
Could anyone help me please? how do i upload a video to a post? ive tried as an attachment but it says file type invalid. Its a video from my iphone and is in the format .mov

Thanks

John]]>
Could anyone help me please? how do i upload a video to a post? ive tried as an attachment but it says file type invalid. Its a video from my iphone and is in the format .mov

Thanks

John]]> https://drlforum.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=368 Fri, 27 Jul 2012 15:19:02 +0100 https://drlforum.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=368 @Chalky has been promoted for a short term basis to a moderator just to help out @Mirdragon help run ship.

I know its fairly quiet on here, but I don't want to rely on Mirdragon running ship on his own as @mattyatty1 has other commitments at present.

I'll still do the forum back up and maintenance so things like but I won't be visible so to speak.

If you need to get to me personally for whatever reason, just use the email function on my profile

Any questions?]]> @Chalky has been promoted for a short term basis to a moderator just to help out @Mirdragon help run ship.

I know its fairly quiet on here, but I don't want to rely on Mirdragon running ship on his own as @mattyatty1 has other commitments at present.

I'll still do the forum back up and maintenance so things like but I won't be visible so to speak.

If you need to get to me personally for whatever reason, just use the email function on my profile

Any questions?]]> https://drlforum.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=362 Sat, 21 Jul 2012 17:49:35 +0100 https://drlforum.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=362 https://drlforum.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=308 Mon, 25 Jun 2012 01:33:50 +0100 https://drlforum.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=308
@Mattyatty / @Chalky ..Any server issues around 12:30 to 01:30?]]>
@Mattyatty / @Chalky ..Any server issues around 12:30 to 01:30?]]>