Folding Forum

uncle_fungus wrote:

cgcox wrote:Not quite sure if this is the correct thread to be posting on but.........when the forums switch over did you/we lose soe or all of the old threads, and also did everyone have to re-register (or was it that i forgot my old username/password. Just wondering.

We switched over to this forum at the beginning of December after a period of sadly having no forum at all. The old forum is still accessible, but only really usable in a read-only fashion here: http://folding-community.org/

Yes, everybody had to re-register.

Thanks for the info.

Was there some problem today, or just heavy traffic? I was unable to even get to the forum all day- IE timed out waiting for it. It popped right up this time.

Sunday 10 Feb from 0600 to 1600 GMT-5.

It's been working fine all day here.

Maybe you had some local (ISP) DNS trouble.

I couldn't get on the forum all day either.

Did the same for me, but resolved itself later in the day

I could not access the forum from early this morning until mid afternoon, today.

Nor could I access http://folding.typepad.com/news/ during that same time frame.

This is the first time I could get to the forun in about 24 hours. Same problem as my last post- the connection would time out prior to bringing up the index page.

Based on the previous posts, and the low number of new posts/threads,
it would seem that there is an ongoing problem with folks being able to access the Folding Forum.

I have been unable to get on from Friday (15 FEB) evening EST, until now 09:20, 18 FEB.

Can I suggest that if you have problems accessing the forum again, that you first try pinging the domain. If that fails, try pinging the IP of the server directly, which is 209.62.36.118.
If that works, try getting to the forum via http://209.62.36.118/~folding1/ and see what happens.

If you have any difficulties, email admin {at} foldingforum {dot} org to let us know.

Thanks.

(For the record, I've been able to access the forum all weekend, I do however have the IP stored in my hosts file)

I discovered my problem was using the old forum url. It worked until Friday, but not since. All is well now.

toTOW wrote:I'm bringing an old issue back : the link to personal website in user's profile doesn't open in a new window (for example my link here : memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=76 )

This now works... finally

Thanks

I'm unable to get here using http://foldingforum.org/ (my normal "favorite"), but http://209.62.36.118/~folding1/ works. It still took 2 or 3 tries to login once I got here- 3 times on 3 different computers.

edit- It also logs me out if I navigate away from the forum and come back.

uncle fuzzy wrote:I'm unable to get here using http://foldingforum.org/ (my normal "favorite"), but http://209.62.36.118/~folding1/ works. It still took 2 or 3 tries to login once I got here- 3 times on 3 different computers.

edit- It also logs me out if I navigate away from the forum and come back.

The login-logout issues are due to the cookies being linked to foldingforum.org which obviously don't work correctly if you come in via the direct IP route, so that's not a "problem" per-se.

What does appear to be a problem is the frequency that DNS troubles seem to be affecting people.