Lives of the First World War

Actually, just had another look at my GF's page and none of the buttons work, either. That is, you can't even search official records. Something far wrong with the site.

 

Just got a reply

"We are aware of a possible issue which occurred with certain browsers unfortunately. Our developers are investigating how this happened however if you clear your cache ( files & cookies) and refresh, you should see that the information is there.

No information has been lost - the details will still be there."

?Reassured, guys?

 

To be fair to them, clearing a bit of browser history (past hour, in Chrome) seems to have fixed the problem

 

Phew - clearing the past hour in Chrome worked for me, too. Thanks a lot, Liberty.

 

Trouble shared, trouble halved, Gillian.

It still looks like a problem with their site, though. Something like that really shouldn't happen and is likely to get users into a tizzy

 

I've had the same problem - frustrating when all your work just disappears - but fixed as soon as I cleared cache etc as suggested
Let's hope things are fixed soon before too many folk are put off

 

Britjan, as of yesterday (and still today, I think), before the payment system sets in) you can create a community for free. It would seem ( from the discussion threads) to be what is recommended for linking brothers etc. I have created a community for 3 brothers who were killed (2 on the same day, at Gallipoli)

I also created a community for the Sheringham war memorial. This does cause me slight qualms in that 1. I have no particular 'claim' to it - possibly the local Royal British Legion should manage the list 2. will anyone else see that these men are part of this community? 3. if I don't become a Friend of the site, who will manage the list? However, for my own purposes I wanted to flag them up as a group, so we'll see how it goes.

 

I just ran into somewhat the same issue when I looked at the Saxlingham Nethergate war memorial site again in more detail . While I do have a claim to the men listed, the depth of detail provided in general far surpasses anything I have currently taken upon myself to research. I am going to list it for now with the appropriate credits and see what transpires. I have attempted to contact the person who constructed the site of course.

 

I had a response and I think it may lead to learning more on subjects other than WWI which proves, as usual, that it is always worth reaching out. We'll see how IWM rolls out "community" in the coming months.

 

Is it just me, or can other people not get to the site this evening?

I get this message - You attempted to reach www.livesofthefirstworldwar.org, but instead you actually reached a server identifying itself as blog.findmypast.co.uk. This may be caused by a misconfiguration on the server or by something more serious. An attacker on your network could be trying to get you to visit a fake (and potentially harmful) version of www.livesofthefirstworldwar.org.

Possibly I need to clear my browser history (or something) but that's a bit startling

 

Hmmm. I'm still getting the message. My internet protection service doesn't like the web address, and doesn't want me to go to the redirected address. I'm not going to over-ride it (even if it is being overcautious) so it looks as if something odd is happening somewhere

 

Oh dear site just crashed on me... just when I was on a roll. Guess it proves that it's popular