News January 15, 2025: The day DSLReports died

[ATLga]

Xenforo can be quite expensive tho, considering they said they want to avoid having ads on their site. But there are definitely better free alternatives, I agree. I think their platform doesn`t even offer DM support yet.

They do. PM person to person and a group private PM as well. Overall it is barebones though. A few people have started to leave already. Some say a Mod issue going on.

 

[RMerlin]

They do. PM person to person and a group private PM as well.

Hm. I thought I saw somewhere that DMs was on the roadmap for a future release.

Anyway, not a fan of this dumbed down Reddit style of pagination. I had to deal with another forum that used the same software a few weeks ago, and tracking down specific posts in a long thread was a major PITA, as there was no pagination - just a timeline slider on the side.

 

[ATLga]

Hm. I thought I saw somewhere that DMs was on the roadmap for a future release.

Anyway, not a fan of this dumbed down Reddit style of pagination. I had to deal with another forum that used the same software a few weeks ago, and tracking down specific posts in a long thread was a major PITA, as there was no pagination - just a timeline slider on the side.

This is the private message for multiple people

This is for one on one PM

 

[ATLga]

Hm. I thought I saw somewhere that DMs was on the roadmap for a future release.

Anyway, not a fan of this dumbed down Reddit style of pagination. I had to deal with another forum that used the same software a few weeks ago, and tracking down specific posts in a long thread was a major PITA, as there was no pagination - just a timeline slider on the side.

Yep, there were a lot of complaints about the slider and no pagination but the owner preferred the slider so it stayed. I'm not a fan of the BB style as well and I think there were a few grumbles about the search feature not working within a thread.

 

[prisma]

The home page is back up while they reconfigure the site for read only.

 

[ATLga]

The home page is back up while they reconfigure the site for read only.

I saw this as well. Seems that the powers to be have been reading all the negative comments about how the situation was handled.

 

[ATLga]

Now it is working in read only mode, the first five minutes of each hour (subject to change). It's the oddest thing ever.
I just went at the top of the hour and was able to actually browse through the site. At six minutes after the hour it reverted back to the disclaimer message about the available time and only the main page shows.

 

[ATLga]

This is what you see trying to navigate out of the five minute window

 

[ATLga]

This is what you see trying to navigate out of the five minute window

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Now has this little message about Musk

 

[RMerlin]

Changed once again. except this time I don't understand what it means LOL

(DHMU -Justin)

What does this acronym means?

 

[ATLga]

Changed once again. except this time I don't understand what it means LOL





What does this acronym means?

Don't Hit Me Up

The current rumors and speculation that I'm reading are saying it's Liquid Web that has it up and open for the five minute window. I'm not sure I buy that though. I still have hope it comes back fully online.

 

[RMerlin]

This is the weirdest, craziest website shutdown I have ever encountered, as far as memory serves. Down, up with vague message, up in read-only, but only for 5 minutes out of 60...

The only reason I can think of for that 5 minutes window would be the hoster switched to a very basic hosting plan, with hourly rollover bandwidth, which gets used up within the first five minutes.

At this point, I think the website should just be taken behind the shed, and shot in the head, to put it out of its misery.

 

[ATLga]

This is the weirdest, craziest website shutdown I have ever encountered, as far as memory serves. Down, up with vague message, up in read-only, but only for 5 minutes out of 60...

The only reason I can think of for that 5 minutes window would be the hoster switched to a very basic hosting plan, with hourly rollover bandwidth, which gets used up within the first five minutes.

At this point, I think the website should just be taken behind the shed, and shot in the head, to put it out of its misery.

It is nuts!
I actually posted last night on there and this morning it was gone. Reposted it again and so far it’s stayed there all day. May disappear overnight. May have something to do with it read only most of the time. Some have had success sending DM / emails and it getting to people to let them know of that new BB site. Guess that still works briefly. I really gotta wonder if it’s Justin messing with people. If you can put the crazy message on the front page, why not put a real message explaining what happened and what the plan is for the future…..instead of the head games.