What the H$ll is wrong with the Red Board now?

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It is a never ending source of amusement, isn't it.

Now, it completes a page post for a new search but there is no content displayed - a blank page- no its not me. Different browsers return the same result . .

It like so 1999 over there . . .
 
Well, of course it's because AOPA is lacking in money to do decent web admin. They only have a ~hundred mil sitting in the bank, but that's reserved for exec bonuses.
 
A baseball cap and a broken forum all for only 45 bucks. Sign me up.
 
It's gotta be embarrassing for them. They should give up hosting their own board and sub it out. They only have about 200 people online at a time. For $330 /mo they could have 450 simultaneous users at Invision Power Board, zero technical problems, and save $100K+ on IT people (who haven't been doing a good job). We've been using them for CTFlier.com for years, with almost 0 down time. One forum I visit a lot, BleepingComputer.com, uses them with around 4,000 people online at the same time, with almost no downtime.
 
Running a board like this isn't rocket science. We put very minimal work into maintaining the PoA infrastructure but it helps that we're actually competent I suppose.

If I were making AOPA's decisions I would run it on Amazon AWS. If they don't have the skills to do so they should find someone that does.
 
Red board has worked well for me for the last few months. I'm not seeing the problems that used to exist.
 
what are these other boards anyway?
red board, blue board, yellow board...

What are they?
 
SixPapaCharlie said:
what are these other boards anyway?
red board, blue board, yellow board...

What are they?
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redboard -> forums.aopa.org, must be a member.
blueboard -> You are Here.
yellow board -> EAA Forums.
purpleboard -> purpleboard.net another aviation forum, kinda strange though.
 
bartmc said:
purpleboard -> purpleboard.net another aviation forum, kinda strange though.
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Liberal paradise.

Oops, did I say that out here. Bad poster, bad, bad, bad. I should be punished.:yikes::lol:
 
docmirror said:
Liberal paradise.

Oops, did I say that out here. Bad poster, bad, bad, bad. I should be punished.:yikes::lol:
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The purpleboard for postmenopausal womyn, love it over there, working the slow troll these days.
 
I maintain a busier and more involved (with extensive) vBulletin site than either the AOPA or the POA site and it doesn't go down as much as AOPAs. I volunteered to help them get TAPATALK to work with their idiotic double login system (it can be done TAPATALK has the stuff needed to do it) but they told me go take a hike.
 
flyingron said:
I maintain a busier and more involved (with extensive) vBulletin site than either the AOPA or the POA site and it doesn't go down as much as AOPAs. I volunteered to help them get TAPATALK to work with their idiotic double login system (it can be done TAPATALK has the stuff needed to do it) but they told me go take a hike.
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Yes, a $20.00/mo linode account and a part time high school kid could keep it up and running better than it is now.
 
I maintain a busier and more involved (with extensive) vBulletin site than either the AOPA or the POA site and it doesn't go down as much as AOPAs. I volunteered to help them get TAPATALK to work with their idiotic double login system (it can be done TAPATALK has the stuff needed to do it) but they told me go take a hike.
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At least you got an answer. I'm in a similar situation and offered to help out back when they were suffering from multi-hour outages, and got no response at all.
 
bartmc said:
redboard -> forums.aopa.org, must be a member.
blueboard -> You are Here.
yellow board -> EAA Forums.
purpleboard -> purpleboard.net another aviation forum, kinda strange though.
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We are all strange...just to different people...:yes:
 
docmirror said:
I don't think I stuttered.
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Are you talking politics? I have not noticed that...


Or are you talking off-topic content and lack of moderation, because that is by design.
 
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