REMINDER - Stay logged in for at least 2 hours a week to get whitelisted.
Also it helps build a picture where our "good traffic" is coming from for detection scripts.
:o)
stephen_usher wrote: 13 Jul 2026 20:38
I just tried going there. Got in OK and managed to read the first page of a post. When I clicked upon page 2 I got blocked.
Sounds like what happened to me.
You can have just a little atari-forum.. not much.. just a little.. :lol:
Ohh what was that Southpark episode where the internet went down.. :lol:
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For the first time in a few weeks I can't log in either.
Both phone and computer tabs are no longer responding but unsure if the site is not running or I'm also seeing the login problems affecting many others?
1024MAK wrote: 16 Jul 2026 22:39
Atari-Forum is online.
I'm not aware of any outages in the last week.
Mark
Ok, thanks...must have been briefly affected by a similar issue I guess.
Access using Firefox from a Win 10 PC seems intermittent, Brave on my Android phone is usually working though.
Since providing these I've mostly been fine apart from the maintenance that was mentioned.
You need to provide the user agent info for all the browsers you use."
@1024MAK is this information you can pass onto an admin for A-F if posted on here for those posting here who have access issues still?
Not trying to make work for you as I know you like most site admins volunteer, just trying to help.
Since passing this info over I've had no issues at all.
Collector of many retro things!
800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...
One thing really worries me: it's great and really appreciated that @1024MAK and others are so cooperative with white-listing people who ask for it. However I'm 100% confident that those people (who frequent more than one forum, regularly, reading all topics) are minority in comparison to people who visit atari-forum.com, see that it is down and leave. Then try in a week, in a month and then never return ever again.
I'm really worried when I see all those "we are busy", "we are working on it" etc posts because we are losing precious members of the community who maybe will never find their way back to AF again (believe or not there are people who are registered for a decade and have never made more than a couple of posts, not being in touch with anyone else).
I totally get that this is a free time activity and it's a thankless job but I can't understand why you don't accept external help and rather keep the forum dying right in front of our eyes. :(
I mean this in the best possible way, I'm just incredibly sad to see shrinking my most beloved forum (sorry Exxos ;)) day by day.
Whilst Exxos is doing a damn fine job of collecting every scrap of Atari info possible to prevent the info from evaporating into the ether, there are still long, 'cutting edge/state of the art' threads on the intricacies of the internal working of the ST components (blitter/shifter), that are still not in the common knowledge and still only available for reference on that site.
