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Ultibeam · 2025-01-25T02:27:30+00:00

Update 2/1 Site has returned, but in read only mode and members can log-in for 5 minutes, at the top of the hour. Looks like they're allowing people to IM each other and retrieve their data. This is a welcome change, but this confirms the site is never coming back. It started, I'm not getting a 502 or 504 message anymore. This was reported on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/dslreports/comments/1i9ckau/unable_to_connect/

cbrigante2

DrStrange I would tell them "don't bother". I'm not super keen to return to it if it ever comes back online again given the nature of the shutdown and the lack of loyalty/respect shown to the long time members and mods. This place is better already with the open nature of management. 😉

DrStrange

cbrigante2 I wasn't going to go beyond the obvious tech issues. But yes, new management would have to be visible, engaged and responsive.

InternetJeff

Still claiming they are on vacation...

30JAN/0024Z

digitalfutur

InternetJeff Vacation of the Aerosmith kind.

DrStrange

Long vacation. It's really hot in Oz this year.

camper

DrStrange Find a way to migrate the whole 25-year database into a more modern format,

Yeah, google keeps telling me to update my websites so that smartphone uses can access my websites.

Stated differently, if being acknowledged by google now the stndard for website content?

camper

DrStrange unless you want to keep messing around with Perl and whatever else from 1999.

Yeah, I looked at the source code for the site, and it appeared to be all HTML code. I didn't see any Perl. I was expecting to see some php, though. But that expectation was foiled.

Lebon14

camper Yeah, I looked at the source code for the site, and it appeared to be all HTML code.

Wait a second. You have the source code for the site? Does that mean you have some kind of access to DSLR's data or something?

I might be misreading into what you're saying. Most probably.

camper

Lebon14 Wait a second. You have the source code for the site?

Oops. Thanks for catching that.

The source code I looked at was the HTML in my browser, not the how that HTML might have been generated.

As I mentioned, I more expected the site to run php in my browser, and not all HTML.

DrStrange

camper Too old for php...

fmd

camper As I mentioned, I more expected the site to run php in my browser, and not all HTML.

PHP is server side only. It is never sent to the client, so nothing to see. 🙂

DrStrange

fmd Thanks. Should have kept quiet. Hardware side only. 🙂

CommunityMember

fmd

PHP is server side only. It is never sent to the client, so nothing to see.

Well, if a site is miscoded, or errors out, or is hacked in certain ways, it can sometimes end up sending part of the site code to the client in the response, but a properly written and normally operating site should never do that.

In any case, Justin said dslreports uses perl.

fmd

DrStrange Well, PHP is powered by hardware. 🙂

just_4_fun

its alive, maybe?

HFB1217

just_4_fun How about posting the Links you used to get that Page or Site.

antdude

"Woah."

PL1

I wonder who is behind all of this? 🤔

antdude

PL1 The wizard behind the curtain? Maybe we need Toto to reveal it to us. 😉

Even if the web site comes back, let's still use https://broadbandbulletin.com and http://reddit.com/r/dslreports as our backups. Oh heck, we can just use them with DSLReports! I'm pretty sure it will go down again like always. One day, it will never come back! 🙁

PL1

antdude Even if the web site come back

It doesn't seem like it is coming back at all if it is in read-only mode. But, still very helpful to have.

P.S. You can now "Like" your own posts? 😃

andre2

HFB1217 It's the home page https://www.dslreports.com/ . Any other page on the site shows

GadgetsRme

HFB1217 i got that page with "dslreports.com".

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