Spotlog App

[lordbusiness]

Apologies if this is on the wrong board.

Does anyone use the spotlog app?

Mine is currently showing 'unable to connect to server' on both my devices so I'm wondering if it's my account or a more widespread problem.

Trying to contact the developer gives 'page not found' using the links.

 

[gdale1]

Showing the same problem for me

 

[lordbusiness]

Thanks, 'glad' it's not just me!

Hopefully it will be sorted out.

 

[peterinlewes]

Website gone and app dissapeared from IOS App Store. I fear this could be terminal! Such a shame as it was a great app for recording sightings and haulage even if the synching was a bit flakey.
Searching generally on web for comments or reasons for dissapearance gets no results.
Particularly liked the bonus of overseas fleet lists.
Trainspotting app whilst ok is a poor substitute in my opinion.

 

[lordbusiness]

Yeah, I also use 'trainspotter' which is OKish but not as good imo. I also use the Web based train logger but that's not really usable when out and about.

Seems a bit strange as there were a new lot of databases added only a couple of weeks ago.

I'll still keep using it for the time being as it still seems to work and hope it comes back.

 

[sqwizz]

Archived pages still available in the meantime http://web.archive.org/web/20250206165936/https://spotlog.org/locolist

 

[peterinlewes]

Thanks for that sqwizz. I'm busy downloading many of them now.

 

[Rhysdabeast]

I believe the issue was with the server, which they have found a new one and are currently transferring everything across.

 

[lordbusiness]

That's good news, hopefully it will get sorted!

 

[D1024]

It's all back and running again - app and website. There is a brief description of the problem on the website homepage.

 

[gdale1]

That's good news, but still not working for me, is there anything I need to do ?

 

[lordbusiness]

Yeah, same for me... getting 'sync failed: mailbox unavailable. the server response was 'Invalid domain or domain is disabled'
??????

 

[D1024]

Interesting - working fine for me. I did a test 'Set' download on app and it downloaded ok (Prior to to day I was getting the 'Unable to connect to server' message)

website at spotlog.org works fine as well with the following message on the homepage:

"Spotlog website issues

Due to unexpected technical issues the SpotLog website was offline from Monday 24th March. This was for reasons beyond my control and it has taken some effort to revive the site from backup data

This particularly effected the SpotLog app as the apps were unable to connect to the server and retrieve data.

All SpotLog email addresses, eg support@spotlog.org, were also effected, so I have not received any emails posted during this period.

Apologies for this interruption, and many thanks to those who posted encouraging and supportive messages."

Perhaps reinstalling/updating app may help?

 

[peterinlewes]

Good to see site and app back working - well almost. Still getting the 'sync failed' message that lordbusiness was getting on Saturday. Hopefully to be fixed during week.