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Re: The Philosophy Now Forum is back!
Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2024 6:54 am
by Iwannaplato
Peter Kropotkin wrote: ↑Mon Aug 26, 2024 6:32 am
Harbal:
What good news. I thought the forum was lost and gone forever. I just hope it was back before Kropotkin was driven to suicide.
K: I'm good.... I have actually been really, really busy at work these last
few weeks.... I haven't had much time to post anyway....
Kropotkin
Looks like about 40 posts over at ILP during the shutdown. I'd say you kept pace.
Re: The Philosophy Now Forum is back!
Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2024 10:33 am
by RickLewis
Hi folks. Quick update. We brought the Forum back by subscribing to a web security company for their enhanced service, in order to block the bots. Unfortunately this has had an unexpected side effect: the web security package is now blocking access to the Philosophy Now main website for some libraries with particular kinds of IP access subscriptions. Bora is now tinkering with the settings on the web security package, working his way through possible solutions. If he can't find one that works, we may have to switch off the forum again. Apologies in advance. (Especially if we can't find any way to bring the Forum back).
Re: The Philosophy Now Forum is back!
Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2024 10:37 am
by henry quirk
Thanks for the update, Rick.
Re: The Philosophy Now Forum is back!
Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2024 6:58 pm
by seeds
RickLewis wrote: ↑Mon Sep 09, 2024 10:33 am
Hi folks. Quick update. We brought the Forum back by subscribing to a web security company for their enhanced service, in order to block the bots. Unfortunately this has had an unexpected side effect: the web security package is now blocking access to the Philosophy Now main website for some libraries with particular kinds of IP access subscriptions. Bora is now tinkering with the settings on the web security package, working his way through possible solutions. If he can't find one that works,
we may have to switch off the forum again. Apologies in advance. (Especially if we can't find any way to bring the Forum back).
Thank you, Rick, for your efforts to keep the forum running.
Question: If you do shut the forum down and can't find a way to bring it back, is there any way we can acquire a bulk download of all of our own personal posts?
Also, and again, if you have no choice but to end the forum, is there any way of simply keeping the forum online as a
read-only archive? It would be a shame for us to lose access to nearly
two decades of these philosophical conversations.
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Re: The Philosophy Now Forum is back!
Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2024 1:36 am
by attofishpi
RickLewis wrote: ↑Mon Sep 09, 2024 10:33 am
Hi folks. Quick update. We brought the Forum back by subscribing to a web security company for their enhanced service, in order to block the bots. Unfortunately this has had an unexpected side effect: the web security package is now blocking access to the Philosophy Now main website for some libraries with particular kinds of IP access subscriptions. Bora is now tinkering with the settings on the web security package, working his way through possible solutions. If he can't find one that works,
we may have to switch off the forum again. Apologies in advance. (Especially if we can't find any way to bring the Forum back).
Rick, an out there suggestion would be to run the FORUM off of an entirely different domain (even host IP) this would stop any security settings conflicting.
Re: The Philosophy Now Forum is back!
Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2024 10:10 am
by MagsJ
Iwannaplato wrote: ↑Mon Aug 26, 2024 6:54 am
Peter Kropotkin wrote: ↑Mon Aug 26, 2024 6:32 am
Harbal:
What good news. I thought the forum was lost and gone forever. I just hope it was back before Kropotkin was driven to suicide.
K: I'm good.... I have actually been really, really busy at work these last
few weeks.... I haven't had much time to post anyway....
Kropotkin
Looks like about 40 posts over at ILP during the shutdown. I'd say you kept pace.
Busted!
Re: The Philosophy Now Forum is back!
Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2024 1:47 pm
by Skepdick
RickLewis wrote: ↑Mon Sep 09, 2024 10:33 am
Hi folks. Quick update. We brought the Forum back by subscribing to a web security company for their enhanced service, in order to block the bots. Unfortunately this has had an unexpected side effect: the web security package is now blocking access to the Philosophy Now main website for some libraries with particular kinds of IP access subscriptions. Bora is now tinkering with the settings on the web security package, working his way through possible solutions. If he can't find one that works, we may have to switch off the forum again. Apologies in advance. (Especially if we can't find any way to bring the Forum back).
If I may be of assistance (and I am probably speakin out of turn and Bora already knows this) but...
You don't have to put both the forum (forum.philosophynow.org) and the website (
www.philosophynow.org) behind CloudFlare.
If you change the DNS for "
www.philosophynow.org" from this...
To point to 158.69.203.30 then only the forum will remain behind Cloudflare.
Of course, if you have already done this and there are other reasons/details as to why this isn't workable - please do ignore me.
Re: The Philosophy Now Forum is back!
Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2024 7:52 pm
by RickLewis
Thanks Skepdick, for your helpful suggestion. Bora is working on it!
Re: The Philosophy Now Forum is back!
Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2024 6:46 pm
by Impenitent
was the downtime over the weekend planned? I'm glad we're back
-Imp
Re: The Philosophy Now Forum is back!
Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2024 5:08 pm
by henry quirk
I've noted how easy it is to sign in, and stay signed in, lately.
to all responsible.
Re: The Philosophy Now Forum is back!
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2025 12:19 am
by iambiguous
Here we go again? Philosophy in slow motion?
Then connecting the dots between that and this...?
In total there are 2558 users online :: 7 registered, 1 hidden and 2550 guests (based on users active over the past 5 minutes)
Most users ever online was 6110 on Fri Jan 17, 2025 2:57 am
Re: The Philosophy Now Forum is back!
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2025 2:01 am
by accelafine
X has bazillions of bots operating all the time. It doesn't seem to affect it.
Re: The Philosophy Now Forum is back!
Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2025 1:56 pm
by RickLewis
Sorry the Forum was down again down for several days. This was again due to waves of bots arriving on the forum and slowing down not just the forum but the entire Philosophy Now website as a result. Bora had to switch off the forum to save the rest of the website. Then yesterday he had a complicated but clearly very clever idea about how to protect the forum from the bots that involved reconfiguring the Cloudflare settings. He implemented that today, it seems to have worked and hey presto, we're back!
Re: The Philosophy Now Forum is back!
Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2025 4:39 pm
by Flannel Jesus
Congrats
Re: The Philosophy Now Forum is back!
Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2025 7:01 pm
by Impenitent
good show
-Imp
to all responsible.