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GodisanAtheist

GodisanAtheist

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Red Squirrel said:
@igor_kavinski @GodisanAtheist I send a test email from my personal email just to test the gmail fiasco. My personal email server is on a different IP than the server being used by the forum so curious if it goes through. According to logs it did. Also your account is active, I did it manually for now. Still need to sort out the forum sending mail to gmail.

I may look at offloading that to a 3rd party if worse comes to worse. Google doesn't really like small guys hosting their own mail it seems. Good way to convince people to use their cloud services lol.
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- Logged in and posted. @Red Squirrel might be a nut, but most gentlemen and scholars are in my experience.

Hats off.
 
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Red Squirrel

Red Squirrel

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One issue I'm sorting out is the post approval, suppose to only do it once or twice but it seems to sometimes require manual intervention to move to the next group. Bare with me with that.
 
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Red Squirrel said:
@igor_kavinski @GodisanAtheist I send a test email from my personal email just to test the gmail fiasco. My personal email server is on a different IP than the server being used by the forum so curious if it goes through. According to logs it did. Also your account is active, I did it manually for now. Still need to sort out the forum sending mail to gmail.

I may look at offloading that to a 3rd party if worse comes to worse. Google doesn't really like small guys hosting their own mail it seems. Good way to convince people to use their cloud services lol.
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Of course I also signed up with a gmail and never received the activation e-mail. Please manually approve my account then I'll attempt to login using my credentials. Thanks!
 
Red Squirrel

Red Squirrel

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JujuFish said:
I just signed up and also no activation email.
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You should be able to login with the initial password you made. The password reset links keep bouncing, google not playing nice with me and refuse to unblock my server so gmail doesn't work. Activated the account manually.
 
JujuFish

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Red Squirrel said:
You should be able to login with the initial password you made. The password reset links keep bouncing, google not playing nice with me and refuse to unblock my server so gmail doesn't work. Activated the account manually.
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Can't log in. I use a password manager, so I know the password is correct, but it tells me it's not.
 
GodisanAtheist

GodisanAtheist

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@Red Squirrel you might have already addressed this but what's the deal with requiring a mod approval for any post? Does that go away after I get a couple posts under my belt?
 
Red Squirrel

Red Squirrel

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It's suppose to go away after like the first post and your account is good now, but sometimes it takes longer. Every time I try it in test it works flawlessly then in prod it acts up. Sometimes I have to manually move users to new group. Just having that option turned on has eliminated pretty much all spammers, they don't even bother trying.
 
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Thunder 57

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It was working yesterday, just slow. What a terrible loss of a wealth of data. It's a new month so that might have something to do with it.
 
mknott

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snoopy7548 said:
Is it just me, or does the main site no longer exist? www.anandtech.com simply redirects to forums.anandtech.com... :eek:


EDIT: I tried accessing the Bench page from a Google search result, and it redirects to Tom's Hardware. Is it 100% dead?

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For context not making a post here was my decision based on how little traffic we were seeing and how the last discussion on the homepage was taking place a few months ago. Waiting to respond to any questions was also based on how the main concerns we received involved the forums and as there was no impact we didn't want to create that concern. Given the Wayback Machine was still providing a place to look at content on the shuttered main site, I genuinely believed that this was the best way to handle things without causing wider concern given the level of use and discussion.

The website has been in maintenance for a year now with no new content and with such little discussion surrounding it we didn't want to create more concern about the forum by making an announcement or updating the thread about it being taken offline. I forgot that out of every possibility online the one you don't consider is the one which will happen.

We plan on keeping the forums open and have no plans to take them down, we have been in maintenance mode since last year, so we can't dedicate resources to major improvements but we try and resolve issues - we're up front with that, we don't want to disturb discussion. If there are any changes to those plans we have a minimum 30 day heads up, but it is not a discussion that is taking place at all right now.
 
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igor_kavinski

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mknott said:
Given the Wayback Machine was still providing a place to look at content on the shuttered main site
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www.anandtech.com is now redirecting to forums.anandtech.com so after a while, the main AT page would disappear from Wayback Machine and would only be accessible if someone knew to visit the snapshot taken on 31st July 2025. Wouldn't it be better to leave the original shutdown annoucement post at Anandtech.com and let new visitors know that they can access the website on Wayback Machine?

I think Anandtech stands pretty much alone with its wealth of information covering the past two decades of personal computing. For people who never knew about it or who might be curious to read about how things were back in the day, it would be a sad loss if it became harder and harder to access that information. Google will eventually replace its cache of original AT pages too, though not sure how their data retention of old websites works.
 
mknott

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igor_kavinski said:
www.anandtech.com is now redirecting to forums.anandtech.com so after a while, the main AT page would disappear from Wayback Machine and would only be accessible if someone knew to visit the snapshot taken on 31st July 2025. Wouldn't it be better to leave the original shutdown annoucement post at Anandtech.com and let new visitors know that they can access the website on Wayback Machine?

I think Anandtech stands pretty much alone with its wealth of information covering the past two decades of personal computing. For people who never knew about it or who might be curious to read about how things were back in the day, it would be a sad loss if it became harder and harder to access that information. Google will eventually replace its cache of original AT pages too, though not sure how their data retention of old websites works.
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I'm not sure either, it's how I've always viewed older sites when I wanted to check in on places I spent my wayward youth, but I've never looked beyond my usage if that makes sense.

I will look into it more though. Thanks for understanding and I agree with you that preserving history online is important and will only get more important as time goes on.
 
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Red Squirrel said:
IMO I would have kept the home page as is with message that it's no longer being updated but the data is being kept for historical purposes, or something like that.
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I think the issue is that the hosting server is/was different for anandtech.com and they pulled the plug since it was basically under-utilized. I wish it could be hosted on the forums server as a subdomain like old.anandtech.com and a link on the forums front page could lead to the basically static anandtech.com pages. I'm almost sure that the main AT website content pales in size compared to the forum's storage requirements.
 
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