Issues Rolex forum

[mrlube1151001]

Hi Guys
In the past few weeks getting into Rolex forum has been difficult.when you google Our Rolex forum it does not show up.All other forums are coming up except our Rolex forum.Is there any issues.

[slide13]

I noticed that recently too, even searching site:https://www.rolexforums.com/ didn't work and Google had 0 results. It used to work just fine.

Then yesterday I just got 404 all day trying to access the site.

[padi56]

Originally Posted by mrlube1151001

Hi Guys
In the past few weeks getting into Rolex forum has been difficult.when you google Our Rolex forum it does not show up.All other forums are coming up except our Rolex forum.Is there any issues.

The forum was down most of yesterday but seems fine now, try typing rolexforums should be better for you then, but you should post in the appropriate forum announcements/feedback & support

[mrlube1151001]

Just now I typed Rolex forums all other forums like reddit watch u seek are all showing up.Only thing coming up is Rolex forum send message.I click on it and click on Rolex forums on top left takes me into this forum,

[ArtNouveau]

Yesterday was the first time ever I can recall the site being totally down. Was down for me around 10am and still down at midnight when I went to bed.

[Maleg]

The forum has implemented some software tools to block Google. I don't know why, the Google search engine was far better at producing accurate search results in the classifieds section.

DuckDuckGo still works fine (for now).

Originally Posted by ArtNouveau

Yesterday was the first time ever I can recall the site being totally down. Was down for me around 10am and still down at midnight when I went to bed.

Steve mentioned in another thread that he tried to improve something, but had unexpected consequences.

[Funkle]

The guys over at watchuseek taking jabs at the absence! funny, like there's either some animosity or jealousy not sure which. I say jealousy haha

[ArtNouveau]

Originally Posted by Funkle

The guys over at watchuseek taking jabs at the absence! funny, like there's either some animosity or jealousy not sure which. I say jealousy haha

I don’t go there much but saw that too. I did have to kind of agree with some posters there making fun of the newbie “Rolex or bust” guys here. Many of them when faced with an AD wall just went and bought other brands.

[darthgman]

these things happen from time to time, in our case, i would say with this site it is rare compared to others. makes us appreciate more when we can't access...

[Cassian739]

Originally Posted by Maleg

The forum has implemented some software tools to block Google. I don't know why, the Google search engine was far better at producing accurate search results in the classifieds section.

I also would like to be able to use Google again to search the site, far better results than the internal search algorithm. With that said, I'm very appreciative of everything Steve and the mods do to keep our forum up and running!

[Funkle]

I thought for a second my IP address had been blocked, but I haven't really made a pain in the ass of myself ..yet

[omar-rye]

Originally Posted by Cassian739

I also would like to be able to use Google again to search the site, far better results than the internal search algorithm. With that said, I'm very appreciative of everything Steve and the mods do to keep our forum up and running!

Yup, me too. I used Google to find topics and threads from Rolexforums, and it’s a bummer that it doesn’t work anymore.

[mrlube1151001]

It was so easy before using google search engine.Is the appropriate people in the forum will be able to fix it.

[Paul C]

It blocked Google. More details here:
https://www.rolexforums.com/showthread.php?t=963682

[bradyb]

This is sort of related and sort of not, but when you do a search within the forum you gotta use "Advanced Search" otherwise the returns will be nonsense.