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  2. Just wanted to give an update on this thread, as unfortunately we do seem to need to come in here and clean house quite often.

    RobertMBlevins was timed out in the past and asked to keep the content topical. He agreed to these rules, but has clearly not abided by them. In turn we have banned this user permanently. 

    This forum IS supposed to be a little bit more relaxed in what is moderated. But that doesn't mean one can hijack it and post completely off-topic posts. If you want to discuss your personal lives, there's private messages you can use. We definitely want the discussion to revolve around this case and theories related to it. Not what you ate for dinner the previous night.

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  3. Just to give some input here and explain our approach.

    When we took Basejumper offline, we retained the complete database and server files. We knew we needed to take Basejumper offline, but also knew that we may want to make the site archived in some way or another going forward, once we had the resources to do so. 

    Technically, the republication of the site content on other websites is in breach of the copyright (as was always outlined in the T&Cs of Basejumper.com). With that said, we're not going to go after anyone here. We can appreciate that the site was important to a lot of people and that the republication of the content, while technically not legal - was done with good intentions (it would be different if we saw that it was done with the intent to profit from it).

    We are, however, going to upload this archive to Dropzone.com as well. As mentioned above - this was always something that we planned to do. Since we knew we owned the content, and knew that it was something that was desired by the community. 

    The fact that you went through the effort to preserve it, makes it more viable for us to piggyback off that process and bring what you did across to Dropzone.

    We do realize that this initial archive, being the one grabbed in this discussion may not be fully complete. But knowing more about the process and the fact that there may be missing elements. I would be interested to (credit to @dmcoco84 for pushing the narrative) hear about what all is lost and perhaps even touch base with @platypii privately to see what we can do together to see if a full archive is able to be created. I can't make any promises - but it's something that I'll try and get a bit involved in and see what we can do.

    But again - this should be seen as something that we can't dedicate huge amounts of resources to - but something that we can investigate a little further to see what we can do.

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  4. A lot of forum software that used to offer these types of views have moved away from it due to the adoption of a pagination based forum view. We did like a few of the bits and pieces the old software provided, but the new software doesn't support these view changes.

  6. Just to comment on this. We've backed up the entire site internally, both the site files and the database. So it is theoretically possible for us to work on this data at some point and try do something with it. We do want to have it archived in some manner, it's just the process to do so is a very costly and time-consuming one. So we've still got to get scope of what's realistically possible.

    The BASE forums are on the same software as the old Dropzone forums, which took us an unbelievable amount of time and investment in order to migrate due to the lack of automated migration tools for that forum software, everything needed to be manually programmed by a hired freelance developer.

    I did just want to reiterate that we do have the data, Basejumper.com will be switched off in a few minutes, but the actual site data won't be completely lost in absolute. And we do hope to find a way forward for that data.

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    We've made the decision to shut down Basejumper.com - as it's no longer viable to maintain the website. In turn we've re-activated this BASE forum to allow future BASE related discussions to be had on Dropzone.com again. We've also moved older posts to an archive subforum to clear way for new discussions.

    Initially, this forum was closed to allow for Basejumper.com to be the primary source of BASE discussions.

     

  9. We've removed several posts from this thread. And while we can respect why the discussion took the route it did, please keep this forum tied to preserving the memory of the individual, instead of berating their choices - no matter how bad they may be to your eyes.

    You're welcome to take Covid/Anti-Vax related topics to the Speakers Corner - but this isn't the place for us to try use someone's life choices as a lesson, or to berate them.

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  10. 21 hours ago, JeffBarlow said:

    Hi there.

    Thank you for getting back to me - appreciate it and I'm attaching the screenshot with the Error message I'm getting while attaching the image to the ad. And also an example of the image itself that i can't attach that i had no probs with attaching in the past. Anything else i can be any assistance of - plz don't hesitate to contact me or just post here.

    Thank you,

    Jeff

    DZ.com Issue.jpg

    Hey Jeff,

    Off the bat, I notice that there is a special character in that filename. As a first step to remedy, I'd recommend removing the ' character from the filename. And attempting again... If it causes an error again drop me a DM and I'll send you an email address you can reach me at.

  11. Good day,

    We had an issue with system emails after our moving to a different host. The problem you encountered was that the emails were being sent to a spam quarantine section. After working through this with the host, they then released all the emails. So you may have gotten a bunch of emails that had been sitting in the quarantine.

    The 404 error may be related to expiration of the URL. Often, system generated emails that contain unique URLs (Like are sometimes used for passwords) may expire.

    I would suggest trying to do a password reset again from the site, now with the email fixed, you should get the reset email immediately. If you do still have issues then, please let me know so I can further investigate.

  12. Good day,

    Apologies for the delay on getting to this, to be honest there were a few issues that I was working on resolving due to the hosting (system emails and ability to review items). Those have been resolved now and allowed me to focus on this.

    Could you please attach any/some images that give the error to a post in this thread using the same filename. This will allow me to investigate further. My immediate suspicion would be something like a filename that contains special characters.

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    Apologies for the downtime without much warning. We moved to a new host with some improved resources, we're hoping this can resolve some of the intermittent downtime that users have been experiencing for a while. While we've tested a number of pages, if you notice anything out of place since the server move - just drop me a DM.

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  14. On 5/8/2021 at 5:13 PM, IanHarrop said:

    Do you have the ability on the host to set a cron task? If so I found this:

    To keep things up and running automatically after a crash, I use a simple cronjob to check and restart MySQL if it is down.
    Load the crontab editor in the terminal with crontab -e and add the following line:
    * * * * * service mysql status > /dev/null || service mysql start
    This checks if MySQL is running every minute and redirects stdout to null.

    https://mhagemann.medium.com/how-to-auto-restart-mysql-when-it-crashes-during-a-brute-force-attack-d7a03b726b7e

    Unfortunately we're unable to do any individual MySQL work. The hosting company that we use are in the process of transitioning to another company, and they do not offer the ability to setup Crons, nor do they allow one to adjust the max_connections to the MySQL server.

    At this point the only way for us to resolve it is to move the entire site to a different hosting provided, which is a bit of a pain. But we're looking into this now, as we do want to ensure there is no downtime from MySQL timeouts on the server side.

  15. This is something we've looked into - perhaps we should again. We try to do a sweep of the forums each morning and remove any spammers, but occasionally it does seem to get out of hand.

    Your suggestion is a good one though, will have to see if there's a way to do this within the CMS we're using.

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    We recently realized that despite our hundreds of articles on the website, we're really lacking on anything comprehensive on swooping. If you or someone you know are interesting in writing something for the website, please drop me a DM and we can discuss further. We're going to be looking for something that covers everything from the fundamentals through to the risks, the competitive scene etc.

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    Hey guys,

    We had to upgrade our software today in order to resolve some issues. It's often a challenging task to perform these upgrades and subsequently test all pages on such a large site. While we've done our best at testing each section and making sure it's still working as expected, we ask that should you encounter any problems over the next few days, please do let us know so we can attend to it (screenshots and describing the actions taken and errors occurred are always helpful), thanks!

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  21. On 1/8/2020 at 4:03 PM, sfzombie13 said:

    thanx.  that helps a little but when i turn on reverse mode it still messes with the contrast.  it is fine if you use the white background but reversing it is hell to get it tweaked right.  usually i drop websites that do this but i like this one for some reason.

    Huh? What do you mean reverse mode? Are you inverting the colors? While in the end it's your choice, white text on black background on websites has been a huge no in the design world for a while now. It increases eye strain and reduces the experience. Modern website designs focus heavily on subtle contrast that is easy on the eye while still being visible. But we will never be able to cater to reversing colors, as it's a miniscule minority who use that type of view. 

  24. On 10/21/2019 at 6:20 PM, wolfriverjoe said:

    Title: Post numbers

    Section: Forums
    Description: The old system had numbers for each post. So someone could refer to 'post #25' when discussing a subject. The multi-quote function does make this a bit less necessary, but it would be nice to have back.

    This was something easy enough to do. Post numbers will now show in the top right of posts.

  25. 8 hours ago, muff528 said:

    With the old site I could see a list of topics to which I made a comment ..most recent activity to oldest.  Not topics I started and not a list of my posts, both of which are accessible now.  I referred to that list often and sometimes I made a random comment in an interesting topic just so it would appear in that list.  It was fairly easy to search for, and find, what I was looking for.  Don't know if that would be useful enough to anyone else.  Also, wolfriverjoe's suggestion about referring to post numbers was useful, as was showing the quotes and to whom within a thread that someone was responding.  That made following a thread more coherent. Oh, and the thing about the older pics/attachments, too.

    Thanks for the feedback. We actually still have the functionality, where you can track custom streams of information. With the new system you're able to create a custom feed or use a generic feed such as content you posted or posted in. For the latter you can go here: https://www.dropzone.com/discover/content-started/ (It can be accessed under Activity on the menu under "more")

    On that page you can select exactly what you want to see in the feed, by default it will show you all content that you've participated in. You can then also refine it to only show items you haven't seen yet, change the period of time you want to see and how you want it sorted.

    Perhaps we should change the location of these features, because they were intended to be used as a core part of tracking items. But we have the activity area a bit hidden... There's a lot one can use the activity streams for in refining specific data.