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by KML
Wed Jan 03, 2024 7:30 pm
Forum: Ship Forum
Topic: Forum problems
Replies: 1
Views: 253

Re: Forum problems

Just posted an update on this here: viewtopic.php?t=421

Should be working now!
by KML
Wed Jan 03, 2024 7:29 pm
Forum: Ship Forum
Topic: Forum problems
Replies: 1
Views: 244

Re: Forum problems

Just posted an update on these issues, hopefully alright now! - KML
by KML
Wed Jan 03, 2024 7:28 pm
Forum: Ship Forum
Topic: Forum Technical Update, January 2024
Replies: 2
Views: 302

Forum Technical Update, January 2024

Happy new years everyone and greeting from Konrad, Siri's son, In December, 2023 Warsailors.com, which usually gets one or a few GB of traffic per month, suddenly got over 100GB of traffic from a small number of locations via some Amazon AWS servers almost all targetting the forum. It is unclear if ...
by KML
Wed Feb 09, 2022 1:29 pm
Forum: Ship Forum
Topic: Adding Images to Posts
Replies: 2
Views: 10025

Adding Images to Posts

Testing image upload: To upload a picture, create a new post, and scroll down to the three tabs below (Options, Attachments, and Poll Creation). Click the “attachments” tab and then the button “Add files”. Select the file you wish to add (please try to keep the file sizes to, at most, a few megabyte...
by KML
Wed Jan 22, 2020 5:36 pm
Forum: Ship Forum
Topic: Searching the Old Forum Posts
Replies: 4
Views: 26960

Searching the Old Forum Posts

Hello everyone, Many of you may have wondered how to search the old forum now that they are just static web pages without the search function built in. You may have noticed that some of the old posts turn up on Google search results but coverage has been spotty since we made the move to the new foru...
by KML
Thu Jul 18, 2019 9:38 am
Forum: Ship Forum
Topic: WELCOME BACK!
Replies: 18
Views: 6004935

Re: WELCOME BACK!

Hello everyone, I think we have overcome the problem of spam registrations with the addition of a simple question to the registration form. For that reason, we have removed the "First two posts moderated" feature and you should now be able to post freely as soon as you register. Glad to se...
by KML
Wed Jul 10, 2019 11:41 am
Forum: Ship Forum
Topic: Unwelcome visitors
Replies: 7
Views: 36474

Re: Unwelcome visitors

Hello everyone. I have created a simple question in the registration form for the forums that simply asks them to enter warsailors with a capital W before submitting their registration. I'm hoping that will be enough to avoid automatic bot registrations and reduce the spam moderation load for Siri. ...
by KML
Tue Jul 09, 2019 2:54 pm
Forum: Ship Forum
Topic: WELCOME BACK!
Replies: 18
Views: 6004935

Re: WELCOME BACK!

Thanks to everyone for your patience. I would be grateful to hear anything which suggests there are problems. For example, if you find any links out there to old forum postings that lead to error pages or there are problems here with the new software. Hopefully the transition will continue to be rel...
by KML
Mon Jul 08, 2019 12:49 pm
Forum: Maritime Books Forum
Topic: Where are all the old forum posts?
Replies: 0
Views: 33930

Where are all the old forum posts?

Welcome to the new Warsailors Forums! From 2001-2019 we have hosted forums here but after a recent server upgrade, the abandonment of development on the open source Phorum software package, and some difficulties in upgrading the Phorum software we had installed, we have had to make the transition t...
by KML
Mon Jul 08, 2019 12:49 pm
Forum: Find Old Shipmates Forum
Topic: Where are all the old forum posts?
Replies: 2
Views: 36661

Where are all the old forum posts?

Welcome to the new Warsailors Forums! From 2001-2019 we have hosted forums here but after a recent server upgrade, the abandonment of development on the open source Phorum software package, and some difficulties in upgrading the Phorum software we had installed, we have had to make the transition t...
by KML
Mon Jul 08, 2019 12:48 pm
Forum: Ship Forum
Topic: Where are all the old forum posts?
Replies: 0
Views: 34682

Where are all the old forum posts?

Welcome to the new Warsailors Forums! From 2001-2019 we have hosted forums here but after a recent server upgrade, the abandonment of development on the open source Phorum software package, and some difficulties in upgrading the Phorum software we had installed, we have had to make the transition t...