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Mongoose Forum Down?

fiat_knox

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I just tried logging onto the Mongoose forum, only to get a screen full of gibberish.

Has the same thing happened to anyone else just now?
 
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hi guys,

A few issues with the web sitem, and the forums are in them idst of an upgrade - should all be sorted in a few short hours.
 
Sadly, I still can't get on to the forum today. It still comes through with a screenful of random characters.

The home page looks impressive, and the browser has no problem with logging on or displaying the rest of the site. Just the fora.
 
At least now, I don't get a page full of random characters. I get a recognisable image that looks like the website.

However, it has this message:

"Sorry, but this board is currently unavailable. Please try again later."

You can't even send PMs on the forum yet.

Oh, and the Mongoose blog works just fine. Some good news there. Looking forward to discussing it on the forum in due course.
 
Yeah the site was off for a bit last night, with the "Sorry, but this board is currently unavailable. Please try again later." message. It's up at this moment, though some areas may still be under construction. Post a message here if you still just see gibberish for the forums and can't get on there, Matt seems to be looking in here and I'll flag it there again if needed.
 
Yep. Still, sadly,speaking fluent Gremlin on the fora.

Currently running Opera 10. I'll see if Firefox fares better.

Opera - fail. Firefox - success.

Close enough. Switching to FF until they can sort out Opera.

Guess I'll have a long wait, then ... :)
 
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Yeah the site was off for a bit last night, with the "Sorry, but this board is currently unavailable. Please try again later." message. It's up at this moment, though some areas may still be under construction. Post a message here if you still just see gibberish for the forums and can't get on there, Matt seems to be looking in here and I'll flag it there again if needed.

Down for me, at 4:14 pm EST 8/20/2011.
 
Hey Jame, yeah it was down for me last night (well early morning ;) ) and still down when I crawled out of bed, and still down some time after that a couple hours ago. And then I had a suspicion, and went in through the main page. I found out the old page link I had that I'd been just refreshing was no longer valid and linking in from the main page I had to log-in again.

It looks like the changeover is complete and the forums are up with the new look (not the temporary look of the last few days), but you may have to go in fresh from the main page and log in again to get to the forums.
 
Hey Jame, yeah it was down for me last night (well early morning ;) ) and still down when I crawled out of bed, and still down some time after that a couple hours ago. And then I had a suspicion, and went in through the main page. I found out the old page link I had that I'd been just refreshing was no longer valid and linking in from the main page I had to log-in again.

It looks like the changeover is complete and the forums are up with the new look (not the temporary look of the last few days), but you may have to go in fresh from the main page and log in again to get to the forums.

It still isn't working for me. Maybe all I need is a new link.

Edit: Never mind. Got it for myself by the simple solution of visiting their home-page.
 
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I wonder if they have actually updated their forum software. The old ones used phpbb2, which were very out of date.
 
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