Having personally experience a couple of 503 Time Outs today, I thought you should know that our new server has been ordered, and David Saunders is deep into the migration of all the many large files to the new server. I just gave it a test run, and it’s all mostly there, but not fully updated. It will hopefully be ready to go live in a few days or less.
It’s quite common for those registering with CC for the first time to not be able to log-in, or never get the email with the necessary info. That may be tied to our email issue. In any case, here’s a simple work-around:
Trouble getting an initial Log In after registering for the first time at CC? Unfortunately, it’s a common problem, and here’s the fix; Try to Log In, but pretend you forgot your password, and ask for a new password to be sent to you via email. Use that to Log In, and if that works fine (it always does) you can always change your password to your preferred one.
I, in fact, attempted to register some time last year, but like you said I never got the email with the info to complete my registration. I eventually gave up and just resorted to manually typing my name and email in the fields below the comment field every time I want to comment on something, since I’m not all that frequent of a commenter anyway.
That doesn’t seem to work, anymore.
At least, it wasn’t working. I’d typed a couple of my typically verbose comments, hit ‘add comment’, and they simply disappeared. I figured I’d just been banned.
Didn’t get the e-mail the first round but tried what was suggested above. Happy it worked! I thought it might have been a fluke.
It’s clearly one of those red wires.
I worked in the computer hardware industry for almost 30 years, in design engineering and manufacturing operations, the last 15 or so primarily developing enterprise/data center servers and storage as shown in the picture. Believe it or not, there’s a significant effort put into what is known as “cable management”. For us, a CMA is a Cable Management Assembly, not Country Music Association or Cash Management Account. And yes, those are cables not wires 🙂
The data moves faster in the red ones so this looks like a promising move.
And the best thing is that the Red Wires only carry positive news, so there’ll be very few negative stories from now on!
And we are over on the new sever.
It’s not working for me. I’m not getting the e-mail.
Sorry – I still have to work on the email portion.
Don´t worry, David!. I’ll wait. I’ve come here at least once a day for about 5 years, I’m a captive reader. Thank you for your answer.
How am I posting comments too quickly? I tried to slow down…
I must have been too verbose; I redid my post and it worked!
The guy with the blue helmet is a Cabler Elf.