RECENT BOARD PROBLEMS

Hello everyone!

As some of you have noticed, we have been having a few problems on the forum lately. Here is what happened: The people who host our forum tried to get a new provider for the servers. Once they did, they had problems and so they switched back to the old provider and it was during that migration that several forums started having problems like missing pictures and not being able to log in.

It looks like we are now with our old provider but under new servers which they said will provide us with faster forums, more efficiency, 99.9% uptime and enhanced security for our data.

As some of you also noticed, we lost just about all of our smilies so I have been adding some little by little... there are several new ones.

*Also, your avatars have disappeared. I am sorry but they won't be coming back unless you upload your avatar again yourself. If anyone is having trouble with this, let me know and I'll help.

Well... let's hope that the forum can run smoothly soon!

I was just about to try to upload it myself again, so thanks for letting me know my brain was moving in the right direction.

[color][b]I guess I missed out on the problems? Darn... LOL I'm not really that upset about missing them, but I have missed the forum and I'm glad to be back to enjoy it, thanks to all the work you do to keep things running smoothly! Thanks Shirley! [/][b/color]

I don't remember if we discussed this already, but in recent weeks I've had trouble viewing photos (IMG files) posted here. I can see avatars and signatures, but messages that have photos like the one where Rob posted a picture of a frozen lighthouse are blank for me. I see the text of his message, but there is no picture. There isn't even a red x to indicate a picture is there.

Anyone else experiencing this?

Yes, I'm having the same problems, I thought it had something to do with my computer........I just refresh the page and they show up.....but, I shouldn't have to do that.....

I see a little blue question mark in the lighthouse thread, even after repeatedly refreshing the page. It has happened a lot of times before, but I thought it was just my computer.

Rhonda wrote:

Yes, I'm having the same problems, I thought it had something to do with my computer........I just refresh the page and they show up.....but, I shouldn't have to do that.....

Even when I refresh I get nothing.

Yes, I have a problem with that and I also have a problem seeing Youtube videos here now. If I want to watch any that are posted I have to go to youtube to watch them. It doesn't seem like anyone else is having that problem but me.

Mimi, I also have trouble with YouTube vids on here. They show up as very white and washed out.

The YouTube problem is not just on our site. I'm seeing it on other sites I visit.

Good to know there are others with this issue---I was hoping that it wasn't a problem with my computer, and it looks like it's not. But the problem is not going away. Kinda stinks.

Ok, thanks for letting us know.