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Title: Censorship at os2world.com?
Post by: Sigurd on 2009.09.11, 12:44:54
Hi,

I just want to know:

Is there a kind of censorship at os2world.com? The problems to read some threads here rised for me during the last 2 months. It is still not possible for me to access the threads like:

- status update on ecomstation 2.0
- status update on ecomstation 2.0 II

and actual:

- Devcon - Discuss ACPI with the developers...

What makes me worry is that all these threads includes some kind of critics against some parts of the eCS devemopement.

Sigurd
Title: Re: Censorship at os2world.com?
Post by: warpcafe on 2009.09.11, 13:07:57
Hi Sigurd,

:) !!

Can it be that you see nothing but the header and footer, but no page content?

No, it is not censorship, it is a problem we have with the SMF-to-Joomla bridge component.
This problem causes us headaches for quite some time and it is still not solved.

Workaround:
Enter http://www.os2world.com/forum (http://www.os2world.com/forum) in your browsers adress bar.
This will launch the SMF (Simple Machines Forum) site without the Joomla integration.
(You will notice it looks a bit different)
From there, go into the subforums as needed or use the "Search" function (top, right) to do a full-text search in the threads. It is a bit clumsy sometimes to find the correct thread, but at least it works.

We are very sorry for this problem, but believe me: It is a hard one and we are working on this.

BTW I have collected direct links to your threads:

Hope this helps,
Thomas
Title: Re: Censorship at os2world.com?
Post by: Sigurd on 2009.09.11, 13:20:19
Hi Thomas,

thank you very much for your help!   :)

The symptoms I have are ecxaclty those you mentioned.

Unfortunately, if I click on one of the Links you provide this leads "only" to the main forum page. :-[

If I copy one of your links direct into the browser and start from there this brings me to the same main froum page.

May there be something wrong with my account? :-\

On the other hand the same happens to me if I try it without being logged in.  ???

I remember that this problem has been discussed before, but for a while it was O.K while now getting worse.

Thanks again.

BTW: I wanted to reply to one of your post in the "Devcon ACPI" Thread, I was able to view it up to about 10 o clock this morning, but suddenly it was not possible any more.

Gruß

Sigurd

EDIT : Funny, now it works at least for the ACPI Devcon Thread..... Seems to be some kind of User Error  :o
Title: Re: Censorship at os2world.com?
Post by: warpcafe on 2009.09.11, 13:30:57
HI,

uh-ohh... my fault, I took the "wrong" links.
Nevertheless, it gets really fishy with being logged-in or not.

Okay, please try this:
- go to o2world.com
- make sure you are logged-out
- enter www.os2world.com/forum
- enter the string (e.g. "discuss ACPI" or "status of ecomstation") in the "search" box
=> this should work

Yes, the problem is that the bridge component seems to "spoil" something depending on being logged-in or not. We have quite a lot of threads that work... and suddenly, they are unaccessible.
In these cases, go to www.os2world.com/forum and try to search from there.

Hint:
The www.os2world.com/forum link should show the forum start page in full screen width (no whitespace/border at right and left margin). If this is the case it should then work.

Regards,
Thomas