atariage blocking certain countries?

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atariage blocking certain countries?

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Ever since around December I have not been able to access the website it always times out. Did they decide to build a wall and keep the rest of the world out? At first I thought it was just the my cable provider screwing up but according to them they are not blocking the website - there exact words were 'why would we do that?'

I then search and find that guys from eastern Europe & Russia also have a problem getting to the website.
They seem to have blocked parts of Asia, Russia and eastern Europe. I don't get why they would do that if its an intentional thing. Most of the developers are going to be from that part of the world anyway...

http://zx-pk.ru/threads/28716-atariage-com.html

Hopefully Spectrum computing won't make a similar decision.
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Nomad wrote: Wed Feb 14, 2018 10:28 am Hopefully Spectrum computing won't make a similar decision.
Nope. I can't think why that would be necessary. We did get worried about a huge number of spam accounts from 'mail.ru' addresses but that was easily sorted.

I was all for blocking Australia (Vegemite and not being merciful at Cricket) but Peter wouldn't let me.
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I'm in the U.K. and I have no problems accessing AtariAge.

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Is it not more likely that your Internet Service Provider is blocking it for some misguided reason?
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I have no problem with it too and I'm connecting from Eastern Europe ;) Maybe it's just Russia? Or something totally other?

Actually blocking an Atari site from traffic from Eastern Europe would be vey silly as 50% of active events in 8-bit Atari world are currently happening in Poland.
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Hmm, I am based in the Philippines at the moment. So you would be surprised how often websites just on a whim will block traffic - its considered useless. :lol: I think its because you tend to get a lot of spam issues originating from the 'peens.

Well - One curious issue, I can see the pages on atariage, and atariwiki when I look at google catch content but only with plain text... hmmmm. When I use a proxy it is fine and I can browse both websites.

Weird because atarimania works just fine.

Must be something going on with the Javascript.

Mind you I don't put it past the service provider here to be doing something, but that pre-supposes that they are competent actors. :lol: What is the saying 'Never ascribe to malice what can be attributed to plain stupidity.' So its entirely possible that someone having accidentally miss configured something on this end. I will check.

The only other thing I can think of is that its aggressively shadow blocking/conflicting with the add-blocking add on. Will disable it and see if its the same issue.

Edit: No it makes no difference.

I was curious if Poland was blocked because there is a big Atari scene, that would have been a little crazy, I was going off what the forum said...

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Well I figured why not hit them up on facebook. :lol: Turns out they were blocking the PI. :lol: Mystery solved. Got my IP white listed and now everything is peachy.
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