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Retirement and forum shutdown (17 Jan 2022)
Hi,
John Howell who has managed the forum for years is getting on and wishes to retire from the role of managing it.
Over the years, he has managed the forum through good days and bad days and he has always been fair.
He has managed to bring his passion for fish keeping to the forum and keep it going for so long.
I wish to thank John for his hard work in keeping the forum going.
With John wishing to "retire" from the role of managing the forum and the forum receiving very little traffic, I think we must agree that forum has come to a natural conclusion and it's time to put it to rest.
I am proposing that the forum be made read-only from March 2022 onwards and that no new users or content be created. The website is still registered for several more years, so the content will still be accessible but no new topics or replies will be allowed.
If there is interest from the ITFS or other fish keeping clubs, we may redirect traffic to them or to a Facebook group but will not actively manage it.
I'd like to thank everyone over the years who helped with forum, posted a reply, started a new topic, ask a question and helped a newbie in fish keeping. And thank you to the sponsors who helped us along the away. Hopefully it made the hobby stronger.
I'd especially like to thank John Howell and Valerie Rousseau for all of their contributions, without them the forum would have never been has successful.
Thank you
Darragh Sherwin
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25 Jan 2014 01:01 #1
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Congrats on the upgrade and fair play to everyone involved and all the hard work.
The only comment I have is regards to the alignment of the page. It's frustrating to have to scroll right to see the full page every time. I'm sure there is a relatively simple fix to this problem.
The only comment I have is regards to the alignment of the page. It's frustrating to have to scroll right to see the full page every time. I'm sure there is a relatively simple fix to this problem.
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25 Jan 2014 01:29 #2
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Christy,
I'm surprised you're still having page width issues - Darragh narrowed it down and even I can now get the whole page (wide, not deep) on my laptop.
I did find, when the page was too wide that if I pressed 'ctrl' key and at the same time rolled the wheel on the mouse the page could be narrowed a bit, but at the expense of a smaller type size.
I only had to do this once for each time the laptop was switched on daily.
I suppose that, other than that you could go into control panel and reduce the screen-width resolution. A bit drastic - I grant you, but I'm only trying to offer constructive suggestions.
Perhaps someone with more 'Computer-savvy' could offer an other solution for Christy?
John
I'm surprised you're still having page width issues - Darragh narrowed it down and even I can now get the whole page (wide, not deep) on my laptop.
I did find, when the page was too wide that if I pressed 'ctrl' key and at the same time rolled the wheel on the mouse the page could be narrowed a bit, but at the expense of a smaller type size.
I only had to do this once for each time the laptop was switched on daily.
I suppose that, other than that you could go into control panel and reduce the screen-width resolution. A bit drastic - I grant you, but I'm only trying to offer constructive suggestions.
Perhaps someone with more 'Computer-savvy' could offer an other solution for Christy?
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25 Jan 2014 08:48 #3
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Hi John. Same here unfortunately. I use an ipad and it always loads to the right and you have to make it smaller and pull it back left...I still think there is something up with it rather than it being a resolution change being required....anyone else?
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Christy,
I'm surprised you're still having page width issues - Darragh narrowed it down and even I can now get the whole page (wide, not deep) on my laptop.
I did find, when the page was too wide that if I pressed 'ctrl' key and at the same time rolled the wheel on the mouse the page could be narrowed a bit, but at the expense of a smaller type size.
I only had to do this once for each time the laptop was switched on daily.
I suppose that, other than that you could go into control panel and reduce the screen-width resolution. A bit drastic - I grant you, but I'm only trying to offer constructive suggestions.
Perhaps someone with more 'Computer-savvy' could offer an other solution for Christy?
John
Hi John. Same here unfortunately. I use an ipad and it always loads to the right and you have to make it smaller and pull it back left...I still think there is something up with it rather than it being a resolution change being required....anyone else?
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25 Jan 2014 10:36 #4
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Same for me, im using a samsung tablet, its not a big issue for me to drag left. A bigger prob is im not getting notification of pm received.
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25 Jan 2014 11:22 #5
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Paul,
On the left hand of the page there is a list of links and one of the bottom groups is "Private Messages".
That tells you if you have any new messages (if you have, select 'Inbox' and there you are...).
There is also the notification on the Forum Home Page.
John
On the left hand of the page there is a list of links and one of the bottom groups is "Private Messages".
That tells you if you have any new messages (if you have, select 'Inbox' and there you are...).
There is also the notification on the Forum Home Page.
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25 Jan 2014 13:43 #6
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If this helps: opening up page first
Then after minimizing it and pulling left:
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Paul,
On the left hand of the page there is a list of links and one of the bottom groups is "Private Messages".
That tells you if you have any new messages (if you have, select 'Inbox' and there you are...).
There is also the notification on the Forum Home Page.
John
If this helps: opening up page first
Then after minimizing it and pulling left:
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25 Jan 2014 15:25 - 25 Jan 2014 15:27 #7
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The solution is to align the page to open to the width of the screen as 99% of web pages do. This was not a problem before the 'upgrade' so I don't understand why it has it become a problem now.
Perhaps, if the links on the left hand side of the page were moved, the main page would be centered on the page.
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Christy,
I'm surprised you're still having page width issues - Darragh narrowed it down and even I can now get the whole page (wide, not deep) on my laptop.
I did find, when the page was too wide that if I pressed 'ctrl' key and at the same time rolled the wheel on the mouse the page could be narrowed a bit, but at the expense of a smaller type size.
I only had to do this once for each time the laptop was switched on daily.
I suppose that, other than that you could go into control panel and reduce the screen-width resolution. A bit drastic - I grant you, but I'm only trying to offer constructive suggestions.
Perhaps someone with more 'Computer-savvy' could offer an other solution for Christy?
John
The solution is to align the page to open to the width of the screen as 99% of web pages do. This was not a problem before the 'upgrade' so I don't understand why it has it become a problem now.
Perhaps, if the links on the left hand side of the page were moved, the main page would be centered on the page.
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25 Jan 2014 16:46 #8
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Thanks john, I eventually did see the left hand side pm notification, are the email notifications of pm gone now?.
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25 Jan 2014 17:42 #9
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Until Darragh has the time to attend to this it would seem so. Are you definitely not getting them? - I'll send you a 'test' one to see if it gets through.
Otherwise hopefully he'll sort it out soon.
John
Otherwise hopefully he'll sort it out soon.
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25 Jan 2014 21:20 #10
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Same for me. i also get an error at night when i try to long in at night and if it does log in its very slow. site worked alot better for me pre upgrade
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25 Jan 2014 22:53 #11
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Ive started getting pm emails again,
They were going into my spam box for some reason.
They were going into my spam box for some reason.
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27 Jan 2014 12:43 #12
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Guys i do not know if it's me but i haven't been able to access the website at all the last couple of nights.
Are the problems identified and being sorted or are they still a mystery?
Very frustrating when needing to get some info at the weekend and no be able to access...
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Are the problems identified and being sorted or are they still a mystery?
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27 Jan 2014 12:51 #13
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Guys i do not know if it's me but i haven't been able to access the website at all the last couple of nights.
Are the problems identified and being sorted or are they still a mystery?
Very frustrating when needing to get some info at the weekend and no be able to access...
cheers
Are the problems identified and being sorted or are they still a mystery?
Very frustrating when needing to get some info at the weekend and no be able to access...
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27 Jan 2014 16:49 #14
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Having trouble logging into the site as well and the page width is a bit annoying as are the icons to the left
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28 Jan 2014 07:22 #15
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Was it a 502 bad gateway error message ye got?
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yes the BAD GATEWAY is constant: I am able to log on 10% of the times I attempt it.
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Was it a 502 bad gateway error message ye got?
yes the BAD GATEWAY is constant: I am able to log on 10% of the times I attempt it.
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28 Jan 2014 11:56 #17
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Please refer to this (reprinted) reply from Darragh in a different thread:
"The server gets under very heavy load in the evenings/night this is due to using a heavyweight web server (apache).
I am currently looking at moving to a lightweight webserver (nginx) but have not got the configuration right yet to run the site.
Once I have nginx configured, it should remove the load issues.
Regards
Darragh"
Please try to bear with us until he gets this resolved.
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"The server gets under very heavy load in the evenings/night this is due to using a heavyweight web server (apache).
I am currently looking at moving to a lightweight webserver (nginx) but have not got the configuration right yet to run the site.
Once I have nginx configured, it should remove the load issues.
Regards
Darragh"
Please try to bear with us until he gets this resolved.
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28 Jan 2014 12:32 #18
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I've finally got the configuration right for the lightweight webserver (nginx), so now there should be less issues.
If you are having issues, please tell me and I will try to fix them
Thanks
Darragh
If you are having issues, please tell me and I will try to fix them
Thanks
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