DemonGoddess
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There will be downtime at 2 am EDT on July 13th to replace part of the RAID array. Also, the migration is nearly done
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This has to do with our system migration. We are getting a better server. Migration should be done end of day today
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We will be upgrading our server hardware July 1st. There may be some down time involved while things are transferred from old to new.
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The account was not activated after attempting updating. I’ve fixed that, so you just need to login with your gmail address and the password you created 5 days ago
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It’s actually as everyone was thinking, a benign place holder and easily fixed. Kind of a carryover from the very old stuff.
- GeorgeGlass, Wilde_Guess, BronxWench and 1 other
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manta is working on fixing the user names as we speak...
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I’m aware of that, as is our coder. i do believe it was a failed exploit, but, not sure yet. Still digging into this.
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Yes, i can restore pen names from a back up. However, I am working a series of splits, so don’t have a whole lot of time at the moment.
- BronxWench and Wilde_Guess
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I’ll look in the db after I nap and come home from my second work shift today. Argh
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I’ll have to look in the db directly for you. If you tried to use the same password as the old one, you would have “blanked” the field entirely. Won’t know that until I look, though. Sometimes, the activation email won’t go through, especially if using any of the microsoft email domains.
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Okay, I checked everything, and you still need to update the login to the current system. I’ve found the most common issue is to use a “/” instead of “-” for the birthdate. The database requires the format as listed and typed out. For example, my birthday is entered 1961-11-16. If I had entered it as 1961/11/16 it would not have allowed the update. Our coder made this very specific so that it protects your accounts. Yes, it can be a bit of a pain at times. If this doesn’t help, let me know, and I’ll let you know when I’m not working so we can hook up to get you going.
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Aside from my working hell hours? nope. I haven’t had a chance to look, unfortunately. I will get to it though
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There was no data breach. I would also have gotten an email from google about it for the site. Your email may in fact be registered more than once, or you may have registered with a different one. Without knowing who you are, I have no way to tell.
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As to the microsoft server issue, that should now be resolved. There was a particular function that needed to be done that I could not. Nexcess had to do it for me.
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I’m working 16+ hours a day right now. Next day after I got back, I worked 83 hours in 5 days. 95 hours the next 7 days. So, yeah, been a little busy. Looks like you logged in last on September 1st. You are using a gmail account for the archive.
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I’d have to ask manta2g exactly which hashing system she uses. Years ago, it was plain text. It hasn’t been for quite awhile.
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On an unrelated note, I’ve actually been working with the hosting company to fix the hotmail/outlook issues (where the emails just disappear that send to users). Everything thus far I’ve tried that SHOULD have worked, has not. So, they’re digging deeper and I should that have fixed soonish.
When the old issue occurred, Nexcess was a major help at that time as well. They tracked down the IPs of the persons who did this, and blocked them from the domain entirely. They have tools at their disposal I don’t, so if something happens, they’re the ones I go to help stop whatever the issue is.
- JayDee, BronxWench and GeorgeGlass
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I also get the webcam emails, and that cracks me up. I’ve NEVER had a webcam. I don’t WANT a webcam, and that they think they can scare me with webcam usage that never existed is just plain silly. Yes, this is an OLD issue, and these emails have been popping up ever since.
- BronxWench, JayDee and GeorgeGlass
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I’ve been having an issue resetting it to allow them for users. The default, currently is to not allow them, due to trolls and spammers. I will TRY to get it to reset for you, and if it works, please let me know.
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Yes, we’re working on tightening things up further. Understand something, we are not an eCommerce site, thankfully, so credit card numbers, banking information, personal identifiers such as social security numbers are not something we ever ask our users for. We don’t ever have a need to ask for that kind of critical information from a user. No announcements will be made until everything is finished. Kind of silly to do that if it takes awhile to get it done, yes?
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I’ve tried password reset on many different handlers, and not had this issue. I’ll have manta look at it, because maybe there’s something in the link that shouldn’t be for hotmail? Hard to say. I will say that it’s users with hotmail who do seem to have this difficulty, which brings it back to a hotmail specific issue.
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Are you using hotmail by chance? If so, you may have to whitelist the site for the function to work.
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What it means is that my user login was actually hacked. Got the https thing rolling now, just have to finish implementing it. That should help. I had the hosting company tech use the tools they have at their disposal to determine whether or not it was intrusive in that way, or only me. From what they saw, it was only me.
- CloverReef and BronxWench
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Also told our hosting company which files were being used, and the time frame. They were able to trace down the user and BLOCK them entirely.
- BronxWench, JayDee, CloverReef and 2 others
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