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Has politics.ie closed down ?

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    #152
    Jurgen Klopp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,807 ✭✭✭Jurgen Klopp


    Ah now boards used be very biased to the left from certain mods up to a few years back and I'm sure there's still some bias as you'll always get it

    But I have to say the modding has swung back towards the centre a lot

    When you have one group of posters saying it's ultra liberal while simultaneously have head the ball type left wingers in feedback saying certain topics and views need banning as it's turning into a far right discussion site or the Irish stormfront as I remember one person claiming you have to say it's going in the right direction really

    Certain topics and right wing views have a lot more leeway than once upon a time.

    It needs maybe a little more refining such as mods just closing threads for no decent reason but it's coming along some bit


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    #153
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Fancy a rummage?


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    #154
    jmcc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,306 ✭✭✭jmcc


    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    Fancy a rummage?
    Nothing much to see. The problem links have been deleted as have some of the hacked files. It is not the best way to clean up after a hack.

    Regards...jmcc


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    #155
    political analyst
    Registered Users Posts: 4,452 ✭✭✭political analyst


    Seriously, does politics.ie not have a firewall to keep hackers and viruses and worms out?


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    #156
    tretorn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,800 ✭✭✭tretorn


    Is it gone for good now.

    Has any announcement been made about its demise.


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    #157
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Doesn't look good for P.ie.

    The Field Marshall has requested a transfer request. Boards.ie have expressed interest and he's expected to sign up and make his debut this weekend.


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    #158
    jmcc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,306 ✭✭✭jmcc


    political analyst wrote: »
    Seriously, does politics.ie not have a firewall to keep hackers and viruses and worms out?
    It had been using Cloudflare (a service that helps mitigate some of this kind of activity) but shifted to a dedicated server in September. Based on what was visible on the 14th of February when the site only displayed the files in the web directory, the server may have been hacked as early as June 2018. Therefore it moved from a secure host to a hacked server. It was only when something broke that it became apparent that the server had been hacked.

    Regards...jmcc


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    #159
    jmcc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,306 ✭✭✭jmcc


    tretorn wrote: »
    Is it gone for good now.

    Has any announcement been made about its demise.
    At this stage, it is hard to tell. There are some who would like to see it return but the leaking of all those e-mail addresses and the backup of the database may be a problem that has to be dealt with first. There was some activity on the server yesterday but there's been no announcement on Twitter or Facebook yet.

    Regards...jmcc


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    #160
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users Posts: 19,092 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    Doesn't look good for P.ie.

    The Field Marshall has requested a transfer request. Boards.ie have expressed interest and he's expected to sign up and make his debut this weekend.

    Ooooooh.......not............ good....................news.


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    #161
    jmcc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,306 ✭✭✭jmcc


    Brendan Bendar wrote: »
    Ooooooh.......not............ good....................news.
    The poor mods. :)

    Regards...jmcc


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    #162
    chinwag
    Registered Users Posts: 415 ✭✭chinwag


    Seems to be back again.


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    #163
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Sort of!


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    #164
    expectationlost
    Registered Users Posts: 11,759 ✭✭✭✭expectationlost


    who is control of the site? its telling me to change me password, thats all i can see are people back there posting?


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    #165
    end of the road
    Registered Users Posts: 28,988 ✭✭✭✭end of the road


    expectationlost wrote: »
    who is control of the site? its telling me to change me password, thats all i can see are people back there posting?

    apparently an american chap owns the site but whether he is the one in control of it now i can't answer. presumably he is if it's back up? people are back posting on it or at least they were a couple of days ago.

    ticking a box on a form does not make you of a religion.



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    #166
    is_that_so
    Registered Users Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Offline again. This time it seems, to migrate to Xenforo.


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