1 hour ago, MJ kihara said:

When I was new to this forum I used to ask myself if Swansont is a person or a group of persons?...anyway,I got stuck to the forum and those questions vanished.
However,those kind of questions start coming back again when the forum becomes offline or when some of residential experts takes a longer period of time without posting.

Swansont is a collective of professional naval gazers.

On 10/20/2022 at 10:44 AM, geordief said:

Edited October 24, 20232 yr by exchemist
Misread post

Any explanation for the site being off-line?

ETA: never mind. Failed to scroll.

Edited October 24, 20232 yr by Arthur Smith

10 hours ago, swansont said:

Was everybody braced?

  

On 10/20/2022 at 2:43 PM, Sensei said:

Because you did not do what I asked to do years ago - there must be created alarm for mods starting a couple days before the next 16 October 2023,2024,2025+....

There will be probably second problem with expiration of SSL certificate...

Check when it has expiration date.

 

OK. I will do it for you...

https://www.sslshopper.com/ssl-checker.html#hostname=www.scienceforums.net

"The certificate will expire in 43 days."

On 10/20/2022 at 2:43 PM, Sensei said:

This shows a severe problem. There should a group of people who have readily access to the server and will be able to pay bills for server, domain and certificate, and edit the settings. If there is one admin who has the all things on an encrypted and password-protected machine, his or her disappearance for whatever reason will be the end, as nobody will be able to pay bills in advance prior expiration date...

Edited October 24, 20232 yr by Sensei

Mind you, the site will be down (for the same reason) in about 2 years time now.

A genie told me.

So brace yourselves again for the temporary disappearance of your science-minded online persona in 6.2x10⁷ seconds.  

6 minutes ago, joigus said:

Mind you, the site will be down (for the same reason) in about 2 years time now.

A genie told me.

So brace yourselves again for the temporary disappearance of your science-minded online persona in 6.2x10⁷ seconds.  

That is so passe.As if history repeats itself.

On 10/20/2022 at 2:03 PM, swansont said:

As I understand it, the domain name can only be renewed by the owner if the domain name. The mods can’t do anything about it. 

If a few people get the reminder they can remind the admin to do it.   I am with portfast and I get a reminder 3 months before the renewal / expiry date. 

Either way,   thank you for renewing and keep up the good work,  admins and mods are all doing a fantastic job.

Not to be crude, but doesn't Blike give his RW name on the ICANN registry?  So deep privacy would seem not a huge issue with him.  Would it be overstepping for an admin to simply call his office and leave a message with the receptionist?  I'm not exactly Sherlock Holmes and I figured out his office location in about five minutes.  He has described his profession in old posts here and the last name is unusual.  Dots easily connected.  (being not a mod or admin, I just used the privacyadvocate.org contact form, which relays an email message - the problem there, I suspect, is that people will neglect old email boxes when they set out on a busy professional career)

Edited October 24, 20232 yr by TheVat

9 hours ago, joigus said:

Mind you, the site will be down (for the same reason) in about 2 years time now.

A genie told me.

So brace yourselves again for the temporary disappearance of your science-minded online persona in 6.2x10⁷ seconds.  

That is so passe. As if history repeats itself. 

9 hours ago, geordief said:

That is so passe.As if history repeats itself.

 

20 minutes ago, mistermack said:

That is so passe. As if history repeats itself. 

That is so passé. History always almost repeats itself, but not quite.

8 minutes ago, joigus said:

 

That is so passé. History always almost repeats itself, but not quite.

That is so passé. History almost always repeats itself, but not quite.

Just spent a while staring in puzzlement at the 'Unread Messages' notification half a dozen posts in on the first page of the thread. 

7 hours ago, TheVat said:

I'm not exactly Sherlock Holmes

... but I did eventually get around to checking the date a little more carefully.

History, rhyming again…

On 10/20/2022 at 4:47 PM, iNow said:

Surely better than a Liz Truss could  /rimshot

A rimshot is when you play the snare head and rim together. I think you meant a "b dem bish."

15 minutes ago, swansont said:

History, rhyming again…

We have been discussing you all on sciforums and how we could get in touch if the site disappeared for good.

Poach you for SF dot com and I was thinking Physics forums too.

Déjà vu all over again.

On 10/24/2023 at 1:07 PM, joigus said:

Mind you, the site will be down (for the same reason) in about 2 years time now.

A genie told me.

So brace yourselves again for the temporary disappearance of your science-minded online persona in 6.2x10⁷ seconds.  

Well played, Nostradamus! 😁

Heehee. Beware the Ides of October, Caesar, and be sure to pay your DN fee.

4 hours ago, pinball1970 said:

A rimshot is when you play the snare head and rim together. I think you meant a "b dem bish."

We have been discussing you all on sciforums and how we could get in touch if the site disappeared for good.

Poach you for SF dot com and I was thinking Physics forums too.

I think I have accounts on both but there’s a lot of traffic, so there’s rarely a chance to contribute. And I was on Bad Astronomy but left after it merged with Universe Today for similar reasons.

On one of them (I think it was BAUT) I had serious issues with how they acted; there was someone who posted some nonsense but some of the post was legit, and I had the audacity to point that out. No capacity for nuance. (IIRC they were the same group who didn’t believe in significant digits). The episodes reinforced my feeling that we do a better job of moderating here.

4 hours ago, swansont said:

The episodes reinforced my feeling that we do a better job of moderating here.

That you do; thank you.

Funny how sometimes you lose interest, and can go weeks, or even months, without posting, and you blame the lack of interesting topics.
But SFn goes down for 3 days, and you're in a panic because it feels like the end of the world as we know it.

"Still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they're gone. I guess I just miss my friends."
Paraphrased from Morgan Freeman in The Shawshank Redemption

Edited October 20Oct 20 by MigL

8 hours ago, pinball1970 said:

A rimshot is when you play the snare head and rim together. I think you meant a "b dem bish."

No, I meant rimshot as it’s commonly and colloquially used online.

In online slang, a "rimshot" refers to the sound effect used to punctuate a punchline or a bad joke

It is the digital equivalent of a drummer's "ba dum tss" and is often used to emphasize a corny or cringe-worthy attempt at humor. 

17 minutes ago, MigL said:

SFn goes down for 3 days, and you're in a panic because it feels like the end of the world as we know it.

"Still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they're gone. I guess I just miss my friends."

Get busy living or get busy dying

22 hours ago, exchemist said:

Déjà vu all over again.

Well played, Nostradamus! 😁

I've got humble powers of observation based on network commands. Now everyone's personal Nostradamus seems to be ChatGPT. :)

15 hours ago, iNow said:

In online slang, a "rimshot" refers to the sound effect used to punctuate a punchline or a bad joke

Ok, did not know that. I'm a bit literal when it comes to drums.

21 hours ago, MigL said:

But SFn goes down for 3 days

Was it 3 days?

For 12 to 24 hours before it came back online, it was down for me. But for about 12 to 24 hours before that, it was online for me, but the forum was eerily quiet. I even posted something in the Sandbox to prove that I could post on the forum, and not just read, because I suspected that something was wrong with the forum even though it didn't seem to affect me (until later).

Edited October 20Oct 20 by KJW