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Title: What happened to the "Ambassador" lie out !?!?!?!?!?
Post by: Nomadic Pirate on June 07, 2017, 05:56:17 PM
Been using the Black backdrop since the beginning and absolutely love it but just now I logged in and I'm on the white one,...and hate it  ;D ;D ;D ;D

How do I set the Ambassador one back on ?

Thanks
Title: Re: What happened to the "Ambassador" lie out !?!?!?!?!?
Post by: ezman604 on June 07, 2017, 06:02:16 PM
Manny, hold tight. Our programmer is in the system working on making the forum more secure. He has to change the folder locations to secure so that MIGHT be the issue. And if so, it will be corrected very shortly. I see my avatar is missing too. I'm sure it's the folder security issue he's working on.
Title: Re: What happened to the "Ambassador" lie out !?!?!?!?!?
Post by: BenjiHunter on June 07, 2017, 06:23:03 PM
Same here!!!
Title: What Happened To My Account?
Post by: DevilsLuck on June 07, 2017, 08:22:45 PM
So I just got on the site to check in on a few things, and... My picture is gone, and My layout settings have all changed. Weird.... What happened?
Title: No more pictures?
Post by: MDStroup on June 07, 2017, 08:26:52 PM
I have tried several different computers and my phone. But no matter what one i used i cant see any pictures on this site any more. If you click on a link to one in a post it gives you a 404 error code.

Is anyone else having this problem?
Title: Re: No more pictures?
Post by: starlingassassin on June 07, 2017, 08:29:27 PM
yep,same here.

on my desktop it says "this page is trying to load scripts from unauthenticated sources"

Title: Re: No more pictures?
Post by: Roadworthy on June 07, 2017, 08:48:53 PM
This sounds like a job for Lizzie's Help Desk.
Title: Re: What Happened To My Account?
Post by: Roadworthy on June 07, 2017, 08:51:11 PM
I'm guessing it's a configuration thing with your account.

Your avatar and home page look normal from this end.

Lizzie has a new Help Desk gate.
Title: Re: What Happened To My Account?
Post by: Wayne52 on June 07, 2017, 08:59:13 PM
There's definitely something wrong with the forum.

I uploaded my avatar to the forum however my signature pic of my Prod is still there.  That's in photobucket.
Title: Re: What Happened To My Account?
Post by: ezman604 on June 07, 2017, 09:00:34 PM
There's an Announcement in the Announcement Gate as well in the Liz's Help Desk Gate about it.
Sorry...we're working it.
Title: Re: What Happened To My Account?
Post by: Wayne52 on June 07, 2017, 09:01:48 PM
Thanks Dave I'll go check it out
Title: Re: What Happened To My Account?
Post by: mobilemail on June 07, 2017, 09:18:37 PM
There's an Announcement in the Announcement Gate as well in the Liz's Help Desk Gate about it.
Sorry...we're working it.

Glad to hear it. I thought Rocker was getting back at me for picking on him in a different thread.  ;D
Title: Re: What Happened To My Account?
Post by: Sfttailrdr46 on June 07, 2017, 09:21:22 PM
 ;) Wow all these nervous members trying to figure out what they may have done to annoy Rocker1 ROFLMBO  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: What Happened To My Account?
Post by: Booger on June 07, 2017, 09:22:03 PM
Rocker fixed yours, everyone else is getting worked on. :)

There's an Announcement in the Announcement Gate as well in the Liz's Help Desk Gate about it.
Sorry...we're working it.

Glad to hear it. I thought Rocker was getting back at me for picking on him in a different thread.  ;D
Title: Re: No more pictures?
Post by: Norm_m on June 07, 2017, 09:24:03 PM
if anyone thinks they have a problem take a look at the Classified Gate!!

I hope the programmer fixes it or I will have my work cutout!!

Norm
Title: Re: What Happened To My Account?
Post by: anti-squirrel on June 07, 2017, 09:24:16 PM
It's funny... I keep picturing everybody by their avatar...  Just a little weird not seeing them except in my mind's eye!

Now is the perfect time to switch to somebody else's avatar to mess with people :D
Title: Re: What happened to the "Ambassador" lie out !?!?!?!?!?
Post by: Norm_m on June 07, 2017, 09:28:03 PM
Hay D Ez take a look at the Classifieds!!!! I hope the programmer does fix it or the two of us will have out hands full getting all the post fixed with pictures.

Norm
Title: Re: What happened to the "Ambassador" lie out !?!?!?!?!?
Post by: ezman604 on June 07, 2017, 09:29:57 PM
I'm seeing all of the pictures...and he says they should be visible to everyone. All I know of still lacking is the avatars and we're working on that now. Will take a little bit to fix.
Title: Re: What happened to the "Ambassador" lie out !?!?!?!?!?
Post by: Bicycleman on June 07, 2017, 09:40:13 PM
I’m going to bed.  I will check back in the morning to see if everything is back to normal. 
Title: Re: No more pictures?
Post by: ezman604 on June 07, 2017, 09:46:49 PM
I'm seeing the pictures in posts. Are they still not showing for others?
Title: Re: No more pictures?
Post by: Sfttailrdr46 on June 07, 2017, 09:50:47 PM
I'm seeing the pictures in posts. Are they still not showing for others?
No avatars yet for me
Title: Re: What happened to the "Ambassador" lie out !?!?!?!?!?
Post by: lizzie on June 07, 2017, 09:56:19 PM
I'm seeing all of the pictures...and he says they should be visible to everyone. All I know of still lacking is the avatars and we're working on that now. Will take a little bit to fix.

Same here. Still can't see the avatars, but can see the photos in classifieds.
Title: Re: No more pictures?
Post by: MDStroup on June 07, 2017, 10:04:37 PM
I'm seeing the pictures in posts. Are they still not showing for others?
No avatars yet for me

None for me still
Title: Re: No more pictures?
Post by: DevilsLuck on June 07, 2017, 10:06:54 PM
I still got no Avatar pics. And my black background has been changed to the original style...
Title: Re: No more pictures?
Post by: Norm_m on June 07, 2017, 10:08:44 PM
No Avatars but I see pictures in the Classifieds again

Norm
Title: GTA Format
Post by: Bentong on June 07, 2017, 10:10:36 PM
I used to have a dark background now it's gone. I looked at settings and nothing there. Anybody else got this issue?  ::) :o
Title: Re: GTA Format
Post by: BenjiHunter on June 07, 2017, 10:14:34 PM
A programmer is working on the system.
I guess everything will be back to normal when he's done.
Title: Re: GTA Format
Post by: DevilsLuck on June 07, 2017, 10:24:57 PM
I used to have a dark background now it's gone. I looked at settings and nothing there. Anybody else got this issue?  ::) :o
Yup. Same issue here.
Title: Re: No more pictures?
Post by: Rat Sniper (AKA: PaulT58) on June 07, 2017, 10:26:17 PM
I think the new security update is working overtime!  ezman604 needs to call his programers!
Title: Re: No more pictures?
Post by: ezman604 on June 07, 2017, 10:42:53 PM
LOL
I'm made announcements and posts all over the place. It's hard to keep up with the different complaints for the same issue.
Okay, we have a Help Desk Gate and I posted there. We have an Announcement Gate, I posted there too.
I asked our programmer to set up as a secure site. All we needed to do is rename the folders from http to https in the address.
ALL of the folders have been updated EXCEPT the avatars. Now what we have to do is unzip a backup copy of the forum (22GB in size) and find 2 lines in one particular folder and we are done. Unzipping 22GB of files is taking a BIT of time.
We will be back 100% shortly. Minor updates/upgrades NEVER go smooth as they are supposed to!!!
 :P
Hang in there and when the smoke clears we will be more secure than ever.
Sorry for the inconveniences.
Dooohhh......

Title: Re: No more pictures?
Post by: Sfttailrdr46 on June 07, 2017, 11:01:14 PM
 ::) ;) ;D No good deed goes unpunished you of all people should know better  ;D
Title: Re: No more pictures?
Post by: MDStroup on June 08, 2017, 12:16:00 AM
Thanks for the up date! I didnt know what forum would be the best to put this. So i figured it would be like most forums and unsure topics would go in the general forum and be move if need be.
Title: What happened to the Avatars ?????
Post by: archellas on June 08, 2017, 03:34:30 AM
Got in to read this evening, and just about everybody's avatar is gone .... is it just me?
Title: Re: What happened to the Avatars ?????
Post by: BenjiHunter on June 08, 2017, 03:35:32 AM
Nope, everyone.
They are redoing to forum. Making it more secure.
Title: Re: What happened to the Avatars ?????
Post by: Nomadic Pirate on June 08, 2017, 04:40:16 AM
Hopefully the Ambassador layout comes back too :) :)
Title: Re: What happened to the Avatars ?????
Post by: BenjiHunter on June 08, 2017, 05:10:54 AM
Yeah, that's one I had.
Title: Re: What happened to the "Ambassador" lie out !?!?!?!?!?
Post by: DevilsLuck on June 08, 2017, 06:48:17 AM
My pic is back, but I still have the old back ground color scheme. How do I put it back to the correct black back drop? I can't even seem to find an option to change the look of the page...
Title: Re: What happened to the "Ambassador" lie out !?!?!?!?!?
Post by: Wayne52 on June 08, 2017, 06:58:05 AM
All is good here now, what I don't like seeing was the Crosman buy out posted :(
Title: Re: What happened to the Avatars ?????
Post by: Looking_tang on June 08, 2017, 07:27:35 AM
All should be good now so that you can see your avatars, thanks for your patience.
Title: Re: What happened to the "Ambassador" lie out !?!?!?!?!?
Post by: Looking_tang on June 08, 2017, 07:35:22 AM
All avatars and attachments are back, thank you for your patience.

I was surprised to see everyone have access to so many themes, but that is an administration thing. The only serviced theme is the default GTA, however you should be able to access other themes at the moment.
Title: Re: What happened to the "Ambassador" lie out !?!?!?!?!?
Post by: lizzie on June 08, 2017, 07:59:45 AM
Hmmmm. All looks back to normal now, but on my phone or tablet, I get an error box which says something about a non-secure connection.
Title: Re: What happened to the "Ambassador" lie out !?!?!?!?!?
Post by: Looking_tang on June 08, 2017, 09:36:37 AM
That is a default browser info and you will see that on pages where people post images to unsecured locations. Your Admin here will inform you about this more.
Title: Re: What happened to the "Ambassador" lie out !?!?!?!?!?
Post by: ezman604 on June 08, 2017, 10:03:19 AM
I posted how to fix Internet Explorer but as Jean says, it's a browser setting. In the browser security tab you have to tell it to allow mixed content. Some secure some not secure. GTA is now secure but some of the outside links folks have posted are not from secure sites. So the browser is preventing the opening of non-secure sites.
Title: Re: What happened to the "Ambassador" lie out !?!?!?!?!?
Post by: lizzie on June 08, 2017, 10:23:25 AM
Ahh. ok- thanks!
Title: Re: What happened to the "Ambassador" lie out !?!?!?!?!?
Post by: avator on June 10, 2017, 11:47:57 AM
Don't know if anyone said it yet Manny but.. the ambassador theme is back... I just changed to it.
Title: Re: What happened to the "Ambassador" lie out !?!?!?!?!?
Post by: Ol'DeadEye on June 10, 2017, 01:30:53 PM
I posted how to fix Internet Explorer but as Jean says, it's a browser setting. In the browser security tab you have to tell it to allow mixed content. Some secure some not secure. GTA is now secure but some of the outside links folks have posted are not from secure sites. So the browser is preventing the opening of non-secure sites.
Here's a link to information for Mozilla FireFox users but useful for other browser users.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/mixed-content-blocking-firefox?redirectlocale=en-US&as=u&redirectslug=how-does-content-isnt-secure-affect-my-safety&utm_source=inproduct
Title: Re: What happened to the "Ambassador" lie out !?!?!?!?!?
Post by: Tater on June 10, 2017, 01:45:07 PM
Quote from: Ol'DeadEye on June 10, 2017, 01:30:53 PM
Here's a link to information for Mozilla FireFox users but useful for other browser users.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/mixed-content-blocking-firefox?redirectlocale=en-US&as=u&redirectslug=how-does-content-isnt-secure-affect-my-safety&utm_source=inproduct

Thanks Tom. I learned something new from that link.
Title: Re: What happened to the "Ambassador" lie out !?!?!?!?!?
Post by: ezman604 on June 10, 2017, 03:54:58 PM
All avatars and attachments are back, thank you for your patience.

I was surprised to see everyone have access to so many themes, but that is an administration thing. The only serviced theme is the default GTA, however you should be able to access other themes at the moment.

Jean already said Ambassador and all of the other themes are back to normal.
:)
Title: Re: What happened to the "Ambassador" lie out !?!?!?!?!?
Post by: avator on June 10, 2017, 04:00:59 PM
Yeah.... speed reading never was my strong point  8)
Title: Re: What happened to the "Ambassador" lie out !?!?!?!?!?
Post by: Sfttailrdr46 on June 10, 2017, 04:09:42 PM
 ;) ;D And here I thought it was reading in general that gave you trouble  :o ;D ;D
Title: Re: What happened to the "Ambassador" lie out !?!?!?!?!?
Post by: avator on June 10, 2017, 04:13:10 PM
;) ;D And here I thought it was reading in general that gave you trouble  :o ;D ;D
Yep... much better at reading in English than General.
Title: Re: What happened to the "Ambassador" lie out !?!?!?!?!?
Post by: Bicycleman on June 10, 2017, 04:23:10 PM
Reading English always gave me problems.  And the rest of the foreign languages do too.
Title: Re: What happened to the "Ambassador" lie out !?!?!?!?!?
Post by: ezman604 on June 10, 2017, 04:23:46 PM
R-R-R
 :P
Title: Re: What happened to the "Ambassador" lie out !?!?!?!?!?
Post by: Tater on June 10, 2017, 06:41:31 PM
;) ;D And here I thought it was reading in general that gave you trouble  :o ;D ;D

No, that's thinking that's problem.     ;D



Ooops, thought e were talking about Booger.
Title: Re: What happened to the "Ambassador" lie out !?!?!?!?!?
Post by: Sfttailrdr46 on June 10, 2017, 06:43:49 PM
 ;) Same difference  ::) ::) ;D
Title: Re: What happened to the "Ambassador" lie out !?!?!?!?!?
Post by: dv8eod on June 11, 2017, 01:12:58 AM
So if I may ask.... what's the fix for android? Not only do I get the "unsecured connection" message, I also get an "invalid certificate" message when I first open this site. It happens on my phone, tablet, and Firefox on the computer. The domain name doesn't match the security certificate.
Title: Re: What happened to the "Ambassador" lie out !?!?!?!?!?
Post by: ezman604 on June 11, 2017, 08:10:10 AM
So if I may ask.... what's the fix for android? Not only do I get the "unsecured connection" message, I also get an "invalid certificate" message when I first open this site. It happens on my phone, tablet, and Firefox on the computer. The domain name doesn't match the security certificate.

On the Android devices, check your date/time. Most report that an update has changed that and is the reason you get the unsecure connection deal. Try changing your date/time (if it does show correct) and change it back. If a certificate message pops up you SHOULD also get the option to view the certificate and accept or install it.