Changes to Poliwager's Server [January 2025]

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#1 Post by Slix » Mon Jan 06, 2025 9:34 am

Hey everyone!

This weekend Poliwager's nameserver was changed to Cloudflare, a platform that helps keeps websites secure and helps deliver pages quicker. As you may know, we've had some issues with pages loading slower than we'd like lately, so I'm hoping this helps mitigate some of those issues. What this means is that you might occasionally see a "verify you aren't a bot" check for Cloudflare, but I've yet to see any myself, so it's probably unlikely unless you're a spammer. ;)

In addition, I had reports of people not getting password reset emails if the user had a Yahoo or Gmail email account, and I made some changes that should hopefully allow those to work again.

As always, please let me know if any pages won't load, emails still aren't being sent from Poliwager, or anything else!


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#2 Post by Slix » Mon Jan 20, 2025 8:33 pm

Hey all!

Today I moved the server to a new host! As of right now, I think everything is working, but of course, please, let me know here whatever issues you run into (broken pages, white error screens, stuff just not working, speed, etc.). Please be specific in your bug reports, and give as much info as possible to help me try to fix the issue: what you clicked on, what you were trying to do, etc.

I hope this alleviates the server slowdowns we've had to deal with in recent weeks. I apologize for the slow site during that time while I tried to troubleshoot the issues! Thanks for your patience.


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#3 Post by candycanearter07 » Fri Jan 24, 2025 6:08 pm

Slix wrote: Mon Jan 06, 2025 9:34 am Hey everyone!
What this means is that you might occasionally see a "verify you aren't a bot" check for Cloudflare, but I've yet to see any myself, so it's probably unlikely unless you're a spammer. ;)
I got one signing in today.
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