[okfn-help] Fwd: OKFN website problems

Thu Jul 28 20:50:07 UTC 2011

Hello,

Excerpts from Rufus Pollock's message of 2011-07-28 18:53:18 +0200:
> A report of some issues using okfn.org from Harry Wood.
> 
> Issue with not showing logged in on front page is due to squid caching
> that we know about (we would like to stop force-caching and will do so
> soon).
> 
> @elf: wondered about his issues with the forum  ...
It looks like I have fixed it and now you can see test topic created in this group:
http://okfn.org/groups/open-knowledge-london/

I needed to go to group 'Admin' section and disable and than reenable forum. I guess we may need to do this in other goups as well...
BTW now I see we have a lot of spam groups =( will need to search for some restrictions on crating groups...

> 
> Rufus
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Harry Wood
> Date: 26 July 2011 19:33
> Subject: OKFN website problems
> To:
> 
> Further to that I'm noticing a few problems with various other
> channels around the OKFN website. Maybe you could forward this onto
> whoever is doing the website
> There is a sort of london homepage of the OKFN site here:
> http://okfn.org/groups/open-knowledge-london/
> As you can see it has a not-very-active wall of postings on which I
> seem to the be the only one who's managed to post. There's various
> obstacles for getting logged in. Once I'd made it past the
> registration captchas and email verification, I found it tended to
> kick me back to the main okfn.org site. This site must be separate
> system or something. It seems to have a problem showing me as logged
> in. Even though I *am* shown as logged in on the london group page.
> The 'forum' section here:
> http://okfn.org/groups/open-knowledge-london/forum/topic/
> ...doesn't work.  New topic posts are swallowed with an error.
> I guess it's quite a new site so maybe you're aware of all this.  In
> fact maybe I wasn't supposed to find the London group page yet. I
> originally found it googling "OKFN London", but it's not linked from
> the main site.
> 
> Harry Wood