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Is it me?
Posted by Cotton Belt MP104 on Thursday, October 13, 2022 5:16 PM

as of 10-13-22 both "Floating in Ballast" and "Don Phillips" discussions are not able to be reread. Just me?  One only is curiousity, but the other I "need" information from it. Articles before and after these two articles are accessible. Anybody "splain" this? endmrw1113221715

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Posted by Overmod on Thursday, October 13, 2022 5:19 PM

I had the 'Kenosha Streetcar' become inaccessible just before I drove down to Charleston.  Does exactly the same thing the two you mention do: the header blows up to a larger size on my monitors and nothing loads underneath.  My computer mouse/trackpad drivers have completely disappeared at the same time...

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Posted by Lithonia Operator on Thursday, October 13, 2022 5:29 PM

I only get an error message if I try to access those two threads. So it's not just you.

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Posted by BaltACD on Thursday, October 13, 2022 5:31 PM

Kalmbach IT strikes again!

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Posted by mudchicken on Thursday, October 13, 2022 5:44 PM

Yesterday had a post get split-off and disappeared from a thread only to be part of a new thread with only 2 posts on it and then that one disappeared, for good. (you-tube PSR video diatribe fiasco thread)

Figured my bad digital/ computer ju-ju  had really gone off the deep end. Are our favorite Wisconsin Cheesepickers under attack from the Rooskies?

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Posted by Overmod on Thursday, October 13, 2022 6:07 PM

We should be honored that both the Russians and the Chinese have had people following these forums, at least from time to time.

Wonder if their hacking skills include fixing some of the 'issues' with the codebase, particularly the obsolescent back-end tracking and 'monetization' code that causes the 'taligent' errors, and the locking up when malformed ads fail and fail and fail to load or run?

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Posted by charlie hebdo on Thursday, October 13, 2022 7:31 PM

Both threads are back. 

There are middle school kids with better IT skills than the K-crew.

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Posted by BaltACD on Thursday, October 13, 2022 7:48 PM

charlie hebdo
Both threads are back. 

There are middle school kids with better IT skills than the K-crew.

Maybe for you.  Not for me!

Still getting the errors.

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Posted by Overmod on Thursday, October 13, 2022 8:01 PM

BaltACD
charlie hebdo
Both threads are back. 

Maybe for you.  Not for me!

As of 10pm Eastern, none of the three threads show any content in the loaded page.  This is with Chrome, Safari, and Opera browsers, and Safari on an iPhone.

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Posted by tree68 on Thursday, October 13, 2022 8:01 PM

charlie hebdo
There are middle school kids with better IT skills than the K-crew.

Maybe this is an extra credit course for Podunk Hollow Middle School students....Devil

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Posted by BaltACD on Thursday, October 13, 2022 8:28 PM

Get the errors with either Chrome or Firefox.

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Posted by Overmod on Thursday, October 13, 2022 8:31 PM

tree68
Maybe this is an extra credit course for Podunk Hollow Middle School students...

... to come up with effective solutions for stupid problems that Kalmbach doesn't want to actually pay to fix.  We're waiting for the end of their school term when the projects get graded to send the actual patch code to Waukesha.

Hopefully not like the team of outsourced Bangalore bungineers that took down Yahoo Groups...

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Posted by charlie hebdo on Thursday, October 13, 2022 9:14 PM

Overmod

 

 
tree68
Maybe this is an extra credit course for Podunk Hollow Middle School students...

 

... to come up with effective solutions for stupid problems that Kalmbach doesn't want to actually pay to fix.  We're waiting for the end of their school term when the projects get graded to send the actual patch code to Waukesha.

 

Hopefully not like the team of outsourced Bangalore bungineers that took down Yahoo Groups...

 

Nothing accessible on either thread. Just an inane message, perhaps written by someone at UW Green Bay -Sheboygan?

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Posted by Erik_Mag on Thursday, October 13, 2022 9:28 PM

Just tried the ballast and Phillips threads. Both come up with an error message where the posts of thread show up. Website problem, not a browser problem.

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Posted by Overmod on Friday, October 14, 2022 12:19 AM

Site became 'unavailable' again for Trains, MR, and Classic Trains until right around 1:10am Eastern.  Whatever that was for, it didn't fix the broken threads.

I am not seeing any kind of error message when selecting one of the three threads; it just shows a blank page under the thread title.  The Kenosha Streetcar thread did this first; the ballast and Phillips thread hours later.

I notice that viewing any site on a PC running Chrome, I have seen no advertising for some time...

As of 10 minutes ago, I can't get the "forums" selection page to load; it just kicks a 'too many redirects' notice that I couldn't solve by deleting the usual cookies.

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Posted by Erik_Mag on Friday, October 14, 2022 9:30 AM

I was getting the "too many redirects" for the whole trains.com site last night, nt having that now.

Still getting the "Sorry, there was a problem with your last request!" error message followed by some explanatory text. For the "Ballast" thread, the header is showing "68 replies, 4475 views". This looks like a problem with the database handling the threads.

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Posted by Flintlock76 on Friday, October 14, 2022 10:28 AM

Out of curiousity I took a look myself and I can't see those threads either.

What happened?

Is there something political about trains floating on ballast?  Wink

Is Don Phillips "A name that shall not be spoken?"  Surprise

Sure is strange.  

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Posted by Overmod on Friday, October 14, 2022 10:31 AM

I note that the view information hasn't incremented from the figures Erik quoted, despite a number of us repeatedly going to the thread.  That may be diagnostic.

Wayne et al: does the Kenosha Streetcar thread do the same thing when you try to read it?

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Posted by Convicted One on Friday, October 14, 2022 11:57 AM

Flintlock76
Is there something political about trains floating on ballast?   Is Don Phillips "A name that shall not be spoken?"   Sure is strange.  

 

Could be my eyes playing tricks on me general, but I believe those trees are amov'in.  Whistling

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Posted by charlie hebdo on Friday, October 14, 2022 7:45 PM

Looks like a total mess.

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Posted by tree68 on Friday, October 14, 2022 9:27 PM

Convicted One
...but I believe those trees are amov'in.

Twarn't me!

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Posted by BaltACD on Saturday, October 15, 2022 11:04 AM

For whatever the reasons - the viewing count on the threads in question are incrementing - however, not on a direct access basis.

The ballast floating thread showed 4466 when I looked at it yesterday today it is 4561.  The Phillips thread was 1061 yesterday and it is higher than that today.

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Posted by Flintlock76 on Saturday, October 15, 2022 5:21 PM

BaltACD
The ballast floating thread showed 4466 when I looked at it yesterday today it is 4561.  The Phillips thread was 1061 yesterday and it is higher than that today.

Clicking on those threads, probably out of curiosity to see what everyone's talking about, most likely counts as a "View."

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Posted by Flintlock76 on Saturday, October 15, 2022 5:24 PM

charlie hebdo
There are middle school kids with better IT skills than the K-crew.

I think those kids have probably forgotten more about IT then we geezers will ever know!

That's OK, at least WE know how to use a rotary phone and a standard shift!  Wink

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Posted by Euclid on Wednesday, October 19, 2022 8:58 AM

Cotton Belt MP104

as of 10-13-22 both "Floating in Ballast" and "Don Phillips" discussions are not able to be reread. Just me?  One only is curiousity, but the other I "need" information from it. Articles before and after these two articles are accessible. Anybody "splain" this? endmrw1113221715

 

I sometimes get the blue "Sorry" message when trying to open the forum, but only with the exception of the two threads mentioned above, have I ever seen a an individual thread refuse to open unless it had been locked.  

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Posted by Overmod on Wednesday, October 19, 2022 9:13 AM

Euclid
I sometimes get the blue "Sorry" message when trying to open the forum, but only with the exception of the two threads mentioned above, have I ever seen a an individual thread refuse to open unless it had been locked.

Go over to the 'Kenosha Streetcar' thread and see if you get the same response as those other two.

I will say that they seem to have fixed the issue with the jump-up ads occupying the whole bottom half of a phone screen.

Still waiting for 'phase three' to commence with respect to the forum code.  (You can stop laughing in a decent amount of time.)

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