Accessing Physics Forums: Overview Down & Solutions

[ManDay]

The overview is down. It fails to fetch the news from an external site. Eventually I managed to access PF through:

https://www.physicsforums.com/archive/index.php/f-19.html

Warning: file_get_contents(http://www.physicspost.com/rss.php ) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: Connection timed out in /includes/init.php(328) : eval()'d code on line 218

Warning: file_get_contents(http://www.physicspost.com/rss.php ) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: Connection timed out in /includes/init.php(328) : eval()'d code on line 218

Warning: file_get_contents(http://www.physicspost.com/rss.php ) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: Connection timed out in /includes/init.php(328) : eval()'d code on line 218

Warning: file_get_contents(http://www.physicspost.com/rss.php ) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: Connection timed out in /includes/init.php(328) : eval()'d code on line 218

€: I admit, I'm probably not the only one who must have noticed it.

What I suggest tho, is that you make the overview not rely on the rss feed. Fetch the feed on a regular basis with a cronjob and load the content from your local db, so it will not break the forums, in case the feed is down.

 

[Hootenanny]

Woot, woot! We're back up and running! I can stop squeezing my stress ball now!

 

[Kurdt]

Thanks to IE7 pro and its automatic refresh ability.

 

[_Mayday_]

I missed it! And I have 3 more days of school left!

 

[Moonbear]

PF was down? Based on the time of posts here, it coincided with an internet outage on campus here...maybe it was more than just a campus issue (we did have our intranet up, but nobody could access any outside sites).

 

[Evo]

It was only the main page, you could still access all of the forums by using the "forum Jump".

 

[_Mayday_]

So all those pretty new icons couldn't be appreciated?