Simblesse Oblige

mmarie · Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2016 3:11 am Post subject: CTO is down

Hello Simmers!

just letting everyone know that we have taken CTO down for maintenance and to work out our problems. We are aware that there is a warning page instead of the usual maintenance page in place.

We will let everyone know when we are back up and running smile

Lizm · Member Joined: 09 Jan 2007 Posts: 46 Location: Australia

Thank you Marie.

I'll be looking forward to CTO opening again.
Liz

watersim44 · Member Joined: 03 Oct 2008 Posts: 682 Location: germany

Marie thank you for your message.

spyboots · Member Joined: 01 Jan 2008 Posts: 74

Thank you for letting us know what was happening there.

mmarie · Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2016 3:57 pm Post subject:

Hi everyone! I am here to share an update from Joan on the facebook group from this morning:

In case anyone is interested, here is an update on the status of the CTO Sims website.
We are making real progress on getting the site back up and running. The most exciting news is that John has the email system working! So as soon as we are back up, everything that relies on email (such as registration and forum notifications) will work the way it should.
You are still seeing the malware warning when you try to go to the website. That is because Google and other entities that monitor websites are still working from old information. We will not request that they re-scan our site until we are finished working on it. I can assure you that there is no malware at ctosims dot com now.
Naturally, we are also working on finding ways to prevent hacking in the future. A site can never be 100% safe, but if someone has targeted our site, chances are they will target it again, and we will be ready for them.
Thank you for your patience while we bring CTO back better and stronger than ever!

zockoyka · Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2016 5:25 pm Post subject:

So happy to know it, Mmarie, thank you so much for the update!

bigflower

I keep my fingers crossed!

Lizm · Member Joined: 09 Jan 2007 Posts: 46 Location: Australia

Thank you MMarie for the updates. Great news about the email system too. Looking forward eagerly to CTO being up and running again. All the best to everyone doing the work. It is very much appreciated.
Liz

Nana · Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2017 6:11 am Post subject:

Did CTO ever come back from the last time? Is this another closing or is the forum open yet?
I have been away for a while.

Lizm · Member Joined: 09 Jan 2007 Posts: 46 Location: Australia

Hi Nana,
CTO is still down but we are promised it will return soon. Let's hope so. In the meantime you can download all the Christmas Advent gifts from CTO at http://ctosimsxmas2016.weebly.com/

There are some very nice gifts there.
Liz

watersim44 · Member Joined: 03 Oct 2008 Posts: 682 Location: germany

Hi,
ctosims coming back?
I miss the ctosims-forum.

bye ws

bogies · Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2017 8:33 pm Post subject:

We haven't had any news for some time now! sad

Leon007 · Member Joined: 01 Nov 2013 Posts: 9 Location: China

thanks for letting me know CTO is down again. I'll be waiting. yes

Dukasha · Member Joined: 01 Dec 2015 Posts: 18

Hi everybody!
So is there any information about CTO, any news? I couldn't find anything at SWARM, N99, TerraLuna or here, at SO and I don't have access to the CTO group at FB any more (and have no idea why, I was never going to leave it). Last year we had some updates from Joan at least... Not very regular and not very encouraging sometimes, but better than nothing. They were posted at SWARM and here. And now everything looks like nobody remembers about CTO at all and nobody needs CTO at all. I'm really puzzled about it. Well, we now have TerraLuna and there are also other forums to talk, post updates and WCIFs and everything, but what about the files? Tons of files from the dead sites that were at CTO. Does it all mean they will never be available for the sims players again?

bogies · Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2017 7:30 pm Post subject:

Hi Dukasha!

There haven't been any updates for a while. It seems they're having trouble fixing all the problems - and don't have much time to work on it.

In the meantime, there's a wonderful new forum where a lot of the cto members are hanging out - come on over!

http://terraluna.blue/index.php

Dukasha · Member Joined: 01 Dec 2015 Posts: 18

Hi bogies. Glad to see you here also. smile

Yes, I'm registered at TerraLuna, thanks. It's always good to have a place to hang out, but still all the CTO files from the dead sites are not available anywhere else, do they? I like the other Sims1 forums too and I'm glad they do exist, but I want CTO to return also. Or at least to have any news.