Archive for the 'News' Category
Tuesday, July 5th, 2011
From 08:40 GMT July 5th: Regrettably, it appears that the secure server where the forum lives is currently down again.
We will get it functioning again as soon as possible, and apologise for the inconvenience.
The catalogue server and downloads are unaffected.
EDITED TO ADD: Apologies for the latest outage, which was caused by a problem related [...]
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Thursday, June 30th, 2011
July it is, and summer is at its peak in the Northern hemisphere. Just the right time to present 10 adventurous gems from our catalog.
Let’s begin with one of the oldest adventure stories, about the return of Ulysses from Troy. His Odyssey, described by Homer, took 10 years to complete, but more than 2600 years [...]
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Friday, June 24th, 2011
Sorry folks, the LibriVox forum has gone down due to continuing problems as we try to rebuild/shore up our infrastructure following the hack a while ago.
More news when available.
Sorry again.
EDITED TO ADD: Forums and catalogue are now back up (18:30 GMT)
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Friday, June 17th, 2011
We still have a number of areas where work is ongoing, and users may notice things that are not working properly yet. There is a lot of work still to do and it is going to take some time to get everything functioning as we would wish. Security and usability are our top priorities.
In the [...]
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Friday, June 10th, 2011
The catalog is back up!
The tireless Dan has been working night and day to fix numerous issues with our catalog, and finally it is back up and running. Magic Windows (for you volunteers) are working again too. Thanks to Kara and others for help testing.
Also: a big thank you to David at the security firm/startup [...]
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Friday, June 10th, 2011
We are pleased to report that the catalogue is now available again. It has been extensively tested, but please report any minor hiccups on the Error Reports forum.
As Fanny Kemble wrote:
Fail not for sorrow, falter not for sin,
But onward, upward, till the goal ye win.
Thank you for your patience.
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Saturday, June 4th, 2011
Sorry folks, the LibriVox catalog is down for maintenance for a couple of days…. we’ll get it back up as soon as possible.
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Wednesday, June 1st, 2011
It’s June and hence time to prepare for summer with the following 10 gems of easy reading from our catalog.
During holidays, many people spend more time reading. To make sure this time is well spent, we recommend Literary Taste: How to form it, with lighthearted advice by Arnold Bennett to help you choose once [...]
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Monday, May 30th, 2011
In the fall-out of the LibriVox forum hack, we’ve battened down security. Part of that process broke our catalog and a few other things.
All should be working now.
Thanks especially to:
* Dan for dealing with the forum issues
* Chris for dealing with the catalog issues
* Kara and Elli for dealing with the flood of worried [...]
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Friday, May 27th, 2011
Hello everyone,
Last night the LibriVox forum got hacked. Below I’ll share the latest.
What happened?
Someone managed to get access to a “superadmin” account belonging to one of the MC/admins, meaning they could access the backend of our Forum software. The hack doesn’t appear to be a technical security hole, but rather the bad guys were able [...]
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