So, what happened this time?

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  • Cartledge
    Cartledge Club Member Posts: 267
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    edited May 2016 #62

    "we can only apologise"

    I don't come on here very often these days, but have visited twice in the last week or so for reasons other than this forum, only to find the place out of order yet again and a host of the usual inevitable moans on CT.

    'We can ONLY apologise" is not true. You, (the Club that is) can actually do more than keep apologising. Those responsible can get off their collective bottoms and do something to raise the execrable standards prevalent in running
    the Club web site.

    Apologies, oft repeated, are just 'noise'. 

    Peter C.

  • Wherenext
    Wherenext Club Member Posts: 10,800
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    edited May 2016 #63

    Lets not beat about the bush. ITS GARBAGE, isn't it? IanH started a thread recently about what we get for our membership fee. I wouldn't mind the whole lot of it going towards a decent website, not just forum wise because then I think I might want the other
    £47 spent on better things, so stop treating us with contempt as it really is an embarrasement.

  • IanH
    IanH Club Member Posts: 4,708
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    edited May 2016 #64

    Hi everyone. We are currently experiencing intermittent website outages which is effecting the ability to login to Club Together and CL search. We are working to fully resolve this issue and we can only apologise for any disruption and inconvenience
    caused. 

    I would say that is rather self-evident, Johnathon........

    As you will see from numerous posts, most of your employer's members want to know what the repeated problem is and why you  (the CC) appear to be unable to fix it.......despite employing a large number of 'IT staff' at our expense.

  • huskydog
    huskydog Club Member Posts: 5,464
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    edited May 2016 #65

    It's a bit like the old saying ,the CC couldn't  organise a drinking competition in a brewery Undecided

    is  it another "sorry"Yell

  • briantimber
    briantimber Forum Participant Posts: 1,653
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    edited May 2016 #66

    A-OK?????.......SILLY BOY !!! ..Cool

  • SteveL
    SteveL Club Member Posts: 12,374
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    edited May 2016 #67

    It seems to have done it yet again 20:00 to 02:00 if the latest activity is to be trusted. I certainly could not access it at 22:00 last night. So it would seem it is still not fixed. Or is it now?

  • Tinwheeler
    Tinwheeler Forum Participant Trusted Posts: 23,377
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    edited May 2016 #68

    Or this time? Back on around 2110 on Thurs 19.5.16. Will it still be here in the morning? Will we get the same old meaningless platitudes? One of those answers will definitely be 'Yes'.

  • countax
    countax Forum Participant Posts: 112
    edited May 2016 #69

    Any business which employs a website as a major part of communication with customers should  ensure a system for back up and disaster recovery is available. If the business doesn't then it actually plans to fail. The downtime experienced by customers of
    the CC, quite frankly, is unacceptable and members should be provided with the cause of the problems, a proposed recovery procedure, evidence that any kind of disaster recovery system exists and a timeframe for implementation of the proposed fixes. Anything
    less is unacceptable.  

  • Oneputt
    Oneputt Club Member Posts: 9,156
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    edited May 2016 #70

    Again I wonder how much revenue our hard working CL owners lost due to this excuse for a website 

  • countax
    countax Forum Participant Posts: 112
    edited May 2016 #71

    Morning everyone, Happy 

    Sorry about that, everything should be a-ok and working now!

    Write your comments here...Okey dokey. Never mind, don't worry about it. Such a flippant post appears to illustrate the mindset of this organisation.

  • IanBHawkes
    IanBHawkes Forum Participant Posts: 212
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    edited May 2016 #72

    If we are members of the Caravan Club we should be entitled to a full explanation or are we customers that are being fobbed off with excuses? It really is about time this matter was sorted out and the members given the service they are paying for! At the
    moment I feel like a customer that a company doesn't really care about.

  • flatcoat
    flatcoat Forum Participant Posts: 1,571
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    edited May 2016 #73

    To borrow a quote from someone on another forum presumably the CC tried to take the forum server up a steep hill and, well we al know what happened to the chairmans caravan when he tried that! I am on a number of leisure and professional forums and the whole
    lot combined have less downtime in a year than this has in a week. It is simply a rubbish service to its members.

  • catherinef
    catherinef Forum Participant Posts: 647
    edited May 2016 #74

    Absolutely laughable.  How many times have we seen should be OK now.

  • Bob2112
    Bob2112 Forum Participant Posts: 276
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    edited May 2016 #75

    What a lot of beating of breasts and gnashing of teeth over a bit more outage ( we used to have cuts  but that was too precise  )

    The CC worked fine before web sites were invented and it works fine when the website is off. Some would say better.

  • Tinwheeler
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    edited May 2016 #76

    What a lot of beating of breasts and gnashing of teeth over a bit more outage ( we used to have cuts  but that was too precise  )

    The CC worked fine before web sites were invented and it works fine when the website is off. Some would say better.

    It didn't work fine with the website down, Bobr. The forum matters least of all but for some time the booking system was down which affected many people and the business of selling pitches. More importantly, in my view, it was impossible to access the individual CL pages and CL owners were losing bookings. CC has let the CL owners down big time.

  • SteveL
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    edited May 2016 #77

    What a lot of beating of breasts and gnashing of teeth over a bit more outage ( we used to have cuts  but that was too precise  )

    The CC worked fine before web sites were invented and it works fine when the website is off. Some would say better.

    That is a bit like saying the world worked fine before the advent of satellite communications or air travel. Things move on, we evolve and systems are put in place, that when missing can cause disruption and lost revenue.

  • IanH
    IanH Club Member Posts: 4,708
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    edited May 2016 #78

    Good point, Steve....

  • Bob2112
    Bob2112 Forum Participant Posts: 276
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    edited May 2016 #79

    The handbook and telephone were still working. I find that it's quicker and easier and you can ask questions but heyho I'm just an old guy.

  • SteveL
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    edited May 2016 #80

    The handbook and telephone were still working. I find that it's quicker and easier and you can ask questions but heyho I'm just an old guy.

    I am too. However, if everyone wanted to use the phone on booking day they would need a lot more lines. It would be interesting to know if they increased the number during this recent website down time.

  • WanderingHans
    WanderingHans Forum Participant Posts: 134
    edited May 2016 #81

    Honestly, I've never encountered a website like this anywhere else - ever.  It's bloody frustrating!  Yes, I could use the handbook and phone, or the app (yeah, right - apparently there are 0 sites in our area.  The 2 CLs beg to differ) but if the CC provide a website and booking facilities, they should work.

    As far as I'm concerned, I pay membership fees to use the CC as a portal to book sites.  Last week I couldn't do that as the website was down, and then the phone lines too!  The app is next to useless.  This week, I went online to check the forum for a thread I'd been following regarding our holiday next month.  I couldn't do that.  Then I went to check a CLs details later that day.  I couldn't do that either.  Last night i tried to use the Fast Book system.  I got an error message.  And when I wanted to read a review of a site?  Guess what!  No can do!

    Please, please, please can this be sorted?  I'm not threatening to chuck in my membership, I am a huge fan of CC sites and CLs and CT has some amazing members with so much to offer in experience and help.  It would be such a shame to drive them all away with these infuriating outages.  I just want it to work!

  • Bob2112
    Bob2112 Forum Participant Posts: 276
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    edited May 2016 #82

    Where we live the internet  speed varies between slow and stop and the mobile phone signal is unreliable so perhaps we are not so dependant on this modern stuff. I find it reassuring that pilots always have the old fashioned navigation systems running so
    that when the computer throws a moody they don't go into headless chicken mode

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  • geordie01
    geordie01 Forum Participant Posts: 108
    edited May 2016 #84

    How long is a piece of stri

  • Rubytuesday
    Rubytuesday Forum Participant Posts: 952
    edited May 2016 #85

    HELLOOOO !  everyone Smile nice to see ou all again Cool 

  • brue
    brue Forum Participant Posts: 21,176
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    edited May 2016 #86

    Yes, welcome back CT (although I'm just reading it really!)Smile

  • papgeno
    papgeno Forum Participant Posts: 2,158
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    edited May 2016 #87

    Conspiracy theorists will have a field day

  • Rubytuesday
    Rubytuesday Forum Participant Posts: 952
    edited May 2016 #88

    Well I'm a glass half full ! Smile

    Some half empty Sad

  • JVB66
    JVB66 Forum Participant Posts: 22,892
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    edited May 2016 #89

    Well its nice to know that our time away from the "modern" world wifi has not meant that we have had pages of backlog to catch upWink

  • nelliethehooker
    nelliethehooker Club Member Posts: 13,990
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    edited May 2016 #90

    Well at least it's working for the moment, but will it last. Have even been getting Error messages already!!!Yell

  • peedee
    peedee Club Member Posts: 9,499
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    edited May 2016 #91

    How many days was it down for?

    peedee