exxos's Atari, Amiga & retro forum

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:

For any AF admin that might read this, I tried to change my email address (to a proton domain) last Friday but haven't received an activation link yet

:cheers:

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?

Atari-Forum is online.

I'm not aware of any outages in the last week.

Mark

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.

1024MAK wrote: 16 Jul 2026 22:39 Atari-Forum is online.

Not here it isnt. :(

mrbombermillzy wrote: 17 Jul 2026 08:57

1024MAK wrote: 16 Jul 2026 22:39 Atari-Forum is online.

Not here it isnt. :(

Working on the phone ok at present for me ..

I posted this before but it's probably worth mentioning again:

"These links were what I used to get my user agent and IP info:

https://www.whatismyuseragent.com/

https://www.whatismyip.com/

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.

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.

@mikro I agree.

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.