Is Apterous down? [GENERAL DISCUSSION THREAD]

[Gavin Chipper]

This thread is for general discussion about the downness of Apterous, especially when it might be inappropriate to post in the other thread which has such strict entry criteria.

Enjoy!

[Gavin Chipper]

Sorry

That's going to get you into trouble again. But luckily we have the thread for you now.

[Charlie Reams]

You can post whatever you want in here, since it isn't configured to send me an alert. It's also completely pointless since I won't see it. Enjoy!

[Graeme Cole]

You can post whatever you want in here, since it isn't configured to send me an alert. It's also completely pointless since I won't see it. Enjoy!

That's a shame, because Apterous is currently down.

[Fiona T]

[Rhys Benjamin]

[strike]Is the game side of Apterous down? The website is up, but I can't get into the game. Moreover, a look at chat logs shows this is possibly an issue with displaying to the user, as there's lots of coming and going but no playing.[/strike]

Edit: just as I post this, it's up again.

[Fiona T]

It was struggling all evening. Last games successfully completed were just after midnight.

[Ronan M Higginson]

[Charlie Reams]

As I said, there is no point whatsoever posting in this topic.

[Ian Volante]

Are those testicular electrodes now repurposed?

[Rhys Benjamin]

As I said, there is no point whatsoever posting in this topic.

But what if one wants to discuss the general upness or downness of Apterous? What if one wants to wonder whether Apterous is, or indeed is not, down? And were that it were numberwang...

[Ronan M Higginson]

Well, it is now....

[L'oisleatch McGraw]

Lads cmon it's pointless, Charlie clearly can't see any of this shit, just like... erm, Charlie said.

[Ronan M Higginson]

Oh yeah forgot about that, a shame because Apterous is once again down.....

[Jason William Larsen]

Yes, Ronan is right. Apterous is literally down.

[Ronan M Higginson]

And still down now is there another way Charlie can be notified about Apterous being down?

[Charlie Reams]

I'm aware. Nothing I can do at the moment.

[L'oisleatch McGraw]

Theories so far:

1. Someone Charlie despises finally climbed to #1, and he is in a massive sulk.
2. We are getting a major Pro-Ranks upgrade / overhaul... and it takes time.
3. They're not coming back. Participation awards for all. Rating numbers next to go; due to be replaced by 'care' emojis.
4. They now live at a secret link, available to 'Sanctum' members and Jack Hurst's Zoomdown-y pals only.
5. Police raid! (Once they're fully convinced the 'pro' refers to something other than bottom bitches, it'll be back.)
6. Ashton Hancock of course!
7. Or maybe it was Ronan... because "Ro's prank"?

Hmmm, get your tin foil hats on immediately... We need to get to the bottom of this!!! (bitches)

[Ronan M Higginson]

7. Or maybe it was Ronan... because "Ro's prank"?

Yep, exactly this. For your information, I am a secret Admin, have been for 12 years, we used to have small (unlogged) chats in aptochat at the beginning, I kept pulling pranks on the couple of members who were on. I was also nicknamed Ro. We needed a name for a list of ranked players at the beginning. I had always been trying to work out the max from ROS PRANK
for weeks before the ranking idea came, and the day before the first list of pro ranks I fell asleep during the day, in my dream I was on the show, and found out PRORANKS was the maximum in a round. When I woke up, I remembered it, and logged straight into apto, told the couple of members on the site at the time, and Pro Ranks were made. The reason why the Pro Ranks went shall remain a mystery.... But, more importantly, what gave you, Mr McGraw the idea of Ro's Prank? Are you good friends with any of the other admins, or.... are you one of them?

[L'oisleatch McGraw]

Are you good friends with any of the other admins, or.... are you one of them?

I'm best friends with pretty much anyone who ever solved an anagram!

[Jason William Larsen]

Thank you Eoin!

[Gavin Chipper]

Down.

Edit - Oh no, wait - it's been fixed!

[Adam Dexter]

Hi it seems to be down now. I can get onto the site but not onto the game -

"You have been disconnected from apterous. Please check your Internet connection. Internal server error"

[Johnny Canuck]

It's down. In size, that is. The game window is restricted to a tiny box in the top left for some reason.

EDIT: fixed - thanks Charlie

[Rhys Benjamin]

The recap writer has returned an error 500 for some weeks now. Can someone technical explain that?

[Graeme Cole]

The recap writer has returned an error 500 for some weeks now. Can someone technical explain that?

500 means "Internal Server Error" and usually indicates some misconfiguration on the server or an error in the script that generates the page.

None of this seems particularly relevant however, as the recap writer looks fine to me and apparently it was fixed three days ago.

[Charlie Reams]

The recap writer has returned an error 500 for some weeks now. Can someone technical explain that?

500 means "Internal Server Error" and usually indicates some misconfiguration on the server or an error in the script that generates the page.

None of this seems particularly relevant however, as the recap writer looks fine to me and apparently it was fixed three days ago.

In this case it means that I (professional software engineer, PhD in computer science) misspelled the word "PHP".

[Fiona T]

The recap writer has returned an error 500 for some weeks now. Can someone technical explain that?

I assumed you'd logged it Rhys - was surprised there was no ticket. Usually the best way to get stuff fixed

[Rhys Benjamin]

The recap writer has returned an error 500 for some weeks now. Can someone technical explain that?

500 means "Internal Server Error" and usually indicates some misconfiguration on the server or an error in the script that generates the page.

None of this seems particularly relevant however, as the recap writer looks fine to me and apparently it was fixed three days ago.

I thought I'd bothered Charlie enough and assumed it was a fault on my end.

[Rhys Benjamin]

That said, it's still not working. All the numbers boxes are in the wrong places, and any "preview" buttons break the page.