Eh? (Mudcat offline for a few days)

Subject: BS: Eh?
From: Senoufou
Date: 26 Dec 19 - 03:11 PM

What the heck has happened? Complete obliteration? This is very weird!
Ah well. Can I be the lone poster to hope everyone had a lovely Christmas and to wish all Mudcatters (if there are any left!) a Happy New Year when it comes.
Gulp.

Subject: RE: BS: Eh? (Mudcat offline for a few days)
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Dec 19 - 03:21 PM

Max had to work with Comcast regarding the setup for Mudcat. It seems to have taken the company a while to get it right.

Subject: RE: BS: Eh? (Mudcat offline for a few days)
From: Stanron
Date: 26 Dec 19 - 03:39 PM

Reciprocated greetings. Not having Mudcat for a few days brings home how valued it is.

Subject: RE: BS: Eh? (Mudcat offline for a few days)
From: Richard Mellish
Date: 26 Dec 19 - 04:16 PM

> It seems to have taken the company a while to get it right.

But have they? It's only been working for a very short time. Will it stay working?

Subject: RE: BS: Eh? (Mudcat offline for a few days)
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Dec 19 - 04:22 PM

Don't jinx it!

Subject: RE: BS: Eh? (Mudcat offline for a few days)
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 26 Dec 19 - 05:12 PM

Subject: RE: BS: Eh? (Mudcat offline for a few days)
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 26 Dec 19 - 05:15 PM

Oops! I didn't mean to post anything.

Subject: RE: BS: Eh? (Mudcat offline for a few days)
From: fat B****rd
Date: 26 Dec 19 - 05:15 PM

Quick !! Happy New Year everybody

Subject: RE: BS: Eh? (Mudcat offline for a few days)
From: Mrrzy
Date: 26 Dec 19 - 05:40 PM

Love you all! Max and mudelves especially!

Subject: RE: BS: Eh? (Mudcat offline for a few days)
From: peteglasgow
Date: 26 Dec 19 - 06:15 PM

Is this a ruthless but happy culling of just about everything? if so - well done!

Subject: RE: BS: Eh? (Mudcat offline for a few days)
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Dec 19 - 07:44 PM

You're back, you're back, you're back.
So Comcast is to blame.
I'll remember that ...

Subject: RE: BS: Eh? (Mudcat offline for a few days)
From: Helen
Date: 26 Dec 19 - 09:36 PM

To Max and all the Mudelves, I hope you had a happy Christmas and I wish you all the best for the new year.

Thanks for everything you do to keep Mudcat going, or to get it back on track when it runs off the rails sometimes.

Sending the biggest, the best and the brightest wishes to all of you, and to all Mudcatters as well.

Subject: tech: missed the Cat
From: leeneia
Date: 26 Dec 19 - 09:50 PM

Hello, Max. How I missed the Mudcat these past few days. I'm so glad it's back. I appreciate your efforts.

A couple weeks ago I made my annual contribution. How about the rest of you?   Have you Mudcat regulars sent in some shekels to help keep this site going? It's time.

Subject: RE: Eh? (Mudcat offline for a few days)
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 27 Dec 19 - 03:30 AM

thanks, Max

Subject: RE: Eh? (Mudcat offline for a few days)
From: GUEST,JHW but the robots have forgotten
Date: 27 Dec 19 - 04:56 AM

Thought it had gone for good. Tried various ways (non techhead) and decided just something else I'd have to live without. Was about to mail other users.
Should we all send donations?

Subject: RE: Eh? (Mudcat offline for a few days)
From: Richard Mellish
Date: 27 Dec 19 - 06:17 AM

I'm happy to chuck in a bit more money if it's needed.

But please can someone tell me how we can find out what's happening next time Mudcat is down? Sometimes it's possible to get to one of the servers directly when mudcat.org doesn't work, but I know that is deprecated and anyway there are times when we can't get in at all. Is there somewhere else where a notice can be posted? Preferably not Facebook, which some of us prefer to steer clear of, but a page there that is visible without having to log in would be acceptable.

Subject: RE: Eh? (Mudcat offline for a few days)
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 27 Dec 19 - 07:10 AM

I'm not on facebook & don't want to be, but I do regularly look at cartoonist pages & a few others. Very occasionally facebook sez. join up so I immediately close the window & check out the cartoons the next day!

Mudcat Cafe public group I can see one post from 25 dec asking about mudcat not working but there might have been others only visible to members.

sandra

Subject: RE: Eh? (Mudcat offline for a few days)
From: Jack Campin
Date: 27 Dec 19 - 08:52 AM

Twitter would probably be the best medium. You don't need an account to follow it and it wouldn't need moderators interfering.

Subject: RE: Eh? (Mudcat offline for a few days)
From: GUEST,keberoxu
Date: 27 Dec 19 - 10:34 AM

Sandra, I too looked at the Mudcat Cafe public group Facebook page.
(nor am I on facebook)
and I saw two separate posts,
one before Christmas and one on/after Christmas,
asking why the Forum was offline.
So that gave me a clue.

I also looked at
Mudcat's Twitter account, Jack,
and the account was active and all,
but had no posts about the problems that took Mudcat offline.

Subject: RE: Eh? (Mudcat offline for a few days)
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 27 Dec 19 - 12:15 PM

..so what's so bad about mudcat having a holiday over xmas...???

I've always been an enthusiast for two whole weeks off from everything
over xmas and new year...

Some folks are just too keen to get back to the daily grind asap after boxing day..
It's unhealthy...!!!

..and keep your phones switched off as well...



Many thanks to Max and mods for keeping this site alive,
but don't they deserve a vacation from all the stress,
as much as the rest of us do...???????

Subject: RE: Eh? (Mudcat offline for a few days)
From: GUEST,keberoxu
Date: 27 Dec 19 - 04:25 PM

it's pathetic of me.
But I have checked back here several times today
just to make certain
that the Forum hasn't gone away again!

Subject: RE: Eh? (Mudcat offline for a few days)
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 27 Dec 19 - 08:54 PM

Mudcat on twitter?????

Subject: RE: Eh? (Mudcat offline for a few days)
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 28 Dec 19 - 05:58 AM

Twitter?? Aaaaaaaarrgghh!! No way in hell am I getting involved with that spawn of the devil!

The Mudcat Café Public FB Group should be visible at least to any FB Member, although only Group members should be able to post to it. Seems as good a place as any for enquiries about the health of the forum when it’s off-line?

Happy NooYear to everyone! (As we’ve recently been reminded elsewhere, this is an American forum, so I’ve adjusted my pronunciation there). :-)

Subject: RE: Eh? (Mudcat offline for a few days)
From: DaveRo
Date: 28 Dec 19 - 11:00 AM

Backwoodsman wrote: Twitter?? Aaaaaaaarrgghh!! No way in hell am I getting involved with that spawn of the devil!

You should take a look at it. Jack is right, it would be an ideal place for Max to let us know what's happening, should he choose to.

Not only do you not need an account to follow a twitter feed, you don't need an app either - you can do it with a browser (though on some mobile devices it might involve dismissing 'Please use our app...' messages).

Official feeds like Train Operating Companies are often the first place they announce problems on the railway and a better source of information than the station staff. e.g. https://mobile.twitter.com/Se_Railway

I don't have a twitter account but my son does. He uses it to publicly complain about products and services. Sometimes, he gets a response and gets things fixed. I don't have a Facebook account either. Of the two I regard Twitter as more open and less malign. A recent tweet from Jack Dorsey, their CEO.

Mudcat's twitter feed is just a robot, though it apparently has 1600 followers (who may also be robots ;)

Subject: RE: Eh? (Mudcat offline for a few days)
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Dec 19 - 11:01 AM

https://twitter.com/MudcatCafe

Subject: RE: Eh? (Mudcat offline for a few days)
From: GUEST,keberoxu
Date: 28 Dec 19 - 11:03 AM

Well, there you are.
I'm such an ignoramus that
I don't know
a twitter feed
from a proper twitter account.

Guess I learned something today.

Subject: RE: Eh? (Mudcat offline for a few days)
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Dec 19 - 07:01 AM

I second pfr

Subject: RE: Eh? (Mudcat offline for a few days)
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Dec 19 - 07:18 AM

Pfr and Donuel have a point --
it was nice to take a break from the usual hostilities
(which are visible above the line,
as well as below it, sad to say)

Subject: RE: Eh? (Mudcat offline for a few days)
From: Mr Red
Date: 30 Dec 19 - 07:34 AM

Mudcat's Twitter account, Jack,
and the account was active and all,
but had no posts about the problems that took Mudcat offline.

Depends what is causing the problem. If it is hacking, or covert nefarious use of the 'Cat as a conduit for messages, Max may be in the hands of higher powers demanding to delete or track things. Or just clean up hacking attempts, or problems hit and the elves are partying.

Or flamers out of control......

All in all I can handle withdrawal, no honest, I am strong.................
Gimme COFFEE, NOW!

Subject: RE: Eh? (Mudcat offline for a few days)
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Dec 19 - 07:44 PM

And let us hope that
the Mudcat will be present in strength
for New Year's Eve.

Subject: RE: Eh? (Mudcat offline for a few days)
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Dec 19 - 02:36 PM

If the network has been turned over to Comcast (an internet pipeline) then we are subject to network neutrality intermittant death and mudcat requests must wait in line behind all the big money players.


Like frog boiling, we could be eased into complacency at first with new wait times that could grow longer. But I don't know

Subject: RE: Eh? (Mudcat offline for a few days)
From: Richard Mellish
Date: 01 Jan 20 - 05:33 AM

Just now, trying to get in to https://mudcat.org/ , I got an error message about something to do with security, but I have got in to http://awe.mudcat.org

I know going direct to one of the servers is deprecated, as I said above, but what else should we do when the official way in isn't working?

Subject: RE: Eh? (Mudcat offline for a few days)
From: Richard Mellish
Date: 01 Jan 20 - 11:15 AM

PS. As far as I can see no new posts have appeared since that one of mine a few hours ago. This indicates that no-one else has got in to post anything.

Subject: RE: Eh? (Mudcat offline for a few days)
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Jan 20 - 04:12 PM

You and me both, Richard,
this is the first time all day
that the Mudcat came up online,
and I've been trying for hours.

Subject: RE: Eh? (Mudcat offline for a few days)
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Jan 20 - 04:20 PM

Obcession, habit, medicine??? Get over it. Many of us can simply read or not for years without posting. Let go a bit and feel free.

Try thinking that posting is a job you have to do day in and out.
What would you do if you had a few days off?

You are making yourself anxious for no good reason.
In the old days folks kept a journal.

Subject: RE: Eh? (Mudcat offline for a few days)
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Jan 20 - 07:58 PM

I did have a few days off.
I didn't like 'em.

Subject: RE: Eh? (Mudcat offline for a few days)
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Jan 20 - 03:14 PM

The Mudcat keeps blinking on and off,
thankfully it's on at the moment.

Subject: RE: Eh? (Mudcat offline for a few days)
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Jan 20 - 03:03 PM

We're back, thank goodness,
after hours and hours off.
What a roller-coaster.

Subject: RE: Eh? (Mudcat offline for a few days)
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 16 Feb 20 - 08:33 PM

"...and Max rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made. And Max blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it; because that in it He rested from all His work which Max in creating had made."

Well it is Sunday!

(With apologies to God, who I hope has a sense of humour...)

Subject: RE: Eh? (Mudcat offline for a few days)
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Feb 20 - 07:56 AM

I see a vast improvement

Subject: RE: Eh? (Mudcat offline for a few days)
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 17 Feb 20 - 11:18 AM

That was a nice relaxing Sunday away from all the mudcat misfits and weirdos..

Normal service now resumed...

Subject: RE: Eh? (Mudcat offline for a few days)
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Feb 20 - 03:06 PM

gee, thanks for putting me
with the misfits and weirdos ...

Subject: RE: Eh? (Mudcat offline for a few days)
From: Richard Mellish
Date: 02 Apr 20 - 03:35 PM

We seem to be having trouble again: only four threads above the line and two below with postings from today.

Please Max, if you need more resources for your servers and/or your internet service, tell us.

Subject: RE: Eh? (Mudcat offline for a few days)
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 02 Apr 20 - 04:38 PM

Perhaps the main server has been self-isolating.

DC

Subject: RE: Eh? (Mudcat offline for a few days)
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Apr 20 - 04:42 PM

We're back, it looks like.
Don't know what went amiss, though.

Subject: RE: Eh? (Mudcat offline for a few days)
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Apr 20 - 07:37 PM

Well, there are viruses out there.

Subject: RE: Eh? (Mudcat offline for a few days)
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 02 Apr 20 - 07:54 PM

And, let's be frank, we are not owed an explanation. Move on, chaps and chapesses. You just had a free day. Get over yourselves...

Subject: RE: Eh? (Mudcat offline for a few days)
From: Richard Mellish
Date: 03 Apr 20 - 06:02 AM

I think we should be told whether the problem was caused by lack of resource, in which case some of us would be pleased to throw in some more money, or some other cause for which money would not help.

Subject: RE: Eh? (Mudcat offline for a few days)
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 03 Apr 20 - 06:22 AM

"And, let's be frank, we are not owed an explanat"
Not for this anyway :-)
Jim

Subject: RE: Eh? (Mudcat offline for a few days)
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Mar 22 - 10:26 PM

Thank goodness, we're back.
Max had to intervene for this one,
according to Mudcat's Facebook page posting.

Thank you Max!