I was getting that error a few minutes ago. It also seems like there are a lot visitors logging on sometimes, I've seen it hit over 2000 at least once, and it makes me wonder how many of those are actual people and how many are bot spiders.

I may as well add this to this thread. This is the second time that I've seen this kind of thing. I went to the "Using 2 monitors" thread and this is what I saw.



When I click on the Anonymous user H's profile I was taken to my own profile. Very strange. I saw this exact behavior on another thread as well. When I exited and re-entered the thread I saw the 23 posts that were there all along. Kind of down the rabbit hole type of strange.

I saw that Anonymous H thing around the time I made my earlier post in this thread. In the 'grammar nazi' thread, there's a post by 'Jennifer1 not logged in', where if you check the profile, you get taken to your own profile.

I'd been unable to login to either here or wincustomize for quite a while. It'd been over a month. Today I figured it out.

In the begining I could log into Galciv2, but I couldn't access the forums. I couldn't access Wincustomize.com at all if I tried to log in. More recently, I couldn't log into Galciv2 at all. The error message was different than the other sorry... pages, it was an actual error message. The message (.net debug code), indicated that it was having a problem with one of the characters in my password. Specifically, it was a ")" character. But I couldn't log in to change the password. Oh what a cruel mistress fate can be.

Today I tried Galciv1, and it worked. I changed my password and cleared my cookies for Wincustomize. And now, here I am. Logged in and posting. Whatever changes they are making to the back end of the pages do not seem to be being made to Galciv1 and for that I am gratefull.

I hope this helps somebody.

Too bad we are not as timeless, as classics such as that.

We must be of a similar age. Great choice of song.

The best thing about quoting that song here is that it was sung by Jefferson Starship!   

I wasn't around when it was recorded, but I have a cool aunt who made sure I started off with the classics. Our ages aren't that similar on the surface (check this old thread), but I think we both fall into the gap between the baby boomers and genX, and our viewpoints on many of the topics posted around here seem to be very similar.

your cat keeps jumping on the keyboard

Just remember to wash your hands before using your keyboard after opening a can of tuna.   

I really have no clue about how these sites work, but I do have to imagine that it must be pretty complex since folks can come into them from JoeUser.com, Stardock.com, GalCiv2.com. Heck, even Galciv1.com and who knows where else. Sometimes the errors are annoying, but being carted off to your own profile when clicking on an Anonymous user was actually funny.

Gw's grammar Nazi thread seems to have disappeared. It's the _only_ page not working for me.

Yeah, same thing for me. Maybe the devs got tired of reading our drivel.

But more detail would definately be appreciated.

Notice taken.
Just want to point out that the above link states that I do not have clearence to see what the problem is but that someone with admn rights are able to access the proper files.

Many years ago when I worked in a tech support site, we actually had someone call in because every time he tried to put our product floppy in the drive his parrot took it from him. The tech support agent told him to put the parrot in the cage before putting the floppy in the drive...You must be smarter than the bird!!!

This tangent now ends

Smilies are working again

Is it because everyone started talking about real Nazis?

Possibly second biggest laugh I've gotten from this forum & likely evidence that the wee folk are truly among us, or at least in the software

On another tangent in this thread, in the late '90s I did phone support for a tiny software audience and I actually spoke with someone who honestly needed to be talked through opening the CD drive and inserting a disc (leading me to believe that the "it's a cupholder" myths are based in truth). This caller was obviously not an idiot and still serves as a reminder that you always need to check your assumptions about other folks' live experiences. I won't even start on the recently-revived "How old are you" thread...