What happened to Cointalk.com?

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Anyone know why their website is no longer?

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  • TomB
    TomB Posts: 23,189 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I'm getting a message about an unexpected database error occurred, which would make me think the website will be back and functional shortly, but that in the meantime they have to find out what made it crash (software update, platform change, etc...).

    Thomas Bush Numismatics & Numismatic Photography

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  • bronzemat
    bronzemat Posts: 2,700 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    The server just needs to be rebooted and the owner, Peter, barely comes on the website as much as he did and he's the only one that can deal with such issues, the other admins are useless to deal with it.

  • atom
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    @bronzemat said:
    The server just needs to be rebooted and the owner, Peter, barely comes on the website as much as he did and he's the only one that can deal with such issues, the other admins are useless to deal with it.

    The Peter principle

  • bronzemat
    bronzemat Posts: 2,700 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I hope it returns this weekend, but with Peter, who knows? I could see it lasting weeks.

  • Tibor
    Tibor Posts: 3,801 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Last week or so. wasn't there something going on with the
    web in general? Might be fall out from that. Several smaller
    auction houses in Europe had issues connecting with PayPal.
    Two of them had winners pay with other auction houses.

  • Serial_no_8
    Serial_no_8 Posts: 514 ✭✭✭
    edited August 2, 2024 5:46AM
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    Thanks for the update (I asked this question on the Currency section & my post was closed with no explanation).

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  • Steven59
    Steven59 Posts: 11,230 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    All his forums are still down. I'm on the Autiquers forum also and it's down too.

    "When they can't find anything wrong with you, they create it!"

  • bronzemat
    bronzemat Posts: 2,700 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Cointalk is back online.

  • lordmarcovan
    lordmarcovan Posts: 45,335 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    They had to replace their server.

    Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.

  • PhilArnold
    PhilArnold Posts: 264 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I’ve been trying to sign up for this forum but not having any luck. Anyone else having this issue?

    Phil Arnold
    Director of Photography, GreatCollections
    greatcollections.com

  • U1chicago
    U1chicago Posts: 6,993 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @PhilArnold said:
    I’ve been trying to sign up for this forum but not having any luck. Anyone else having this issue?

    Over the years I’ve heard there being issues with some people signing up-it’s some sort of glitch. @lordmarcovan is a moderator there so maybe he can help you out (not certain though).

  • lordmarcovan
    lordmarcovan Posts: 45,335 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 1, 2025 12:00PM
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    @U1chicago said:

    @PhilArnold said:
    I’ve been trying to sign up for this forum but not having any luck. Anyone else having this issue?

    Over the years I’ve heard there being issues with some people signing up-it’s some sort of glitch. @lordmarcovan is a moderator there so maybe he can help you out (not certain though).

    Sorry. Unfortunately my moderation privileges do not extend to registration. That is the domain of the admins: Doug (“GDJMSP”), the day-to-day administrator, and Peter T. Davis, the owner. And unfortunately the latter is almost always absent from the site, 99+% of the time.

    I have brought up with Doug the constant problems people have reported to me about not being able to register on the site, but his response was as though there is no problem at all. It certainly appears to me that there IS indeed a problem, but I’m powerless to do anything about it.

    And that makes me sad, because it’s a great site. (As long as you’re a Supporter and can thus avoid the absolute barrage of sketchy ads that pollute the site- or you have some other way to dodge those.) The software platform there is vastly superior to this one, in my opinion. Aside from the issue we’re discussing, of course.

    Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.

  • PhilArnold
    PhilArnold Posts: 264 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Sorry to hear that. Looks like there's some good conversations happening there.
    Not only can I not create a new account, but there's another issue: I actually have a CoinTalk account from years and years ago under my old Darkhorse handle. I have no idea what the password is, but I can't get an email to reset the password either. Ah well.

    Phil Arnold
    Director of Photography, GreatCollections
    greatcollections.com

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