RWO site issues, disruptions, suggestions, announcements

[Danzar]

Apologies for that downtime, I overlooked setting up an auto purge of the database archives so ran out of disk space. That sent the website down. All fixed and properly set up now.

[Thunder Shaker]

I have diagnosed the issue with "remember me" not working.

As I mentioned earlier, I was logging in with https://www.redandwhiteonline.com. After logging in, the site was redirecting my browser to "redandwhiteonline.com" (no www). The login was not valid for the latter website, so I had to log in each time.

I edited my bookmark to remove the "www" and this fixed the problem for me.

[KSAS]

Hi Administrators, my recent post in the 2025 fixture thread included a club 2017 link which has been deemed as a possible spam & requires Admin approval. It won't let me edit my post. Can you please attend. Thanks.

[liz]

I've approved that post. Have no idea why random posts are identified as spam. There are a lot of actual spam posts correctly identified as spam (and dealt with) - far more than the occasional valid post that gets caught by the filter. So the filter is definitely of value (to me, having to deal with the actual spam posts).

[KSAS]

Thankyou Liz!

[KSAS]

Hi Liz, it's happened to me again in my latest post in the List Management thread even though i have no links inserted & just responding to my earlier post. Sorry to bother you again!

[liz]

I've approved your post.

There's no need for you to post an alert in this thread. When I visit the site, the first thing I see is alerts at the top of the page warning me if there are posts waiting to be moderated. I'll see that alert before I scroll down and see any post in this thread.

Of course, it might still mean it takes a while before a post is approved (or deleted if it truly is spam) since I have to visit the site to see alerts. Today I was out and about (at a Magritte exhibition at AGNSW).until late afternoon.

[KSAS]

Understood. Thanks again Liz.

[dejavoodoo44]

No big deal, but sometimes new responses don't seem to register in the menu. That is, the red chevron to signify a new post doesn't appear, the response count remains the same and in its current manifestation, if I push the icon that should take me to the last post in the list management thread, it goes to page 80 instead of page 82.

[dejavoodoo44]

Looks like there's a bit of phishing in the Swans News Feed section. God knows what's behind the link, but I'm certainly not going to click on it.

[liz]

Thanks for alerting us to that. Dan has created a pretty good spam filter that has been reliably stopping these getting through. They arrive at a rate of around a couple a day. Don't know why this one wasn't picked up as it seems to have all the same features of those that have been picked up. We'll have to keep an eye open for any others that sneak through.

There's a button at the bottom of each post called "flag". It's equivalent to the old "report post' button. If you hit that (and use 'spam' as the reason), a red flag arrives at the top of my screen. I'm more likely to see that if I pass by the site in a hurry than a post in this thread. I do try to keep an eye on those flags because we still have a few rare occasions of legitimate posts being caught by the spam filter, and I try to attend to those as soon as I see them.

[dejavoodoo44]

Thanks for alerting us to that. Dan has created a pretty good spam filter that has been reliably stopping these getting through. They arrive at a rate of around a couple a day. Don't know why this one wasn't picked up as it seems to have all the same features of those that have been picked up. We'll have to keep an eye open for any others that sneak through.

There's a button at the bottom of each post called "flag". It's equivalent to the old "report post' button. If you hit that (and use 'spam' as the reason), a red flag arrives at the top of my screen. I'm more likely to see that if I pass by the site in a hurry than a post in this thread. I do try to keep an eye on those flags because we still have a few rare occasions of legitimate posts being caught by the spam filter, and I try to attend to those as soon as I see them.

Okay, will do: if the need arises.

[Danzar]

Hi team, apologies for the downtime. It wasn't an issue at our end this time. There was a global linux issue that had to be patched. When it ran in the evening of 29/9 it crashed some websites. The fix was more difficult than I expected and I wasn't able to get onto it until last night.

[liz]

There are some features of the site that still don't seem to be working correctly. For example, the horizontal and vertical chevrons that used to appear to help navigate to the first unread post or the last post in a thread no longer appear for me on my lap top (though do on my phone). Even in this thread, which had a new post, clicking on it took me to the first page and the button at the top next to the page number to allow me to navigate to the last page wasn't showing. I could only get here by typing "page 39" in the page number box.

Many of the other "buttons" appear like empty white boxes but I can't recall what they used to look like.