[TheList] Radiowiki updates

Fri Apr 17 17:31:53 AEST 2020

Awesum Chris, thanks, it's appreciated :-)

Neill ZL1TAJ.

On 17/04/2020 1:11 pm, Chris Hoffmann wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I really do apricate the offer! When I started the wiki 12+ years ago 
> I decided that it would be free for all for as long as I could make it 
> so. Over the years I have got it to the point where it takes very 
> little time and little money to keep it alive. It had grown to the 
> point where it receives about 400 visitors a day or if your oldschool, 
> 26,000 "hits".
>
> This is a graph of 24 hours of requests:
>
> image.png
> Even with this load the current hosting hardly feels a thing.
>
> I don't think of it as 'mine'. I'm just the caretaker. The wiki would 
> be nothing without the hard work all you guys do updating and adding 
> content. So as it stands I am more than happy to keep radiowiki up and 
> running, free and advertisement free just like I said I would 12+ 
> years ago :D.
>
> If that ever changes in the future and I was unable to keep the lights 
> on then I of course would come back to you all and we would as a group 
> work out a way forward.
>
> I would also like to thank our team of list moderators and wiki mods 
> in reality these guys do way more day to day stuff than me.
>
> Stay safe,
>
> Chris021
>
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 6:30 PM James Nicholson <jayswipe at gmail.com 
> <mailto:jayswipe at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Fantastic work Chris and thank you for putting in the effort. I'm
>     for supporting this if it's something we all can get behind.
>
>     James.
>
>     On Thu, 16 Apr 2020 at 16:08, Stephen <kiwis1 at slingshot.co.nz
>     <mailto:kiwis1 at slingshot.co.nz>> wrote:
>
>         Great work Chris, appreciate it, thanks.
>
>         There is a cost in running this – domain name and hosting, is
>         it time for us users to ask if we could all chip in a little?
>         I can.
>
>         Cheers
>
>         Stephen
>
>         *From:*TheList [mailto:thelist-bounces at radiowiki.org.nz
>         <mailto:thelist-bounces at radiowiki.org.nz>] *On Behalf Of
>         *Chris Hoffmann
>         *Sent:* Thursday, 16 April 2020 3:01 PM
>         *To:* TheList at radiowiki.org.nz <mailto:TheList at radiowiki.org.nz>
>         *Subject:* [TheList] Radiowiki updates
>
>         Hi all,
>
>         Following on from the work over Easter weekend I have
>         continued to tidy away a number of housekeeping issues on the
>         wiki.
>
>         Mostly behind the scenes boring tech stuff:
>
>           * There was a mod_security issue that was preventing most
>             peoples user page from working correctly. This has been
>             resolved.
>           * DNS was a bit of a mess along with SSL redirection and
>             offloading, this has also been sorted.
>           * Worked with the hosting provider to move the site to a
>             newer refreshed host.
>           * Changed the main page to render properly on mobile devices
>             now. The clickable map doesn't scale yet, but It looks
>             fine on mobile. Don't really want to risk breaking it.
>           * Tweaked the search, it now works really great for finding
>             codes etc especially from mobile
>
>         There has been quite a bit of activity with people updating
>         stuff on the wiki which is so good to see.
>
>         I am looking at making a few more changes, enabling the visual
>         editing tool, enabling mediated self sign up rather than it
>         being completely manual. If there is anything else you would
>         like to see done please either reply here on-list or contact
>         me directly. Its been something like 6 years since the site
>         was fully updated etc so hopefully this lockdown work will
>         ensure it keeps ticking over for years to come :)
>
>         Cheers all, Stay safe.
>
>         Chris021
>
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