Just in case you aren’t aware, the management of Zealot has changed from Peter Davis, to a group called “Crowdgather”, in hopes of giving us better service and more features than we’ve had before. Crowdgather has about 70 forums under their guidance and has the resources and staff to maintain Zealot’s growth, something that Peter thought he lacked and that we deserved to have. These people are diligent and committed to making Zealot and the Gauge shine like the bright star it is.
There are several threads here discussing problems people have been having recently here. There are also a few announcements regarding a few problems as a result of the recent server change. Just in case you missed these posts, let me list a few problems here that you might be experiencing and let you know that they all are being looked at, and we hope with a resolution shortly.
There are several threads here discussing problems people have been having recently here. There are also a few announcements regarding a few problems as a result of the recent server change. Just in case you missed these posts, let me list a few problems here that you might be experiencing and let you know that they all are being looked at, and we hope with a resolution shortly.
- Delays in accessing Zealot and/or different threads and pages: The current server is a bit slow and we are currently expanding our server capability by about five times what it is now. This change should be implemented this week. It is frustrating at times, but that will change shortly.
- Broken links: When we changed servers, we also changed the format of the URL's to get here. The old format was, "forum.zealot.com/...", whereas the new format is: "zealot.com/forum/..." Note the difference. The programmers are trying to maintain the old format using redirects, but many of the redirects take you to the Zealot main page rather than the page you expect. The suggestion is to change your bookmarks to the new ones. Internal links are being looked at, and many have been fixed by now.
- Using the old “the-gauge.com” link brings you to the Zealot main page: As stated above, the links all changed. Here is the link to get you to the Gauge main page: http://www.zealot.com/index.php?page=the-gauge.com Change your bookmarks, or favorites accordingly.
- Some pictures don’t display, or only display the link: This goes hand-in-hand with the broken links. It is being worked on.
- Can’t access the chat room: Try it now, some chat room problems have been fixed, others still need a bit of attention, but for now, the chat room is usable.
- Gallery links don’t work: They’ve been working on that and for the most part, all the links seem to work right now. Any that don’t, well, give it a bit more time.
- The WIKI is gone: What the heck’s a WIKI? Yeah, most people here either don’t know or don’t care, but for those of you that want to add to the WIKI’s, it’s been restored and can be accessed at: http://www.zealot.com/wiki/ Once things have settled down, we will be a bit more aggressive with using the WIKI's, it is a great resource if we use it right.
- I am not getting subscription notifications, or am getting some for threads that I didn’t subscribe to: All I can say is we are looking into why this is happening. It is affecting a few people, including some of the staff here. Be patient, it will be taken care of.
- All the links in my notification email take me to the home page rather than the thread: See “broken links” above, they need to be changed by the programmer and will be corrected soon.