The work on the DSGVO is more extensive than intended. Frank is working on solutions but unfortunately it will still take some time.
Sorry, we can’t give you an exact date.
Thanks to the BLF admin for the opportunity to post here. :+1:
Thank you very much for this interim status, Bluzie! I guess we all understand the constraints of DSGVO that website admins now have to deal with. IMHO most important to know is that these changes are still work in progress and that we don’t have to have serious concerns about the future of our forum. I’ll keep my fingers crossed that viable solutions will soon be found and TLF can come back to life.
What I don’t really understand is, that german privacy law was already very tight before DSGVO.
What I do understand is, that existing users must be made to positively acknowledge the new privacy terms (“Datenschutzerklärung”).
In the past, many websites just declared “We have changed our privacy policy. By continuing to use our website, you agree with the new terms.” My personal opinion is, that this is not possible for the transition to the DSGVO.
So now it must be something like “We have changed our privacy policy. To continue using our website, you have to read, understand and agree to the new terms. After logging in, you must read the the new privacy policy. After reading, you can choose to either agree and continue using our website or to cancel your account/registration/membership/whatever.”
This is my personal opinion. I am not a lawyer. (Dies ist meine persönliche Meinung. Ich bin kein Anwalt.)
Maybe Frank could set up a simple static interim start page with a a few words on it? So people visiting TLF wouldn’t see just a password request and nothing else.
BLF has a blog for when it is down (www.budgetlightforum.blogspot.com), sb (mr.admin) usually writes a message there when the site is down expectedly or unexpectedly, and it has a simple chatbox. I actually think that not many BLF-members know about it.
The WEMAS Future is a warning light used mainly at construction sites, especially on or near roads. There are four versions available, red or yellow, single sided or double sided. Depending on the color, the LEDs used are either red or yellow. It runs from either one or two 4R25. Also 4LR25 or even zinc-air batteries can be used wich is an option considering the cost of labor (a worker has to walk from light to light, open it, exchange the batteries, close it…). The light has all german and some european approvals.
Now the fun part. Using a single battery, the second battery compartment is free for other uses while the lamp works normally. For example, one can put in a small mobile router like the TL-MR3020 and a power bank. Or put in a small bluetooth speaker with internal battery and talk to passersby (or play weird sounds). It’s a bit of a challenge not to modify the lamp in any way, which is part of the fun.
One idea I had was to put 4 26650 (4p) together with a step-up converter into an empty 4R25 housing for both powering the lamp and use the rails to supply the 5 V to the second compartment also stowing away the router pcb into a(nother) 4R25 hull. Again, no modifications to the light. As always, there are more ideas than time to built.
The DSGVO add on was installed yesterday. It works well, but Frank still needs to make some adjustments.
After that, some tests are carried out, if these tests run satisfactorily we can also go online again.
I have a cross-forum poll to run for the FW3A emitter type, but I wonder if I should wait until TLF is back online. People might miss it if it starts during the downtime.