The Circuit Archive

[boothros.livejournal.com]

Is it just me, or has the search facility on the Archive gone a bit tits up?

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[londonronnie.livejournal.com]

Just did a bit of a search (admittedly very limited) and it seemed ok.

Mind you, I'm sure it's just a matter of time before the whole thing goes tits up, given that the owner isn't even remotely involved in the fandom any more.

Very sad.

[kiwisue.livejournal.com]

Seems quite slow this morning, but definitely working. I was doing randoms last night no probs.

[boothros.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the replies, guys but I'm still getting issues on this, my laptop and the works PC. I'm getting a raw http version rather than the full https version. If you bear with me, I'll try and post a screen shot.

[boothros.livejournal.com]

This is the page I get displayed when I click on the search tab from the first home page (which is displaying ok):



and this is the result I get if I click on any of the blue hyperlinks :

[kiwisue.livejournal.com]

Ditch the https:// and try:

http://www.thecircuitarchive.com/tca/cgi-bin/search.cgi

or


www.thecircuitarchive.com/tca/cgi-bin/search.cgi

[(Anonymous)]

I *think* I've solved it Sue, think an adblocker was preventing the flash from working properly as I've finally got pages to load. Must have been a coincidence that it happened on my works PC as well and dont know if I have anough access to tinker with that and it looks like I'll have to work out how to do the same thing on Firefox as well. It's made me determined however. When there were hacking issues some years ago on the Hatstand, as soon as I got access, I started to download the longer stories onto disc and actually collated over 900. I've no idea how many stories are on the archive, but I'd hate to lose them because of a technical issue. It might take me some years, so watch this space!

[kiwisue.livejournal.com]

Maybe - if it was forcing the https:// in your browser window. If I used that instead of the normal URL I got the results you did. Anyway, glad you have the search going!

[boothros.livejournal.com]

Well whatever I did got undid when I switched off the PC, Sue so thanks SO much for the above suggestion, you've saved my bacon :)

[boothros.livejournal.com]

Its just been mentioned to me that Istia who runs The Hatstand was enquiring what hacking issues I'd talked about in this post.
The event in question was in February 2014, when people clicked on their Hatstand shortcuts and links and instead of getting The Hatstand, got a link to an Australian travel company. This exact same thing happened to a large website I was connected to when I worked for a charity and sadly in our case, it WAS a case of hacking and took weeks for our professional web builders to reinstate and re encrypt the site again.
I've since found a DW post from Istia through a page I'm on, that stated that The Hatstand was down due to server issues and fortunately for us, the problems were resolved very quickly and the lovely site continues to exist.
It's always a concern when any well loved resource suddenly disappears for any reason, hence my distress when I couldn't properly use the CA the other day.
Sue's fix has certainly worked for me as if I Google the CA and go into it from that, I still get the results that I described above.

[kiwisue.livejournal.com]

https://istia.dreamwidth.org/433300.html

It was the hosts, slashcity, that had the problem.