Home › Forums › Ganymede & Titan Forum › Red Dwarf Official Website is on Downtime (For the time being) Search for: This topic has 326 replies, 28 voices, and was last updated 2 years, 4 months ago by Dave. Scroll to bottom Creator Topic March 7, 2022 at 5:56 pm #272152 Niki HutchinsonParticipant So I don’t know if this has been already talked about on here but… The Official RD site is down (apparently since Feb 25th) with it switching to a new provider. I bring this up just in-case any of the old stuff isn’t going to be on there when it’s back up. (old blog post, features & some of the RD Movie Storyboards) Unless some of that has been saved by one of you dwarfers out there. Link to the site as is: https://reddwarf.co.uk/index.html Creator Topic Viewing 50 replies - 251 through 300 (of 326 total) 1 2 3 … 5 6 7 Author Replies May 21, 2022 at 9:18 pm #273933 Flap JackParticipant Haha, this is how we know how bad and drawn out the website downtime is, when the references are repeating themselves. (I exclusively blame GNP for this, to be clear. Dave’s original “switch me on, switch me off” gif was way back on page 1, and my alternate take on the Talkie boot up was in the main memes thread instead of this one – and that was still 3 whole weeks ago… !) We need this website back STAT, because if we run out of meme ideas completely, who knows what will happen. It’s too frightening to contemplate. May 21, 2022 at 10:01 pm #273938 Future Producer of Series IX – aaaaany day nowParticipant May 21, 2022 at 10:57 pm #273941 JenuallParticipant Haha, this is how we know how bad and drawn out the website downtime is, when the references are repeating themselves. (I exclusively blame GNP for this, to be clear. Dave’s original “switch me on, switch me off” gif was way back on page 1, and my alternate take on the Talkie boot up was in the main memes thread instead of this one – and that was still 3 whole weeks ago… !) We need this website back STAT, because if we run out of meme ideas completely, who knows what will happen. It’s too frightening to contemplate. May 21, 2022 at 11:08 pm #273942 cwickhamParticipant May 22, 2022 at 3:28 am #273951 MoonlightParticipant May 22, 2022 at 3:47 am #273952 MoonlightParticipant Everyone pretend I said this. May 24, 2022 at 7:36 pm #274050 Flap JackParticipant Should have posted this on Friday. May 24, 2022 at 8:41 pm #274053 DaveParticipant May 24, 2022 at 8:48 pm #274054 WarbodogParticipant I thought Flap Jack’s post was in the general memes thread and started trying to discover what impending catastrophe I’d somehow been blissfully ignorant about. Relieved to realise my mistake and that we only have to worry about the usual globalist psychopaths and the relentless downward spiral towards total technocratic tyranny and human enslavement. May 26, 2022 at 2:13 pm #274097 DaveParticipant May 26, 2022 at 4:05 pm #274103 UnrumbleParticipant May 26, 2022 at 10:45 pm #274113 DaveParticipant May 26, 2022 at 11:06 pm #274115 Flap JackParticipant Exquisite… May 26, 2022 at 11:07 pm #274116 Quinn: Clochebusters World ChampionParticipant Shut up shop. Like literally stop production of any and all fan related Red Dwarf content. Stop the conventions, close down the Facebook groups, cease production of Dwarfcast. Nothing is going to ever come close to being as good as that. May 26, 2022 at 11:21 pm #274118 Flap JackParticipant Shut up shop. Like literally stop production of any and all fan related Red Dwarf content. Stop the conventions, close down the Facebook groups, cease production of Dwarfcast. Nothing is going to ever come close to being as good as that. May 27, 2022 at 12:17 am #274122 Jonathan CappsKeymaster May 27, 2022 at 10:17 am #274133 International DebrisParticipant Even the hall of fame is not worthy. May 27, 2022 at 10:52 am #274137 Ian SymesKeymaster The internet has peaked. May 27, 2022 at 5:20 pm #274148 Flap JackParticipant June 7, 2022 at 10:23 am #274330 DaveParticipant June 7, 2022 at 10:24 am #274331 DaveParticipant June 7, 2022 at 10:59 am #274333 Flap JackParticipant June 11, 2022 at 10:05 pm #274462 MoonlightParticipant I can’t remember if this has been done but the idea genuinely came to me. June 22, 2022 at 10:20 am #274669 Flap JackParticipant Uh, guys? This is not a drill! IT’S BACK!!! June 22, 2022 at 10:25 am #274670 Flap JackParticipant June 22, 2022 at 10:35 am #274671 Flap JackParticipant … OK, maybe not exactly as beautiful. Certain tabs within pages are broken. None of the Geek Chase subdomains exist any more either. Disappointing, but hopefully they’ll fix all these areas eventually. Definitely prefer this to an indefinite maintenance page. June 22, 2022 at 11:12 am #274672 DaveParticipant June 22, 2022 at 11:14 am #274674 DaveParticipant June 22, 2022 at 11:21 am #274675 DaveParticipant June 22, 2022 at 11:29 am #274676 DaveParticipant June 22, 2022 at 12:01 pm #274677 Jonathan CappsKeymaster Hot tip until they fix the links. This is the old style link: https://reddwarf.co.uk/about/index.cfm?category=the-storyBut if you change it to this it works: https://reddwarf.co.uk/about/the-story I imagine that’ll work with any giving that 404 error. June 22, 2022 at 12:01 pm #274678 Jonathan CappsKeymaster And I see now why it might’ve taken ages, at least part of the framework itself must’ve been rewritten. June 22, 2022 at 12:19 pm #274680 Flap JackParticipant Ooh, good deduction, thanks Cappsy! Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to be 100%. https://reddwarf.co.uk/games/games doesn’t work. I mean, there are only 2 games and we know that one of them doesn’t work at the moment anyway, but still. June 22, 2022 at 5:33 pm #274683 Flap JackParticipant Oh wow, the “Buy”, “Quarantine Commentaries” and “Lockdown Theatre” pages are all 404s. Those are aren’t even tabs or subpages, they’re direct links from the homepage. That’s really bad. I’m really getting a sense of how much of a nightmare this provider migration must have been, if things are this buggy after 4 months of downtime. Plus I’ve noticed that switching tabs on certain pages (e.g. the Fan Club page) will cause the cookies consent header to reappear, no matter how many times you’ve already agreed to cookies. Weird. Unfortunately, amid all this the link to Chris Barrie’s website still works perfectly. June 22, 2022 at 5:41 pm #274684 Flap JackParticipant … aaaand changing either the ‘Series’ or ‘Section’ drop-down in the episode guide or clicking “Search” 404s you too, and it doesn’t even give you a usable URL query out of it. On top of reappearing the cookies thing for every new page within the episode guide section. Maybe this is the reason there isn’t a news post about the site being back, and the Red Dwarf social medias haven’t mentioned it. I’m actually starting to doubt they even did it intentionally. June 22, 2022 at 5:52 pm #274685 DaveParticipant June 22, 2022 at 6:35 pm #274686 Jonathan CappsKeymaster Yeah this feels like a soft launch to iron out the problems. I have sympathies with them as it’s clear there’s been some sort of backend rebuild done. June 22, 2022 at 7:35 pm #274688 GlenTokyoParticipant I’m just glad it’s back even if it’s a bit borked. June 22, 2022 at 8:44 pm #274689 Flap JackParticipant In a way it’s a comfort to see it back and so janky, because that pretty well confirms that there was no secret behind the downtime, it literally was just a very difficult provider migration. (The occasional progress update would have been nice, honestly.) Like this was basically this thread in April: June 22, 2022 at 9:10 pm #274690 Danny StephensonKeymaster June 22, 2022 at 9:28 pm #274691 DaveParticipant June 22, 2022 at 11:16 pm #274692 Flap JackParticipant Here’s a thought – what if the reason the site’s back up when it has so many unresolved issues is that they have actual news to announce soon, and it can’t wait? There, now that idea’s out in the world, everyone can be niiiice and disappointed at 11:30am on Friday when nothing happens. June 23, 2022 at 7:17 am #274696 DaveParticipant Here’s a thought – what if the reason the site’s back up when it has so many unresolved issues is that they have actual news to announce soon, and it can’t wait? And what if the big news is that the site is back up? June 23, 2022 at 7:30 am #274697 JenuallParticipant June 23, 2022 at 8:22 pm #274706 JenuallParticipant Tomorrow’s update (which has appeared today!) is a bit worrying isn’t it? TOS going into stasis mode doesn’t exactly scream “everything is hunky dory” over at GNP June 23, 2022 at 9:07 pm #274711 Jonathan CappsKeymaster It’s been a while since news has happened! We’ll be updating this in a bit. https://www.ganymede.tv/2022/06/tosed-off/ June 23, 2022 at 9:44 pm #274715 Flap JackParticipant June 23, 2022 at 9:47 pm #274716 DaveParticipant And what if the big news is that the site is back up? I didn’t expect them to take me so literally. June 23, 2022 at 10:06 pm #274717 International DebrisParticipant Well, that’s not exactly the welcome back I was hoping for. June 23, 2022 at 10:52 pm #274719 Kris CarterParticipant … aaaand changing either the ‘Series’ or ‘Section’ drop-down in the episode guide or clicking “Search” 404s you too, and it doesn’t even give you a usable URL query out of it. On top of reappearing the cookies thing for every new page within the episode guide section. Maybe this is the reason there isn’t a news post about the site being back, and the Red Dwarf social medias haven’t mentioned it. I’m actually starting to doubt they even did it intentionally. The Complete Guide stuff is still all there, but the URL’s are all borked. So for example, if you’re on the series 1 section, the link used to be: https://reddwarf.co.uk/series/1/index.cfm But now, the dropdown is knackered, so you’ll need to manually type the section you want to get to, so for Cast and Crew, Series 1, you need to type: https://reddwarf.co.uk/series/1/cast-and-crew/ You can hover over the Previous/Next pages links at the bottom of each section to work out what you’ll need to type. It’s not perfect… Author Replies Viewing 50 replies - 251 through 300 (of 326 total) 1 2 3 … 5 6 7 Scroll to top • Scroll to Recent Forum Posts You must be logged in to reply to this topic. Log In Username: Password: Keep me signed in Log In