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Sorry for the long downtime on the forums, there were database errors that were a total pain to fix, but I finally got them all fixed up this morning. Cheers!

Not at the moment, right now I'm focusing on the server and stability. Anything in particular you'd like to see updated?

Hey guys,
This weekend I'm upgrading the 6gc.net server (it really needs some linux security upgrades), so there will be some downtime this coming Saturday. Should be just a couple hours and will ensure that the site stays up and reliable. Cheers!

I'm looking into this now. Will report back tomorrow or early next week.

False. I've actually been approached by a couple companies who buy up forums and load them up with ads, but I hate that experience and wouldn't wish to force that upon anyone else.

My C52 in my new project (details coming soon) has 268,000 miles and grinds first to second, so I'm looking to buy another C52 (or C56) that's in good condition.

I'm located in Seattle and could pick up anywhere in the pacific northwest if someone has one available. Cheers!

Hey guys,
Sorry about the downtime. Yesterday a very bad bug was found in some common code (bash shell) that runs on most Mac/Linux/Unix machines. The bug allows an attacker to get shell access to a server with ease, which is crazy dangerous. 6GC was vulnerable, so I had to turn off the web server until I could fix it, which I just did.

So we're back!

For more information on the details of the bug (tentatively named shellshock), you can read this: http://www.troyhunt.com/2014/09/everything...know-about.html

I'm going to get some better-working links up soon, that should work better. Thanks so much everyone for all the help!




Considering I need a full VPS (I setup all my machines using chef and there's a significant amount of custom work), I go through Linode, which isn't too expensive. Thanks for the suggestion though! Beware, "unlimited bandwidth" is almost never a real thing. If your site truly uses a TON of bandwidth, you will likely get shut down or asked to move to a more expensive solution to cover their own bandwidth costs. 99.9% of hosting customers won't ever have a problem though.



Yep!

Thanks for the input! I haven't had the time to investigate the map yet, but when I do I'll compare various lengths of time and see what seems to work well. I might even be able to make it user-configurable with minimal effort.

My best guess would be that you've got some sort of malware that is adding ads or malicious content into websites automatically. Nothing has changed that would cause that warning as far as I can tell.

What browser, antivirus program, and operating system are you on? Does the behavior change if you try a different browser?

I might be able to make it only include members who have been active in the last X months. I know it's certainly possible, but it might be way too slow. What do you guys think would be a good threshold? 3 months?

I agree that this would be nice. It would cost slightly more in terms of storage/bandwidth on the server, and I'm not sure how much work it would be to implement. I'll look into it.

Yep, I just posted about this with the moderators. There was a bug so that the member promotion script wasn't running properly, but now it should be!

Ok, just made everyone's inboxes bigger!



Not very viable, as it would be a massive undertaking to change the forum search at this point. It's not the best experience, but like others mentioned, Google with the site:6gc.net prefix will probably be your best bet. Google's pretty good at that whole search thing.



What browser and operating system are you on? Is that happening to anyone else?

Thanks guys! Really appreciate it and it helps pay for the server!

You're welcome! It's good to be back around again!



I'll see what I can do here. This should be a pretty easy fix.



Didn't expect that, but I can fix this too. Also an easy fix I can get to tomorrow.



Thanks!


I can probably make this happen soon. There's no reason really why it has to be so low, text takes up very little space.


Thanks!

Later today and tomorrow I'll be working on some stuff. Getting back into the swing of things again after a relaxing holiday vacation!

All done! Went much faster than expected.

Ok, I think I've got a solution in place now that should help.

A member's first post/posts will be hidden from the public and need to be manually reviewed by the mods. If approved (valid member), then that member can post freely. If deleted (spam or other some other form of trouble), then management can simply ban them.

And I also removed about thirty registered but yet-to-post spam accounts, and patched some security issues in the third party forum software that I think allowed this to happen in the first place.

So, we'll see how things go in the next few weeks, but I'm pretty sure that things should be better on the spam front!

I need to bring the server down for an hour or less tonight, starting at 11pm Pacific Standard Time.

I'm making backups and building a better development environment for easier and more reliable work on the site in the coming weeks.

Thanks! I actually have a new Toyota project/commuter, I'll post in O/T once I have some time to snap some pics.



Thank you!



I'll look into this and see how difficult it would be.




Thanks!



Ah yes, I forget about Adblock. I'll see if I can also get a more normal link up there that will work.

And FYI, the site will be down for hopefully less than an hour tonight, starting at 11pm Pacific Time. I'm making backups and preparing a better development environment so that I can more easily and reliably work on the site.

I'm working on this, and a start is here: http://www.6gc.net/about/contribute

Anything and everything is appreciated! I don't have any advantages setup for donations yet, but perhaps in the future. And since almost everyone shops on Amazon these days, if you shop by first using the links on that page, then Amazon pays me a little percentage and it helps out run the site, make necessary and long-overdue improvements, develop new stuff, etc.




It's actually a very easy thing to do, the community as a whole just needs to come to some decisions on what exact forum merges/subforums/addtions/etc. are needed.



Definitely working on it. This will be happening very soon.



This is my first priority, and I've been working on it for a couple days and will be working on it more today, hopefully finishing it up tomorrow.




This would be very time consuming, but improved search might be in the works later on. There's a lot that needs to be done before that though.




Definitely working on mods.




Also working on getting admin access setup. The unfortunate thing is that the out-of-the box admin stuff on the forums doesn't work because of the way that the database and codebase and site integration has changed over the years. So it's a fair amount of work, but there will definitely be better controls at least on a few things soon.




I agree that that would nice, but it's a fair amount of work at this point, especially because the chat was built in a language I never quite understood (hence the unfortunate crashes and limited features ) and still do not understand. But if I have time after the more important stuff is done, I'll see what I can do about adding this or perhaps changing the chat up entirely to something that works much better.



What's everyone's thought on this? I actually can't stand embedded videos on most sites because they're slow, particularly on phones, but also on my computer. I still build everything on an old under-powered computer because: 1. Computers are expensive. and 2. If a site is fast for me, it's also typically fast on most phones and super fast on most new computers. And I love fast websites.

Furthermore, I ESPECIALLY hate embedded videos that auto-play on one of twenty tabs I have open, forcing me to frantically search every tab for the culprit.



Perhaps, though bigger signatures I'm against for the same reasons I am with embedded videos. But if everyone but me wants it, then I can make it happen. I just don't want the site to slow down. Also, bigger signatures are tougher on the servers, and that can potentially make everything slow.




How's everyone feel about this? I've also found the lax rules (with more new moderators to keep things even better in check) can be nice for the local buying/selling, etc on various forums. Again, we'll have to come up with a good combination of forum/subforum changes that everyone likes.




Again, what's everyone think. And how should we come to a consensus.

I have to say, it feels good to be finally beginning to work on my own projects like 6GC again. I've been neglecting everything, getting caught up with work and injuries and other issues, but it's all getting better! Now that I've got a couple sites with good traffic and good community, a lot less stress, good health, and some spare time, I'm hoping to be able to continue working on them full-time.

Working on this right now. Sorry it's been so long! It's so hard to find time for everything!

Sorry guys, I've just been slammed as usual; Life is just too crazy.

I'll be working to eliminate spam problems in the next couple days. After that immediate problem is solved, we can discuss administrative control of the site, as I'm just getting to be far too busy these days.

I'll investigate later this week. I'm out of town most of the week with no internet access, but I'll look when I return Friday.



Is there a specific error or message you're getting? Or can you take screenshots of what's going wrong? It works for me, so I can't fix it until I've got more information.

Ok, I finally got the logging working, so next time it dies (which happens very sporadically), the error should get logged so I can fix it. I'm also going to work on a lot of the requested features soon.