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| All, since the Fundraiser option does not appear to work well, I've dug through things and figured out how to integrate a PayPal Donations option in LUGNET. The Donate button is now integrated in the front page and may or may not be integrated in (...) (2 months ago, 17-Jun-26, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: PayPal Fundraiser
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| From various feedbacks I receive, I understand that the PayPal link does not appear to work for everybody (potentially depending on the country you're living in?) Anyway, I'd want to keep this as simple as possible, so technically you can always use (...) (2 months ago, 13-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Removal of ads from LUGNET
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| (...) Hi David, thanks for the feedback - I was not aware that the fundraiser page was having loading issues as it comes up just fine when I test from here. I hope it won't be a limitation because the account is set up as a personal account from (...) (2 months ago, 11-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Another missing message (was Re: Posts expiring?)
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| (...) "odd" is a very fitting term I should say. I've done a compare with the oldest available live backup and found a total of _three_ articles missing, namely: ./lugnet/announce/brickset/3 ./lugnet/announce/37 ./lugnet/disney/125 These have now (...) (2 months ago, 10-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | PayPal Fundraiser
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| For those of you who feel like supporting the operation and maintenance of LUGNET, I have set up a PayPal fundraiser here: https://www.paypal.c...9pUyicsmun This thread is for discussions about the fundraiser (and for me to keep you posted about how (...) (2 months ago, 9-Jun-26, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: Posts expiring?
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| Todd, thanks for the pointer - I have checked the directory and the last cancel request in there came in back in 2008 (!) so I think it can be ruled out that it happened via that route. I'm putting aside an archive of the last backup before the fix (...) (2 months ago, 9-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: Removal of Ads from LUGNET
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| (...) Hi Suz, yeah, the ads became more and more annoying as well as disconnected to the other LUGNET content - if they can't provide delivery of relevant ads, we're better off not placing ads at all. Ads actually used to be sort of relevant and (...) (2 months ago, 9-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Posts expiring?
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| (...) Interesting that there should be _missing_ posts after all these years. I had encountered a major hang in the internals of the news system the other day and resolved the same - for reasons entirely mystic to me that must have triggered (...) (2 months ago, 9-Jun-26, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Removal of ads from LUGNET
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| Hi everybody, due to repeated requests and more appropriately due to the poor performance of ads in general when it comes to refinancing the costs for hosting and maintenance, I have taken the decision to drop ads from LUGNET altogether. Most of the (...) (2 months ago, 7-Jun-26, to lugnet.announce) !
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| | Removal of Ads from LUGNET
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| Hi everybody, due to repeated requests and more appropriately due to the poor performance of ads in general when it comes to refinancing the costs for hosting and maintenance, I have taken the decision to drop ads from LUGNET altogether. Most of the (...) (2 months ago, 7-Jun-26, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: LUGNET is moving servers once more
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| (...) Hi Marco, I guess we're out of luck there - I have not heard back from anybody either and pinged some of the folks I know over in the U.S. without any luck. So unless somebody with access to the site stumbles upon this and fixes it, we'll have (...) (6 years ago, 27-Dec-20, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: LUGNET is moving servers once more
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| (...) Hi Marco, I am sorry but I have not heard back yet. I have been told that getting a response may take some time nowadays as the admins probably cannot dedicate as much time to maintaining the site as they used to. I will let you know once I (...) (6 years ago, 15-Nov-20, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: LUGNET is moving servers once more
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| (...) Hi Marco, you are right, peeron.com is not part of LUGNET as such although of course the sites have been connected for a long time now. There appears to be a general problem with icons/thumbnail images display on Peeron at the moment - I shall (...) (6 years ago, 1-Nov-20, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: LUGNET is moving servers once more
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| (...) Hi Marco, I must have phrased it in a confusing way then - the announcement was meant to say that the site was moved 1:1 - so the fact that we are reading and writing here means that LUGNET _is_ actually now running on a cloud-based server. (...) (6 years ago, 31-Oct-20, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: LUGNET is moving servers once more
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| Hi everybody, the server move as such has been very successful this time as opposed to previous moves. Not only did the move just take a mere 2 hours, primarily due to the low bandwidth available to transfer all the files and fix a few settings. (...) (6 years ago, 4-May-20, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | LUGNET is moving servers once more
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| Dear LUGNET Users, after quite some time we have decided to move LUGNET to a more modern cloud-based server platform to improve bandwidth and reliability of the service. While we are aware that technology has advanced and the LUGNET discussion (...) (6 years ago, 2-May-20, to lugnet.announce)
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| | LUGNET experiencing minor technical issues
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| Hi all, as some of you may have noticed, we have upgraded LUGNET to use SSL encryption across all pages. As a downside, we are currently experiencing a couple of minor issues because some pages are getting delivered as "mixed content" (which you (...) (8 years ago, 28-Feb-18, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Software upgrade on LUGNET server
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| All, we have recently upgraded the operating system of the main LUGNET server - so far we have not identified any immediate issues, but knowing that the LUGNET framework has been struck by changes in the OS in the past, please let us know if you hit (...) (10 years ago, 2-Aug-16, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Intermittent Outage Notification: Lugnet Server Move
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| Dear Lugnet Community, after roughly 8 years of residing on the same server platform, it has become inevitable to move Lugnet contents to a new server. We have had the odd intermittent outage because of server components failing, but much worse is (...) (11 years ago, 6-Mar-15, to lugnet.announce) !
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| | Mosaic Maker fixed
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| All, unfortunately with the recent server move I did not realize that the Mosaic Maker ((URL) was broken in the process. Luckily there are folks out there who eventually let me know - so I was able to identify the missing pieces of software and get (...) (11 years ago, 31-May-15, to lugnet.announce)
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