For the sake of clarity, the technical management of the ShipSpotting site is entirely in the hands of Administrator, Henrik Soderberg. All the rest of the Admin team are concerned only with managing the platform content, using the tools and facilities provided to us. We are not able to access or work on the site's functionality (and, at least speaking for myself, would not be competent to do so) - my understanding is that that has always been the case, and a source of as much frustration to my predecessors.
Despite repeated requests Henrik has not posted a progress report directly on this forum since 12 June, nor responded to me with anything meaningful since 19 June (as per my post here on the same day). Neither of those advices seem to address the continuing range of issues experienced by members. This is not to say that Henrik has been inactive, only that we do not know the situation. In addition I have told Henrik that if he advised that he could resolve the problems better by taking the site offline while he worked on it (preferably with an "under maintenance" holding page), that would have my support.
I told Henrik yesterday that my firm view is that as it stands at the moment, we can give no comfort to the members that any of the problems have been resolved and certainly not that the site is clear of risks. That will not change until we receive proper reports on the identified problems and that, from the site's point of view, access is safe (it is recognised that there may, in addition, be issues of the interaction of Shipspotting with a variety of different combinations of browser, anti-virus, anti-malware programmes etc but I am not at all convinced that that is the whole story).
I will continue to keep all members in the picture as I see it and I ask you to continue to provide factual updates on any changes you experience either here on this forum or, if preferred, by email to
[email protected].
best wishes
David