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Technical issues accessing Board

indiana · Tennis legend

Yes, had the 502 issue this evening and it happened some other time in the last week.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
Yes, had the 502 issue this evening and it happened some other time in the last week.

Im not technical but it sounds like this warning comes when the server is unstable or has some capacity constraints. Whether that is something to worry about re the board hosting, I have no idea!

the addict · Tennis legend

Same here. The other day I was unable to access the board to log out - I was still logged in when I started my laptop the next morning.

DF · Tennis legend

Yes I have also had this message and could not access the board during this week.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

From my experience it is in the evening. Not sure where Sparkit are based or if there is anything we (Sheddie!?) can check in terms of whether its likely to be ongoing issue? Or whether it matters!?

Shhh · Challenger level

I have had this the last couple of evenings too. I have messaged Sheddie but, obviously he will only see that if he visits the board and I do not know how regular that is? Not sure what else we can do at this point unless anyone has an email address?

the addict · Tennis legend

I don't know where Sheddie is from, but he visited about 8 hours ago - so around 2am our time.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Seems to have stabilised now, not had the issue for a couple of nights.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Anyone who uses Tennis Abstract may find it is down currently - it certainly is for me.

AI crawler bots apparently

x.com/tennisabstract/status/1988924452218777950

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

The board is playing up again & has been all morning. This time, in addition to the bad gateway message, I've been getting one from Sparklit saying that the technical staff was aware & working on the problem & to try again in two minutes, but of course, when I do, the same message comes up!

miriam abc · Club Coach

I have had the sparklit messages a lot this morning. Seems a little better now. I wonder if we should set up a closed group on say, Facebook or another online platform in case activeboard completely packs up and we have to change the domain and start again.

the addict · Tennis legend

Some form of external group would be good - it would be a shame to lose all contact if there is a major breakdown.

Christine · Strong Club Player

I was wondering the same, I would hate to lose you all

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

I dont have a Facebook account or have ever used it but happy to have a back up plan should we need one. I wonder if for now, its possibly for Sheddie to collate all the members email addresses ( I know he can access them) and have them ready as a list to email should this board fail?