Forum no longer showing

Russell Crowbar · 22 Mar 2020 at 16:54

Hi,

Long time lurker and occasional poster here.

Not sure where else to post this but today I can no longer see the Coronavirus forum in the list of forums. If I try to access a page from my browser history it shows "You do not have permission to view this page or perform this action". Was working OK up until yesterday late evening.

Is there a reason for this? I couldn't see any mention of it anywhere else. I find most posters here are sensible so liked to keep a check on it.

Thanks.

Russell Crowbar · 22 Mar 2020 at 18:06

Thanks for your reply. Still not visible here but, as you say, maybe it's some sort of load management as I imagine it's currently very popular.

Russell Crowbar · 22 Mar 2020 at 23:09

Feek said:
We had a number of new accounts sign up just to stir trouble in there so we have introduced a minimum account age and post count in order to access the forum. The downtime overnight was while the permissions were applied.

OK, thanks for the reply. It's a shame though as I found it useful as I'm sure many others did. Is it not possible to just prevent posting in it rather than prevent access altogether?

Russell Crowbar · 22 Mar 2020 at 23:20

Feek said:
I'm looking into letting everyone view it but only allow posting when they've reached the criteria.

Thanks Feek. That would be greatly appreciated if possible. As I said earlier I find the discussions on this site generally good quality so it was nice to view during these strange times, even if I can't post.

Wow, after posting twice since 2013 I've now posted 4 times today! Shame posts in the New Memebers forum don't seem to up your post count!

Russell Crowbar · 22 Mar 2020 at 23:26

Feek said:
Read through some of the forums and make some contributions. There must be something somewhere that interests you.

Oh most definitely, plenty that interests me. I'll try to be less of a lurker and get more involved in the future.

Russell Crowbar · 24 Mar 2020 at 00:36

Feek said:
Hoping you can see all see it now.

Thanks Feek, greatly appreciated.

Russell Crowbar · 28 Mar 2020 at 14:06

Feek said:
Sorry folks, it's going to have to go back to how it was yesterday. Changes made overnight didn't do what we wanted so we're having to revert back.

Oh well, thanks for trying. I was hoping it was just a case of replicating the permissions of Speaker's Corner which is visible but read only for low post count lurkers like me.

Hopefully the world won't end before I've made enough posts to view the Coronavirus forum.