Trixology
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: jace on February 02, 2013, 09:05:45 AM
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Hi all
There is somebody who has posted in the old MacWeather.net forum looking for help. (Please help a Mac weather guy out). He wants Mac weather software for his LaCrosse 2811 station, so needs to be directed here.
Unfortunately the site will not let me log in as I've forgotten my password, so I cannot post a reply to him. Can somebody spare a couple of minutes to help him out please?
Ta
JC
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I haven't been able to get on over there this morning. It times out, so there might be a server problem. You should be able to retrieve (or create) your password from the login screen.
I know several folks have tried registering over there and given up. I forwarded a couple of them to Barzi without reply. The spammers sure seem to be able to register, though...
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I finally got in, and I see Randall did as well. Unfortunately, the guy has a LaCrosse 2811, which isn't supported by WeatherCat, Weather Snoop, Weather Display, nor Weather Display or Cumulus on the Windows side. Poor guy has Parkinson's Disease and is looking for something easy to use to access his station, but he bought the wrong hardware.
Steve
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Cheers guys
I've not been able to access the site for a few weeks now, I've sent off a couple of "I've forgotten my password' requests over the weeks but no joy there either. Looks like I'll just have to be an viewer rather than a poster for the foreseeable future.
JC
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Howdy JC, Steve, and MacWeather monitoring types,
Don't know what the deal is, but it is really messed up at the moment. May need to poke Barzi about it if things don't clear up on their own.
Oh well,
Cheers, Edouard [cheers1]
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Hi folks,
Really, I don't know what to do more! If I configure a new spam-fight system on Macweather, it'll be even more difficult to log in or register as it is now... [banghead]
I see two (not so bad) solutions:
1. We replace this crappy phpBB forum by a SimpleMachine forum. Since years and years, spam is a problem on phpBB forums. And it was never fixed by the developpers. This solution need a large amount of time.
2. We shut down the forum, and redirect macweather.net domain to the Trixology forum. This take 2 minutes.
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Hi Barzi,
I would prefer solution #2.
Cheers,
Reinhard
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Hi Barzi and All WeatherCat Fans
I believe that we shut it down and redirect it to Trixology I delete more and more spam every day there I just can't keep up any more
[cheers1]
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Option 2 is intriguing. I'd imagine Stu would need to give approval for that, and there's be a loss of data for people who use other applications or never moved to WeatherCat. Option 3 could be make it read only and send interested folks this way, as long as the domain name is not costly.
The WXforum has added a Mac weather software section, but there's very little activity to date.
http://www.wxforum.net/index.php?board=114.0
{edit} sorry Randall, I've been a little lax over the past several days. I'll get back on that!
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Hi Barzi,
I would prefer solution #2.
Cheers,
Reinhard
I agree, I haven't joined Mac Weather mainly due to this forum having all the stuff I need :)
The only way I could think that Macweather would survive is of you diversify on "Macintosh Weather Software".
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The only way I could think that Macweather would survive is of you diversify on "Macintosh Weather Software".
I think that was the idea, Tim. But WeatherCat, Weather Display, and Weather Snoop all have their own forums, so it has ended up as a convenient place to point people other places and nothing more. Too bad, as I think we all wonted it to continue. But as Randall says, it has become a spam headache more than anything else.
Steve
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Howdy Barzi, Reinhard, Randall, Steve, Tim, and WeatherCat fans,
I'm afraid the handwriting has been on the wall for MacWeather for a while. It just never reached the critical mass needed to move beyond a "lifeboat" for LWC users.
Option 2 is intriguing. I'd imagine Stu would need to give approval for that, and there's be a loss of data for people who use other applications or never moved to WeatherCat. Option 3 could be make it read only and send interested folks this way, as long as the domain name is not costly.
The WXforum has added a Mac weather software section, but there's very little activity to date.
http://www.wxforum.net/index.php?board=114.0
I would like to suggest a variation on all of the above that perhaps is as close to a compromise as is possible.
The domain name will be up for renewal this summer. Until then lock the forum down, but leave it accessible. That way if there is some bit of info that should be moved over to this forum we have some time to find out about it.
However, instead of having www.macweather.net going directly to that locked down forum, have it instead go to a static page informing visitors that the forum has been closed and giving them 3 choices in the form of links:
- For LWC support send them to the WeatherCat forum.
- For general Mac weather questions send them the new topic on WXForum that Steve moderates.
- To look up old information MacWeather.net - supply a link to the locked down forum.
Does that seem worthwhile? That would perhaps increase the traffic on the Mac section of WXForum - that would be as close to saving the legacy of MacWeather.net as can be hoped at this point.
Opinions solicited!
Cheers, Edouard [cheers1]
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Sounds good to me, Edouard
Steve
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Hi Cat fans
Well I went to the MacWeather.Net forum today and I have been banned has anyone else been banned?
[cheers1]
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It doesn't show that you are banned, and I went through the moderator log to see if I'd accidentally banned you or you IP and haven't. Are you sure it wasn't just down?
Steve
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Hi Steve
Checked again just now this is what it shows
Oh well it was fun while it lasted Barzi must of had a reason
[cheers1]
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Howdy Randall, Steve, and former MacWeather folks,
Checked again just now this is what it shows
The two reasons I can imagine 1.) it was simply a mistake, or 2.) is that somehow the IP address that you were using Randall was also used by a spammer. Most ISPs give dynamic addresses and you could have been assigned an address that was used in the past by a spammer. You could just disconnect from your ISP for a few minute and then reconnect to get a new IP address and that would probably solve the problem.
However, When Barzi has a chance, he should put MacWeather out of its misery. Sorry to leave this last burden on him, but I hope he can make quick work of it.
Thanks to everyone who did make MacWeather the success it was for the time it had in the sun. (http://www.canebas.org/Weather/LWC_forum/Custom_emoticons/thankyou.gif) Without it, WeatherCat would have had a much harder time reclaiming the old LWC following. [cat]
Cheers, Edouard [cheers1]
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Hi Edouard
You are probably right no be deal I had just been trying to delete all the spam on there along with Steve. I think it should be just a read only forum for a little while then deleted
[cheers1]
Update: Ok Edouard did what you said and it worked [cheer]
Why don't you run for President of the USA [biggrin]
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Howdy Randall and WeatherCat fans, . . . . . [cat]
Why don't you run for President of the USA [biggrin]
;) What's the matter with ya'!!
Okay, I might be a little eccentric ;D, but I'm not crazy! :o
Cheers, Edouard [cheers1]
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Hi Edouard
i bet you could do a better job than what's happening right now [tup]
[cheers1]
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Barzi locked the MacWeather.net forum this morning. I posted the following over on the WXforum Mac sub forum:
MacWeather.net was originally created when the old Lightsoft Weather Center software business and forum went dormant. It was a place for LWC users to continue development of templates and to help new users get started. It eventually became a place for Mac weather software users of any flavor to congregate.
With the release of Trixology's WeatherCat (the re-invented LWC) last year, almost all of the LWC users moved over to the Trixology forum. Since then, participation on MacWeather.net has dwindled to one or two posts a month, and spam has increased dramatically. This morning, the forum owner decided to close MacWeather.net and will redirect the URL to the Trixology forum.
I have saved several of the LWC help topics, so if anyone has anything in particular you need, let me know and I'll see if I have it.
Thanks for participating over there,
Steve
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Dear fellow voyagers from LWC to WeatherCat,
Thanks Barzi and Steve for at least bringing an end to the craziness at MacWeather.net. Hopefully, anyone going there would find this forum eventually and can be given directions as to where they can get their questions answered.
Cheers, Edouard [cheers1]
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The MacWeather URL now resolves to the WeatherCat forum.
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Hi all,
Macweather.net redirect now to this forum.
It's a shame, but it's spammer fault! Macweather moderators have done a really great and hard job. But, for one "real" post, we had 99 spams! I've tried many anti-spams plugins. It seems, that phpbb as a real problem with spammers. I really have less problems with all my Simple Machines forum.
It's not fair, that our moderator must just take much time to fight for spam. In a perfect world, this time would be better used to post interesting message on the forum!
For now, the macweather.net domain name redirect here; most of the Macweather mebers use WeatherCat.
The forum was not erased! I just need 10 minutes to put it online again.
I can put it online again, with a read-only mode, if you think it's usefull. But:
I think, that a forum need a critical mass. Stu is back, with the great WeatherCat. We now should help the WeatherCat forum. This forum IS our Mac weather community.
I think, we don't need any more Macweather.net forum.
What is your opinion about it?
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Hi Barzi
I would have like to seen it as a read only forum with a message in the header about for more infomation on weather on the mac see trixology.com until it it is time for the web hosting renewal ther's alot of good info listed there
thanks for every thing do have done us during this time
randall75
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Hi Barzi and fellow MacWeather refugees,
Macweather.net redirect now to this forum.
Sorry to report, but at least I'm not being redirected to WeatherCat. I think it should do that, but right now I'm getting "This board is currently disabled" message on the MacWeather page.
For now, the macweather.net domain name redirect here; most of the Macweather members use WeatherCat.
I agree, there were very few MacWeather users who weren't LWC/WeatherCat users. If such folks are redirected here and are confused, Let's make a point to forward them to Steve's section on WXForum if they have questions about something other than WeatherCat.
The forum was not erased! I just need 10 minutes to put it online again.
I can put it online again, with a read-only mode, if you think it's useful.
You know, perhaps even this isn't necessary. It is the nature of a forum that you have to restate the same answers over and over. Honestly, I cannot think of anything that I would need to refer to MacWeather for. If there is a question that we once answered on MacWeather, we'll do the research again and redo the answer. What we all should try to do more of is add stuff to the WeatherCat Wiki. That's a better way to provide a single answer to a common problem.
Barzi, if you park the contents of MacWeather on a hard-drive, that would be nice, but even that is probably unnecessary. We have all moved on, it is time to abandon the MacWeather.net lifeboat.
Thanks Barzi for all your hard work on MacWeather.net. (http://www.canebas.org/Weather/LWC_forum/Custom_emoticons/thankyou.gif) You took on a mighty task when you were already way too busy. Appreciate your help during that dark time in between LWC and WeatherCat. [tup]
Cheers, Edouard [cheers1]