harley: 4649 Madam Sahib! I am awkwardly sorry but it exceeded my humble properties to find 109 in the internet slang section of wikipedia.

LuckyCat9: I just individually clicked each month.. yes.. I know the long way! LOL I only really saw one public holiday and that would be Christmas.. I think since this is an Internet site.. and is not limited to one country or to a set religion.. I think it was decided to not show a prejudice on particular holidays which are limited to either the Country or the Religion that one might be related with..

LuckyCat9: I do not think there are site holidays anymore, are there?

Since everyone has the option of vacation days, and everyone in different places have different holidays - I was thinking Fencer got rid of them all.

harley: I don't see the names of the holidays, or am I overlooking something?

On your calendar (settings/calendar), if you can't tick the days, they're holidays. Like the weekends. Shaded in pink & purple.

Is there a list somewhere that tells you which holidays are site holidays? This q&a could be avoided.

Tiyulee: Right, I'm from LazyTown ;)

LuckyCat9: You must be a scientist. I am not worth your extensive pleasance, thank you.

Tiyulee: Shalom to you also. And Bing Bang as well :)

LuckyCat9: I think the Great American Leader meant to support jews also when demanding free religious activities. Shalom.

what about Chanukah?

The answer was no complete sentence either and even entirely silent but I have to thank for the domain cookies being folded back now, especially nice that google syndicate google analytics google allmighty do not aggravate me anymore even before I have logged in. It is not that I would mind officials addicted to controlling every breathe I take, people disappearing to come back neutered, etc. that is daily business here in China and we love it as long as we have the fastest trains. Good to see brainking back on rail also. Praise the leader.

ellieoop: You are lucky.

ok, ty for the quick response.

ellieoop: No.

will Thanksgiving be a site holiday?

Rose: Geo I cant reply to your message as you put me on block (I hope by accident!)
Hope you have English back!

Geo: A detailed instruction has been sent to your mesage box. Take a look. It was explained to you a few tims here yesterday.. Hope my instruction helps!

Why Can't I Get My Site Back To English So I Can Start New Games

alanback: Yes, most likely. But the downtime wasn't longer than 10 minutes.

Jules: Now (after hours) things suddenly are ok again. Maybe someone is filtering my line. ;-)

P.S.: Problems suddenly just have been back again.
P.P.S.: Now it is working well again. All very strange ....

SMIRF Engine: Ours is fine. No changes or anything out of the blue with that program.

Ok i'll refrain form it lol, i have Norton on oo though SMIRF and its not preventing me from viewing brainking pages.

Fencer: Is there something about the internet backbone coming out of the Czech Republic that causes this problem? If the problem is not with the site itself, then it must be somewhere between the site and the rest of the world, because there is certainly a problem.

Before anybody posts a complaint about site being down, I would like to announce it is NOT down but the Who is online page containing only Czech and Slovak flags suggests that the international network line is probably down.
Which is a good example of a situation we are NOT responsible of and we can do nothing with it. We can only send a complaint to our serverhousing provider and ask him to have a look at it.
What I want to say is - in 95% of cases, BrainKing is up but the line is down.

SMIRF Engine: I have no idea how Norton Internet Security filters out certain pages. There was no change on BrainKing, though.

Since today I have to switch off my Norton Internet Security to become able to see the BrainKing web pages.

Regards, Reinhard.

Please keep in mind BrainKing is still running on its original machine which is not as fast as I would like to have. Moreover, the site is changing very often and the traffic and load is increasing, so what was the optimal code a year ago doesn't have to be the most optimal code now. And since any change is very sensitive, cannot be done within a day.
I think the most important thing is that the site is up and running most of the time (and from my point of view, it's running almost continuously but I understand that network issues can make it different for international users).
Just don't panic, everything is under control.

Matarilevich: If you are connected via RSS feed you are due to its delay still able to see who was removed.

Tiyulee: What's "cookie inflation"? What did you notice?

"cookies started to install spyware" - this is impossible as stated. What do you mean?

Czuch Chuckers: Same here. I noticed a strange cookie inflation lately. Like at IYT when cookies started to install spyware. Was hardly possible to play these days, moves were accepted but the games remained virtually in the "my turn" section and other odd effects.

ScarletRose: I just tried to make a move in a game and it took me to the log in page....

Stevie: and here as well.. there are times I get a blank page.. somewhat strange..

Ive lost access to the site a fair bit since the upgrade also, so its been happening in the UK also

plaintiger: I keep getting "brainking is to busy to use right now".... maybe its a browser thing, but anyway, we are always told "it is not brainking, it is your isp". It hasnt been too bad lately, but frustrating for periods of time.

there! it just happened again! down at 17:57 eastern US time (which is 22:57 GMT) and back up at 18:03!

plaintiger: It has been down for 45 minites here in Wales tonight, I see that a lot of other people went off at the same time, But we get told it is not a BK problem. hmmmm

plaintiger: I had an odd experience the other night, where everytime I tried to go to brainking, the browser returned to the page it was on previously. If I tried to open bk in a new window, I would get a blank window. Lasted about an hour.

plaintiger: same here actually...gives some sort of message about timing out....I just closed right down and came back in about 10 minutes...it was only BK because I could get to IYT and others :(

heavenlyemma: interesting. my browser's been unable to connect to it a lot since the "upgrade," and it's been slower. i mention it, in fact, because the site was just inaccessible for five or ten minutes about ten minutes ago. that's the kind of thing that's been happening to me a lot lately. and i'm not having problems with any other websites...

plaintiger: Looks cool to me :)

brainking's been a lot less reliable since the last "upgrade," hasn't it?

it certainly has for me.

How about (cz)BrainKing.com, (es)BrainKing.com, etc...

Marfitalu: But if you hover the mouse cursor over the board link in the Favourive Boards section, the language would appear as a tooltip.

Marfitalu: Yes, of course it can be done. The only reason why I didn't do it so far is that people could be confused by the names which would be referring to non-existent domains. The Czech board is named BrainKing.cz but this domain actually exists and is registered [and owned] by me. What if someone else registeres BrainKing.fr or BrainKing.es and puts something completely different there?

Eriisa: lol...works for me! thank You, Lady! :) (and speaking of pics, i like Yours.)

LOL, actually, I didn't remember myself. I went to the fellowship board and did a search on 'pixels'.



(Thanks Cariad. I shamelessly c&p'd her post)

plaintiger: Fellowship logos should be 120 x 75 pixels jpg and sent to Fencer.
That's 120 horizontal, 75 vertical.

i'm sorry to keep asking this over and over, but if the information's posted in a static place on the site i don't know where to find it: what's the required point size for an image that's to appear at the top of a fellowship's page?

i found the sizes for profile images in the FAQ, but i didn't see the size for fellowship images.

thanks...