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master565
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AG was just down for the last hour or so, what was going on?

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TerryLasVegas
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AG2 was down for just a couple of hours and people start going nuts?


We dont have lives. what do you expect from us?
Paarfam
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Just because their profiles are a little messed up, doesn't mean people should go crazy.

If that suspected user hacked AG we could find the whole site turned upside down. Besides, even if the guy knows nothing about coding he still knows enough to take the site down for a while.
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AG2 was down for just a couple of hours and people start going nuts?

I went to some of my other tabs when it went down. It isn't something to get so excited about, but people wonder why it went down, and what's wrong with the profiles.
TerryLasVegas
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It isn't something to get so excited about, but people wonder why it went down, and what's wrong with the profiles.


Im just worried that it means ag3 is coming soon and im not looking forward to that!
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Ooh, you suspect someone hacked AG2? How do you know that? And why for only a couple hours?

We dont have lives. what do you expect from us?


Test beta, or do something else for the time being.

Really, a short while is nothing to be fretting about.
TerryLasVegas
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Test beta, or do something else for the time being.


I just took a nap. Im not interested in beta
Paarfam
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Ooh, you suspect someone hacked AG2? How do you know that?

A certain user was banned a while back. He vowed vengeance in the form of taking the site or something similar. Matrix already pointed it out.
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Im just worried that it means ag3 is coming soon and im not looking forward to that!

AG3 is coming soon, it's supposed to be this summer. That could mean a month or two from now.
you suspect someone hacked AG2? How do you know that?

Klaus's thread a few weeks ago explained that he knows how to code things, and he's done things to the site before. He's found exploits and such.
And why for only a couple hours?

Maybe that was enough time for him to do what he needed to do.

I'm leaning towards that it was something to do with the server or they are transferring things to beta.
Paarfam
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I've built sites in the past. Not from a template like "webs.com" or "google sites" but my very. Own. Thing. They aren't easy to change, it takes quite a bit of knowledge and time. If this guy did it, he probably can do it again. My other, and more realistic explanation, is that some coding that held the site up was screwed up whilst transferring data to AG3.

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A certain user was banned a while back. He vowed vengeance in the form of taking the site or something similar. Matrix already pointed it out.


And based on this, you suspect that, if AG2 was indeed hacked, that it would be the same exact person? Well, it doesn't hold much water to me

What happened to AG?


Same reason as all the other times when AG2 was down for a short period of time.

Im just worried that it means ag3 is coming soon and im not looking forward to that!


You're gonna have to get used to the idea. For whatever reason you're not looking forward to it, you could always suggest ideas to the staff members so you finally DO look forward to it and to help improve it.
GhostOfMatrix
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Only a few things changed on the site, should not take some hours.

From what you can see.

Well, we should just wait for an administrator to respond to this.
TerryLasVegas
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The firetail profile thing has happened before so I dont think it was a hacker

For whatever reason you're not looking forward to it, you could always suggest ideas to the staff members so you finally DO look forward to it and to help improve it.


No because the reasons i like ag2 are some of the reasons why theyre making ag3
Paarfam
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Only a few things changed on the site, should not take some hours.
it takes quite a bit of knowledge and time.
And based on this, you suspect that, if AG2 was indeed hacked, that it would be the same exact person? Well, it doesn't hold much water to me
2 explanations. a) coding messed up in transfer to AG3 and b) that user hacked the place up.
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It wasn't a hacker, it was a physical problem in the building where our servers are located. They tell us it's related to their heating/cooling systems, and the site was offline for a little over one hour.

The issues you're seeing, especially slowness are because when all of our machines go offline like that it takes a while to rebuild all of the caching. It'll sort itself or in time, just be patient.

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