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You are Perchysimba and I claim my £500 plus vat

Where theres blame theres a claim

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It was saying 'last updated at 10am' at 8.30am 🙂

The best thing about that screenshot of the holding page was the fact they don't appear to have a premier sub judging by the ads...

Years ago the Grauniad had a forum ,GUT (Guardian Unlimited Talk).
A bit like here, it was very popular and full of some very diverse threads. One day,[url= https://helenblackman.wordpress.com/2011/02/27/ode-to-gut-or-the-death-of-a-talkboard/ ]they just switched it off[/url],for ever. Oh there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth, but in the end, people just found something else. So if the lovely old STW vanished for ever,it would be a bit like that scene at the end of the Truman Show,all the viewers would just change channels and see what else was out there. 😉

Is it just me or did it just go offline again?

all the viewers would just change channels and see what else was out there

Apparently there's a site on the net especially for mums. I've heard its very diverse and has better swearing.

[i]I like to think of myself as a content creator[/i]

Heaven knows there's enough discontent creators on here.

I cant find search. Has it gone?

Have you googled it?

Heaven knows there's enough discontent creators on here.

Tis the season for it.

Is it just me or did it just go offline again?

Yeah, not for long.

What's actually changed!?

What's actually changed!?

All the windows have been bricked up and a SWAT team is running up the stairwell from the basement.

I thought it was the same cat but I wasn't sure

I managed to read this whole page of this thread and it was still loading by the time I'd read every word and clicked "log in".

It took ages to read the thread because it kept jumping up or down to the laser eye surgery adverts at the top and bottom of the screen - it's done that on every page with that advert on it. To the point where the site is almost unusable.

Other than that, same old same old.

Years ago the Grauniad had a forum ,GUT (Guardian Unlimited Talk).
A bit like here

But with more bike talk

You're assuming that the advertising on the forum pays for the actual forum, let alone the people who help run it too.

I know the advertising on here pays for the forum (or at least it certainly used to).

As others have said, it's been done to death. As with sdb, I'm pretty sure I was buying the mag long before I found the forum.

I don't personally subscribe as I'm now in oz and I hate emags. I was willing to explore international subscriptions to the paper version (and associated P), then Mark decided to have a petty argument with me over whether or not I was a customer, which sort of made up my mind on that one...

njee20 - Member

Is it just me or did it just go offline again?
Yeah, not for long.

What's actually changed!?

We've all moved over to the new platform..

loving the new large video ad that gets compressed into a tiny banner but won't let you scroll the page any more.

I'll report it but I'll need more to go on than "the video." Or you can, email tech@

Heaven knows there's enough discontent creators on here.

🙂

loving the new large video ad that gets compressed into a tiny banner but won't let you scroll the page any more.

It's the laser eye surgery one. Accuvue? With Sarah Cox. Plays automatically, with sound, is supposed to be square but compresses into a banner and every time you scroll it jumps back to the ad. Chrome, Windows 10.

[quote=zokes] I know the advertising on here pays for the forum (or at least it certainly used to).
Know or assume? I've seen this asserted before but can't recall anyone from STW towers stating it or agreeing with it.

fasthaggis - Member

Years ago the Grauniad had a forum ,GUT (Guardian Unlimited Talk).
A bit like here, it was very popular and full of some very diverse threads. One day,they just switched it off,for ever. Oh there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth, but in the end, people just found something else.

Parkers (the car place) did the same thing; just switched the forum off one day.

Someone set up a notparkers forum, but it looks like that's gone now too:

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=23&t=1063305&i=0

It's the laser eye surgery one. Accuvue? With Sarah Cox. Plays automatically, with sound, is supposed to be square but compresses into a banner and every time you scroll it jumps back to the ad. Chrome, Windows 10.

I've seen this asserted before

So have I.
By Mark.
You know those things we aren’t allowed to discuss/mention, that’s why.

Thought the mods would have been briefed on that tbh 😉

Every page seems to load a lot slower for me now. Is this a way of putting people off so they will go elsewhere?

zokes » I know the advertising on here pays for the forum (or at least it certainly used to).

Know or assume?

Know.

Because a) in the full context of my sentence, the forum used to operate without the P system, b) because of how often Mark et al. have stated that the ads are a very important income stream, and c) because how up front Mark et al. were of the financial implications of the hack, which pre-dates P.

Just one look at most threads indicates there'd be a much smaller user base without the non-Ps. Given how little P costs, i'll leave you to do the maths regarding costs vs income if that became the sole source.

Still extremely slow loading pages for me. I'll come back in another 12 hours and see if it's improved.

The site went down earlier because of a DOS attack from some script kiddy in Brazil. The forum search is offline right now as part of us mopping up but it will back up shortly.

That was a great issue to have to deal with after yesterday. But we march on.

a DOS attack

Del *.*

format c:

Mark - Resident Grumpy - Block User - Quote
The site went down earlier because of a DOS attack from some script kiddy in Brazil. The forum search is offline right now as part of us mopping up but it will back up shortly.

That was a great issue to have to deal with after yesterday. But we march on.

Thats just what you needed - why do people have to try to break things?

The kiddy needs employing if he can get past all the moans and groans on here..

Brave lad.

Didn't have you down as a dos[s]s[/s]er perchy 😛 😉

zokes - Still not a customer

LOL 🙂

Didn't have you down as a dosser perchy

Back in the day.....

I could free up base memory with a carefully crafted bootdisk along with the best of them.

Trying to run Doom on a 386SX25 wasn't that easy.

Keepin' it oldskool

zokes - Still not a customer

LOL

Amuses me too, but has definitely been self-fulfilling when it comes to the likelihood of me acquiring a P

Trying to run Doom on a 386[b]SX[/b]25 wasn't that easy.

What, no co-processor?

Nope, the DX was the stuff of dreams.

Had 16MB of RAM though.

Thats just what you needed - why do people have to try to break things?

Yes, especially when there seems to be a team of you working very hard already to do just that. 😀

@perchy

Doom in your browser 🙂

https://www.myabandonware.com/game/doom-1nd/play-1nd

That's my evening sorted. Ta. 😉

The forum search is offline right now

Oh shit!

Any chance of Quake 2 for the younger ones amongst us?

Any chance of Quake 2 for the younger ones amongst us?

Loved Quake 2.
One of my all time favourites.

Used to lurk a bit on the ukq2 newsgroup.

Quake 1
https://www.myabandonware.com/game/quake-3oy

Sadly no browser version... but you can download it 🙂

Worms Reinforcements (the best version)

https://www.myabandonware.com/game/worms-reinforcements-33h/play-33h

Off to waste the rest of the afternoon 🙂

PS: Game executable on this occasion WORMS.BAT 😉

Worms Armageddon is king.

Worms!
omg, there goes my weekend

@DRAC

Wrong 😉

Mayby Worms Directors Cut is marginally better.

Used to lurk a bit on the ukq2 newsgroup.

I used to lead a clan 😯

Then I went to uni and found beer and women instead. Definitely better than wandering around a jerky 56k modem-limited world with a bloke called Fartblaster trying to nail you to the wall with a rail gun.

Oh shit!

Does anyone use the search any more? I just use Google to search the forum

... into 3rd gear speed now ... yaaahhh ...

😀

p/s: 4th gear ...

I'm still getting pop ups.

STW tower's broadband technology explained here
[url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-42338067 ]BBC news[/url]

Yeah, but artisanal , handwoven string made from organically grown , ethically sourced, fair trade coconut husks.

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Mr Mark,

I'm getting woeful slow running still on the laptop since the attempted release.

Is this a thing that's on the cards to be fixed?

(Win 10/Chrome/fairly handy machine/decent connection, so I don't [i]think[/i] it's just me)

Ta

Erm...that went a little odd didn't it?

Anyone else see a rather large text dump just then?

Nah, too busy watching Ross Noble ..

Anyone else see a rather large text dump just then?

Same thing as [url= http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/very-odd-advert-on-here-email-conversion ]This[/url] thread?

Yep. The very same...

Ads tried to deliver me a couple of trojans at work yesterday. No objection at all to ads, i even click some sometimes, but do object when they are giving redirects and viruses.

Site is slooooow tonight

Site is slooooow tonight

Yep!!

How exactly does that even happen?