Activation emails for new user registration not working?

[Buster's Uncle]

A purely personal demand: I'm putting my foot down; NObody ever try to tell me to involve myself w/ reddit and/or Discord ever again.  I've said no a million times.  No means NO.

ENGLISH-DO YOU SPEAK IT?!

[Green1]

Just curious...(and after this, no more. I do have some cooth.)

Why?

You once said forums are not girlfriends...lol.

And you might get folks that feel the way you do.

Unless you are hiding from the lizard people that run the big places. But sometimes if you want to nerd herd, you have to go where nerds are. LOL!

[Buster's Uncle]

[ninja'd]

As for the other point of interest in all that - sisko has been paying the monthly bill for quite a few years.  We were trading off 50-50 for a long time, but he set up an auto-pay w/ the host, and I wasn't strongly motivated to complain I wasn't getting my turn more than twice before he mysteriously went radio silence.  I HAVE paid the annual domain fee since.  It suddenly doubled last year, after two years running they let it lapse AFTER I paid on time.  This year I told them they'd lost my business forever after that and doubling.  As god is my witness, we're going down forever if we aren't off iFast by October.

Also, there's an ethical issue; the Founder really DID found this site all by himself in late 2010, I didn't sign up at his little side project for nearly a year, did take on half the running, but didn't volunteer to assume half-ownership -pay bills- responsibility for about another.  I've more-or-less considered myself THE owner for a while now, but this is a bridge too far, kicking him to the curb.  I can't, ethically.  One of the things I'm pursuing is trying to re-establish contact, for help, or at least consent and a passing the torch.

[Buster's Uncle]

Just curious...(and after this, no more. I do have some cooth.)

Why?

You once said forums are not girlfriends...lol.

And you might get folks that feel the way you do.

Unless you are hiding from the lizard people that run the big places. But sometimes if you want to nerd herd, you have to go where nerds are. LOL!

Nossir.  I done tried to tell you why -ten years ago and just this week- too many times, and we're not wasting my time that way any more.

[Trenacker]

Ethically, it's one thing to search in good faith for somebody long ago disappeared and then move on after a very long period of time has passed, and another to just shove them out the door of an open train.

There is such a thing as spousal abandonment, and the same principle probably works here if nothing legal is at stake--especially because I'm sure you're open to acknowledging "the Founder" on the site in perpetuity.

[Buster's Uncle]

Heck yeah.

I feel burned, but I still love that guy - we all owe him, always.

[Buster's Uncle]

There's no ethical problem with sharing strictly my end of a private message.  Below, the follow-up email I sent sisko this morning, and what I relate therein is 100% true, though censored here.  -I fancied that subject line bolded might get his attention and brevity can be a virtue.



I dreamed iFast went out of business suddenly...

...Not a week before AC2 reappeared.  -And our database was gone.  Forever.

Holy [censored]!

There are what appear to be very brief server failures several times a week ever since.


We really need to migrate to a better host and upgrade the SMF version and otherwise get right with the tech.

[Geo]

The need you, they'll look up at you.

[Buster's Uncle]

I found a log w/ 200 unactivated users and just approved the lot -I'll deal w/ bots if they manage to post- spread the word, please, to anyone you know who's tried.

There's also a signup setting I can turn off for email activation, and I'm still looking for it.  Today, for sure.

[Buster's Uncle]

Oh, I got that took care of hours ago.  Have since promptly approved the signup of our new tech guy, wilkesreid; he and t-ras have been on the server working today.  Nothing's going to happen today that you'll notice, but we're suddenly on the right track again

A user from reddit who was in the mass approval has posted in Post if You're Not A Bot! thread since.

Signups are working now, y'all!  Spread the word!

[Green1]

Oh, I got that took care of hours ago.  Have since promptly approved the signup of our new tech guy, wilkesreid; he and t-ras have been on the server working today.  Nothing's going to happen today that you'll notice, but we're suddenly on the right track again

A user from reddit who was in the mass approval has posted in Post if You're Not A Bot! thread since.

Signups are working now, y'all!  Spread the word!

This is good.

I was almost fixing to suggest if you could not get it resolved to archive it, put it up on some place you control and go with a more user friendly forum solution (if one exists). Just for your sanity.