Eight months on the attack site list

R.G. · Post by **R.G.** » Tue Mar 01, 2016 2:41 pm

The attack page listing happened sometime in the first week of June, 2015. The Amp Garage has been on it for eight months now.

Ron Worley · Post by **Ron Worley** » Wed Mar 02, 2016 12:38 am

And it's a royal PITA.

Post by **xtian** » Wed Mar 02, 2016 1:39 am

It really, really would be better without the warnings.

Like RG and others, I am totally willing to help with time, money, expertise. (I've been a webmaster for 24 years).

JazzGuitarGimp · Post by **JazzGuitarGimp** » Wed Mar 02, 2016 3:32 am

R.G.

If it were going to get fixed, it would have happened by now. Probably best to just accept it for what it is. Seems to me like you're spending a lot of negative energy on this...

Regards,
Lou

Post by **xtian** » Wed Mar 02, 2016 3:35 am

We might could "accept" the current condition, except that we were told it was being fixed, in one of the rare communications we've had on the issue.

JazzGuitarGimp · Post by **JazzGuitarGimp** » Wed Mar 02, 2016 3:49 am

Yes, we were told, but there is no physical evidence to suggest we were truthfully told.

Phil_S · Post by **Phil_S** » Wed Mar 02, 2016 4:07 am

I'd certainly be willing to help save the place. Lot's of nice folks here with common interests. It's a rare gem. Just tell me what I can do!

R.G. · Post by **R.G.** » Wed Mar 02, 2016 3:40 pm

JazzGuitarGimp wrote:If it were going to get fixed, it would have happened by now. Probably best to just accept it for what it is. Seems to me like you're spending a lot of negative energy on this...

Depends on your viewpoint, I guess.

I actually think the place is worth saving, and I've volunteered time and knowledge, such as I have, to helping. In lieu of being able to donate that, I'm doing the only thing I can do - keep the issue being thought about in a factual, realistic way. I consider that if it does not get talked about, it certainly won't get fixed.

In fact, as I've already posted, it probably won't anyway. I agree with you that if it were going to get fixed, it would most likely have happened already. But training your friends to ignore attack software notices does them no favors, here or other places.

So I point out the situation in a factual, non-confrontational way, which is how I intended my comments.

I've seen negative energy on the web before, the ranting, raving, personal attacks, lambasting hyperbole, trolling and general lunacy that makes some sites get to be unusable. In my mind, pointing out how to improve something that already has some good points isn't negative, it's very positive.

Littlewyan · Post by **Littlewyan** » Wed Mar 02, 2016 8:42 pm

I do get the feeling that a lot of people are avoiding this site because of the warnings. I'm not sure what Allyn's intentions are. It seems to be quite rare we hear from him nowadays so I guess hes pretty busy.

Post by **HeeBGB** » Wed Mar 02, 2016 11:21 pm

OK! At the risk of being capt obvious, I know some of you are frustrated. Mainly because of the site issues but also because of the lack of updates on what is happening. I myself haven't spoken to Allyn in over 8 months.

At any rate, I was able to speak with Allyn today so here is an update.

First, the bad....

We are going to have to endure the warnings for a bit longer.

Now the good!

I currently have copies of phpBB 2.0.19 (our current version) and the latest version running on a local server here at home. I do not have the database so they are blank forums. Allyn is hopefully going to get me a backup that I can load onto my home server to produce a running mirror of TAG. Once we have a running mirror we will try to upgrade the mirror to the current version of phpBB. If all this works we can then upload the updated mirror to the server and hopefully put all this crap behind us.

Just please be a little more patient

Post by **xtian** » Wed Mar 02, 2016 11:44 pm

Thank you for the update!!!

Ron Worley · Post by **Ron Worley** » Thu Mar 03, 2016 12:52 am

Right on Greg, this would be a great improvement on the current experience.

Bob S · Post by **Bob S** » Thu Mar 03, 2016 1:50 am

That's good news - Thank You!
Do let us know if we can help in any way. A lot of us would like to contribute what we can to keep our tiny corner of the Internet safe & sound.
Thanks again,
Bob

Teleguy61 · Post by **Teleguy61** » Thu Mar 03, 2016 5:13 pm

Thank you Greg and Allyn, and I echo other folks that if contributions are needed to help defray update costs, I'm in.

R.G. · Post by **R.G.** » Mon Mar 14, 2016 2:26 pm

HeeBGB wrote:I currently have copies of phpBB 2.0.19 (our current version) and the latest version running on a local server here at home. I do not have the database so they are blank forums. Allyn is hopefully going to get me a backup that I can load onto my home server to produce a running mirror of TAG. Once we have a running mirror we will try to upgrade the mirror to the current version of phpBB. If all this works we can then upload the updated mirror to the server and hopefully put all this crap behind us.

Just please be a little more patient

So how's it going?

The Amp Garage

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