Bright Eye

Just to let you know, the line to the server is being upgraded on Wednesday 5th, so we'll be offline for a few hours. You might need to refresh your web-browser afterwards, or turn your device off and on again to update it with the new address.

Screenshot 12th May sent on tablet. Why me? (big fat tears of woe) This afternoon's post sent on my mobile was even blocked. Screenshot_20190512-115804_Samsung Internet.jpg Unfortunately your IP address has been added to a commonly used database as being associated with SPAM or Malware. If you're u...

JohnC wrote: ↑

06 May 2019 10:32

Hiya Folks

I have'nt a clue what to do about this

That IP address was probably assigned to someone in the past who was banned (ISPs recycle their address pool regularly), but I've removed it from the exclusion list so you should be fine now.

Hi Folks, i'm trying to post on the hop thread and the games thread but a message in red tells me that i am blocked, for details see http//www.spamhaus.org/query/bl? I absolutely have'nt a clue what i'm to do now, can someone help please. I am posting this on my mobile, it is my tablet that is bloc...

Well, in getting updated advert code from Google, to fix the redirect problem, there was the option to 'let them do it for me'. And we saw the outcome of that! I've disabled that onslaught of offensive commercial crap, we should be back to normal now. And yes, the server costs are met by running adv...

A couple of times lately when posting on here I have had a sudden warning that my computer has been infected with viruses, and an invitation to scan it via a link. It happened a minute or two ago, too. I haven't clicked the link, but I ran my own virus check, and there is nothing wrong. I am postin...

We've now got a new SSL certificate installed (the padlock symbol), so you won't see any more warnings.

All it means is, we have a certificate which tells you all your traffic between us and you is encrypted, no-one could read it even if they were technical enough to intercept it. The authority who issues the certificate, GeoTrust, have been temporarily dropped by Google and Apple, so the certificate ...

Rachel wrote: ↑

25 Oct 2018 08:33

My antivirus software has started blocking BE. Says it is not secure and will not let me on here (currently on phone.) Anyone else have this issue?

Thanks for highlighting this Rachel, our SSL certificate needs renewing, we didn't get the notification email it seems!

suffolksally wrote: ↑

27 Jun 2018 17:56

What's the phpBB logo thingy?

The BE logo has now replaced that, you just need to refresh your browser.

Just to let everyone know, the forum software will be upgraded next Wednesday 27th at 8am ish UK time. The forum should only be down for an hour or so, and things should look generally the same afterwards.

Now I am compos mentis I have posted a couple of times offering support to other people and mentioning some of my past experience. For some reason my posts have been removed, I didn't realise I wasn't allowed to write personal things to hopefully help others, is there any reason or is this a clique...

I'm very pleased to announce that today is the tenth anniversary of the start of this Bright Eye forum. In that time you have made over 600,000 posts, from over 10,000 members. Many online forums start up, but not many succeed - some descend into trolling and spam, or just dry up with insufficient n...

Sorry people - the security certificate expired yesterday, and although the new one had been ordered a month ago, the server techs hadn't installed it yet. Phoned them this morning and they've installed it now. All good again.

Hi, is there any way to earmark posts that I want to keep to refer back to at a later date, especially when I need further tips without peeps having to go over they have already said some time ago? There are so many good posts that I want to reread but can’t remember where they were. Thanks ;)? The...

Well hopefully, now the migration is complete, there should be no reason for the site to be offline at all. We're on a more modern, reliable server now.

Sorry for the downtime everyone, some snags with a migration of the site. Should be fine now though.

Just a quick warning the site will probably be offline for a couple of hours Monday evening for maintenance, sorry.

There is a link of Bright Eye on facebook and I was just wondering ,I guess this is to Tobin really, that it could be made a 'closed group' ? As I'd like to follow the fb Bright Eye link but am paranoid ,as its public , that one of my " normal " friends ( or 'friends' I hardly have contact with ) w...