Nxtasy.org
I've received a handful of emails about Nxtasy.org being redirected to a domain holding site and asked if I know anything about it. I've emailed a few people involved with the blog to see what's going on and will pass along anything I find out. I know a lot of NXT fans are nervous about the forum at Nxtasy not being available - let's just be patient and see what's going on... it could be a simple technical error that's forcing the nxtasy.org domain to resolve elsewhere.
Of course, if anyone knows what's happened and can share with me, please email me the details and I'll be glad to post them here later as an update.
Of course, if anyone knows what's happened and can share with me, please email me the details and I'll be glad to post them here later as an update.
Comments
Should we start a new nxtasy?
I would think that a nxtasy2.0 would be a great idea as it seems that 1.0 was went into the blackhole of the internet.
Some of the early things that nxtasy did though it was a lot of work for Guy and getting sponsers must have been rather hard was the "contest official" prizes were given. I think that brought alot of people, "give a prize and they will come".
Even at nxtasy in the end posts were slowing alot as well.
"Where are you nxtasy posters? Are you using another forum? What makes nxtasy so popular? Why is there almost no post to the nxt step forum?
Should we start a new nxtasy?
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Could be to do with the fact the NXT STEP forum admins aren't exactly forthcoming in approving new registrations. I've been waiting for days.
Seriously, though - there seems to be some issue with our forum approval system - I've just tried to approve registrations made over the last week and the system isn't letting me do it - and I'm an admin. I'll try and track down what's happening, but based on some of the email addresses I'm seeing, a LOT of our problem is spammers - I'm seeing a lot of email addresses from hotmail and yahoo.com and, sorry to say, I rarely approve them because they're such a source of spam. And if your email address ends with "@bizlink_commerce.com" or "learntoearn.com" or similar "spammy" sounding domain, sorry... get a gmail account that we can actually report if we have problems... I approve all gmail accounts fairly quickly (when the system is working).
If this is not successful, I have servers on which I can host a forum. If I do this, I will make sure that the database can be regularly exported so anyone can continue in case I disappear.
It would be better if we agree on what to do.
John Hansen
At this point, I'd really like to draw attention to my StackExchange proposal at:
http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/4105/lego-mindstorms-robotics
StackExchange is the company behind the Programming Q&A site StackOverflow. They have made a place topropose ideas for new Q&A sites.
I've been pushing the Lego Mindstorms proposal for some time on NXTasy, but now is when we'd really need it.
By going to the proposal page and clicking "commit", you bring the site one step closer to reality.
If someone would know whom to contact...
One could ask aplus for a short term contract. I would like to contribute for any costs, so we'd paid for some days on Aplus, The Owner opened it up again, and let a specially designed crawler capture the forum posts if possible 100%.
That is assumed Aplus doesn't have a backup possibility like sending the content of the whole Nethosting Contract on Harddisk to The Owner.
Please someone of the Educated, Mail eric or Guy or whoever it is that is able to negotiate with aplus. Even if they are horribly, they can't just throw away a customers data.
I think there is still hope ;)
Andi