Was it just me?

Steve Jones · Post by **Steve Jones** » Mon 15 Dec, 2008 11:59 pm

Yes, it went down on saturday.Proves what I said on another thread about backing the site up on another server.

simong · Post by **simong** » Tue 16 Dec, 2008 8:51 am

chameleon wrote: simong wrote: Phill_dvsn wrote: Was it just me? or was Secret leeds down and out and off line all weekend? I looked in yesterday afternoon and got an error that said the disk was full. I was actually quite surprised that it was back today It seems to happen every 5 or 6 months, suggests to me that management of monitoring the system by the Host is a little sparse perhaps - can you imagine the consequences if they were hosting an on-line store and that went down at this time of the year with no out of hours cover? It wouldn't surprise me to be honest. The council will pay England Agency to keep it running but there's no development policy and little monitoring which is why the disk fills up every now and then.I've been considering putting up an alternative for a while because of this very reason - it wouldn't surprise me if someone in the council saw that it was costing a bag of Yorkshire mixture a year to run without any particular return and decided to switch it off. Council data policies being what they are it would be a struggle to get the data from them too. If I've got some time over Christmas I'll see if I can scrape a copy of the posts. Does anyone know of another Leeds message board apart from the BBC ones and that isn't football related? I haven't come across one.

Post by **tyke bhoy** » Tue 16 Dec, 2008 10:00 am

The BBC Leeds Message board was closed on 1st April with about a weeks notice. We thought it was an April fool but it wasn'tSomebody did spam us with a rival web site at some stage but it was far less active than this at the time (I looked then but haven't since).Ads and Reginald Perrin seem to know of another site (might be the above) but I don't know how specific it is to Leeds.

simong · Post by **simong** » Tue 16 Dec, 2008 11:30 am

tyke bhoy wrote: The BBC Leeds Message board was closed on 1st April with about a weeks notice. We thought it was an April fool but it wasn'tSomebody did spam us with a rival web site at some stage but it was far less active than this at the time (I looked then but haven't since).Ads and Reginald Perrin seem to know of another site (might be the above) but I don't know how specific it is to Leeds. The BBC are supposed to be revamping the local sites to make them more news-oriented again, but it doesn't surprise me that they've pulled the message boards - they never seemed to be very busy and the insistence on moderation slowed it down and was one of those overheads that means it gets cut far too easily. I know that Sheffield has quite a good board for general history, it might be worth starting something like that.

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Tue 16 Dec, 2008 12:21 pm

Secret leeds is a fantastic wealth of information.The only trouble with it is it's all been allowed to go like a run away train. There's no admin or moderators. All the information is lost in rambling long threads. If the site was kept in check with some nip an tuck the amount of info would be excellent.

Si · Post by Si » Tue 16 Dec, 2008 12:38 pm

Phill_dvsn wrote: Secret leeds is a fantastic wealth of information.The only trouble with it is it's all been allowed to go like a run away train. There's no admin or moderators. All the information is lost in rambling long threads. If the site was kept in check with some nip an tuck the amount of info would be excellent. Most of it being yours, Phill!!!

simonm · Post by **simonm** » Tue 16 Dec, 2008 1:22 pm

to be fair, it's the only thing that has gone down on me for ages!!!

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Tue 16 Dec, 2008 4:14 pm

Si wrote: Phill_dvsn wrote: Secret leeds is a fantastic wealth of information.The only trouble with it is it's all been allowed to go like a run away train. There's no admin or moderators. All the information is lost in rambling long threads. If the site was kept in check with some nip an tuck the amount of info would be excellent. Most of it being yours, Phill!!! Which bits mine Si? The info or rambling lol

Si · Post by Si » Tue 16 Dec, 2008 4:20 pm

Phill_dvsn wrote: Si wrote: Phill_dvsn wrote: Secret leeds is a fantastic wealth of information.The only trouble with it is it's all been allowed to go like a run away train. There's no admin or moderators. All the information is lost in rambling long threads. If the site was kept in check with some nip an tuck the amount of info would be excellent. Most of it being yours, Phill!!! Which bits mine Si? The info or rambling lol I meant the info. But now you mention it..........

simong · Post by **simong** » Tue 16 Dec, 2008 4:39 pm

Phill_dvsn wrote: Secret leeds is a fantastic wealth of information.The only trouble with it is it's all been allowed to go like a run away train. There's no admin or moderators. All the information is lost in rambling long threads. If the site was kept in check with some nip an tuck the amount of info would be excellent. Google works better than the on-site search It's set me off thinking about a combined discussion board/wiki project again. I started one with a record label mailing list that I maintain but I just didn't have the time to look after it, and wikis do need to be looked after. Up to my eyeballs at the moment though.