• Site News

    June 2nd, 2008

    By Edd

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    If you’re a regular user of the forum at http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/ you’ll notice that it’s currently offline. There’s been a sizeable server outage which has affected it (along with many other websites), and we hope it will be back up soon – but this outage is out of our control. We were actually already planning to transfer it to a new server anyway, and we were hoping to do this on Tuesday, although this downtime may unfortunately get in the way of our plans. If the forum does come back up in time, we may take it down for Tuesday in order to make this transfer, but it should be back up shortly after that. Please bear with us until we can get everything back up and running properly!

    Update: Forum is still down unfortunately, but the support staff at the hosting site are working hard to bring it back up. It looks like the transfer will be delayed – and hopefully we’ll be able to give some warning of any resulting downtime from that.

    Update 2: (Wednesday morning) Unfortunately there’s been hardware issues as the support technicians tried to bring the server back up. They’re still working on bringing it back up – no estimate for when this will take place I’m afraid.

    Update 3: (Thursday morning) We’re in the process of trying to reinstall the forum framework and content back on the original server. A temporary forum is in place. It is not organised in the same way and has a different theme to emphasise this fact, and no posts there will be retained (except maybe in rare cases).

    Update 4: (Wednesday morning – 11th June) The disk holding the forum is with a data recovery team, but unfortunately they won’t be able to get anything off for approximately another week at the earliest.

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  • 171 Comments

    Take a look at some of the responses we have had to this article.

    1. AlexandredOr
      Jun 7th

      Homepage is back !
      :-) )
      But forum still out…
      :-( (

    2. Jun 8th

      AlexandredOr – have you managed to access the temporary forum yet? Go to http://www.galaxyzooforum.org and you’ll see a link from Edd. Hope to see you there soon . . .

    3. AlexandredOr
      Jun 8th

      Dear Alice,
      No I can’t go on the temporary forum, because i can’t login :”username unknown” !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
      What can I do ??

    4. Jun 8th

      Sorry, I didn’t see this message until you’d already done it. Yes – you need to register again as it’s not the same forum!

      So glad you got there anyway.

    5. Edd
      Jun 9th

      Stealth Raptor – your email server is not accepting our emails. You might want to contact your ISP to resolve it.

    6. Xander
      Jun 13th

      DRAT! Forum’s down. Now what to do? Waitaminiute. What does Secret Govt. Weapons .com do? One way to find out…

      3 months later….

      Xander: But how was I supposed to know I’d wipe out half of North Dakota?

    7. Jun 16th

      http://cas.sdss.org/astro/en/tools/explore/obj.asp?id=587724650868899921

      thought this looked cool two stars very close to each other and look to be the same distance from us

    8. Jun 16th

      Witam wszystkich, a zwlaszcza tych, którzy po polsku gadaja

    9. Jun 19th

      588009368014749934

      This Picture is strange, for me, and for you?

      Bye

    10. Stealth Raptor
      Jun 20th

      I will wait for the old site to come back up. LEave some tea for me :-(

    11. Jerzy1000
      Jun 24th
    12. Stealth Raptor
      Jun 25th

      Since i am not able to get onto the forum, I will post it here-The voorwerp made it onto the Astronomy Picture of the Day. Way to go!

    13. Holy balls
      Jun 25th

      http://cas.sdss.org/astro/en/tools/explore/obj.asp?id=587727214959001759

      its all grey and strange, i would post on forum but you aren’t there.

    14. fluffyporcupine
      Jun 25th

      Hi Holy balls, you’ve got a pretty star there. its grey from the bias testing. We do have a temporary forum, http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php or got to the old site and click on the link in Edd’s message. Hope you manage to find us :)

    15. Hofi
      Jun 25th

      Hi,

      I have registered for Galaxy Zoo. But when I try to LogIn here, it failed… no true UserName..

      lg
      TH

    16. Jun 25th

      I really enjoyed with galaxy ,

    17. Gabor Toth
      Jun 29th

      Hello everybody!
      I think i find a supernova in a galaxy’s picture, what should i do, have the galaxyzoo an e-mail where i can send the pic, or the number of the picture? :S

    18. Jul 1st

      how can i member in this site? please get me the mail.

    19. Jul 3rd

      I want chocolate and i want it now!

      And while analyzing galaxies i found one with something interesting 587725818038124668 not sure what that white line crossing it really is.

    20. 372020751
      Jul 3rd

      I’m a Chinese student.I read about this “Galaxy Zoo” project on a Chinese science website.It is a great honor for me to take part and make contributions to our human’s no boundary science explore.

    21. Astestinuecuri
      Nov 30th

      Hi. I on numerous occasions be familiar with this forum. This is the head together unequivocal to ask a query.
      How numberless in this forum are references progressive behind, knavish users?
      Can I worthiness all the advice that there is?

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