Gamesquad Forum

[Philippe]

Are they really closed for maintenance?

A few days ago I wanted to take a look at an old mod for the Tiller ACW games that I don't seem to have posted anywhere else, and the site was supposedly down for maintenance. 

It was down all weekend and now it's well into the next week.

I'm not sure what else I have there that isn't stored anywhere else, but I hope the site comes back up so I can take a look and make alternate arrangements.

Anyone know anything?

[bayonetbrant]

no idea - I'll reach out and see if someone might know something

[GJK]

Yeah, the ASL community is freaking out (since that is their adoptive forum home base).  Don Maddox posted on facebook that they're upgrading the server as well as the forum software and the migration with the database (which is probably rather large) is taking a while. 


That message from him was almost a week ago however....

[mirth]

Yeah, the ASL community is freaking out (since that is their adoptive forum home base).  Don Maddox posted on facebook that they're upgrading the server as well as the forum software and the migration with the database (which is probably rather large) is taking a while. 


That message from him was almost a week ago however....

That's potentially a major undertaking. Particularly if they are moving between Drupal versions.

The ASL guys must be beside themselves. I know GS was pretty much their place to go.

[GJK]

Yeah, and facebook isn't really cutting it as far as Q&A stuff goes (hard to do a database query/search function on facebook!).

[RyanE]

Maybe they'll have to go back to asking questions once a month in The General.

[mirth]

Maybe they'll have to go back to asking questions once a month in The General.

So cruel...

[panzerde]

Maybe they'll have to go back to asking questions once a month in The General.

;D Now that was funny...

[bayonetbrant]

Yep, same story I got when I pinged a GS regular who is a FB friend.  They were expecting it all back up 3-4 days ago, and he's not sure if they just bit off more than they could chew, or if this is some kind of 'cover' for a longer takedown for other problems.

Honestly, it seems like they're doing like us, and testing in their production environment ::)

[RyanE]

I used to visit their forums regularly for CM, Distant Guns, POA2, etc.  But all three of those games' third party forum activity has dried up.  The computer wargaming forum at Gamesquad covered some niche games you didn't see in other places, but the traffic there has been abysmal for years.

ASL on the other hand has seemed to stay somewhat active on Gamesquad.

[mirth]

Honestly, it seems like they're doing like us, and testing in their production environment ::)

O0

[mirth]

I used to visit their forums regularly for CM, Distant Guns, POA2, etc.  But all three of those games' third party forum activity has dried up.  The computer wargaming forum at Gamesquad covered some niche games you didn't see in other places, but the traffic there has been abysmal for years.

Same here. I was a fairly regular reader/poster there for a few years, but it pretty much dried up outside of ASL.

[RyanE]

One of the issues is that in a couple of the game forums, it has become the personal stomping grounds for 1 or 2 people and everyone else just left.  Its like they are carrying on conversations with themselves.

They need to wipe out completely the computer wargaming forums and start over.  No one posts in most of the threads and the CM and Harpoon forums are useless and repetitive.

[bayonetbrant]

Its like they are carrying on conversations with themselves.

wait, I thought Wodin had his own forum!?!? >:D

[Ubercat]

Its like they are carrying on conversations with themselves.

wait, I thought Wodin had his own forum!?!? >:D

I see "her" posting in the Matrix forums from time to time.