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Title: thenook.org down??
Post by: steveoi812 on November 14, 2015, 06:41:52 PM
anyone else notice???
Title: Re: thenook.org down??
Post by: modern on November 14, 2015, 07:30:51 PM
The nook goes down every so often for a few days at times although happened less often recently.

I'd say check back every other day or so and it should return
Title: Re: thenook.org down??
Post by: LIBERTYNY on November 14, 2015, 09:01:16 PM
How is 'the nook'

 I tryed to apply their some time ago, but never got around to filling out the application, as im barely literate
Title: Re: thenook.org down??
Post by: steveoi812 on November 14, 2015, 09:53:08 PM
the nooks the shiznit brother...and modern....thanks so much brother...see ya there = )
Title: Re: thenook.org down??
Post by: Stonehenge on November 14, 2015, 11:13:34 PM
Its been down over 2 days now
Title: Re: thenook.org down??
Post by: steveoi812 on November 14, 2015, 11:34:17 PM
stoney and modern....see you guys there!!!!

and yea man do check it out...best site on the web...but im loving this one atm
Title: Re: thenook.org down??
Post by: Bach on November 15, 2015, 02:43:35 PM
It's been down for me for two or three days now. Don't recall that ever happening before... :-\
Title: Re: thenook.org down??
Post by: Stonehenge on November 15, 2015, 03:42:30 PM
Its been a very long time since that happened. I believe it has but not in recent years. Soon as they get hold of doc he will fix it. Its been down for shorter periods occasionally.
Title: Re: thenook.org down??
Post by: steveoi812 on November 16, 2015, 02:31:57 AM
its kind of freaking me out....I mean Ill donate if they need money to keep her open....miss my brothers..
Title: Re: thenook.org down??
Post by: happyconcacti on November 16, 2015, 03:43:01 PM
its kind of freaking me out....I mean Ill donate if they need money to keep her open....miss my brothers..

I doubt they shut it down by choice. I'm sure they'd have let us know before hand.
Title: Re: thenook.org down??
Post by: steveoi812 on November 16, 2015, 06:59:26 PM
I hope not....Doc has been hard as hell to get in touch with lately...hopefully we can find out what the deal is and get it fixed....im starting to go through withdrawals lol hopefully its fixed soon
Title: Re: thenook.org down??
Post by: Bach on November 16, 2015, 07:40:24 PM
Botswap went through a period not too long ago where it'd be down for a couple days. Somebody saw fit to fix it even though there has been almost zero traffic on it for two years now. Gives me hope for the Nook.
Title: Re: thenook.org down??
Post by: steveoi812 on November 17, 2015, 12:45:43 AM
yeap....I love the nook just the way it is....Ive been talking with the same core group of friends there for a little over 13 years now...been there since day 1....I hope to god its fixed soon....
Title: Re: thenook.org down??
Post by: happyconcacti on November 17, 2015, 08:30:36 PM
Hi nookers,

carliewired made this post on SAB:

Quote from: charliewired on SAB
I started a temporary Facebook page…for people to connect

in case the Nook is gone… or in case this happens in the future...

here

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010705565480

cheers

charliewired



I'm not sure how I feel about using FB to connect though.....

Hcc
Title: Re: thenook.org down??
Post by: steveoi812 on November 17, 2015, 09:47:08 PM
the govt has so much fucking power on the internet these days....if they wanted us it would be that hard...I wouldnt talk shit on FB like I do at the nook...but it would be nice to touch bases with people you have ongoing trades with or etc...hope it gets fixed and soon
Title: Re: thenook.org down??
Post by: Bach on November 18, 2015, 12:42:15 AM
Thanks for that hcc. Probably won't use it (no pending trades or anything) but it's nice to know it's there.
Title: Re: thenook.org down??
Post by: kykeion on November 18, 2015, 08:23:40 PM
Goodish news, it won't be gone forever.  Currently posted on the forum page:

Sorry guys, the Nook is down.

The reason is that we hadn't updated the forum software in time, and spammers injected malicious code which started pumping out over 1000 emails in an hour from our server.

Our host saw that as suspicious behaviour, and shut our email system down. I'm currently downloading the Nook from the server, so I can search through and replace the infected PHP files. The nook forum download is 85% complete after 40 hours downloading, so it will take a while.

The database error message that was here earlier, was because some PHP files have been replaced by virus infected versions. I do have a backup of the forum software, but until I know which files are infected, I don't want to swap things over, as I want to track down the virus, instead of just swapping files around, hoping that overwriting them all fixes it.
Title: Re: thenook.org down??
Post by: steveoi812 on November 18, 2015, 10:12:27 PM
very very cool of you to post this...thanks so much kind sir!!
Title: Re: thenook.org down??
Post by: steveoi812 on November 20, 2015, 09:02:20 PM
its back online!! fyi....
Title: Re: thenook.org down??
Post by: Stonehenge on November 22, 2015, 03:13:21 PM
Its back down this morning. Boo! But there is a message saying its a temporary error
Title: Re: thenook.org down??
Post by: Radium on November 22, 2015, 08:04:03 PM
What's the said website about?
Title: Re: thenook.org down??
Post by: steveoi812 on November 22, 2015, 10:42:28 PM
fungi cacti chemistry music books food reports of bio essays canna computers and many others...you have register to see it =  )
Title: Re: thenook.org down??
Post by: Radium on November 22, 2015, 11:05:42 PM
Someone else already has registered "Radium" there.
I wonder, maybe he's myself and I don't remember it?
I tried the forgot password function but couldn't get it to work.
Title: Re: thenook.org down??
Post by: BubbleCat on November 23, 2015, 07:41:42 AM
All one could do would be ask a member if he / she would PM the person and see if its an active member.
Title: Re: thenook.org down??
Post by: Stonehenge on November 28, 2015, 03:07:02 AM
The nook is back up
Title: Re: thenook.org down??
Post by: thefungalfiend on March 13, 2018, 09:23:45 PM
One mo gain
Title: Re: thenook.org down??
Post by: geezer on March 13, 2018, 10:11:29 PM
The nook is back up

I just checked. Still unavailable from my desktop. Still getting the HostGator referral page.
Title: Re: thenook.org down??
Post by: geezer on March 13, 2018, 10:20:03 PM
Goodish news, it won't be gone forever.  Currently posted on the forum page:

Sorry guys, the Nook is down.

The reason is that we hadn't updated the forum software in time, and spammers injected malicious code which started pumping out over 1000 emails in an hour from our server.

Our host saw that as suspicious behaviour, and shut our email system down. I'm currently downloading the Nook from the server, so I can search through and replace the infected PHP files. The nook forum download is 85% complete after 40 hours downloading, so it will take a while.

The database error message that was here earlier, was because some PHP files have been replaced by virus infected versions. I do have a backup of the forum software, but until I know which files are infected, I don't want to swap things over, as I want to track down the virus, instead of just swapping files around, hoping that overwriting them all fixes it.

disregard, error
Title: Re: thenook.org down??
Post by: Bach on March 14, 2018, 01:46:51 AM
Thanks for the update geezer.

Life without the Nook is a frightening prospect, but I'm feeling much better now.

 :)

EDIT:  :( Misunderstood what geezer posted, see below...
Title: Re: thenook.org down??
Post by: koacaia on March 14, 2018, 06:23:26 PM
I can't seem to find this website. Just some restraunt thing.
Title: Re: thenook.org down??
Post by: Bach on March 14, 2018, 10:49:30 PM
Oops I completely misunderstood what you meant there geezer. Didn't notice that quote was from three years ago.

Any idea what's up? And is anybody working on it?
Title: Re: thenook.org down??
Post by: steveoi812 on March 14, 2018, 10:58:23 PM
whats going on, geezer??? anyone spoke to malformed or doc??? what the heck is going on??? Im worries...onediadem seems to think that they have just "let it go" no fucking way, not without a warning...
Title: Re: thenook.org down??
Post by: geezer on March 14, 2018, 11:47:32 PM
I'm guessing whoever "owns" the site fucked up and forgot to pay a recurring bill. I've done it on my own photography website. It was a recurring credit card payment which arrived at my card within the three days between the time it maxxed out and got paid. A friggin' nightmare to fix.

What I can tell you is there was no discussion among the mods and admins that something was coming down the pike, at least none I was privvy to. Which is the primary reason I suspect a brainfart as opposed to a cold killing of the website.

Time will tell.

But what a fuggin' waste of decades of good input from a lot of smart people.
Title: Re: thenook.org down??
Post by: thefungalfiend on March 16, 2018, 03:12:30 PM
I guess its time to break out the trumpet and raise the flag. 

Sad, indeed.
Title: Re: thenook.org down??
Post by: geezer on March 17, 2018, 12:33:54 AM
Maybe not

Good ole' LouCipher did some digging and found this

I just went to the main site address and this was posted there:
Actually, I went to the nook just a day or two ago and it showed it was offline, which made me wonder wtf was going on.


"Remain Calm.... We are being held hostage by hostgator who will simply not address a support ticket to reinstate our site.... They shut it down because there were old backups stored on the site that they say violated the TOS.. and sure enough we didn't get their notice in a timely fashion because we dont check that email enough...
 
I will post updates here... we are also considering moving because of the slow tech support, and will let everyone know as soon as we know..."


Hmmm, interesting
Title: Re: thenook.org down??
Post by: steveoi812 on March 17, 2018, 02:29:54 AM
its back online guys
Title: Re: thenook.org down??
Post by: thefungalfiend on July 16, 2018, 05:21:17 PM
One mo gain
Title: Re: thenook.org down??
Post by: thefungalfiend on July 16, 2018, 05:32:36 PM
False alarm.
Title: Re: thenook.org down??
Post by: Jansch42 on January 01, 2019, 09:04:42 PM
Appears to be up and running again.
Maybe it had something to do with the country of visiting the page.
As they stated they would have some test going on on their site which could cause problems