Anyone else not able to load Apterous?

Ben Hunter · Post by **Ben Hunter** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 6:47 pm

It's oll korrect now.

Innis Carson · Post by **Innis Carson** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 6:47 pm

I can't get in either.

Kirk Bevins · Post by **Kirk Bevins** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 6:47 pm

Same for me. Bear with it.

Dan Vanniasingham · Post by **Dan Vanniasingham** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 6:47 pm

Yep, Charlie knows, sit tight!

Kirk Bevins · Post by **Kirk Bevins** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 6:48 pm

I was right. Works now. 1 minute.

Jon Corby · Post by **Jon Corby** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 6:49 pm

It's fine, we'll just play the tournament on MSN Messenger instead.

Are we supposed to know our starting groups or anything yet? I thought the draw was going to be done beforehand, have I missed it?

Charlie Reams · Post by **Charlie Reams** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 6:55 pm

In case anyone's wondering, we are now back up. Last minute disaster averted by a well-placed boot to the power switch.

Innis Carson · Post by **Innis Carson** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 8:56 pm

After my very shrewd decision to leave the room a few minutes ago, I can't get back in.

Kai Laddiman · Post by **Kai Laddiman** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 9:04 pm

You better lock this thread before it overloads with complaints/hate mail/other.

Kai Laddiman · Post by **Kai Laddiman** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 10:09 pm

I can't load it now.

Innis Carson · Post by **Innis Carson** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 10:46 pm

Neither can I.

Howard Somerset · Post by **Howard Somerset** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 7:48 am

I thought it was just me, having failed to load a number of times in the last hour, but now I've seen the recent posts in this thread it looks like a more general problem.

Oliver Garner · Post by **Oliver Garner** » Fri Dec 26, 2008 9:57 am

Now I can

Kirk Bevins · Post by **Kirk Bevins** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 5:04 pm

I think apterous is down and has been for the last 45 minutes.

Kai Laddiman · Post by **Kai Laddiman** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 5:23 pm

Kirk Bevins wrote:I think apterous is down and has been for the last 45 minutes.

Same.

Kirk Bevins · Post by **Kirk Bevins** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 10:36 pm

It's extremely unstable today. Been down about three hours now...

Dan Vanniasingham · Post by **Dan Vanniasingham** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 11:17 pm

I'm hoping todays duel (whatever it is) will roll over to tomorrow, unless it's fixed prior to midnight anyway. I could've done it when I got in at 6:30am, but the results would've been interesting to say the least...

Charlie Reams · Post by **Charlie Reams** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 11:23 pm

Dan Vanniasingham wrote:I'm hoping todays duel (whatever it is) will roll over to tomorrow, unless it's fixed prior to midnight anyway. I could've done it when I got in at 6:30am, but the results would've been interesting to say the least...

Today's Duel will indeed be a rollover. We're having some Internet connectivity issues here at Apterous HQ so there may be disrupted service for a few days yet.

Dan Vanniasingham · Post by **Dan Vanniasingham** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 11:34 pm

Excellent, thanks for the update.

Kai Laddiman · Post by **Kai Laddiman** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 5:36 pm

Apterous ain't working for me. (Again.)

Kai Laddiman · Post by **Kai Laddiman** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 9:55 pm

It doesn't seem to be working right now.

Jon Corby · Post by **Jon Corby** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 9:58 pm

It must just be you, there's loads of us in here. We're having a party.

Ian Dent · Post by **Ian Dent** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 10:02 pm

I can't get in either...

Jimmy Gough · Post by **Jimmy Gough** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 10:19 pm

Looks like I'll be watching Dead Set then...

Dinos Sfyris · Post by **Dinos Sfyris** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 10:44 pm

Access denied to the Dinosaur too

Jimmy wrote:Looks like I'll be watching Dead Set then...

Surely you mean SEDATED?

Kirk Bevins · Post by **Kirk Bevins** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 10:19 pm

Apterous has been down for 4 hours now - I'm getting withdrawal symptoms. I think I'm obsessed.

Ian Dent · Post by **Ian Dent** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 8:20 pm

Is it down at the moment?

Lee Simmonds · Post by **Lee Simmonds** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 8:31 pm

Yes, I think you might be right Ian. And I haven't played today's duel

Charlie Reams · Post by **Charlie Reams** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 8:33 pm

Should be back up now.

I am homing in on the source of these problems, but it's a slow process.

Jimmy Gough · Post by **Jimmy Gough** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 4:59 pm

When will it be back running Charlie?

Charlie Reams · Post by **Charlie Reams** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 5:49 pm

It's back up. I left a half-implemented feature in the release version and it didn't play nicely with the server. Mea culpa. Duel will roll over yadda yadda.

Karen Pearson · Post by **Karen Pearson** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 5:54 pm

I still can't declare on the duel. Has anyone else managed to play the duel yet today?

Naomi Laddiman · Post by **Naomi Laddiman** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 6:01 pm

Karen Pearson wrote:I still can't declare on the duel. Has anyone else managed to play the duel yet today?

I haven't done the duel, but I can't declare in a practice either.

Ben Wilson · Post by **Ben Wilson** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 6:07 pm

Karen Pearson wrote:I still can't declare on the duel. Has anyone else managed to play the duel yet today?

Yes, but literally at ten past midnight. I got in first but I'm not sure my crappy score is a fair trade-off for that.

Charlie Reams · Post by **Charlie Reams** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 6:35 pm

Okay, it's fixed now. Like, really really.

Karen Pearson · Post by **Karen Pearson** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 6:44 pm

It truly is. Well done. Thanks Charlie.

Jon Corby · Post by **Jon Corby** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 8:41 pm

Charlie Reams wrote:Okay, it's fixed now. Like, really really.

How about now?

Julie T · Post by **Julie T** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 9:22 pm

Jon Corby wrote:
Charlie Reams wrote:Okay, it's fixed now. Like, really really.
How about now?

Not working for me ATM.

Clare Sudbery · Post by **Clare Sudbery** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 12:29 am

Help, I have Apterous withdrawal! I'm finally free to play... but I can't. What do I do??

Dan Vanniasingham · Post by **Dan Vanniasingham** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 12:39 am

Clare Sudbery wrote:Help, I have Apterous withdrawal! I'm finally free to play... but I can't. What do I do??

Call GHOSTBUSTERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Alternatively, accept it's broken currently and either bug Charlie non-stop until it's fixed, or patiently wait for it to be fixed.

I prefer my first suggestion though.

Clare Sudbery · Post by **Clare Sudbery** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 12:57 am

What, you mean nobody has come along and written an alternative in Apterous' absence? Pah. I shall have to go and Kountdown instead. ;o)

Ben Wilson · Post by **Ben Wilson** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 1:16 am

Clare Sudbery wrote:What, you mean nobody has come along and written an alternative in Apterous' absence? Pah. I shall have to go and Kountdown instead. ;o)

I can't help but feel in metaphorical terms this is like saying 'damn, out of cow's milk, ah well, dog's milk it is'.

Dan Vanniasingham · Post by **Dan Vanniasingham** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 1:25 am

Ben Wilson wrote:
Clare Sudbery wrote:What, you mean nobody has come along and written an alternative in Apterous' absence? Pah. I shall have to go and Kountdown instead. ;o)
I can't help but feel in metaphorical terms this is like saying 'damn, out of cow's milk, ah well, dog's milk it is'.

Indeed, or even better, "We ran out of champagne - this is urine recyc".

Clare Sudbery · Post by **Clare Sudbery** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 1:40 am

Aw, now I feel bad for Kountdown's creator. It's a perfectly serviceable litle site. It's not his/her fault that Charlie came along with the time, energy and talent to make Apterous!

Charlie Reams · Post by **Charlie Reams** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 8:42 am

It's back. I finally managed to catch the bug red-handed, and I've rolled out a temporary fix this morning, so hopefully things should be a bit more stable after the mess of last week. For anyone curious, there was a deadlock that occurred only if one person logged in just as another person was updating their player roster (e.g. as someone else logged out.) That's why I could never reproduce it in testing.

Clare Sudbery · Post by **Clare Sudbery** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 9:06 pm

failing to connect again... for me at any rate...

Jimmy Gough · Post by **Jimmy Gough** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 10:36 pm

Clare Sudbery wrote:failing to connect again... for me at any rate...

Same for me

Kirk Bevins · Post by **Kirk Bevins** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 10:40 pm

Jimmy wrote:
Clare Sudbery wrote:failing to connect again... for me at any rate...
Same for me

Ditto. Still have two duels to do. Hmmm, not sure why it's so unstable at the moment.

Kirk Bevins · Post by **Kirk Bevins** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 11:28 pm

I got in and chatted fine in the window. I also played both duels fine. Then when trying to challenge someone, no boxes came up. They tried challenging me but my name wasn't in the players list apparently. I decided to log out and back in but when I logged out, I couldn't get back in as it said "socket error: connection reset" or something. Grrr.

Clare Sudbery · Post by **Clare Sudbery** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 11:33 pm

It's been acting weird all night. I had a duel listed in the Games in Progress, but as far as I know I've done all my duels. The Resume button was disabled when I highlighted it.

Also when I tried to resume a goatdown against someone, I got two Challenge rectangles in the big text box at bottom (both referring to same game), lots of beeps, but when I highlighted them, couldn't accept challenge... then they both disappeared, as did the game from Games In Progress list. Hope this is helpful...

Clare Sudbery · Post by **Clare Sudbery** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 11:34 pm

It's up again... Kirk? Care to give it a go?

Kirk Bevins · Post by **Kirk Bevins** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 11:35 pm

Clare Sudbery wrote:It's up again... Kirk? Care to give it a go?

Yes but it's still not working my end. Hmph.

Naomi Laddiman · Post by **Naomi Laddiman** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 11:42 pm

Kirk Bevins wrote:
Clare Sudbery wrote:It's up again... Kirk? Care to give it a go?
Yes but it's still not working my end. Hmph.

Nor mine.

Julie T · Post by **Julie T** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 11:46 pm

Can't get onto apterous to catch up my duels. I've tried a few times, but keep getting error message "socket exception connection reset".

Hope Charlie manages to sort these problems soon. Don't know how many duels he'll roll over either. Annoying.

Dan Vanniasingham · Post by **Dan Vanniasingham** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 11:57 pm

I had the same - but keep refreshing it and you can get onto the server. It took me progressively longer each time, probably thirty refreshes last time.

I stupidly clicked on the java update this month, got the exclamation marks back, and thought it was working ok...until yesterday's duel froze after round 4. If the duels are rolling over again (I suspect they aren't), and I can resume it/replay it (without cheating - there's a thought) then great, if not then I demand this clique be stopped once and for all.

Julie T · Post by **Julie T** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 12:06 am

Ah, so is it a Java problem, then, Dan?

Too late for me to do any now though, I may as well get some sleep and try again later.

Dan Vanniasingham · Post by **Dan Vanniasingham** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 12:11 am

Julie T wrote:Ah, so is it a Java problem, then, Dan?

I don't think having difficulty getting onto the server has anything to do with which java version you're using, if that's what you mean. Seems there's still some gremlins for Charlie to fix somewhere, although once it loads everything was working fine for me.

I was referring to a different problem which occurred last month - sorry for the confusion.

Clare Sudbery · Post by **Clare Sudbery** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 12:18 am

I'm rather excited about this imminent apocalypse, I have to say. All terribly dramatic.

Kirk Bevins · Post by **Kirk Bevins** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 12:27 am

Yay it works and I can challenge again! Magic button pressing, Charlie!

Julie T · Post by **Julie T** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 2:41 pm

I managed to get on today, and did today's duel, but I missed out on the last 2 daily duels though.