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DinoToyForum · September 12, 2023, 01:21:19 PM

FYI, I'm dealing with some technical problems with the forum so some functionality may be temporarily missing and there may be a little downtime. Thanks for your patience.

DinoToyForum · September 12, 2023, 05:46:16 PM

Quote from: DinoToyForum on September 12, 2023, 01:21:19 PMFYI, I'm dealing with some technical problems with the forum so some functionality may be temporarily missing and there may be a little downtime. Thanks for your patience.

Ok folks, the forum is back up and running with, I think, full functionality restored. But let me know if anything isn't quite as it was before.

DinoToyForum · September 16, 2023, 12:31:10 PM

I've made an upgrade to the server settings which I hope leads to noticeably better performance (i.e. pages loading more quickly).

ceratopsian · August 21, 2024, 08:28:29 AM

A weird glitch this morning when I looked at the New for 2024 Haolonggood thread. I tried to like the recent post of DinosDragon's review of Camarasaurus - and got a pop-up message telling me something like "Sorry, ceratopsian - you have been banned from this forum". I was taken aback, as I couldn't think of anything remotely inflammatory I might have posted. I tried another thread and all seemed normal. Then thought I'd try posting something in the Haolonggood thread. Initially it timed me out - immediately. But a second attempt worked and the post went through. And I experimented and was able to put a like to the review post. So it's all sorted - but just odd and not a message I've seen before.

postsaurischian · August 21, 2024, 09:32:15 AM

Quote from: ceratopsian on August 21, 2024, 08:28:29 AM....... a pop-up message telling me something like "Sorry, ceratopsian - you have been banned from this forum". I was taken aback, as I couldn't think of anything remotely inflammatory I might have posted. .......

I'm not sure if you're even capable of posting inflammatory stuff

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ceratopsian · August 21, 2024, 09:37:26 AM

I have learnt to control a volcanic temper

@postsaurischian! One of the benefits of getting old!

Quote from: postsaurischian on August 21, 2024, 09:32:15 AM
Quote from: ceratopsian on August 21, 2024, 08:28:29 AM....... a pop-up message telling me something like "Sorry, ceratopsian - you have been banned from this forum". I was taken aback, as I couldn't think of anything remotely inflammatory I might have posted. .......

I'm not sure if you're even capable of posting inflammatory stuff .

SidB · August 21, 2024, 12:40:48 PM

Quote from: postsaurischian on August 21, 2024, 09:32:15 AM
Quote from: ceratopsian on August 21, 2024, 08:28:29 AM....... a pop-up message telling me something like "Sorry, ceratopsian - you have been banned from this forum". I was taken aback, as I couldn't think of anything remotely inflammatory I might have posted. .......

I'm not sure if you're even capable of posting inflammatory stuff .

The same thing happened once to me last year - no explanation ever surfaced. An odd anomaly, for sure.

postsaurischian · August 21, 2024, 08:29:28 PM

Quote from: ceratopsian on August 21, 2024, 09:37:26 AMI have learnt to control a volcanic temper @postsaurischian! One of the benefits of getting old!

Good on ya

@ceratopsian! I still have to work on it

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DinoToyForum · August 22, 2024, 01:03:58 AM

Quote from: ceratopsian on August 21, 2024, 08:28:29 AMA weird glitch this morning when I looked at the New for 2024 Haolonggood thread. I tried to like the recent post of DinosDragon's review of Camarasaurus - and got a pop-up message telling me something like "Sorry, ceratopsian - you have been banned from this forum". I was taken aback, as I couldn't think of anything remotely inflammatory I might have posted. I tried another thread and all seemed normal. Then thought I'd try posting something in the Haolonggood thread. Initially it timed me out - immediately. But a second attempt worked and the post went through. And I experimented and was able to put a like to the review post. So it's all sorted - but just odd and not a message I've seen before.

Oh, sorry about that. No, we haven't banned you! I don't know, but it could be that your IP temporarily coincided with a banned IP. Looking at your account I see you have logged in from dozens of different IP addresses. Maybe you use a VPN which regularly assigns a new IP, and one of them was 'bad'. Or your device was just assigned a different IP for some reason, maybe related to the network you were connected to. Not an area of my expertise but I'm sure there's a simple explanation for the 'glitch'.

ceratopsian · August 22, 2024, 03:59:25 PM

Thanks

@DinoToyForum. How interesting re dozens of IPs. I would have said definitely no, I don't use a VPN on either my desktop or my mobile phone, both of which operate off our home Wi-Fi. However - discussion with my husband dredged up that he has CITRIX installed on the desktop to access his firm's system. He knows that his firm installs a VPN on his work phone - so chances are their CITRIX perhaps also uses a VPN. Perhaps this extends to my desktop as a whole, not just when he uses CITRIX. Who knows - I'm not sufficiently tech knowledgeable.

DinoToyForum · August 22, 2024, 11:13:45 PM

Quote from: ceratopsian on August 22, 2024, 03:59:25 PMThanks @DinoToyForum. How interesting re dozens of IPs. I would have said definitely no, I don't use a VPN on either my desktop or my mobile phone, both of which operate off our home Wi-Fi. However - discussion with my husband dredged up that he has CITRIX installed on the desktop to access his firm's system. He knows that his firm installs a VPN on his work phone - so chances are their CITRIX perhaps also uses a VPN. Perhaps this extends to my desktop as a whole, not just when he uses CITRIX. Who knows - I'm not sufficiently tech knowledgeable.

Yeah, something like that could be the culprit!

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