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A couple of styles are missing this morning sorry guys. I will get these back up when time permits. Have had to revert to an old disk image of the complete server overnight to patch an important security backdoor concerning Webmin - with bad actors potentially running botnet and DDoS attacks from the server, coin mining and so on.

If they did exploit server in some way I would find it highly unlikely they would have targeted the forum software .

But as a precaution, I do recommend changing your password.
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Willoughby wrote: Tue 24/09/2019 06:16 A couple of styles are missing this morning sorry guys. I will get these back up when time permits. Have had to revert to an old disk image of the complete server overnight to patch an important security backdoor concerning Webmin - with bad actors potentially running botnet and DDoS attacks from the server, coin mining and so on.

If they did exploit server in some way I would find it highly unlikely they would have targeted the forum software .

But as a precaution, I do recommend changing your password.
Just been talking to Richard regarding this. He is having problems downloading the forum and all he comes up with a lot of blank spaces, eg. say, in a posting from David for example, all he gets is a blank space.
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NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote: Tue 24/09/2019 14:31 Just been talking to Richard regarding this. He is having problems downloading the forum and all he comes up with a lot of blank spaces, eg. say, in a posting from David for example, all he gets is a blank space.

Thanks for the feedback, John.

May I suggest Richard force reloads his browser page by hitting Ctrl and F5 to see if it's a caching issue.

If not can Richard send me a screenshot on this thread, by PM, or email me: [email protected]

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Ive managed to set the format in a way that I can see the forum, just cant see it like it was before but I can happily make do with how it is now.
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I see no page Skin when logged in, across multiple browsers. When logged out I see the default skin.
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Captain Salty wrote: Wed 25/09/2019 13:34 I see no page Skin when logged in, across multiple browsers. When logged out I see the default skin.
A couple of styles are missing (of which you were using one effected) but I will reactivate when I have time (hopefully tonight). You should be good now in the meantime.
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This all i see
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Richard wrote: Wed 25/09/2019 13:57 This all i see
You should be good now also, you can revert back to the old style tomorrow hopefully.

Thanks for your patience with this.
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Richard wrote: Wed 25/09/2019 13:57 This all i see
Go to https://www.weatherforum.nz/phpBB3/ucp. ... e=personal

Set My board style to "prosilver special edition"
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Save and go to home page. Refresh the page, you should be OK now
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Willoughby wrote: Wed 25/09/2019 14:02
Richard wrote: Wed 25/09/2019 13:57 This all i see
You should be good now also, you can revert back to the old style tomorrow hopefully.

Thanks for your patience with this.
yep all systems go Will, thanks. \:D/
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AllanStyle-SUBSILVER is back up and available now and I will attempt again with Carbon (black) later tonight.

Clipboard image-paste should work tonight again too.
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I've noticed the forum now automatically inserts inline attachment BBCode when an attachment is finished uploading, wherever the cursor is sitting presently. Personally I find it a bit annoying as it's often not where I want the attachment to be
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David wrote: Tue 29/10/2019 17:29 I've noticed the forum now automatically inserts inline attachment BBCode when an attachment is finished uploading, wherever the cursor is sitting presently. Personally I find it a bit annoying as it's often not where I want the attachment to be
I've reached out to an author to see if this can be rectified.
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Having problems with sending out messages, occasionally.
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Still seeing very long page load times intermittently, well over 10 seconds
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Yea on Tapatalk it’s very slow loading. Sometimes not at all.


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David wrote: Sat 14/12/2019 08:30 Still seeing very long page load times intermittently, well over 10 seconds
Same here. The previous problem here seems to be solved.
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Hey guys, please let me know the exact times this is happening so I can look into. :smile:

Thank you
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Willoughby wrote: Mon 16/12/2019 12:41 Hey guys, please let me know the exact times this is happening so I can look into. :smile:

Thank you
Just happened for me now, 6.02pm. Took a decent amount of time after clicking the thread for it to load the page
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David wrote: Tue 29/10/2019 17:29 I've noticed the forum now automatically inserts inline attachment BBCode when an attachment is finished uploading, wherever the cursor is sitting presently. Personally I find it a bit annoying as it's often not where I want the attachment to be
Hey David, this is now fixed.
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Running really slowly for me again at the moment. Has been painfully slow at times for quite a while.
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Would it be possible to have a glossary of abbreviations?

I'm finding initials and acronyms bewildering when they're used without a previous full reference in the text.
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tgsnoopy wrote: Thu 02/01/2020 07:39 Running really slowly for me again at the moment. Has been painfully slow at times for quite a while.
Particularly bad for me last few hours
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David wrote: Sun 05/01/2020 16:55
tgsnoopy wrote: Thu 02/01/2020 07:39 Running really slowly for me again at the moment. Has been painfully slow at times for quite a while.
Particularly bad for me last few hours

its been bad for me too this afternoon
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same here
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