friendly metal detecting forum down

does any one know if the friendly metal detecting forum is down ? i have not been able to log in all morning.

Must be.. I can't get on either. Hope it was not attacked again..

Bruce

Around 3:00 am Chicago time, Vlad & Carol put up a Don't Panic message and said they were working on the forum. About an hour later I was getting 'not found' messages whenever I tried to go there. Finally, around 7 or 8 am I got the white blank screen whenever I went there. (At least the not found message was gone.)

Maybe they'll get it figured-out today, maybe tomorrow. I don't think this is a hacker problem. (Probably turn-out to be some tiny little setting that's driving them nuts right now.

Happy Memorial Day!

billiard rich wrote:

Around 3:00 am Chicago time, Vlad & Carol put up a Don't Panic message and said they were working on the forum. About an hour later I was getting 'not found' messages whenever I tried to go there. Finally, around 7 or 8 am I got the white blank screen whenever I went there. (At least the not found message was gone.)

Maybe they'll get it figured-out today, maybe tomorrow. I don't think this is a hacker problem. (Probably turn-out to be some tiny little setting that's driving them nuts right now.

Happy Memorial Day!

Thanks! I was starting to get worried myself!

Yeah.... I get the same thing too... I was hoping that it would open again after midnight... no such luck! Lochlainn, I really enjoy your videos you've been making... Really nice finds buddy!

Seems like Friendly has been plagued with problems over the last 5 months. The site crashed twice, been hacked more than once, lost all my posts, I've had to reregister 3 times, enough is enough already. They need to address their slow response time, to be able to fix problems in a timely manner, i'll check in from time to time, but I have moved onto TQ !! and Steve, I'll still be here, ya know I like this place !! Rich.

I heard from both Vlad and Carol via e-mail. The site is moving to a more secure and dedicated server to once and for all protect it from the hacker!! Hang in there guys, they will be back better than ever!!

SeabeeRon wrote:

I heard from both Vlad and Carol via e-mail. The site is moving to a more secure and dedicated server to once and for all protect it from the hacker!! Hang in there guys, they will be back better than ever!!

MAYBE , Ron, hope so,..... but a lot of former members never returned because of all this. I wish them well, but ya know if anyone ran a business like that.... well you know !!

I understand how you feel Rich, but I don't think any of this was anything they could have prevented. The VietCong Hacker targeted them cuz they are a very popular forum in the hopes of scamming some money out of the members! This little forum that Steve has going is also a great place to view, post and chat! I belong to a few other sites, but have not tried TQ, maybe I should check it out. But gotta say, The Friendly Forum will always be my "home" site! (No offense intended to any other forums, each one has it's own + and _)

I'm a member here and at the Friendly site. Both are the only places I go and have been warmly
welcomed at both sites and have corresponded with many nice folks.. It's down, I'll wait it out..

Bruce

The Friendly Forum is back. Looks like it got back about 6 hours ago. I discovered it 2 hours ago. It's on a new server and Vlad is still tuning it - right now it's a bit rocky. In another day it will be a lot smoother.

What ClassicIISL said is true. But then if the Friendly Forum was the front door to a business, there would be a team of network and web people who tested the site to death before it went live. The Friendly Forum ain't a business, Vlad don't have an IT team of specialists, and what we do over there (or on any other MD'n web-site) ain't gonna save the world. We're a bunch of geeks hang'n out having fun. I give Vlad a lot of credit for putting in the effort he puts in to allow us to gather over there. I'm not putting down any other sites. I visit Treasure Quest and Treasure Net regularly. Don't post much at those sites, but I do enjoy reading their posts and I learn things. I try to post here as much as I can, but since I don't get out much, I don't have much to say. I do like the people here and given time, I'm sure it will grow. We all gotta go where we feel the most comfortable.

HH

Rich

I tried to register, but it wouldn't let me. It also wouldn't let me use the "contact" feature to let them know I couldn't register. Is that a hint?

I'll let them know you had a problem trying to register. It's running much smoother today, but you could have found a problem they don't know about. They also lock it to new people and visitors from midnight until like 8 in the morning. The hacker drove them to that.

Do try again - either later today or tomorrow. It's not the biggest forum around, but it is a fun place to hang-out.