Gloves | 11,771 Administrator · Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 A valid question! One which I've been busy toiling over since... god... since December now. Look, I don't want to get into the negatives too deeply here, so I'll summarize: Google sucks. Now to the GOOD news. I now have control of the original site domain back, despite Google's best efforts (they were the domain registrar through which I originally purchased the URL). I've successfully transferred it off of Google's Domains platform and onto a different trusted registrar, and am now starting the process of getting the site proper (the one you're staring at now) to have BOTH URLs available, pointing to the same place. What does this mean for you? Should be business as usual, more or less, assuming everything moves over smoothly. There may be some minor downtime, hopefully max a few seconds, but transparently there could be like a day where the site is "down" since domains do take time to propagate, which is techno mumbo jumbo for "to work everywhere". That should hopefully be worst case scenario, I don't envision there being any downtime at all, as there's no real rush here - I'm going to take my time and make sure things are done right. Also of course, it's Easter weekend, so this may not take place until next week. At any rate, you will soon be able to either go back to using videogamesage.com, or continue using the current videogamesages.com. Both will be valid once I've got it sorted with the fine folks at InvisionCommunity, the software upon which the forum runs. I'll update here as things move forward, and will definitely post before any action is taken which might cause downtime, but in general yeah... We back, babyyyyy. Just give it a little more time, and we'll be in good shape! Thank you to everyone for the patience and support during the past few months. 22 6 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TDIRunner | 2,731 Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 Thanks for the update, and thanks for your work on this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMR | 519 Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 (edited) Wow, so google was actively against you retaining control of the domain? It seems so weird that this was such a cluster fuck. I would think all this stuff with domains would be automated at this point. Edited April 15, 2022 by CMR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matchbook | 194 Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 Thank you Gloves! Keep up the good work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrekMD | 1,395 Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 Cool! Thanks for the update! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanooki | 4,932 Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 Finally and f google, maybe Elon once he finishes off buyint Twitter to finally make them behave honest and transparent he'll do the same to google. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MegaMan52 | 2,442 Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 13 hours ago, Gloves said: A valid question! One which I've been busy toiling over since... god... since December now. Look, I don't want to get into the negatives too deeply here, so I'll summarize: Google sucks. Agreed 100%! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gloves | 11,771 Administrator · Posted April 15, 2022 Author Share Posted April 15, 2022 Turns out most of America doesn't have today off like we do in Canada (suckerrrrrsssss!). So the software folks are available and will be working on this TODAY! Please be patient as I am sending them approval to start moving over in just a few minutes here. If you're unable to access the site at the current URL, try the old one (without the "s"), and if neither work, then please bear with us. It shouldn't cause too much downtime, and I'll make an update on the Twitters as well as needed. Might be a couple hours, might be a couple minutes. See you all on the other side! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Webhead123 | 675 Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 Thanks for all your hard work, Glovey. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gloves | 11,771 Administrator · Posted April 15, 2022 Author Share Posted April 15, 2022 Testing 123 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeevan | 8,910 Events Helper · Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 1 minute ago, Gloves said: Testing 123 321 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gloves | 11,771 Administrator · Posted April 15, 2022 Author Share Posted April 15, 2022 Just now, Jeevan said: 321 This is ground control to major Jeevan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeevan | 8,910 Events Helper · Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 Just now, Gloves said: This is ground control to major Jeevan go ahead ground control. I read you loud and clear, over *static* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeevan | 8,910 Events Helper · Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 Congrats! and thanks for all your hard work you sexy beast you @Gloves. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gloves | 11,771 Administrator · Posted April 15, 2022 Author Share Posted April 15, 2022 I mean hopefully it's not just the Gloves and Jeevan show and other folks start to appear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeldaFreak | 3,600 Events Team · Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 5 minutes ago, Gloves said: I mean hopefully it's not just the Gloves and Jeevan show and other folks start to appear. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retro.magnus | 136 Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 17 minutes ago, Gloves said: I mean hopefully it's not just the Gloves and Jeevan show and other folks start to appear. Other folk appears 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Link | 2,709 Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 back where we belong 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MegaMan52 | 2,442 Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 Yeah, it's working. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skorp | 383 Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 Yay!! I'm shocked it took so long. Thank you. ...and yes, Google sucks (dealing with my own problems now lol) 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeevan | 8,910 Events Helper · Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 23 minutes ago, Gloves said: I mean hopefully it's not just the Gloves and Jeevan show and other folks start to appear. would be better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DefaultGen | 5,401 Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 Are we being hacked? I meant to go to the REAL website, VideoGameSages right?? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagusSmurf | 577 Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 *site isn’t working again.* Damnit ... *Deletes an s in the url.* Works. Yay. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Morbis | 2,088 Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 I wonder if we'll now see the return of a couple of guys who completely disappeared after the 's' was added? @Sumez was probably the most regular poster, and it shows him last appearing on December 20th, one day before the fall of the house of sages... 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesRobot | 5,793 Events Team · Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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