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so much Carrara information was lost when this forum was implemented.
I remember some of the particle tutorials I have never been able to replicate myself without any references.
I imagine other software information also gone forever, D|S4 came out about the same time so certainly anything D|S3 is gone but since it is inactive and no longer available probably not noticed as much, I am pretty sure much Bryce, Hexagon and Poser information is lost forever too.
Well, it is perhaps a whole day since I had a 502 and I'm tempted to say that they seem to have fixed something. Maybe I just haven't been visiting as much because it was pretty pointless when they were happening every few minutes.
Same here.
Forums are terrible again today. Couldn't get on at all this morning.
The new hamster probably died, so they had to find a replacement.
Started trying about 4 hours ago, sent a ticket after 3 hours of trying...
Wait, wait....lemme guess...
You have to be IN the office to whip the forum hamster.
Saturday is the forums day of rest.
The hamster is now off on Saturdays.
The hamster has run out of coffee.
The hamster only gets out for work release during weekdays.
The bad gateway error page is so pretty, you wanna show it off.
502 is your lucky number.
The Daz website is crap.
Pick one.
OK, here is my pick. Because that is exactly what I was thinking while the forums were down.
I've been getting them sporadically. Not enough to say that its "broken", but it can be annoying at times and give me the 504 blues. While I haven't been getting too many "bad gateways", I have noticed it can take a bit longer to access the forums reminiscent of the days of dial-up internet access during peak hours.
What is going on with the forums? I have not been able to access them since Friday -- almost two days.
I wish someone from DAZ, like DAZ_Rawb, would come and tell us why.
I reckon it's the seagulls!
The hamster running the wheel passed, need to find another one.
A new record from my perspective - down with "bad gateway" from sometime before 2 AM EST Saturday until someme before 10:50 PM EST Sunday. Nearly 44 hours!
...OK tried to sign in at 13:31 Saturday and of course got the big 502 page. Kept trying periodically through the day only to receive the same notice.
Just saw the first post here on this thread has a local (PST) time stamp of 19:13 Now not sure when things originally crashed, but just based on the time that I attempted to sign on during Saturday, it's been 29 hours and 42 min. .All through that time the store was working fine, the galleries were fine, the forums: kaputski. In a way it doesn't surprise me given the way bad gateway errors that have been occurring with increasing frequency over the last several months. Guess something in the server room finally went *poit*,
I was logged in at 2AM Daztime on Saturday, writing an message when the forums went down. The last time I tried was 3 hours ago and they were still down. Practically the whole weekend as I just woke up to go to work.
well that sounds like a great weekend you had, should have read a book, gone for a walk or something
It looks like Daz server hamsters finally joined the Labour Union and are now rightfully getting their weekends off.
Maybe Daz should hire a replacement server hamster shift to alternate?
..either that, or the bubblegum they used to hold the moving parts together got too brittle and snapped and they had to chew up a new bunch to make the repairs.
Considering how hard Daz keep pushing their social media channels, it would have been nice if someone had actually acknowledged the outage of the forums so that we know that the issue isn't on our machines or in our regions.
My usual method for buying anything new here is to look at the shop, then come to the forums to see if anyone else has bought the item and posted anything, because those renders tend to show off the product much more as it really is. Since I'm sure others do the same, the PAs must have lost a lot of business.
I was just about to start a new discussion when I saw this one.. My question would have been "why is Daz forum down basically every weekend and sometimes other as well?" Makes really hard to find information when I would have time to play with studio and stuff. And also, if this is really "how things are", does not give a very stable image of the whole company...
I knew it was Saturday because the Daz forums were down. I need reminders like this since I sometimes forget what day it is. They've reminded me now three Saturdays in a row. Thanks Daz!
On a more serious note: If I can't reach the forums, I don't buy in the store.
I was hoping that the downtime might mean that they are moving the forum to a new server or working on the internet availability issues. Naive optimism?
Forum was down - 502 error - from Saturday morning (german time.. so about midnight DAZland time) until I went to bed on Sunday evening.
Easy solution for no moderators available on the weekends, maybe? "If we can't moderate on the weekends, we just turn the forums off.." (j/k of course...
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And yes, this is about the third weekend in a row of it happening...
Probably just gave the hamster just another adrenaline shot
I tried a few times over the weekend and couldn't access. It was the same lat weekend too.
Obviously someone "borrowed" the network cable to use at home over the weekend.
When I was an active mod at another forum we had a major database failure that took 2 days to cure. Normally the forum had a daily throughput of 30Gb of text & images - so it was busy. We hand wrote a home page for the forum apologising, saying what we thought had happened, the steps needed to solve the problem and estimated dates & times for the solution. Then we updated the page with actual achieved times for the work to show progress, and did this every 6 hours to show that users were not being ignored. It's called 'Communication with the users.' Feedback after the event was very positive, as users didn't feel ignored.
That would be a good model to follow if something similarly serious occurs to the forum here again.
Regards,
Richard.
They've found a great way to prevent people from posting anything objectionable. Just leave the forum offline! Makes life easier for moderators, too.
There are also more liberal forums
No interest browsing any of the DAZ pages if the forums are down.