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BrilliantGameologists: Board's down. Now what?
« on: December 28, 2015, 10:12:02 PM »
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As of this week or last, the BrilliantGameologist.com boards show an error screen when trying to access their content.  What's happening?

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Re: BrilliantGameologists: Board's down. Now what?
« Reply #1 on: December 28, 2015, 10:17:46 PM »

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Re: BrilliantGameologists: Board's down. Now what?
« Reply #2 on: December 28, 2015, 11:39:13 PM »
Looks like the admins fixed the issue for the old BG boards when they did so for MinMax.

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Re: BrilliantGameologists: Board's down. Now what?
« Reply #3 on: December 29, 2015, 12:33:02 AM »
What was wrong?

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Re: BrilliantGameologists: Board's down. Now what?
« Reply #4 on: December 29, 2015, 02:17:02 AM »
What was wrong?

It seems that a PHP version update disabled a deprecated function used in the board's scripts. For a few days, some features here weren't working, formatting was off for tables and thread lists, and there were error messages at the top of each page. During that time, the old BG boards were down completely, nothing but an error message on a white background. Thread for more details.