The Forums are back and upgraded to the latest version of phpBB.
The website seems to be stable, with indexing of search words now underway. This looks like it will take a day or 2 to build.
Now we are looking to bring back the banner ads of our sponsors using the latest version of our chosen banner ad system. Please look out for developments here later this week
Hi folks, this is it. We are upgrading to the latest version of phpBB this week
We’ll try to get this up to a basic installation in the next day or so. Please be patient and direct your questions and suggestions to us at admin (at) forumosa.com or posting here
Looks like our server has gone down for a few hours. We’ll check in with our webhost, and hope we can avoid whatever is causing this in the future
EDIT: The problem resolved after 6 ours. We are looking into its cause and will keep you posted
Tagged server down, webhostingYesterday, our webserver needed to be rebooted. This caused the outage that kept all of our websites down for a good part of the day.
We’ve asked our web host to give us more notice the next time they feel a server reboot like this is necessary
Hi folks,
Our webserver went down around 2:30 pm Taiwan Standard Time. We are investigating and will hopefully get things back up shortly.
In the meantime, don’t forget that you can post at TaiwanHo - www.taiwanho.com/talk
Cheers
gus.
We are rebuilding the Keyword Search table - which is an index of ALL the words used on Forumosa. The search function checks this table when you run a search to give you all the possible discussions on Forumosa that have what you are looking for
When we started our Reboot process back in July, we emptied this table - it’s the largest part of the database. Even though it will slowly be rebuilt with each post that is made, for a website the size of Forumosa, it would take a long time. Using this Rebuild Process, we will be back to our July levels (plus 3 months worth of posting) in a few days.
This will mean a slowdown in performance (speed) of the website.
The Rebuild will begin at 5:00 pm today - Friday 28 Sep
As part of our preparations to reboot the forums, we are clearing the Key Word database of the forum search function. This will severely hamper the search function. So if you do try to search the forums, the results may not be very meaningful.
We will rebuild the Key Word database after the new forum code is in place. Please bear with us in the meantime
ADDED 11 SEP 2007
Please note: the forum search can work, it just may not cover all the possible keywords. It’s worth giving it a go before simply starting up a new discussion on something that has been discussed at length before.
The greatest asset of the Forumosa community is the vast wealth of experience that is stored, parsed, criticized and affirmed inside. Think you’ve just encountered a unique Only In Taiwan moment? Think again (and try searching for it before posting)
We’re restarting fresh - but keeping the same database of discussions - and plan a simpler forum by the beginning of August.
If you do not see your favorite function back after we “reboot” the forums, don’t worry - just let us know. It will eventually make it back.
We cannot dedicate a technical team to work on the forums, so we’ll continue to tweak the website as we always have