What Happened to this Phorum?

[schillingfan]

Facepalm reason: the server ran out of disk space. Compounded with the fact that I was camping in an area with little to no cell service.

Sorry for the outage, but it is nice to be reminded how much people care about this place!

Exactly what I figured - the server had an issue and you were on vacation and unable to fix it. It sure was a reminder of how much I rely on this forum.

[DurhamBull]

Me too, even though I hardly ever post. Thanks for all you do to provide this space for us.

[phillychuck]

Chris, thanks for helping us out! Glad you could find extra disk space (somehow)...

[Patchmk88]

Man I was checking back multiple times a day to see when we’d be back. Few things I realized/thought when site was down.

1. Realized how much I enjoy/rely on the automated Gameday threads. There are times I can’t watch and follow along and I really like going through the game day threads and catching up from the beginning. I go into them not knowing the score and it is much more refreshing looking at the play by play to get myself caught up as opposed to opening the MLB app and seeing the current score before catching myself up. I like the unknown and step by step rather than getting all the information at once.

2. After the first two Dodgers losses, my superstitious nature wanted to blame it on the site being down. Couldn’t do that anymore after the win yesterday.

[fish]

We should set up a place to meet when this happens to check in- a back alley, the dark web...or twitter. one of those nefarious outlets.

[bigegypt0417]

This is the only place i talk about the philllies and i'm very thankful to have it back! kudos to those who have made this great place for us to chat!

19 years!

[HopeSpringsEternal]

Sorry for the outage, but it is nice to be reminded how much people care about this place!

Thanks for your efforts to keep this forum going!

I thought it was down due to a cyber attack by the NY Mets renegade fan forum.

[LoneStarPhan]

I join those who floundered while watching the Dodger losses without this forum to vent and to read the comments from the other faithful Phillies phans.

I assumed there was a glitch somewhere and that our generous and rarely seen host was busy or out of touch. It is super great to have the board back up. Time to remember how generous Mr. Snyder has been in continuing this great site. I also pause to remember and honor MVPSoft, the originator of this great site. Thanks to the Snyder family.

[bkeich]

Thanks as always Chris. Was just about to ask my wife to try and log on because I thought it was just my phone / computer.

[Lucky_Beagle]

Thank you Chris and others who helped get this site back up and running.

As mentioned by others it is amazing how much value I (we) put into this site and the opportunity to share something we have in common with others. I also found myself checking this site a few times a day hoping each would be back each time. Imagine my happiness when it loaded in this time!

[Philsmania]

Welcome back and thank you for fixing things!

Any chance the bot can backdate the last three games? I'm just half-serious, mind you!

[bkox]

Any chance the bot can backdate the last three games? I'm just half-serious, mind you!

I wonder if @kikutaro has a way to do that

[Sabin]

Exactly what I figured

Really? Heck, I just figured Mike Lindell's Cyber Symposium sucked the bandwidth out of the more pleasant, rational, confines of the internet (and that even includes losing streaks).

Thanks to the Synder family the continued upkeep. And of course to the members who make it a fun place to visit.

[zambonir]

I am glad to hear it wasn't any kind of disaster/DOS attack, or problem for anyone personally. I too wondered if it was my settings, and also have been jonesing. Was shocked to realize I don't even know anyone on the board on Twitter (that I'm aware of)!

[bkox]

Matt Winkleman and Mitch Rupert are the only two people registered on this board that I have on my twitter. That said.. anyone is welcome to add me there or on facebook.

BTW for those of you who were wondering if it was your devices or settings.. here is a wonderful website resource to see if a site is down for everyone or if its just an issue with you

Helps you find whether the website you are trying to browse is down or not....

[schillingfan]

Since we mostly use made up names, it’s hard to know who is on Facebook, as we mostly use our proper names there. For anyone who likes liberal politics and photos of my dogs and cats and wildlife my Facebook account is Connie Bulkley Deady. On Twitter I am, believe it or not Schillingfan, created before Curt went whacko, but I’m too embarrassed to show my face and als get some measure of joy knowing that my having the name keeps some QAnon, MAGA loving nut job from having it.

[bkox]

On facebook im Brian Oxenreider (and now you know where B (first initial) K (middle initial) OX comes from.) On twitter I am I_AM_THE_OX

[bkeich]

Mine is pretty easy to find as I wasn’t creative on my username here: bkeich is Bob Keich

[zambonir]

I tried to find Bkox but only used that name. Schillfan you are probably one of the few people I know by their real name from the listserv (julio as well).

[Sabin]

On twitter I am I_AM_THE_OX

Not using that handle here was a true oversight. Also, you beat me to posting a link to a server check. I used this one after a day or so of down time - the name really fits your frame of mind the moment you want to bring it up:

Is it down? Check at Down for Everyone or Just Me

I also poked around Twitter a bit, on the off chance I might stumble across a member of the community here - while I tried searching a few of the more unique handles, I_AM_THE_OX eluded my brainstorming as a potential hit .

Anyway, I did find that this site has a Twitter account of its own as of February of this year (@philliesphans2). Anyone happen to know who authors its content?