Websleuths will be temporarily offline on Friday, Feb 14th

[Lyanna]

Websleuths is back.

Thank God! The weekend has been borderline unbearable without it!!

Moo

 

[Bethan]

Oh My Goodness!!
This is great news!!

( Has been a VERY LONG weekend!!)

 

[fraize]

Websleuths is back.

WE ARE SO BACK.

 

[NervousNellie]

Is anyone else having difficulty with their "watched threads" page? Mine says the page isn't found, but if I go to the threads, I am still watching them. I've unwatched and watched again - still not there.

Okay, I'm editing this to say that it is the "watched threads" tab at the top of the webpage that doesn't work. The "watched threads" from the dropdown menu below the word "watched" does work fine.

 

[fraize]

Is anyone else having difficulty with their "watched threads" page? Mine says the page isn't found, but if I go to the threads, I am still watching them. I've unwatched and watched again - still not there.

Tricia encountered this as well. I'm looking into it.

 

[fraize]

For now, change the url to https://websleuths.com/watched/threads -- that's working for me.

 

[justme11]

That was the longest weekends of weekends

 

[NervousNellie]

Websleuths is back.

That was a long Friday! (In more ways than one.)

 

[sunflowermomma]

The site is lightning fast now

 

[sripey]

Scrolling on my phone (Google Pixel 8pro - Android) is much smoother fwiw.

 

[Deleted member 39678]

Tricia encountered this as well. I'm looking into it.

Hi fraize. Are you doing IT work on Websleuths?

 

[Gemmie]

For now, change the url to https://websleuths.com/watched/threads -- that's working for me.

Thank you for that! One additional issue.... a lot of the old links aren't working (I had about a dozen tabs open with various threads). The threads have to be valid so it must be something is off with these URLs too. Any idea what to change MT URLs to, @fraize? Here's one example of many. The Madeline Soto thread.

A SS in case the link I paste below doesn't show you what the actual URL is.


Actual URL:

Found Deceased - FL - Madeline Soto, 13, Missing Child Alert, 13500 blk Town Loop Blvd, Orlando, 26 Feb 2024 *arrest* #14

Well, he lied about it. He said to the media that the photo uploaded wasn't her body, then they had to walk it back because it absolutely was. It was a very foolish lie to make; too many people saw the picture when it was originally posted and absolutely were not buying the BS he was selling...

websleuths.com

Thank you!

 

[Teche]

Will the Watched Threads return? I get an OOPS message.

 

[Sarahlou]

My watched threads are all there (I'm using my phone)

 

[Gemmie]

Will the Watched Threads return? I get an OOPS message.

See @fraize's workaround for that:

Post in thread 'Websleuths will be temporarily offline on Friday, Feb 14th'

Feb 17, 2025

For now, change the url to https://websleuths.com/watched/threads -- that's working for me.

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[fraize]

Thank you for that! One additional issue.... a lot of the old links aren't working (I had about a dozen tabs open with various threads). The threads have to be valid so it must be something is off with these URLs too. Any idea what to change MT URLs to, @fraize? Here's one example of many. The Madeline Soto thread.

A SS in case the link I paste below doesn't show you what the actual URL is.

View attachment 564494
Actual URL:

Found Deceased - FL - Madeline Soto, 13, Missing Child Alert, 13500 blk Town Loop Blvd, Orlando, 26 Feb 2024 *arrest* #14

Well, he lied about it. He said to the media that the photo uploaded wasn't her body, then they had to walk it back because it absolutely was. It was a very foolish lie to make; too many people saw the picture when it was originally posted and absolutely were not buying the BS he was selling...

websleuths.com

Thank you!

The team is working on routing requests so that you won't have this problem. Give it a little time, and it should work eventually... or so I'm told.

 

[Deleted member 39678]

The team is working on routing requests so that you won't have this problem. Give it a little time, and it should work eventually... or so I'm told.

Watched Threads is working for me now.

 

[Gemmie]

This is a nit but are the tab icons going to change back to what they used to look like? (A W. See the first image below circled in red. The following gray blobs are also WS tabs). I ask because a few sites don't have personalized images which makes it hard to know which tab I'm clicking on, and I literally have well over 100 tabs in multiple windows open. Thank you for all you do to maintain this site. MUCH appreciated!

 

[fraize]

Hi fraize. Are you doing IT work on Websleuths?

Hi RANCH! I'm the Community Manager for Websleuths – I've been managing the migration from our old server-host to our new server-host. I'm the one you want to blame for the site being down all weekend! I scheduled it for a Friday, but didn't confirm with the host that they'd be working all weekend to fix any issues.

Spoiler alert: they were not!

 

[Deleted member 39678]

Hi RANCH! I'm the Community Manager for Websleuths – I've been managing the migration from our old server-host to our new server-host. I'm the one you want to blame for the site being down all weekend! I scheduled it for a Friday, but didn't confirm with the host that they'd be working all weekend to fix any issues.

Spoiler alert: they were not!

S*** happens. Welcome to WS.