As a part of our testing of modifications to the discussion forums, some of the forums have been closed to outsiders. You must be a member of the crew not only to post, but just to read those discussions.

Account creation is now open, with no need for an invitation code.

Please report problems or observations or suggestions.

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-- Eric Myers

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -- William Butler Yeats

I logged out and tested.
I wasn't able to get into any forum from 'Pirate Crew Issues' issue. All others are accessible. I suppose everyting is fine.

It works better than a webmail for which I pay 10€/yr, because here when you log out, you can't use browser's 'Go back' button to see anything you were looking at, when logged in.
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Me Pirrrate name be Mad William Flint an' don't ye dare t' call me with any other name me lad!
Arrr!

Ditto here. Logged out, I was asked to log in to read the "Pirate Crew Issues". Logged in, no problems.


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i forgot to log on...saw nothing...logged on...saw something.
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I logged out and tested.
I wasn't able to get into any forum from 'Pirate Crew Issues' issue. All others are accessible. I suppose everyting is fine.

It works better than a webmail for which I pay 10€/yr, because here when you log out, you can't use browser's 'Go back' button to see anything you were looking at, when logged in.

I logged out and tested.
I wasn't able to get into any forum from 'Pirate Crew Issues' issue. All others are accessible. I suppose everyting is fine.

Aye, that is as it should be.

The next question is, can some scurvy dog get in to read those discussion rooms without logging in? I've block the two access methods I could think of, but I don't know for sure that it's all closed up.

It works better than a webmail for which I pay 10€/yr, because here when you log out, you can't use browser's 'Go back' button to see anything you were looking at, when logged in.

Maybe we should start charging? 1€/yr? Or how many cobblestones is it worth to ye? :-)

Maybe we should start charging? 1€/yr? Or how many cobblestones is it worth to ye? :-)

As for hacking things. I can use the "Message board posts" search under your nickname to still look in the "closed" forums. Using IE where I am not logged in, I click on your name, go see all the posts you made. It still allows me to learn enough from what I am not allowed to see.

Nice, that euro sign does show up in an answer box, but in the forums it's completely garbage. (test with alt + 0128 €)

As for hacking things. I can use the "Message board posts" search under your nickname to still look in the "closed" forums....

When searching for something using the Search box, you use the standard Google search now built in in Boinc server. What's one of the options in Google? Look through Cache. So I can now see whole threads, cached, through the search. Unless you don't mind them to read it that way. No way to post and answer, though.

Tip: Is it only a googlebot crawling around here, or other crawlers and spiders as well?
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Jord.

The BOINC FAQ Service.

cap'n...i'm logged in and i can no longer see the server stats...might this be related to your attempt to hide the ship?...i got this message:

can't read ../cache/cf/server_status.php; lastmod

never mind...i can see 'em again,
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Tip: Is it only a googlebot crawling around here, or other crawlers and spiders as well?

Google also crawls around other search engines that don't obey the voluntary spidering rules of the vast Internet seas. On a landlubber museum site I maintain, I blocked google and other search engines from some directories only to find weeks later that some creepycrawlies got in and Google had the information up from what was a password protected members only section which could be accessed freely by their cache option. What's annoying is that things I want them to index they don't :P


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As for hacking things. I can use the "Message board posts" search under your nickname to still look in the "closed" forums.

Ah yes. But the whole of the Google search is now returning nothing. So you can just as well dump the "new" search option and only go for the "keyword search" one.
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Jord.

The BOINC FAQ Service.

Ah yes. But the whole of the Google search is now returning nothing. So you can just as well dump the "new" search option and only go for the "keyword search" one.

Google also crawls around other search engines that don't obey the voluntary spidering rules of the vast Internet seas. On a landlubber museum site I maintain, I blocked google and other search engines from some directories only to find weeks later that some creepycrawlies got in and Google had the information up from what was a password protected members only section which could be accessed freely by their cache option. What's annoying is that things I want them to index they don't :P

I expect Google won't add new content from the private forums, unless the googlebot gets its own account, in which case we'll make it crank some workunits.

Aye Cap'n. You'd probably be given more gold that you'd know what to do with and offered a landlubber job for life by Google if you could get their spider to crunch WU's as part of the crew here...

Ah yes. But the whole of the Google search is now returning nothing. So you can just as well dump the "new" search option and only go for the "keyword search" one.

I'm not sure what you mean. I was working on the search code this morning, so it may have been broken for a bit, but now it should be working.