Forum Changes, Issues , Feedback and Suggestions

**Linzee** · 18th December 2018, 22:54

I keep getting a message to say:-
"You have been banned for the following reason:
No reason was specified.

Date the ban will be lifted: Never"

It seems to happen if I have been logged out and try to reply to a thread or if I go to a members page and try to click to find their most recent posts to name a couple of examples.

I'm able to log in and post and it doesn't appear to happen if I am logged on.

I'm assuming this is just a glitch in the system and I can just ignore?

Thanks
Linzee

**jonny** · 6th January 2019, 11:00

My IP has now been banned three times in recent months. The last time was over the previous 2 days. On each occasion I have completed the message box politely asking to know the reasons why my IP has suddenly been booted, and what the forum staff are doing to stop it happening again. To date, no one has bothered to respond.

Being a Mod on another forum, I know how much of a drain it can be to your domestic existence, however, with all due respect, can someone have the courtesy to answer the questions please?

Many thanks

Jonny

**bruce dennis** · 6th January 2019, 12:19

Hello Jonny,
This is an ongoing problem and Jagan is working on it. See the 'FORUM ISSUES' sticky under GENERAL ...

http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/sho...ghlight=banned

... and you will see that others have had the same experience.
We are sorry that members have a problem of this type but there seems to be a random element in the 'who-when-why' of how the problem arises.

As to the lack of response, which has clearly caused you some annoyance, I was unaware of any of your messages. Now that you are logged in, I trust the matter can rest while Jagan has a look at the loggin records? I will make him aware.

Regards,
Bruce

**jonny** · 6th January 2019, 17:12

Bruce,

Thanks for taking the time to explain the issue. I will of course maintain a more patient approach now that I understand how the land lies.

Rgds and thanks again

Jonny

**KenRadar231** · 10th February 2019, 01:08

Test Post to see if error message is coming up

**wwrsimon** · 22nd March 2019, 16:45

Hello

I just got a warning message when clicking on a Google search link to this page:

https://www.rafcommands.com/database/serials/MM911

Message as follows:

"Your connection is not secure
The owner of www.rafcommands.com has configured their web site improperly. To protect your information from being stolen, Firefox has not connected to this web site."

Obviously the site's working fine, or I couldn't post this, but I thought it worth mentioning.

regards

Simon

**Jagan** · 22nd March 2019, 20:49

Hi Simon,

that can be ignored.

The reason for it is that the search returned https:// instead of a http:// URL. Former is more secure to send information over. But the certificate is not implemented on this site yet.

Since we dont collect any credit card numbers, bank acount numbers etc :) we should be fine.

Additionally i had earlier tried to implement a short cut URL system so the result should have returned http://www.rafcommands.com/database/serials/<serial> or http://www.rafcommands.com/database/serials/details.php?uniq=<serial> .. the former sometimes does not work - i have not been able to resolve that issue.. but the latter will work (if it has the uniq=xx123 in the URL)

I need not state the obvious but make sure the password you use on the Forum is a different one than you use for your banking accounts!

**jonny** · 28th April 2019, 04:43

Chaps,

I was banned again this week. This is my fifth 'IP banning' and it is getting damned frustrating now. As I'm not the only one this is happening to, and as someone / somewhere is parting good money for a rather poor service, may I ask what the platform provider is doing to stop this happening again please? If they can't stop it happening to members, may I ask what consideration has been given to move to another provider?

Many thanks

Jonny

**Jagan** · 14th June 2020, 19:00

Pulled some metrics on the Forum Usage - to give an idea on how the site is being used

a steady decline in the Forum Usage (Yellow Line) - going down from 150,000 monthly page views to 50-70,000 page views.

This decline has been offset by a huge jump in the database page views (Red Line) as the functionality increased. starting around 10K page views, the past few months the DB pages have averaged 150,000+ , really taking off around October 2019 when the "Individual CWGC Details" feature went online.

The usage of the Forum Archives, Gallery and Rest of the site remain steady.

More specifically, some numbers from the Forum statistics

New Threads and Posts per year since 2008