I'm using the latest version of Firefox on Windows 10.
But now suddenly the mark-all-read is ok?!
I haven't done any changes on my PC. Maybe there were some problem with cookies etc. on my side. I don't know.

an ordinary chessplayer wrote on 02/14/19 at 17:21:12:

Yes, it's Jesse Gersenson's private site, and I trust him completely - he's done a lot of work for me on the Forum and on the ChessPublishing site - but I understand where you're coming from, 'better safe than sorry'!

GMTonyKosten wrote on 02/14/19 at 09:20:05:

1. Safari on iOS: No.
2. At work: Javascript is enabled, but cross-domain scripting is blocked.
3. Home laptop: Since I already need a workaround for 1 and 2, why bother with a different method here? Plus, my copy/paste method has some other benefits...
   
   • I get a copy of valid pgn, in case I want to save it.
   • I get to use an engine on the analysis, if I'm in the mood.

Really, it's the cross-domain scripting that bothers me. I trust you, Tony, and by implication chesspub.com and chesspublishing.com. If you sell your sites, I will most likely know about it and will reevaluate that trust for the new owner. But jesseo.com I only trust by extension, i.e. you trusted them enough to set up the javascript relationship. If they change ownership, how will I know that? How will I know that the new owners won't do something malicious with the javascript? I'm not saying it's a likely scenario, but it's a troubling possibility and not worth the headache.

Yes, with javascript disabled I get a blank space instead of the viewer. So I have a workaround:

• right-click on the link at the bottom,
• copy the url,
• run that through a desktop script (mine is in awk),
• paste the resulting pgn into e.g. xboard or winboard.

I may have posted a copy of that script before. It would be easy to do in any other scripting language.

an ordinary chessplayer wrote on 02/11/19 at 18:02:45:

I've just rebuilt the message index, it looks better now although there might still be a few duplications somewhere. Hopefully they will disappear eventually!

The board index has a lot of duplication of older threads. For example,

• Italian Game starting on page 6
  https://www.chesspub.com/cgi-bin/chess/YaBB.pl?board=itaeva/100
• Philidor starting on page 3
  https://www.chesspub.com/cgi-bin/chess/YaBB.pl?board=philid/40

It's obviously an indexing problem. If there are duplicates, then there might also be missing threads. But I don't have an easy way of knowing if any are missing. (I do have some urls saved so could check if they show up in the list, but that won't be easy.)

GMTonyKosten wrote on 01/15/19 at 21:35:21:


Ok. so I have managed to install it, so we should stop seeing 'insecure site' warnings. There may be some problems (links to 'insecure' sites, some external images, ...) which cause new warnings. If anyone sees these or has any other problems please let me know (here), as there may be fixes that I can apply.

VGA wrote on 01/17/19 at 05:42:21:

Same here. The Preview is snappy as well.

VGA wrote on 01/15/19 at 01:51:49:

Straggler wrote on 01/14/19 at 21:39:14:

Yes, I couldn't stand waiting for pages to load any more so I paid for a much quicker reseller plan, and although it was obviously somewhat more expensive, they do throw a SSL certificate in for free, so we will be on secure HTTPS pages before you know it!

Leon_Trotsky wrote on 01/15/19 at 03:51:41:


Yes, you're right, the option to change it seems to have no options any more! I will look into it.

an ordinary chessplayer wrote on 01/15/19 at 02:50:15:


Yes, it works on mine, but very slowly.

Preview works if I start typing. But it stops working if I quote someone. Actually if I quote someone and then delete the quote, Preview still doesn't work. I think the only way to get it working again is to use the Post Message button.
Edited:

Just checking. Preview started working briefly with the edit tag, but then stopped. It might be slowness, the page is always reloading as I type.

I too am delighted to have the forum back. But I notice that pages are currently very slow to load, even though my broadband connection is fairly fast.

It would have been nice if some kind of notice was posted on the chesspublishing.com website briefly advising subscribers that management was well aware of the forum issue and working to resolve it as soon as possible.

Any who, welcome back.

I hope your tournament went well. So far, so good on the forum. Happy New Year to all!

I revived this old thread, which suggests that there is a problem with the Forum every ten years!!
Early in the morning of the 1st January the Forum went AWOL. When I awoke the next day I discovered a number of emails from members who were wondering where it had gone! So, before setting off for my next tournament that afternoon I had a look at the usual suspects, spammers, hackers, etc. and could find nothing odd, so I got in touch with the server hosts who said that no server software had been updated, Very strange,
When I realised that there was nothing I could do I got in touch with the main YaBB software specialist and she downloaded the Forum onto her testbed, Apparently everything worked fine!
She thought that the server host had change something, but might not even know what that was! I asked them again, very politely, but they thought it was a problem with the Forum. Of course, nothing had been changed here for over two years, so it seemed impossible that it could be that.
Nothing was progressing, and meanwhile I had finished my tournament and come home. We decided to move the Forum to another server (as it turns out, to another continent!)
So, to cut a long story short, we have finished setting things up on a new server, we've changed the domain nameservers, and finally we are up-and-running again!
Thanks to everyone who sent words of support and encouragement!

Points taken, Tony, and thanks for all your hard work.

In circumstances like these what would really help would be a prominent and immediate notice on the ChessPublishing website itself saying what's happened. That would have prevented me sending a message to Support last night.

Email notifications are a sad loss. I wasn't receiving these before yesterday anyway, but I hope sincerely that you can negotiate their return in the near future -- it's tedious trying to follow multiple threads quickly without them.

dfan wrote on 10/30/07 at 15:32:25:


I've just done an enormous search and replace, and hopefully these all work again?! Anyway, if anyone finds any internal links that still don't work please post the details here!

If someone can explain how I can redirect the links from ChessPublishing I will try to do it.

GMTonyKosten wrote on 10/29/07 at 14:44:46:

Yep the forum uses an inherent copy/paste I think.

Hi all!
Thanks for GM Tony Kosten's hard work.The Chess publishing is now in order.It was like hell as this site always give us the best of chess. :)Hope it is always great.

I missed the Forum too ... 
The sys admin bods didn't like it too much on our servers, though, they reckoned it was a major security risk.

GMTonyKosten wrote on 10/25/07 at 12:04:32:

I never thougt I was so addicted to the forum.
In each case, I am very glad to see it is working again.

Thrilled to see the forum back with the lost posts recovered!  Great to see some of the regular contributors posting as well.

Hopi bon to be back, but strangely enough, what I missed most was MNB's idyllic descriptions of life at the edge of the bush...
Should I start to think about my retirement ?

GMTonyKosten wrote on 01/23/06 at 18:16:33:


Dont know if this is a problem with the forum or just me  , but:

I have tried to make my norwegian flag become visible, without success.... Am I the only one?
I have specified the location specific info and selected "Flag" in the options meny, but still nothing happens....
Still I can see that a few do have "their flags" right now. What is the secret?

Clearly not the most important problem in the world, but still....

Thanks for getting the forum up and running again  

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I agree it's a bit hard to read, it could be the background colour and the text colour that are too similar. Actually, the whole new design will take some getting used to - but it's great that the forum is back, so I don't really want to complain. 

So a big thanks to the admin and gang who must've put a lot of effort into getting it going again! 

A big hello to all fellow Forum devotees.  I have missed you all.  In particular, my mornings at work have been much more productive while I have not been spending the first 30 minutes looking around here ... 

A big thank you to Tony and the team for getting us back up and running.

Let's hope we can repay the effort by continuing to make this the best chess site around.

Play nicely now y'all ...

Thanks GM Kosten and all for bringing back what was once one of the best chess websites around.  I hope ChessPub can recuperate from its hibernation.

P.S. If something doesn't work correctly please email me immediately!