The Leela Zone

[Reply #600 on:]

I heard about what happened to Futurama Madhouse.  Why is the site shut down?  I tried to go to it and all I got was an error message.  I myself noticed besides Graham, all the other admins are away.  How did it crash?  For a minute there, I thought the URL changed.    It would be a dirty shame is that site is permantely shut down.  I hope it gets fixed soon!  How long has it been shut down for?

[Reply #601 on:]

 

Originally posted by Ralph Snart:
Then send a check for 5 bucks instead of using a credit card. Pul-lease. The same people who cry about protecting their identities are usually the same ones with personal webpages and myspace accounts that give out all their personal info except their underwear size.

All I said was that some people are uncomfortable with the idea of giving out credit card information (and, yeah, since some close friends of mine did have their identities stolen a few years ago, I'm one of them).  Of course I'd send a check, given the chance, but many times, that's simply not an option I'm granted.

That said, I should probably start looking into a PayPal account....

 

The small fee would be to stop the nymshifters and spammers. Running a website is expensive and time consuming - I've done it before.

I do not doubt that it's incredibly difficult to run a web site of this magnitude, and I'm very, very thankful that -mArc- has stuck with PEEL and CGEF for so long.  What I was mainly trying to get across is that, if it came to it, I'd be willing to sacrifice features to be able to remain on a functioning forum.

This idea might not fly at all, but depending on what's specifically required to keep PEEL running: what if someone (preferrebly -mArc-) established a PayPal account on PEEL's behalf that people could donate to?  The money would go towards whatever it would take to maintain the forum (and possibly CGEF as well).

[Reply #602 on:]

GAH!

FM TLZ is still down. 
I’m going into *&^%$#@! withdrawl!

I’ll be forced to use my medicinal chocolate... 

Not to be construed as a complaint, ‘cuz I truly do appreciate what Leandro, Graham, Teral, Kenneth, et al do to keep the site running, but is there any estimate of when the site might be back up again?
 

And just in case I’ve left anyone out, a jumbo-sized thank-you to everyone who keeps FM TLZ a going concern. 



The Futurama community wouldn’t be half of what it is without you. 

I’d offer my help, but trust me, you're better off without it! 

[Reply #603 on:]

I posted in the TLZ message board about an hour ago.  I thought it was back up for everyone? 

[Reply #604 on:]

YAY!

FM TLZ is back on-line again! 
I can put back the medicinal chocolate.

[Reply #605 on:]

Hmmm. I need to remember to check PEEL when the site goes down. That, or the people at PEEL need to remember to email me at leandrotlz@gmail.com when the site goes down :P

I was the first to notice the domain troubles. This started on August 20th. People on other countries just saw the site staying up for a couple of days while the domain and its DNS info were purged from their caches.

What happened? I registered www.futurama-madhouse.com.ar  a long time ago using a very old email address that redirected to a pretty insecure account. This was after the whole Cease & Desist stuff with www.leela.com.ar.  Someone managed to request the domain subscription to be cancelled, using that old email address for confirmation.

I re-registered the domain before anyone else could grab it, and we're good to go again. I also took the precaution to change the email address that can make changes to the site like that to my current address, and to remove the two other email addresses that could request a domain change before. Happy endings all around.

Now, this shows that I'm rather naive. I don't care much for security (some of the scripts that run the site itself have laughably insecure passwords) because I think, hey, it's a fansite, who could want to hurt us? And then I get an email from someone who registered www.futurama-madhouse.com  and is asking for a thousand bucks so we can have it.

I'm an optimist at heart, but sometimes people don't make it easy...

[Reply #606 on:]

 

Originally posted by Leandro:
... I need to remember to check PEEL when the site goes down.

>.<
D'oh!

I should've thought to e-mail you or one of the FM TLZ mod's instead of merely inquiring on P.E.E.L!

I'm an optimist at heart, but sometimes people don't make it easy...

[*Heh!*]
Not me: one of my motto's is:
"If you expect the worst, you'll never be disappointed."

Some say this makes me a pessimist, a blackguard, a cynic -
And they may have a point...
But I've never been disappointed...   

Thanks for all your efforts in keeping FM TLZ up and running.
We Futurama fans would be much worse-off without it.

Keep up the good job, and please, don't ever stop. 

[Reply #607 on:]

<adds to the applause and relieved whoops>

[Reply #608 on:]

AOL seems to be bumping my email to TLZ, so I’ll post the request here: when it’s convenient, can someone please remove my content from the site. Thank you.

[Reply #609 on:]

Farnsworth38: email me, leandrotlz@gmail.com, and tell me what said content is.

[Reply #610 on:]

Ya know what? I was visiting TLZ today and I can't seem to figure out why this site doesnt get as much recognition as CGEF, as it has continuous updates with fanart, fiction, as well as news updates...

*shrugs*

[Reply #611 on:]

Well, if you do an internet search for 'Futurama', you get CGEF at the top of the list. And CGEF is nice, too. Not as many updates, but then again, if you haven't seen TLZ yet, you don't know that you're missing anything.

And personally, I like the Ultimate Bulletin Board layout of PEEL better than the TLZ forum.

[Reply #612 on:]

My latest fanfics are finally up on Futurama Madhouse.  All it needs now are some synopsises. 

[Reply #613 on:]

 

Originally posted by Xanfor:
Well, if you do an internet search for 'Futurama', you get CGEF at the top of the list. And CGEF is nice, too. Not as many updates, but then again, if you haven't seen TLZ yet, you don't know that you're missing anything.

Something that bothers me: in the Wikipedia's article for Futurama, CGEF is listed in the External Links section. I added TLZ a few times, and it always gets deleted. CGEF stays update after update -- TLZ gets deleted as often as the day after I post the link.

Not sure if it's because they have a problem with 'Madhouse' in the name or if some editor is monitoring the page for changes and just doesn't like us.

[Reply #614 on:]

"I added TLZ a few times, and it always gets deleted. CGEF stays update after update -- TLZ gets deleted as often as the day after I post the link."

Whoever it is, I wish they'd stop. It's moronic. TLZ was the site that got me into futurama fanart, and remains the most important repository of fan based output. It deserves - and has earned - its popularity, needs a wiki link.

[Reply #615 on:]

 

Originally posted by Leandro:
 Something that bothers me: in the Wikipedia's article for Futurama, CGEF is listed in the External Links section. I added TLZ a few times, and it always gets deleted. CGEF stays update after update -- TLZ gets
deleted as often as the day after I post the link. Not sure if it's because they have a problem with 'Madhouse' in the name or if some editor is monitoring the page for changes and just doesn't like us.

I also added TFP because CGEF was listed in the External Links section. It was deleted, so I asked the person that deleted TFP from the links why?, and there's a rule on Wikipedia about not listing all the fansites but the Principal one... I let him know that there are sites more updated than CGEF, so then that person added instead the dmoz list of Futurama Sites (that it was on the Wikipedia rules when there's to many big fansites).
In fact, right now, there's no CGEF on the External Links section, there's only the link of "Futurama at the Internet Movie Database". I'll add the link to Futurama at dmoz Open Directory... although FM is not listed there directly, but in the "characters" subpage.

[Reply #616 on:]

tlz crashed

[Reply #617 on:]

 

Originally posted by BenderLicksButt:
tlz crashed

 

[*Checks FM:TLZ*]

 

Huh.
It works for me.
Try here?

[Reply #618 on:]

I just checked it just now.  Seems okay to me! 

[Reply #619 on:]

I'd check out futurama.myfreeforum.org its a great forum. Well I love it.

[Reply #620 on:]

 

Originally posted by Gurman169:
I'd check out futurama.myfreeforum.org its a great forum. Well I love it.

Well you are the admin of said forum, I think it's pretty usual that you "love" it. 
TLZ seems fine to me, maybe some of the domain names have hickups.

[Reply #621 on:]

 

Originally posted by Officer 1BDI:
I do not doubt that it's incredibly difficult to run a web site of this magnitude, and I'm very, very thankful that -mArc- has stuck with PEEL and CGEF for so long.  What I was mainly trying to get across is that, if it came to it, I'd be willing to sacrifice features to be able to remain on a functioning forum.

We're not willing to sacrifice any of the stuff we put so much effort in collecting for the last six years. We even still have all the layouts the site has had stored!

That said, the best way to help a site stay alive is to support its ads. Like the new RadioShack ad that's on top of our pages... come on, check out the Back to School Tech Checklist. You know you want to.   

[Reply #622 on:]

I'll click on the ads and support you any way that I can.  You know from past experience that I'll help you in any way I can.

Take care and thanks for giving us FM/TLZ.

[Reply #623 on:]

 

Originally posted by Spacedal11:
I'm sorry to sound pushy but WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU TERAL!? I've sent all the other parts for Jynx and I'm already on the last one and nothing has happened! I mean each day I go on to TLZ to see if you've put up any new parts. But no. I'm sending an S.O.S.

Funny how 2 years makes a difference. God I'm a prick. *1:45 in the AM boredom*   

And I know I did that like 2 other times. For that, I'm really really sorry Teral.

[Reply #624 on:]

Come to think of it, where is Teral?  I sent him Part 4 of TFS months ago and it's still not up.

[Reply #625 on:]

Greetings all, newbie here, been on FM:TLZ for a while.  If you want stuff put up there, send it to "Tim" (that's me) - I've been getting stuff put up within a week of receiving it usually.

[Reply #626 on:]

I haven't seen Teral in quite some time, but is an admin of TLZ around? I just visited TLZ again after quite some time and was surprised with a download of a file named "counter.pl". What is up with that?

[Reply #627 on:]

The site won't even load for me right now.  Given the suspicious download, that's probably for the better. :/

Edit: Hi Red_Line!

[Reply #628 on:]

Hi 1BDI.  The site is working fine for me.  Probably congestion or momentary network glitch.

I'm not an admin, but I did go take a look at the code.  It's a Prel script and it appears to have something to do with the advertisments.  It's been there for a while and doesn't appear to do anything nasty (disclaimer - I'm not an expert on prel scripts).  If I can catch Graham on IM tonight I'll ask him, unless he or one of the other admins answers here first.

[Reply #629 on:]

 

Originally posted by germanfryfan:
I haven't seen Teral in quite some time, but is an admin of TLZ around? I just visited TLZ again after quite some time and was surprised with a download of a file named "counter.pl". What is up with that?

That file's not supposed to download, it's just a visitor counter that I use to track ads-related stuff (they have their own counter of hits, but I like to double-check that stuff). It should be displaying in an invisible frame; calling it directly just displays your own IP address.

What browser/version do you use?

(Edit: come to think of it, maybe the fact that it tracks stuff with a simple text/plain content type means some systems will try to open it with Notepad instead of displaying it in the invisible frame. I'll change it so it tracks using text/html instead and it should fix that.)

[Reply #630 on:]

hey Leandro, I am using a Browser called "FlashPeak SlimBrowser" version 4.07 build 100.

It's derived and uses the engine of IE 6.0.2900 for WinXP SP2.

Scripting is turned on.

If you already fixed it I can tell you it worked, since I am not getting that download alert anymore.

[Reply #631 on:]

I was on that site myself.  You could download episodes.  Plus, there's a message board you could sign up for.  Really neat! 

[Reply #632 on:]

Oh wow that's totally awesome! Since it's sooooooo OMG! You should make your own thread and leave the TLZ one alone! Like OK?    lolzzzz, BFF!

[Reply #633 on:]

 

Originally posted by KurtPikachu2001:
I was on that site myself.  You could download episodes.  Plus, there's a message board you could sign up for.  Really neat! 

How long have you been a member of this forum, Kurt? You should know by now that it's illegal, incredible hurtful for the show and, first and foremost, specifically forbidden in the PEEL Rules of the Road.   

But nice advertise, how much is ohunt paying you?

[Reply #634 on:]

Teral, you should know by now that KurtPikachu is some kind of freaky ForumBot; his posts are usually pointless and out of context, he never responds to anything directed to him, and...wait, I can't even figure out what site he's talking about this time.  Huh?

[Reply #635 on:]

The funny thing is this ohunt guy isn't some kind of confused fan who does it out of the kindness of his heart. Nope, he's a moneygrubbing asshole who tries to make money of the work of other people: proof.

[Reply #636 on:]

 

Originally posted by Teral:
... Nope, he's a moneygrubbing asshole who tries to make money of the work of other people: proof.

Helpy Teral ... On that link I get "There was an error processing your request. If this problem persists, please contact us". Evidence destroyed - mwhahahaaa (probably)

[Reply #637 on:]

 

Originally posted by Fry_B:
 Helpy Teral ... On that link I get "There was an error processing your request. If this problem persists, please contact us". Evidence destroyed - mwhahahaaa (probably)

[stares]My plan worked?...  My plan worked!Yes!Yeees!Oh wait...My plan was building a death star...

[Reply #638 on:]

I've heard alot about TLZ, but can someone please give me the exact URL?
Edit: Never mind.  I found it about 20 seconds after I posted

[Reply #639 on:]

@Teral:

It's been a long time; do you still want fanfic submissions sent to you or should I send my last one to someone less jaded?