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Post by Pete on Sept 20, 2017 23:36:03 GMT
This afternoon I attempted to visit it & after clicking-on its URL I got a screen that stated that my browser was being checked. Then I was taken to the group. But, it was stripped of all graphics, nothing here but black text on a white background. All buttons were reduced to the word on them, like Home, Help, Search etc.
Tried reloading the group several times, same thing except for my last attempt when a new screen appeared stating something like: Proboards can't display this group due to a server problem, that they were aware of it & were working to fix it.
Anyone else see that?
It's OK now though, back to normal.
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Post by Sandy on Sept 21, 2017 0:20:53 GMT
Pete, I had trouble accessing the group earlier today, but saw nothing like you described. The screen I got was one I've seen before, but can't remember well enough to describe it. Guess, I'll make some notes next time it happens. I seem to remember that it features a large drawing of a man acknowledging a temporary issue.
But heck, what you described would scare the piss out of me, most especially the comment that my browser was being checked. I would think that my computer was the target of malware, or something ominous.
Anyhow, I know that there was a problem accessing this group earlier today.
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Post by nquale on Sept 21, 2017 1:03:38 GMT
Pete I got the same message earlier though it was only there for a couple seconds so I barely had time to read it. Anyway I was then taken to the group and everything loaded ok.
I assume it was a browser sniffer but unsure why this forum would have one---hmmm I take that back, if it sniffed a cellphone or android browser it would probably load a friendlier version of this group to those. That could be why you didn't see any graphics, it might of seen your linux? pc as an android instead of pc.
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Post by david on Sept 21, 2017 2:03:40 GMT
I got the same thing when going to Phil's forum a bunch of times today. Then I would end up at a page that looked like it was made for mobile phones.
I came back hours later and things seemed to be cleared up. I am glad I did not try this group at that time. I would have pulled my hair out.
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Post by Wyz on Sept 21, 2017 4:46:24 GMT
I got it several times today; it reminded me of a stripped down Webtv page of old. I experienced it on only one of my Fire Tablets and on this laptop.
Glad to hear it was their end and not mine. Whew
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Post by Hank on Sept 21, 2017 4:48:15 GMT
when I saw it I remembered their ads!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2017 6:45:41 GMT
I saw the stripped down site, which reminded me of when I used to use mobile phone browsers in the waning days of WebTV to make pages load faster. I didn't see any message, though.
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Post by Pete on Sept 21, 2017 8:48:26 GMT
Well, whatever was going on I hope it doesn't happen often--it made this group virtually impossible to navigate. Like trying to find a word in a bowl of alphabet soup.
And yes Nancy, my laptop uses a version of Linux as its OS: Ubuntu.
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Post by david on Sept 21, 2017 11:04:07 GMT
So far this morning everything is running like it suppose too.
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Post by qwinntz on Sept 21, 2017 16:57:24 GMT
Not with me; ProBoards just lost a posting answer to Pete's Amazon Glasses thread.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2017 20:01:07 GMT
I didn't even try to navigate this board while it was in its stripped down state. I figured it would clear up eventually, which it did. :-)
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Post by Pete on Sept 21, 2017 23:28:10 GMT
David, you mentioned Phil's group.His group has always looked stripped-down to me. No graphics at all. But I don't mind 'cause all I do there is read.
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Post by david on Sept 21, 2017 23:58:49 GMT
No, the two groups are the same to me. One has eagle the other has scorpion.
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Post by nquale on Sept 23, 2017 0:56:26 GMT
Pete Phil's group isn't stripped down for me so I'm assuming the browser sniffer is seeing your pc as an android and it's giving you the android friendly version of Phil's group. I caught a screenshot of the sniffer page. I got this first then the notice that freeforums were down.
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Post by Pete on Sept 23, 2017 8:12:57 GMT
Nancy, yeah, that's the sniffer page I saw in this group the other day.
They ought to fix it since it apparently sees my Firefox browser as Android.
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