Has this site been hacked?

richardandros
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edited September 2023 in How to use Club Together #1

OK - so I'm always up at silly-o'clock - but I'm just looking through CT and every single topic - in every category is an old one - some dating back to 2018. There's seems to be no reason for them having been resurrected.  What's going on?????

Edit - just gone back from this post via Discussions - and it's all back to normal - how on earth did that happen????

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  • SteveL
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    edited September 2023 #2

    I’m on early by virtue of the hour difference but same her. Every thread in discussions bar this one is an old one. I’ve had the odd one before but never so many.

    edit 

    gone back to it as you did and still all oldies except this one. I suspect it is just CT playing up, I can’t believe anyone would want to hack it, it manages to screw things up fairly well on its own.😂

  • Bakers2
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    edited September 2023 #3

    There was essential maintenance again last night......

    Of course any pretence at telling when it's scheduled, Rowena did a thread with a couple of posts months ago, is still a very distance wish!

  • peedee
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    edited September 2023 #4

    Looks like it is only the front page that has been sctewed up.

    peedee

  • peedee
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    edited September 2023 #5

     It is also taking its time for new posts to appear.

    Perhaps the ploy is to deliberately change the discussions to try and lven it up a bit.

    peedee

  • richardandros
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    edited September 2023 #6

    "I can’t believe anyone would want to hack it, it manages to screw things up fairly well on its own."

     

    Hee, hee - that made me chuckle Steve - so truewink

  • Bakers2
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    edited September 2023 #7

    Posts showing quickly has gone backwards over last few weeks, although I've not posted much I've noticed it. No better/worse today 

    Constant server errors - for ages/ever. Any time, any day, anywhere.......

    Oh I forgot to add S L O W 

    I do wonder if CT is an unwanted troublesome  'limb'. If ignored it will go away eventually.....

  • eribaMotters
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    edited September 2023 #8

    I've noticed that the old and resurrected threads have a "like" on the last posting. Could this have brought them to the top of the list?

     

    Colin

  • richardandros
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    edited September 2023 #9

    Not when I looked Colin - that was the first thing I looked for.  It also doesn't explain why - when I went back to the CT home page, via "Discussions", a few seconds later, it had all reverted to 'normal'. Totally weirdsurprised

  • KjellNN
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    edited September 2023 #10

    I have just logged on, still many old posts at the top of a topic showing on the overview page.

  • KjellNN
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    edited September 2023 #11

    And now it has pretty much all changed ......as you say, very weird!

    But as B2 said sooooo S L O W

  • richardandros
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    edited September 2023 #12

    It's done it again - just checked and about half the threads are old ones - something is definitely going on.

    Edit - and once again, going back to the home page via "Discussions", returns everything back to normal.

  • Wherenext
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    edited September 2023 #13

    Why can't the club just be honest and say "Closed for Screwing Up" instead of "Closed for Maintenance"?

    Do you think they do it on purpose?

  • LLM
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    edited September 2023 #14

    Thinking that they may do it on purpose suggest they have some knowledge and control over what is happening.  Do you think that?

    It's most probably just some sort of intrusive housekeeping activities.

  • Takethedogalong
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    edited September 2023 #15

    Any self respecting hacker would just pass on by……it’s bad enough left to it’s own devices, doesn’t need extra help🤣

  • RowenaBCAMC
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    edited September 2023 #16

    Hi everyone, just to let you know I've raised this with our IT team and apologise for any inconvenience it has caused. 

  • Bakers2
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    edited September 2023 #17

    Well whatever maintenance they did, they have ensured that server errors are still plentiful 

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited September 2023 #18

    Yes!😊

    I notice that the last time there was a notification of an outage was nearly 2 months ago, after being promised that there would notice of them occurring in the day or so before each!

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited September 2023 #19

    I see that there are 17 sections where the "headline" posts are not the most recent in that specific section. What have they been doing with their "maintenance" , just closing down the site for fun and to frustrate member who regularly post so much that they will stop doing so and thus have a good excuse to close off CT completely?

  • SteveL
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    edited September 2023 #20

    I wouldn’t read to much into it. I suspect little if any of the maintenance is related to CT, it’s much more likely to be for the main website. We are just seeing the unintended consequences of those updates.

  • GEandGJE
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    edited September 2023 #21

    Just an observation but many of those old threads are still being discussed today. i.e. pitch prices too high, EHU or non EHU, cheaper over there, etc.etc. It's getting harder to spot a new interesting topic these days. Just my opinion of course. 

  • young thomas
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    edited September 2023 #22

    This 'CT Discussions front page' issue is still there, with the last postings in each section incorrectly listed. Makes it very confusing to pick out recent posts without entering each category.

    if the web system were as swift as others this wouldn't be so bad, but when you have to wait ages (and ages) for pages to load this process is pretty mind numbing.

    Rowena said this had been brought to IT attention nearly a week ago🤷🏻‍♂️

    re: 'recurring themes', as mentioned above, the top issues are still likely to be value for money, club upgrades, site speeding, the move to electric metering etc. things that actually affect sites and members' usage.

    other then these, the main CT site activity seems to be centered around the 'social' section, with the hot subjects linked to 'what are you doing', 'changing words', 'name that tune' etc.

    not a lot has changed really.

  • Cartledge
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    edited September 2023 #23

    Haven’t been in here much, but I see that the site is as dreadfully slow as ever. Worse today, perhaps because it’s raining and bored people are all in here gumming up the works, 😡😡😡😡😂😂

  • richardandros
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    edited October 2023 #24

    What do we have to do to get this issue sorted?  It's weeks ago that the matter was reported to Ro and it's even worse this afternoon than when I first raised it.  How on earth are all these old posts suddenly reappearing? David K - can you or one of the other Mods raise this again, please?

  • Takethedogalong
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    edited October 2023 #25

    An absolute farce isn’t it🤨 The worst part must be that it could be so upsetting for some. I have seen past posts from some no longer with us (RIP) and certainly there are posts about much loved pets that have passed away. Almost every thread is a historical one, many seem to be from when the forum website was updated back in 2016. 

    I will report your post, if you report mine R&R, hopefully there might be someone out their diligent enough to do something about this😡 (Can’t recall if there is a caravan Show on at the moment, that usually puts a spanner in the works with staff away)

  • Paulrambler
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    edited October 2023 #26

    I can’t book a site for next June, what shall I do? Site says all pitches are full all year!

  • Cornersteady
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    edited October 2023 #27

    What site is it, or all of them?

    I've just checked a few of my favorites and no problems as you describe - except when the site is full of course.

  • Takethedogalong
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    edited October 2023 #28

    Check there isn’t scheduled work planned. It would be helpful to know the Site, but if it is Uttoxeter Racecourse (a guess) then it might be that the fate of this site still remains undecided. We were talking to some site staff earlier this year who mentioned that it possibly might close.

  • RowenaBCAMC
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    edited October 2023 #29

    Hi all, I'm sorry you are experiencing issues with this. Our team are investigating this further. 

  • SteveL
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    edited October 2023 #30

    I think the fact that they show it as full when it would have been open, rather than closed as they do for the winter closure, leads to confusion. Just show it as closed until a decision is made.

  • DSB
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    edited October 2023 #31

    I'd be interested to know what site it is too.  I've been updating the list of serviced pitches and when I looked at Longleat, they are all showing 'FULL' when the site is open.  It's only Longleat I'm getting a problem with, and I've checked so many sites...  I've no reason to believe the site has been hacked... it's just errors.

    David

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