GC Connection Issues

Wallace · **Posted:** Wed Nov 06, 2019 3:08 pm **(#1)**

Hello there everyone.

Recently,
(as of the 5th of Nov 2019).
GC has been experiencing connectivity issues.
You may have seen any one of these error message below,
when attempting to connect to the forum.
As it stand now.
I have contacted Omega about this issue and this is his reply.
I quote: " Thank you for the information. Gimp Chat should be up today."

I will need to continue to monitor this.
Also, I would appreciate any reports of connection issues,
that anyone might encounter.

Issabella · **Posted:** Wed Nov 06, 2019 3:53 pm **(#2)**

Thank you so much Wallace, for your information and your interest to solve quickly any issue that Gimp Chap has or has had.
:tyspin

Wallace · **Posted:** Wed Nov 06, 2019 4:48 pm **(#3)**

Issabella wrote:

Thank you so much Wallace, for your information and your interest to solve quickly any issue that Gimp Chap has or has had.
:tyspin

Thank you Issabella.
I do what I can and what is required.

We're hanging on by a thread.
Holding on for as long as we can.

Tas_mania · **Joined:** Nov 04, 2015 **Posts:** 1459

GimpChat has been loading OK from here in the Southern hemisphere. These problems can also be caused by domain name servers. (DNS servers)

oldmangrumpy · **Posted:** Wed Nov 06, 2019 7:16 pm **(#5)**

Tas_mania - things may have been OK from the idyllic 'Apple Isle'

but yesterday mainland Oz and South Africa certainly suffered these issues. Understand what you say about the DNS server implications. Let us just hope the problem has been fixed for good!

Wallace · **Posted:** Thu Nov 07, 2019 12:28 am **(#6)**

It was a short outage,
but lets keep our eyes on things and our fingers crossed.

Just when you think you're on solid ground.

The rug gets pulled out from under you.

I'm happy to have GC back.
This site means a lot to me.
So much so,
that I was thinking of trying to purchase the domain.
Unfortunately,
I'm not in a financial position.
Were I can afford such a purchase.

The figure/amount of worth,
was obtained from the website worth of web.com.

ofnuts · **Joined:** Oct 25, 2010 **Posts:** 4812

Grossly overestimated IMHO. A few thousands at best.

Wallace · **Posted:** Thu Nov 07, 2019 3:39 am **(#8)**

ofnuts wrote:

Grossly overestimated IMHO. A few thousands at best.

Yes over for sure, still not in my ballpark.
:oops:

I can't recall what it sold for,
but it wasn't in the ten's of thousands.

Mainah_Ayuh · **Joined:** Oct 12, 2016 **Posts:** 377

Following offered for comparison.

WEBUKA Website evaluation for http://WWW.gimpchat.com

Visitors daily - 388 Avg # visitors daily

Website worth - 5,825 USD The Market Price

Advertising revenue - 233 USD Avg Monthly income

http://www.webuka.com

:musik

Mainah_Auyh

sallyanne · **Posted:** Thu Nov 07, 2019 5:49 am **(#10)**

Wallace wrote:

It was a short outage,
but lets keep our eyes on things and our fingers crossed.

Just when you think you're on solid ground.
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The rug gets pulled out from under you.
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I'm happy to have GC back.
This site means a lot to me.
So much so,
that I was thinking of trying to purchase the domain.
Unfortunately,
I'm not in a financial position.
Were I can afford such a purchase.

[ Image ]

The figure/amount of worth,
was obtained from the website worth of web.com.

Maybe the members could start a "go fund me" for it. There is too much good information on here to be lost.

ofnuts · **Joined:** Oct 25, 2010 **Posts:** 4812

sallyanne wrote:

Maybe the members could start a "go fund me" for it. There is too much good information on here to be lost.

Most of it is in the internet archive site.

Wallace · **Posted:** Thu Nov 07, 2019 12:11 pm **(#12)**

sallyanne wrote:

Maybe the members could start a "go fund me" for it.
There is too much good information on here to be lost.

That's a nice idea sallyanne and also one that I've contemplated.
However, there's a lot more evolved.
I wish it were as simple as just raising the funds.

I firmly believe, that GC would have been better off.
With an owner who had at least a passing interested in Gimp.
But we all know,
that this isn't how things generally pan out on the interwebs.

As ofnuts has already mentioned.
All the info will and is available via the internet archive.

* * *
Things remain as they are,
for now any way.
Let's all enjoy GC while it's still around.
:jumpclap