"Leroy" <whe### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> "Leroy" <whe### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> > Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
> > > On Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:24:56 EDT, Leroy wrote:
> > >
> > > > I made a video yesterday and went to post it here and got the warning
> > > > 'Server not found'. I'm in the US (Joplin Missouri for sure) and was
> > > > wandering was the problem POV's server or mine!
> > >
> > > It seems you were able to post this message from the web interface....So
> > > it's unclear where you were trying to post from (I thought I might try to
> > > duplicate the issue myself).
> > >
> > > I see a binary post in povray.binaries.animations dated today, so it seems
> > > to be OK.  But as the news server stores both text and binary files, it
> > > shouldn't have kicked an error when trying to upload if text can be
> > > posted.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > "I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and
> > > besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw
> >
> > This site wouldn't even load!? Several other sites wouldn't load either. As I
> > don't have any idea who services who, I didn't know if a major server when down
> > or not. It was gone only for a day, But my imagination may have work over time
> > on what could have gone wrong. Maybe AI has decided that half the work doesn't
> > need POV. Maybe the Russians nuked something, or the middle east targeted POV.
> > But I feel much better now!
>
> That was few days ago! I lost POV all day sunday. I keep getting 'Time Out'
> messages. Usually when I load POV it's on the screen before you know it. But
> yesterday it took a few minutes before the error happen. I have Firefox and
> there's a box at the bottom of the screen that show the website address that is
> trying to load. Pov address was there most of the time then something popped up
> like 'trying to load data from It.. .com'. It didn't stay on long enough for me
> to copy it down. So I thinking that the trouble is some where between here and
> there. At least I'm here today:)

From central Indiana and haven't been able to login since Thursday.  I tried
Firefox, Google, Edge on my pc and Safari on my phone.  Even a ping would time
out.  Didn't have any problem with other sites.

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