I noticed that. There was a very short spell that I couldn't reply to a topic, then the site went down. But by the time I'd spoken to another member outside of the site and checked with a URL checker it was back up but missing a few of the replies that had happened shortly before it went down.

Yup. We had an update go south. Restored a backup during which we lost some of the latest posts.

As for the notifications; I sometimes have the same issue. We are not entirely sure what the reason is.

I got a notification:

For a topic that was posted in 2014?

Oh, and I've still not got a single email for any notifications since march 1st...

 

(sorry about posting about this again, but it's just too strange...)

Edited April 5, 20186 yr by mocbuild101

While looking at the X-Wing 10240 Mods topic there are some lxf files posted which did not reflect the latest version photos.

Example link https://www.eurobricks.com/forum/applications/core/interface/file/attachment.php?id=16355

I created corrected versions in Stud.io and wanted to post the io files but it will not let me.

How should I go about sharing the files?

Didn't hear anything back so assumed that the ability to upload LDD files was an old thing that was no longer offered.

Ended up just posting OneDrive download links.

I hope this is the correct corner for my problem. 
 

I‘m logged in to this forum on my mobile. And over time I forfot the password. Now l clicked on my Desktop PC to „Forfot your password“ and enterd my Email. But didn‘t got any. Also kot in the spam folder… what else can I do?

Haven't been able to access EB on my mobile/Safari device today. Keep getting a 'server stopped responding' message. Laptop/Chrome device works fine - which is how I'm posting this. The failure of the former vs the success of the latter makes me thinks something's wrong with EB. Please help.  

5 hours ago, AmperZand said:

Haven't been able to access EB on my mobile/Safari device today. Keep getting a 'server stopped responding' message. Laptop/Chrome device works fine - which is how I'm posting this. The failure of the former vs the success of the latter makes me thinks something's wrong with EB. Please help.  

I am accessing from safari on iPhone right now, are you still having issues? Be sure you restart your device. 

9 hours ago, Darkdragon said:

I am accessing from safari on iPhone right now, are you still having issues? Be sure you restart your device. 

Thanks, Darkdragon  . It seems to be OK now.

13 minutes ago, AmperZand said:

Thanks, Darkdragon  . It seems to be OK now.

We are still suffering from the occasional shutdown. We are working on it, but EB seems to go down every now and then. As was the case yesterday.

If I create a test posting with an image using BBcode from Flickr, when I am on the practice forum I can preview the image, if I try the same thing on another forum (train tech) with exactly the same input when I press preview I just get a blank preview window.  Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

This is what I am posting:

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some text here

 

 

Are you using the URL from photostream?

If you used the Download "View all Sizes" and choose an appropriate size image, you can copy and paste the image address and it should appear in the post.

Like Pep said, it's better to simply use the image url of the selected photo.

1. Select a photo
2. Bottom right corner click View all sizes
3. Select size (1024 for example)
4. The right picture is shown
5. Right click and select copy image url
6. Paste the url in your post.

As PeerTube (open-source YouTube competitor) is becoming popular, would it be possible to support video embedding for PeerTube links through BBcode too ?
Here is a personal video I would have liked to embed : https://tube.interhacker.space/w/gqKyoBSjnsTPRqCokexgZM

Unfortunately, the only currently proposed way for embedding it is HTML code, which is restricted on forum posts for obvious security reasons.

<iframe title="LEGO telescopic doors" width="560" height="315" src="https://tube.interhacker.space/videos/embed/7cedc633-becf-4cff-baaf-39d5a47aeb3b" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" sandbox="allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-forms"></iframe>

Thanks in advance...

3 minutes ago, Thierry-GearsManiac said:

As PeerTube (open-source YouTube competitor) is becoming popular, would it be possible to support video embedding for PeerTube links through BBcode too ?
Here is a personal video I would have liked to embed : https://tube.interhacker.space/w/gqKyoBSjnsTPRqCokexgZM

Unfortunately, the only currently proposed way for embedding it is HTML code, which is restricted on forum posts for obvious security reasons.

<iframe title="LEGO telescopic doors" width="560" height="315" src="https://tube.interhacker.space/videos/embed/7cedc633-becf-4cff-baaf-39d5a47aeb3b" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" sandbox="allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-forms"></iframe>

Thanks in advance...

Tagging @Jim for help here with this. 

I think it will be required for PeerTube to have direct video links to support this rather than going through alternative domains (like in this case "interhacker.space") because the links will have to be recognized through the domain name, therefore that needs to be universal and recognizable.

I'm not even sure which is the original PeerTube site. If I google it, I get results from "Peertube.tv" to "Peer.tube", but they look slightly different so might not even be the same?

Edited December 31, 2024Dec 31 by JesseNight

Hey, BBcode is considered deprecated by the latest forum software versions already, so this won't work out in the future unfortunately (at least not via BBcode).

Edit: PeerTube platform seems to have not a single domain but it allows for everybody to host their own PeerTube - that may be the reason for having different URLs found @JesseNight.

Also ouch for their teamsize working on the project..
 

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PeerTube is developed by Framasoft, a French non-profit popular educational organization on digital issues.

It employs a developer, Chocobozzz, who works since 2018 on PeerTube projects:

From my perspective the risks are high to have ghost links as the private PeerTubes may not be available forever (in difference to a big platform like Youtube or Vimeo..).

Question for @Thierry-GearsManiac Why not just using for e.g. Youtube or another well-known centralized service provider? I know they want our data, but with an account one can upload videos without any costs.

@aFrInaTi0nYou indeed understood and explained the philosophy of PeerTube I didn't or forgot to mention at the very first time, which is the reason why there isn't a single domain.

I indeed purposely avoid having an account in the Google ecosystem (thus YouTube) because they violate my privacy (here is the price we overlook : we usually say that it's not "free as in freedom").

Vimeo could perhaps be a bit better, as long as they don't undergo enshittification (Wikipedia link) too.

However, I want to support and help ethical online services to grow in popularity.

And also, the decentralized nature of the Web is its core original philosophy (which also makes its strength/resilience), isn't it ? And dead links are an unfortunate byproduct.

Closed user accounts, bankrupt/disappeared platforms etc... can also lead to dead links.

If YouTube, AWS, Meta etc... were to collapse at some time (nothing is too big to fail), the remaining Web would still work.

I personally totally understand your position.

 

But for Forums-provider it may create more risks to open up towards decentralized services. With Youtube for e.g. it can be assured any linked Video is appropiate for common sense. With creating linkability to _ANY_ URL to include videos, I can forsee already a bot army creating non-appropiate videos within the forum platform which could possibly lead to penalties & more administrative efforts being needed to keep everything clear.

But this is just my personal opinion.

In order for this to work, we would need a fixed url/domain so we can recognize the source. That is; if we can make it happen in the first place. Having decentralized url's/domains is not helping in this case.

On 1/2/2025 at 9:46 AM, aFrInaTi0n said:

With creating linkability to _ANY_ URL to include videos, I can forsee already a bot army creating non-appropiate videos within the forum platform which could possibly lead to penalties & more administrative efforts being needed to keep everything clear.

But this is just my personal opinion.

Exposing the problem to my local hackerspaces' friends, they told me that this kind of attack against forums is already possible with simple integrated images because they can be linked from any source, no matter the domain (the only requirement is now HTTPS, as I learned 1-2 months ago).

And they indeed confirmed that the only way to recognize reputable sources (which would have moderation) would be by a list of domain names ; however, this list would need to be managed in order to add new server instances or remove dead ones from time to time. And this list would also need to be large enough in order to spread the load on different servers (they are managed by volunteers / non-profit groups).

Therefore, I have another question to raise : with such decentralized providers, users have more ease to move their account from one to another (unlike on proprietary centralized platforms where switching costs are a concern, keeping users locked in). Then they are responsible to maintain/restore their links when moving. For me, I'll indeed have to update my few own ones after recently leaving Diode Zone for Interhacker Space : either I'll be able to edit my old posts (and explain why in the adequate field), otherwise I'll have to add new messages to the related topics, taking the risk of "resurrecting" them, which may break the usual online code of conduct. I need an advice...

For your concern of changing the peertube provider: I reckon manual editing would be needed to keep your contents updated.

If for e.g. there would be a good implementation which would allow the user the option to set his space in his profile as base domain for the integration in any postings then automatically rendering them correctly (under the assumption that the ids to query the right video would stay the same between all providers - that may be not the case - btw, feature request for them creating a global blockchain, allowing for all video ids being shared between communities, making such movements (and possibly long running implementations) easy peasy :D)

So in the end I think it may cost plenty of efforts to a) find and b) edit all posts with linked videos.

For the comparisson with allowing pictures to be linked they are right - may just be personal fears of spam armies posting inapprobiate contents, but could also happen with pictures.

 

6 hours ago, Thierry-GearsManiac said:

Exposing the problem to my local hackerspaces' friends, they told me that this kind of attack against forums is already possible with simple integrated images because they can be linked from any source, no matter the domain (the only requirement is now HTTPS, as I learned 1-2 months ago).

There are always open back doors and there always have been. But obviously that is not a reason to open any more.
Exceptions can be made on centralized domains like Jim said, but assuming PeerTube works with a network of peers, that's probably not working. P2p networks do have risks, 1 peer spreading malicious content can affect a lot of peers in the long run.
Don't get me wrong, I'm no Youtube fan anymore either with how commercial it's gone under Google but it's still considered the most used reliable video source. There are more though, that still work with centralized hosting.

On your last paragraph, it'd be a lot of work to keep up. People run websites like this as a hobby aside from other activities. Having done this many years myself in the past, I know work can stack up fast with regular software updates, keeping up with security breaches, managing content, managing & communicating with staff, and all the stuff that comes with it.
It may be a hobby to someone in a hackerspace to be active working on that, but probably not in a Lego community (no offense ofcourse!) ;-)

1 hour ago, JesseNight said:

Don't get me wrong, I'm no Youtube fan anymore either with how commercial it's gone under Google but it's still considered the most used reliable video source. There are more though, that still work with centralized hosting.

On your last paragraph, it'd be a lot of work to keep up. People run websites like this as a hobby aside from other activities. Having done this many years myself in the past, I know work can stack up fast with regular software updates, keeping up with security breaches, managing content, managing & communicating with staff, and all the stuff that comes with it.
It may be a hobby to someone in a hackerspace to be active working on that, but probably not in a Lego community (no offense ofcourse!) ;-)

Don't worry, I perfectly understand this last point (I thought about it when using the word "volunteers", but I wasn't explicit).

Finally, I can live with simple links for referencing videos (I'm happy as long as people can see them), and having them embedded would only have been a "nice-to-have" feature.

I also thought a little further about the topic and how I would differntiate my level of fear and I think I found the reason for videos being more risky than images: Images are still and could easily identified as not fitting content - with videos the contents can be hidden behind a false thumbnail or just put somewhere in the content. This would create the need for watching a video at least completely to be sure from the moderation perspective it may be considered clean. Here the central algorithm from YT kicks in, which is doing this automatically - so the worst contents can be considered being blocked away by that already.