admin

Sorry yallll! Our server decided to update itself and then the AI (thanks chat gdp) thought it would take it upon itself to try and delete itself. Kidding. We’ll kind of.

We’re back! 
 

love VC

We will be completing the updates this Sunday morning around 8-9 am ET. It may take a few hours but we will be up and running as quickly as possible!

Is this why notifications aren't being sent? 

This should be fixed today. Sorry for any inconvenience.

UPDATE: We are pushing the move to the updated boards until early next week! I will have an exact date soon. We  require a few hours of down time and today does not seem like a good day / night to do it.

 

On Thursday April 28th we will launch an updated version of Vinyl Collective with a new design!! We are upgrading the software with a new design. Everything should remain the same (feedback etc...) EXCEPT the Collection System!

 

The collection system will be unavailable for a short period of time while we update and rebuild it. Once we relaunch the collection system, we are hoping that your lists made will still be there, however we cannot guarantee this!!

IF YOU NEED YOUR COLLECTION LIST PLEASE MAKE A COPY BEFORE  APRIL 28th, 2016!!!

 

Any question feel free to post here. Thank you!

Will there be a new collection system implemented? Deadformat doesn't work well on mobile for me

 

yes eventually. We estimate a month, maybe 2. We are rebuilding it from scratch but it is going to be a LOT better!!!

UPDATE: We are pushing the move to the updated boards until SUNDAY MAY 1st at 9 AM ET. We require a few hours of down time during this time.

 

Sunday May 1st we will launch an updated version of Vinyl Collective with a new design!! We are upgrading the software with a new design. Everything should remain the same (feedback etc...) EXCEPT the Collection System!

 

The collection system will be unavailable for a short period of time while we update and rebuild it. Once we relaunch the collection system, we are hoping that your lists made will still be there, however we cannot guarantee this!!

IF YOU NEED YOUR COLLECTION LIST PLEASE MAKE A COPY BEFORE  April 30, 2016

 

Any question feel free to post here. Thank you!

So it looks like we have ran out of space on our database system because of logs, etc. This started happening yesterday and we did not catch it. My apologies and we are fixing these issues as we speak!

We are doing a bunch of board updates this week and next so the Facebook image shoudl be fixed soon. We will look into the post time thing as well.

Tomorrow at 5 AM EST we will be shutting down the entire Vinyl Collective website to do a large server upgrade. We are adding 2 new servers to handle the growth of traffic at peak time. We are always doing our best to keep things loading as fast as possible and also keep optimum up time. Lately with the huge increase of users and traffic we feel it is time to increase our server resources.

 

We will be down for roughly 2-3 hours. It will be a simple move but because of all the data it does take time so we appreciate your patience and cooperation.

 

Remember this is all happening tomorrow morning (April 11, 2014) at 5:00 AM EST.

 

Thank you all for helping our little community growing and we hope you all enjoy it as much as we do.

 

Danny
Server Admin

Hey Everyone,

 

We have blocked this user and associated IP addresses from using VC for not following our best practices policy (Which can be found here: http://boards.vinylcollective.com/topic/86642-vinyl-collective-best-practices-policy-for-dealing-with-identified-and-confirmed-scammers/ )

 

We do advise if you have an outstanding issue with the user take it up with Paypal or your credit card merchant. If you suspect this user has somehow returned at any point in the future be sure to let us know. This way we can do our best to help avoid issues like this from happening again.

Not sure if anyone else posted this yet but what you were told are the 'library mail' rules not 'media mail'. I am referring to:

 

"education and learning purposes only"

 

Here is a link to the media mail rules in their manual (Which someone posted): http://pe.usps.com/text/dmm300/173.htm#1113509

 

Note vinyl fits under 4.1e

There are no sender restrictions listed under media mail but there are for library mail 5.1 & 5.2 which is what I think your USPS person is quoting. Tell them to read section 173 in their manual over again

SRC is repressing Blink 182 - Take Off Your Pants and Jacket LP + 3 x 7" on a 180 Gram LP with 3 Black 7" limited to 1,500 copies. The repress is due out Feb 25th and in honor of this we are doing a test pressing contest! One lucky winner will receive a test press along with a copy of the repress. Two runners up will receive a copy of the repress. It is very easy to enter you can do so now here:

http://www.vinylcollective.com/wcc_contest/blink-test-pressing

 

To pre order the repress head over here:

Blink 182 - Take Off Your Pants and Jacket LP & 3x7"

 

My understanding is that for the first few pages you view that appears by default. Then it disappears after viewing a few threads.

We have had some issues on the database end since we used Discogs engine. I know we are looking at how to move forward and fix or replace this system but no decision has been made yet sorry

We will be giving away Vinyl Collective Tote Bags & stickers for free at the SRC booth!

flea market at the SRC booth. We have 250 tote bags which we are reserving for VC members. So just come up and ask for one and you will get one!

We made some Vinyl Collective tote bags and stickers that we will be giving away for free at both Pre Fest and Fest!

 but i would also hope for VC to endorse a safe marketplace.

 

In terms of the multiple complaints about adamrfox this is what we are going to do. As noted above we have stated this is one of our goals this year - to make VC a safe marketplace. Of course we cannot control what happens, especially outside of VC but we can definitely eliminate people from the sales/trades thread if they are not following the guidelines. As well in the past we have banned people from the board if there is proof they are fully and intentionally ripping people off. The main board is essentially the same thing as the sale /trade thread area, but more for labels and distros. And yes we are not going to tolerate people coming on here and ripping people off.

 

It would help if members could provide us with clear info on exactly what happened here. Maybe a quick synopsis of the deleted thread focusing on people here getting ripped off that would be great. And if anyone who has been ripped off wants to make a direct complaint they can provide us with detail via PM (Please message me and I will share with mods) we will definitely consider a ban.

We cannot restore the topic. We have tried several ways and are not able to. REGARDLESS moving forward, we have made it so that no one can delete their own threads. If you want a thread deleted you will have to contact us and request. We will review from that point and it will be up to our discretion if the thread gets deleted or not.

Hey Everyone! I posted a full update on everything we know of here: http://boards.vinylcollective.com/topic/94280-vc-site-down-post-count-site-issues-deleted-profiles/

Please note I have added an update above to include some issues that we have noted since the meltdown. Here it is as well:

 

 

*UPDATE ON POST COUNTS/ DELETED PROFILES - Please note during the time of the outage a few members profiles were deleted. In order to restore their information we had to run a post recount. What this means is that everything is recounted. If a post is deleted it does not take that away from your post count, unless we run a post recount. Many of you have been on here for many, many years and I guess this has never been done before. If you have any questions let us know.

 

If your PROFILE WAS DELETED please email [email protected] the following:

1.) Username

2.) A Link to a thread you started

 

We will gladly assist in restoring your data.

Hey Folks! I have info for futurekills and will see if we can identify the issue. In the meantime the only thing I can suggest is if you changed your name at any point, try logging in with the user name you originally signed up with. This may include way back to when we were on proboards. I do recall this was a mass issue when we moved from proboards. And all that needed done was you had to log in with the original name you used and then change it again.

 

Let me know if that works for any one. We will continue looking into these until we identify the issue

Hey All! I apologize it has taken a few hours to get an address up as to what happened. Here is all the info:

 

Yesterday at approximately 4:30 pm our servers were shut down by the server company due to a smoke alarm. We were told they determined there was no fire at the data center and that all servers were properly shut down while the fire department assessed the situation. A short while after they began to turn on the servers, with ours going on at about 9 pm EST.

 

At this time our site was up but many pages were not working. Our server admin believes the servers were not actually 'properly' shut down and because of this there were some issues with MySQL tables. He worked all night and was able to restore everything a few hours ago.

 

TO THE BEST OF OUR KNOWLEDGE everything on VC was restored. However there are SOOO many pages on this site it is impossible to know. So if you encounter any issues please do not use the support forum or post here. Well you are welcome to of course post issues and discuss here but IN ORDER FOR ANY ISSUES TO GET RESOLVED you must email us:

 

[email protected]

 

We will of course be looking at comments here and support forum however the email is the only way for us to deal with each individual one properly and in a quick manner.

 

Also we have been working with servers and server providers for many years and assure this is a rare occurrence. Despite that with electronics you are always at risk of things like this. Once we are confident all data is properly restored the team will be looking at options to minimize downtime if something like this ever happens again.

 

For those interested here is the article on what happened:

http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/web-host-gigenet-goes-down

 

*UPDATE ON POST COUNTS/ DELETED PROFILES - Please note during the time of the outage a few members profiles were deleted. In order to restore their information we had to run a post recount. What this means is that everything is recounted. If a post is deleted it does not take that away from your post count, unless we run a post recount. Many of you have been on here for many, many years and I guess this has never been done before. If you have any questions let us know.

 

If your PROFILE WAS DELETED please email [email protected] the following:

1.) Username

2.) A Link to a thread you started

 

We will gladly assist in restoring your data.

 

UPDATE: OCTOBER 10TH OUTAGE - We experience another outage on Thursday Oct 10th around 9 pm EST. This was due to a MySQL error from the server outage the previous day. The issue has been fixed and everything has been restored to the best of our knowledge.

Go edit the thread. When that opens down below where it says save changes  select "Use Full Editor" that will allow you to edit the title, given you created it. Let us know if that worked!!

Maybe even seperate sale trade want sections would make it a heap easier

 

We have been actively discussing at how we can better the sales/trade thread. We completely understand it is a bit of a cluster fuck since VC has grown immensely.