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Title: New main sites link to old addventure is pay portal blocked
Post by: saibott on September 27, 2017, 12:43:22 PM
I don't think is was intentional again, however 3 times something similar has happened, hinting something 'sinister'?
Title: Re: New main sites link to old addventure is pay portal blocked
Post by: Anonymous51 on September 27, 2017, 01:10:19 PM
I don't think it's intentional either.  After all, wouldn't Adama say something about the site changing like this?
Title: Re: New main sites link to old addventure is pay portal blocked
Post by: Adama on September 27, 2017, 01:15:55 PM
This is the first I've heard about it.  But they've never told me any OTHER time they've redone the BEA site access.  I imagine it's unintentional.  Sigh.
Title: Re: New main sites link to old addventure is pay portal blocked
Post by: saibott on September 27, 2017, 01:42:43 PM
Sounds like they really need to have content flags embedded into the site code and flag the Addventure free to possibly keep this from happening a 5th time (I expect implementing such to break again).
Title: Re: New main sites link to old addventure is pay portal blocked
Post by: BotComics Content on September 27, 2017, 01:50:40 PM
Hi everyone!

Sorry, sorry and sorry! We had such a huge work migrating BEArchive that we missed to check that.

Addventure will be free as it always was. We are asking the developers to fix this soon.

 I'll appreciate if you post your "general complaints" and bug reports on this thread: http://forum.bearchive.com/index.php?topic=9996577.0 so we can track them better and fix them faster.

Mariano
Title: Re: New main sites link to old addventure is pay portal blocked
Post by: saibott on September 27, 2017, 04:08:37 PM
Well, I didn't start this thread exclusively for bug reporting, just as informational entertainment while waiting for the error correction. To poke fun at the hiccups, in a hopefully unhurtful way.
Title: Re: New main sites link to old addventure is pay portal blocked
Post by: Cole on September 27, 2017, 06:39:46 PM
Why is it being called the old addventure.

Did something happen?

Also, the URL change pretty much breaks any old links.
Title: Re: New main sites link to old addventure is pay portal blocked
Post by: Adama on September 27, 2017, 06:45:27 PM
It means the old server.  The rest of the BEA moved to a new server.
Title: Re: New main sites link to old addventure is pay portal blocked
Post by: Adama on September 28, 2017, 12:04:59 AM
Also, the URL change pretty much breaks any old links.

Hopefully they'll do a redirect so that old links will still work.  They haven't done it yet though.
Title: Re: New main sites link to old addventure is pay portal blocked
Post by: BotComics Content on September 28, 2017, 09:31:54 AM
Hi again!

We are fixing the access since it isn't working in all cases. The redirect after login still fails.

We will be moving addventure to the new server but we can't tell you when. We'll keep you posted.

Mariano
Title: Re: New main sites link to old addventure is pay portal blocked
Post by: Anonymous51 on September 29, 2017, 08:58:53 AM
It looks like the site is back, but now I'm experiencing a problem.  I've tried to post a comment, but the site keeps giving me an "Internal Server Error" screen instead.  The same thing is happening when I try to add tags to older episodes.  I'm assuming that this will happen if I try to add new episodes, so I'm a bit reluctant to do so if it won't even allow me to post anything.
Title: Re: New main sites link to old addventure is pay portal blocked
Post by: Benji Dude on September 29, 2017, 10:47:58 AM
It looks like the site is back, but now I'm experiencing a problem.  I've tried to post a comment, but the site keeps giving me an "Internal Server Error" screen instead.  The same thing is happening when I try to add tags to older episodes.  I'm assuming that this will happen if I try to add new episodes, so I'm a bit reluctant to do so if it won't even allow me to post anything.

I'm just writing episodes in word (as I normally do anyway) saving them and waiting for all these transitional hiccups to get sorted before posting anything.  I hope that the log in won't always be required because it is rather annoying hitting a bookmark and getting presented with a log in screen.
Title: Re: New main sites link to old addventure is pay portal blocked
Post by: Anonymous51 on September 29, 2017, 10:57:29 AM
I hope that the log in won't always be required because it is rather annoying hitting a bookmark and getting presented with a log in screen.

I don't seem to be experiencing that.  I just go to the site and the site shows up.  There's no log-in or anything.  But it sounds like other people have to log in to see the site, oddly.
Title: Re: New main sites link to old addventure is pay portal blocked
Post by: BotComics Content on September 29, 2017, 11:05:43 AM
It looks like the site is back, but now I'm experiencing a problem.  I've tried to post a comment, but the site keeps giving me an "Internal Server Error" screen instead.  The same thing is happening when I try to add tags to older episodes.  I'm assuming that this will happen if I try to add new episodes, so I'm a bit reluctant to do so if it won't even allow me to post anything.

Hi! Can you please send me an email with the details of what you tried to do, the pages you saw and the error messages shown so we can test and fix it?

My email es [email protected]

Mariano
Title: Re: New main sites link to old addventure is pay portal blocked
Post by: PyroWild on September 30, 2017, 12:11:53 AM
http://forum.bearchive.com/index.php?topic=9996577.msg10399856#msg10399856

Turns out that BotComics is using this opportunity to sabotage the BEAddventure. Please join in this thread to try and talk some sense into him.
Title: Re: New main sites link to old addventure is pay portal blocked
Post by: saibott on November 21, 2017, 02:22:53 PM
And someone broke the permissions for the Addventure again.
Title: Re: New main sites link to old addventure is pay portal blocked
Post by: Zorlond on November 21, 2017, 02:48:41 PM
Indeed. Now instead of being sent to the login page for using a link to the Addventure, the site just sends you to a "You do not have permission to access this page" message, requiring you to go to the front page of the site, then to the login page (which is separate), before you can get to the Addventure.

Yay, extra steps to annoy people who were already annoyed by extra steps.
Title: Re: New main sites link to old addventure is pay portal blocked
Post by: Adama on November 21, 2017, 03:09:04 PM
The developers are currently tinkering with Addventure login access.  Hopefully to make it better.
Title: Re: New main sites link to old addventure is pay portal blocked
Post by: PyroWild on November 21, 2017, 03:20:24 PM
Ah, that would explain why it stopped working.
Title: Re: New main sites link to old addventure is pay portal blocked
Post by: JH_ on November 21, 2017, 03:37:39 PM
I've now found that by editing my bookmark for the addventure Reecet Episodes page so that it begins old.bearchive.com rather than www.bearchive.com I can avoid having to jump through hoops to get there.
Title: Re: New main sites link to old addventure is pay portal blocked
Post by: saibott on November 21, 2017, 04:03:33 PM
Is it just me, then, that has to login on the main page, which immediately asks you to login after you login? It has been doing this since At least early October. Doesn't matter which browser I use to login. It behaves as if the user/password is incorrect without actually saying such. I can't even browse however limited the free access was on the main pages' pins any longer, just see the darkened portions 'hidden' by the login popup.
Title: Re: New main sites link to old addventure is pay portal blocked
Post by: Adama on November 22, 2017, 12:01:58 AM
It now appears to me that they've fixed the "Access Denied" issue, and we're back to seeing the Login page again.  Can anyone else confirm that today's problem, at least, is fixed?
Title: Re: New main sites link to old addventure is pay portal blocked
Post by: saibott on November 22, 2017, 11:16:14 AM
Broke again, gong to relog to check that portion.

It seems simultaneous main login and forum login doesn't play nice.
Title: Re: New main sites link to old addventure is pay portal blocked
Post by: dkc718 on November 22, 2017, 12:29:38 PM
I am seeing a link to the addventure from the home page.  Is that new?
Title: Re: New main sites link to old addventure is pay portal blocked
Post by: Anonymous51 on November 22, 2017, 12:46:42 PM
I think that's been there for about two months now, but I'm not entirely sure.  After all, I never got to the Addventure site through the main BEA site before all this log-in trouble started happening.  Back then, I just went straight to the Recent Episode Lists page to access the Addventure site.
Title: Re: New main sites link to old addventure is pay portal blocked
Post by: Zorlond on November 22, 2017, 01:52:35 PM
It now appears to me that they've fixed the "Access Denied" issue, and we're back to seeing the Login page again.  Can anyone else confirm that today's problem, at least, is fixed?
It was fixed earlier, but I just had to go through the whole Access Denied dance again a minute ago. Still tinkering, I take it?
Title: Re: New main sites link to old addventure is pay portal blocked
Post by: Ann on November 22, 2017, 03:36:17 PM
I get access denied no matter how I try and get there now. After coming here and sometimes contributing for many years I'm reaching the stage where I give up and delete the links to this site. I'm getting tired of the way this place keeps jumping me to a page not found or access denied page since the changes.
Title: Re: New main sites link to old addventure is pay portal blocked
Post by: Adama on November 22, 2017, 07:09:02 PM
They are working on not requiring a login at all, at least I hope so, bear with them a little longer...
Title: Re: New main sites link to old addventure is pay portal blocked
Post by: Ann on November 22, 2017, 09:18:13 PM
In the end I only got it working again by going through the 'order content' page. No idea why it lost whatever setting doing that did - I didn't change any of the defaults in there but it stopped displaying the access denied page after that.
Title: Re: New main sites link to old addventure is pay portal blocked
Post by: gonZo on November 22, 2017, 09:30:01 PM
Adama and I have both been told that soon the Addventure will not require a login, and that the change may be made by roughly November 28th. But new bugs appear almost every time the engineers adjust anything around here, so don't get too worried if things seem to get worse before they improve. Please report new bugs here if you encounter any.

We'll keep you posted to whatever degree the admins keep us posted.
_
gonZo
Title: Re: New main sites link to old addventure is pay portal blocked
Post by: catfishplus on November 23, 2017, 12:33:20 AM
I am seeing a link to the addventure from the home page.  Is that new?

There was always a link to the Addventure from the home page, although back in the previous format, it was just another item on the long list of links -- about a third of the way down the second column.

With this new homepage format, yes, there's always been a link along the top row.

Title: Re: New main sites link to old addventure is pay portal blocked
Post by: Benji Dude on November 28, 2017, 06:04:06 PM
So... anyone else not able to access the recent episodes page via the addventure "home page" (the green one with all the updates listed on it)?

There were a line of links to different parts of the addventure at the rop of thd page yesterday but they've disappeared today.

Or is it just me?
Title: Re: New main sites link to old addventure is pay portal blocked
Post by: Adama on November 28, 2017, 06:26:11 PM
Sorry about that.  Should be better now.  Can you see the links now?
Title: Re: New main sites link to old addventure is pay portal blocked
Post by: Benji Dude on November 29, 2017, 03:04:03 AM
Yeah everything is back now thanks dude!