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soco
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I was saddened to hear about Kandi. Please reach out if we can help ease your pain in any way. Prayers.

Roccoflip
Rockster160
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๐Ÿ™„ Nope. Just sneaky bots changing their algorithms.

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Absolutely.
Iโ€™m quite certain itโ€™s the same spam bot, but theyโ€™re using a dynamic IP, so banning doesnโ€™t do anything. ๐Ÿ˜”

Just going to have to do some text analysis, I suppose. Which sucks. Have HelpBot examine the post and if it looks like one of those- auto trash it.

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soco
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Trash goes in the trash can. Simple rule.

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๐Ÿ‘

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soco
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I don't mind playing cop.

Roccoflip
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Been having a few of those spammers lately. Might have to add in some sort of โ€œnot-a-botโ€ check of something looks sketchy.

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It's back up. Made a few tweaks to hopefully make things a little better and blocked a few of the spam bots that have been trying to take us down. Let's see how it goes. ๐Ÿ˜…

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Yeah, I killed it again because it was causing problems. ๐Ÿ˜“

A separate host would definitely help, but increase costs quite drastically. I've been looking at a few alternatives, but none of which are particularly enticing.

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soco
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Archive still has error 502 on my tablet.

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Would a separate host help?

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The archives are back up for the time being. Already seeing slowness. Really need to find a better, more permanent solution for this... ๐Ÿค”

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Nope! Itโ€™s still around. I just usually leave it off because itโ€™s takes a lot. The server doesnโ€™t handle it super well. Trying to look for a more stable solution but been extremely busy of late so havenโ€™t had any time. ๐Ÿ˜“

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Link to the Archive page not working. We didn't lose it did we?

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Caught me at a good time. ๐Ÿ˜‰

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soco
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I was not sure myself. That is why I wanted other eyes on it too. Thanks for the fast response.๐Ÿ˜‹

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Hm. While it uses a few offensive words, I donโ€™t think that post is otherwise NSFW? Especially since bad words are censored any way.

Unless my skimming has failed me and I completely missed something. ๐Ÿ˜„

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And sorry for the slow response. ๐Ÿ˜‰

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Got it. ๐Ÿ˜„
Thank you for letting me know!

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soco
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Top of home page when you have a minute. I'm not clicking on it....

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Missed your shout somehow. ๐Ÿ˜ž

Lucky you! If I wake up after the sun has risen, I can't go back to sleep. Need crazy blackout curtains for my room, as even the slightest break of light will wake me up and then I stay up. ๐Ÿ˜„

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soco
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3 dogs. They all seem to need to relieve themselves at the same time. Frankly, I go right back to sleep. Up now watching the French Open.

Roccoflip
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Sweet!

Why are you up so early? O.o

I havenโ€™t done anything yet. It seems to to be an intermittent problem. I made a few changes that helped a bit, but still a few more to resolve. ๐Ÿ˜Š

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soco
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Page reload rate much better this morning. (4:48 EST)

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I wasnโ€™t born there. I was born here. My parents/ancestors were all born there. Iโ€™m first generation from here (America).

And yes, I think the post pages are going very slow. I believe itโ€™s related to the issues of downtime over the past few days but havenโ€™t had the time to look into it yet. :(

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soco
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And until today I did not know you were born in South Africa! Welcome to America.

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On my tablet that is.

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Are shouts on a different Server or different partition than the rest of the site? No issues here at all but on posts it is very slow to refresh.

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soco
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That I'm aware of...

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Yep! And shouts are editable now, too. ๐Ÿ˜‰

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soco
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Did I do it right?

Roccoflip
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I understand that feeling completely.

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soco
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Years ago I could have made that decision. Today not so much. I just hate not knowing.

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soco wrote:

Sherlock wrote:
A cautionary tale.

We had a lovely person on the old Help.com. She had some real medical problems. The medical doctors in her area were idiots. One of them spread a false report about her, so she wasn't taken seriously by the other doctors. I advised her to go to the Mayo Clinic.

She died. And her death was directly attributable to the incompetent doctors she had seen.

Was this Daft Punk, Sherlock? There was discussion at one time to have an In Memorium page both here and helptogo at one point. How 'bout it @Rockster160

Easy to do on my end. Just need to know what it would be/look like/do.

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Yeah, that's why it's taken me so long to fix it. ๐Ÿ˜„

He was more mentioning the ability to re-subscribe to posts you've explicitly unsubscribed from, and/or being able to see which posts those were.

And he's been very helpful in finding and identifying bugs. I like to make sure people know the change requests are heard. ๐Ÿ˜‰

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soco
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Still, Help2.0 works very very well. No one visits the subscription page but once. Once signed in you're good to proceed.
If it ain't broke...

Roccoflip
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๐Ÿ˜ณ

Big Al gave me some pointers on the subscription page- one of the ones I did myself- and it was pretty embarrassing. ๐Ÿ˜… I keep meaning to get it fixed.

Iโ€™m sure there are a few other pages that are messed up a lot- specifically in the account sections. The โ€œfriendsโ€ page is probably all wrong. ๐Ÿ˜‚

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soco
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If You say so.
We can talk about the mess in the bathroom later...

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Haha. No way!
99% from the Wayback Machine.

I filled in pages the way back machine didnโ€™t have, like most of the account pages. A few of those were available, luckily. And other users had screenshots of a couple other pages for some reason. ๐Ÿ˜„

I make things ugly when Iโ€™m left on my own. ๐Ÿ˜…

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soco
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Take a look around. What you did here is 99% from your memory. What more proof do you want?

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I was looking through some of my posts- and at one point I was talking about how great my memory was.... I donโ€™t remember ever having a good memory.

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That's what I get for growing old.

Of all the things I miss the most, it is my mind.

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Ohhhh. I think I know what youโ€™re talking about. That wasnโ€™t LittleNick. ๐Ÿ˜‰

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I think youโ€™re remembering 10 years ago. ๐Ÿ˜‚

I just glanced through some of his last moments here and he never mentioned anything like that... That I can find. ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

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