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YES!!!! I am still alive! It's great we can still communicate here.
Has anyone been able to contact Spade to see what the problem is?
i hope its not some kiddies DDOS'ing the site
If I could make a suggestion, having seen this sort of thing in the past, it would be wise to make a point right now of identifying ANOTHER online location where everyone can meet up if this one meets with problems too. I actually don't have any suggestions, but if anyone does, perhaps it would be prudent for everyone to bookmark it and then you'll always know where to go if aliensight or this sight become unavailable.
good point, at the moment we are outsourcing the forum so that wiki and forum will be hosted separately
I think Kurtley has some way to contact Spade. Let's hope our people find out about this site, and let's hope the Aliensight server is not wiped out…
I'm glad we still have somewhere to communicate.
My first thought was oh noooo, what's going to happen to all our friends!
Lucky we have this wikidot!!
Hope the site can get back up soon.
Wonder what happened?
I'd like to know too!
Has anyone been able to contact Spade yet? It's strange he hasn't came here yet to let us know what's up. Even if his computer is screwed up he must know someone who has a computer he could use for a few minutes to come on here to give us some info. Even if he doesn't have any friends with a computer there is always the library or an internet cafe. Does anyone know if he has a youtube or FaceBook account? If so does anyone have a link? Or at least go and see if there is any activity of him there…..
I'm really starting to get worried about him. I hope all is well with him.
still alive! hope spade is alright.. good thing that this site is up so we can still be in contact with each other. not totally lost!
Is Spade on the wiki?
Hmm not yet. I remember him complaining about his username already being taken in wikidot. ThePolishedKnob put out a message in his channel redirecting people over here, so he will eventually show up. I don't know if Kurtley or others have a direct contact with him.
We'll just have to wait I suppose.
Hey everyone, It feels like forever since we have all spoken. I hate to say this but I have no way of contacting Spade outside of AS. Which means I too have no idea what is happening.
well uhm…doesnt alex have ways of contacting him?
I don't know, but Alex has been informed about our temp hangout and I asked him to post the info on his channel.
hi all spade's youtube channel is practice, ive just commented him. i thing everyone should comment or message him there too to get his attention or something:S hopefully he will see them and respond give us the recent update etc.
ufoaliens - Could you post a link to it or send the link to Db so he can post it?
youtube(dot)com/user/practice/feed?filter=2
By now Alex should be well aware. BUT what gets me the most is why there has been no word spoken on what the hell is going on? The lack of communication is high and unsettling.
So true there, Kurt.
I don't know if this is recent, but I think I remember reading something Spade said that he was studying for exams or something? I could be completely wrong! lol
It's been ..what? 2 weeks now. Even if he was studying for exams I'm sure he would have taken breaks to check out his forum by now. And I'm sure he would have added Alex to his YouTube account and would see that we are here in wiki waiting for info. I think something may have happened…. MIB got to him and his computer? Accident? I really hope not. Anyway it's really not looking good. :(
The question now is do we continue here and make this our official AlienSight forum now or do we set up another forum? I think Spade was using his computer as a server to host the AlienSight Forum. If his computer had a serious crash then the Alien Sight is gone, unless he backed it up on a DVD.
If we do decide to get another forum it should be a free forum and have someone host it on a free website and not use their computer to host the forum/site. This way it would be more protected and we should have at least 2 people with the password to be able to get in in case something happens to one of them.
I am not an expert and know only basic html but I have set up websites and forums before. I could go and get a website and set it up and get a new forum going on it. Of course someone else can do this if they have more experience then I do. Or if someone is willing to pay for a site and forum then they could set it all up.
Anyway, we have to decide what to do. Being in limbo is not good and AlienSite will not advance. We have already lost a lot of members. :(
So what do we do? Do we continue to wait, stay here and use this as our new forum or set up a new AlienSight site?
I really don't know what we should do here… I am lost for words… One minute we have an awesome community going with great feedback and information about every single thing that goes on and then we get thrown out to the cold? But for what reason.. Anyway. I think the wiki the guys have made will come in handy now (Kudos to you). Lets see if we can build back towards getting things the way they were.
Thanks Kurtley :)
I think that if we work a bit to bring old & new people to this site we can keep the community alive and grow bigger than before. Right now it's a free service, I listed it under "educational" and we got some extra free space. If necessary ill be more than glad to dish out a few bucks to keep us going.
From this moment on my new video channel "UFO.Disbeliever" will point to the wiki. As well as all my new videos.
Hi Lyra! I think it would be a good idea for someone here to set up a free ALTERNATIVE site for aliensight members. It's always possible something could happen to this one, and should the other one stay down or go down again, it will be the first place everyone will know to go. Just a thought, but I have been through this kind of thing before! On previous occasions we've even seen everyone meet up at a completely different online forum actually, who agreed to allow us a meeting place, in exchange for a reciprocal agreement should the same thing ever happen to them.
I recommend using this site- www.servage.net (Cant post links yet)
I had a Domain before but its in limbo due to i couldn't manage the payments, so its frozen atm, but i could reactivate it or acquire a new one. This site is pretty amazing with what they give you in storage and other features, and quite cheaply to.
only thing i noticed while using this site is we need to be strict and aware of any Copyright infringements in uploads to personal storage(FTP) etc as they are very strict on this- 3 strikes and they shut you down.Also as any Help desk is they are pretty useless for the most part. But i`d say they make that up with features.
To mention they didn't have a shared account system last i used it. So Payments should go through a shared Paypal and with those of us we can trust to operate it. While on the topic i also wanted to suggest for us to perhaps setup a company, which don't have to pay taxes and put ourselves as employees with no payments- Not sure how to do the latter but we can think of something.
We Should also setup a Jointly run Aliensight Ytube channel.
What do you guys think?
At the moment our Aliensight wiki has 25 Gb storage space. Of course when I chose this service I wasn't looking for a forum hosting one because I wasnt expecting AS to collapse. The good side of this forum is that it's integrated with all the wiki pages, which can be commented and discussed in special threads. Of course if you are not comfortable with this forum type I can set up a free external forum system and embed it here. I would prefer to keep everything in one place. If the "Aliensight.com" domain becomes available we can link it here.
Let me know…
I think that would be a good idea if you could get an external free forum and embed it here. The way it is now that 25 GB will fill up fast if we are also using it as our forum and once we start adding pic, audio and video's we will get tight for space. Then it's going to be hell trying to decide which posts to delete to make more room for new stuff. I think we should save wiki 25 GB for our documents and research.
And again I would suggest that you give the ID and password to the forum to a second person you trust so they can get in, just as a backup, if you're out of commission for a while. I was checking out forums this morning and some places said that if the owner does not log into their main site at least once every two months they will close down the forum. They were not talking about logging into the forum but the host site that gave you the free forum. Plus the ones I check gave you 100 GB. The only problem with free forums is most of them adding stupid advertisements. :(
Could you list those you checked which gave you 100Gb?
IF we are able to shell out 6-7 euros a Month, through a jointly run Paypal- this site could be a valid option though for future usage. We`d need someone knowing a little about Networking programming though. But check it out and let me know what you guys think about the site domain service they provide. - www.servage.net
Me personally i love the features.
check this one out, no limits, no ads.
http://www.phpbb3now.com/
That is one I looked at this morning and it looked Really Great, - no ads, - unlimited bandwidth, - no limits of post, members and size, etc.. I liked the dark purple one, the Playstation.
What had me a little iffy about this one is I went to their support forum and there was only one message posted and when I went in to check it there was a General Error Message. SQL ERROR [ mysql4 ]Table './purifying_psi/spf_topics' is marked as crashed and last (automatic?) repair failed [144]
An SQL error occurred while fetching this page. Please contact the Board Administrator if this problem persists.
So this scared me off since their own forum was having errors, though I think I would have tried it anyway. :)
Edited to add -
Ok, I created a fake forum to test it out and it seems to work great. So if you want to get a forum from them then I think it would be ok. :D