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General Category => GENERAL DISCUSSION TO INCLUDE OFF TOPIC => Topic started by: goodfellow on February 24, 2024, 09:40:34 PM

Title: Welcome Back!!!
Post by: goodfellow on February 24, 2024, 09:40:34 PM: I'll let Uncle Buck fill in the details, but suffice it to say that he did stellar work in getting this derailed mess of a forum back on track. Well done all who pitched in to save our little ol' home on the net.
Title: Re: Welcome Back!!!
Post by: Lookin4_67GalaxieConv on February 24, 2024, 09:41:57 PM: +1

I was concerned the ship was going under again!
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Post by: jabberwoki on February 24, 2024, 09:57:22 PM: Freakin yay...I've got no finger nails left.
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Post by: muddy on February 24, 2024, 10:12:59 PM: Thank you guys!

Sent from my twisted mind of the mudman
Title: Re: Welcome Back!!!
Post by: Uncle Buck on February 24, 2024, 10:56:06 PM: Quote from: goodfellow on February 24, 2024, 09:40:34 PM
I'll let Uncle Buck fill in the details, but suffice it to say that he did stellar work in getting this derailed mess of a forum back on track. Well done all who pitched in to save our little ol' home on the net.

As always, GF is humble and modest and wants to step back in the shadows. I am not going to accommodate his humility! In fact, I am going to call him out! :bravo_2: I assure everyone that I am typing this message 100% because of GF finding solutions, then guiding and directing what I needed to do next. So you see, I was just one of the tools in his box that GF used to get us back up and running. Yes, of course I was doing what I could, much like a drowning man! GF provided the life preserver so to speak. I simply followed his instructions, he found the solution, not me. So while I admire GF humility, I was not the lead on this but played more of a support role and nothing more.

To explain what happened, simply put, both this site, and MG have not had the routine maintenance performed at the Admin level that needed to be done for quite some time. Simply put, data wise the GG just filled to a point that the software that runs the site said no more and shut us down.

That issue was resolved by contacting the company that hosts the site and having them step in and purge the system so to speak to allow the site to reopen. That said, both sites need Admin attention that we Admins as a group will now begin trying cleanup and address as quickly as we can.

Life, the real serious stuff we all must address takes priority we would all agree. I suspect that is exactly what has happened with Rusty or I am sure things would not have happened as they have here. Instead of simply expecting Rusty to take care of everything we as Admins are going to work as a group, like we have for years to hopefully locate Rusty and become more involved than we have been with the behind the scenes work that was always just left up to Rusty to keep up with.

I would be the guy to blame for any screwups that happened here since while I had the title of Admin, the heavy lifting was always left to Rusty. It is past time for me especially to do my best to learn what must be done to keep this site open for business so we can continue to enjoy this community for a long time to come.

I will with a lot of help, guidance and support of folks smarter than I am hopefully give this place the tuneup it is begging for in the coming weeks and months as we feel our way along.

UB
Title: Re: Welcome Back!!!
Post by: skfarmer on February 24, 2024, 11:13:50 PM: :PDT_Armataz_01_37:
Title: Re: Welcome Back!!!
Post by: J.A.F.E. on February 24, 2024, 11:29:19 PM: Thank you both for getting things back.

:dance:
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Post by: Der Bugmeister on February 25, 2024, 01:18:18 AM: Good work to all involved! It can get confusing and overwhelming when a site starts acting up and the learning curves to get thing back to rights can be very steep. Well done to UB, GF and anyone else who stuck with it to get our little community back up and running. Thank you!
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Post by: The Magic Ratchet on February 25, 2024, 04:58:29 AM: Thanks to everyone for getting us back on track!!!

Lou Manglass
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Post by: oldnslo on February 25, 2024, 06:13:04 AM: Thank you, for all that hard work.

Do you know how much I got done around the house, and projects completed by NOT sitting down at the computer? It was AH-mazing!

:PDT_Armataz_01_37:
Title: Re: Welcome Back!!!
Post by: Uncle Buck on February 25, 2024, 09:17:51 AM: Dang that was funny! :))
Title: Re: Welcome Back!!!
Post by: Elroy on February 25, 2024, 09:27:37 AM: elroy was nearly pickin up the phone to ......
Title: Re: Welcome Back!!!
Post by: skfarmer on February 25, 2024, 09:28:51 AM: .........call me? :))

anytime friend. :-*
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Post by: Uncle Buck on February 25, 2024, 09:36:18 AM: Quote from: Elroy on February 25, 2024, 09:27:37 AM
elroy was nearly pickin up the phone to ......

Oh damn! That conversation could have been grim for sure! While the very best of eggs, Elroy does not suffer fools lightly! :021:
Title: Re: Welcome Back!!!
Post by: bonneyman on February 25, 2024, 10:09:37 AM: Glad to have the site up and running again. :great:

Very happy that we have some computer-savvy folks working on things, cause I am not a computer person.
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Post by: gtermini on February 25, 2024, 01:56:07 PM: Damn, I figured I'd been set free by the long arm of the ban hammer. Guess I'll have to stick around and troll some more. :spam1:
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Post by: oldcarguy on February 25, 2024, 02:47:20 PM: Gentlemen, and I use that term broadly,, Job Well done. You really don't really appreciate what you have until its' gone. And when the site popped up for as few hours, only to disappear in a wink of an eye was crushing. Hopefully we're good to go now.. But we'll live in despair until we can figure what happened to Rusty. After all he's hasn't logged in for nearly a year. And there has to be bills to be paid to keep the joint online. Though I'm sure the bold members that came to the rescue must be addressing that issue..
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Post by: stokester on February 25, 2024, 04:34:10 PM: :08:

:bravo_2:

A high-five and thanks to all!
Title: Re: Welcome Back!!!
Post by: Uncle Buck on February 25, 2024, 04:50:36 PM: We are working on it trying to noodle an answer!
Title: Re: Welcome Back!!!
Post by: hickory n Steel on February 25, 2024, 07:39:43 PM: I'm glad it's back, I was pretty worried.

I am not a GJ member or really on any other forums you folks are known to frequent, but thankfully I ran I to a Gateway to Airguns member here awhile back so I reached out to him.
He got in touch with SK and found out everything was going to be fine.
Title: Re: Welcome Back!!!
Post by: skfarmer on February 25, 2024, 08:08:40 PM: Quote from: hickory n Steel on February 25, 2024, 07:39:43 PM
I'm glad it's back, I was pretty worried.

I am not a GJ member or really on any other forums you folks are known to frequent, but thankfully I ran I to a Gateway to Airguns member here awhile back so I reached out to him.
He got in touch with SK and found out everything was going to be fine.

we "hope" that things will be fine. things are better but we are not out of the woods yet.
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Post by: pep on February 25, 2024, 08:20:16 PM: :character0029:..............................RUSSIANS......................?
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Post by: slip knot on February 26, 2024, 08:53:01 PM: Happy to see the site back up and running. Many thanks to everyone involved in getting it back. :bravo_2:
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Post by: hickory n Steel on February 26, 2024, 11:07:06 PM: Quote from: skfarmer on February 25, 2024, 08:08:40 PM
Quote from: hickory n Steel on February 25, 2024, 07:39:43 PM
I'm glad it's back, I was pretty worried.

I am not a GJ member or really on any other forums you folks are known to frequent, but thankfully I ran I to a Gateway to Airguns member here awhile back so I reached out to him.
He got in touch with SK and found out everything was going to be fine.

we "hope" that things will be fine. things are better but we are not out of the woods yet.
I hope so too, but just in case I may go through and download any of the pictures from my 1/4dr thread that I no longer have or that I can't just retake.
Title: Re: Welcome Back!!!
Post by: eborcim on February 28, 2024, 12:20:45 AM: :bravo_2: :clap: :08: :)