Ed This forum will cease to exist on 15 August 2021

[rjh01]

Probably right. The page in question, however, is the International Skeptics page, run by icerat.


Sure. Did you notice he responded to the comment?




(I'm not saying the message on the Facebook page was responsible for the renewal, it may well have already been in hand. just pointing out that it did happen, and icerat saw it.)

All 100% irrelevant. This is probably triggered the renewal:

I have a yearly reminder set up for the 14th, when I saw your thread I sent an "early" email to icerat. Don't know if that was what triggered the renewal, icerat or one of his employees could also have a yearly reminder set up.

Remember all of the other systems that exist did not work in previous years and there is nothing to suggest they would have worked this year. Even the post in Facebook was probably triggered by this thread as it was created just after this thread.

 

[The Atheist]

Probably right. The page in question, however, is the International Skeptics page, run by icerat

Ah, I didn't even know such a thing existed, I was presuming it was the JREF page.

 

[arthwollipot]

Ah, I didn't even know such a thing existed, I was presuming it was the JREF page.

It doesn't have a lot of traffic, but icerat has been known to post there about upcoming maintenance and outages.

 

[dann]

When I looked at icerat's own FB it looked pretty dead as well.

Very active on Twitter!

 

[Scorpion]

So how come no one has mentioned the forum was down this morning?

I had with drawl symptoms.

 

[The Great Zaganza]

So how come no one has mentioned the forum was down this morning?

I had with drawl symptoms.

it was a closed event

 

[Warp12]

This time of year seems to be notorious for interrupted service, no doubt. Coincidentally, another event has just passed.

 

[Lerxst]

Are y'all working on your certificate issue?

 

[Darat]

icerat says the latest outage was due to a problem at the data centre - his email went out as well.

 

[Darat]

Are y'all working on your certificate issue?

??

 

[Mojo]

icerat says the latest outage was due to a problem at the data centre - his email went out as well.

Aliens. Definitely aliens.

 

[DevilsAdvocate]

Thanks for getting the forum back up and running, icerat.

 

[Orphia Nay]

Thanks for getting the forum back up and running, icerat.

Seconded.

 

[Thermal]

I dunno. Had an awfully productive day yesterday.

 

[Myriad]

Aliens. Definitely aliens.

Sorry, I tried to use the Search Beam a second time before a full minute had passed, and the power went out.

 

[Thermal]

Sorry, I tried to use the Search Beam a second time before a full minute had passed, and the power went out.

Could've been worse. Could've been a light year.

 

[Warp12]

Yeah, FB page said bill was paid. Probably just a coincidence this occurs generally at the same time every year.

What is that warm yellow fluid on my back? Oh, it must be raining again.

 

[JimOfAllTrades]

I checked the Whois information during the outage, and it indicated the domain was renewed last month and was good until 2023.

This was something else, I assume just what Icerat reported.

 

[arthwollipot]

I don't think he'd lie about it.

 

[Rougarou]

Are y'all working on your certificate issue?

??

I'm also not able to access this site with https, and haven't since I started lurking again for the last week or so. I have to use http.

ETA: Although, the browser bookmark I saved is also http, and that is probably at least a few weeks old. I don't remember when I saved it, but I had to reinstall my operating system a few months ago and started with a fresh set of bookmarks.