Welcome back @abletec - thanks for the heads up. Look forward to your feedback!
Sorry for posting to an old topic, but it seems like I’m not able to create a new topic as my screen reader won’t read the dropdown category list. Since I cant choose a category or type 1 in, I can’t create a new topic anymore. :(.
What I wanted to say in a new post is that there is a domain, sonicpi.net, that is hacked & likely installing malware onto people’s computers. I think 1 of my friends may have already had this happen to him. His screenreader wasn’t set to read punctuation and…
I bought Sonicpi.org for you if you want it. Just let me know privately, as I’ll need address & phone number to register it to you. Be glad to buy sonic-pi.org as well. Cuz seriously, we cant be havin this. & this really is more of a .org project anyway.
Sorry to hear about that. Just to confirm for anyone else reading, the official Sonic Pi site is at
https://sonic-pi.net/ (note the hyphen)
The “hacked” site you linked to isn’t owned or operated by Sam or anyone else, it’s just an example of someone domain squatting to take advantage of typos. It is unfortunate, but now that they have registered that domain there’s very little we can do as a group to remove it. We just need to make it clear in all the Sonic Pi documentation etc. that the proper site has a hyphen in the address.
I’ll let Sam know about the org domain suggestion and he’ll follow it up with you if he gets a chance. Thanks again for raising this though.
So sorry about this. I’m sure it’s something that the Discourse team would love to hear about - I’m pretty sure they take accessibility issues seriously. You can reach them over here: https://meta.discourse.org
With respect to the dodgy domain - that’s indeed frustrating and clearly an annoying side effect of increasing success. Apart from buying up all similarly spelled domain names, I’m not sure what we could do about it. Thanks so much for pro-actively using sonicpi.org - whilst you’re the owner of it, you could definitely have it forward to sonic-pi.net or just squat on it so others can’t do anything nasty with it.
It’s so frustrating and thanks for bring it to our attention.
Sam, sonicpi.org is for you, if you’d like. I’m certainly not trying
to take your property in any way. I have my own server, so I’ll see
that it’s redirected to sonic-pi.net since you’ve given permission for
that.
Thanks for letting me know whom to contact re: the forum. I will do
so, ASAP. This seems to be 1 of those accessibility weeks–last
Thursday Mozilla released Firefox 89 which broke on my system
severely, as in, wouldn’t read any text. Aint bein’ blind fun! 
Oh apologies - I in no way intended to insinuate that you’re trying to take any property in any way. I’m really grateful you proactively bought the domain and would also be very grateful if you did a permanent redirect to https://sonic-pi.net.
I was on a call a few weeks with a blind accessibility expert. I was amazed by how many different ways of doing the same thing he needed to know to be able to circumnavigate the myriad of constantly shifting accessibility obstacles each independent app inadvertently produced.
On that note, I really hope that we can continue to improve the accessibility support in Sonic Pi. It’s really important to me that we lower as many barriers to entry as possible and accessibility issues are definitely one such barrier.
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Sam:
- I wrote the Meta Discord folks. We’ll see what, if anything, comes
of that. My experience w/this sort of thing over many years has taught
me not to be optimistic. Sometimes, though, as when working w/you, I
get pleasantly surprised. - I’m going to be working w/my friend to see what occurred. He says
he went to the right website, but it sure sounds like something went
horribly awry. He’s over in your part of the world, so both timezones
& commitments will be factors. - The redirect of sonicpi.org to sonic-pi.net appears to be working.
Please feel free to test that out if it’s of interest.
I’ve been telling my blind friends about Sonic Pi, so obviously I’m
very keen to ensure that because they turned their reading of
punctuation off in their screen reader (can you imagine hearing every
punctuation sign read in your email–try reading an email aloud like
that & you’ll get it), they don’t end up on some dodgy website that
blows their system away. We tend to depend on our machines for so many
things, from reading books to procuring supplies to catching up on
current events that our system going down can have serious
consequences very quickly.
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Sam. I received a response from Discord that basically said “Yeah, we
know. We’ll get it done when we get it done.” Lol.
Meanwhile, I’ve become convinced that my friend actually did go to the
proper site & got the right file. He’s receiving a boot error message
& has submitted a detailed log. I’m wondering if it would be possible
for you to help him troubleshoot this. I have no idea where to send
the log or if you’d even be willing to help in such a case, since it
is free software. I could try, but I thought someone intimately
acquainted w/the software could accomplish this far more quickly than
I could groping around trying to research & figure it out.
If you could help, that’d be good. Alternatively, could you please
point me to some resources for when things go boom? If not, of course
I’ll try to tackle it on my own, but I figured you might be interested
in those times when a program install fails. Thanks for any help.
The best place to submit boot-error logs is into a new GitHub Issue here: Issues · sonic-pi-net/sonic-pi · GitHub we can then try our best to figure out what’s going wrong in this case.
Any help w/this? Please? I think it has to do w/Supercollider, but I
don’t know what I’m doing, really. My area of expertise is computer &
website security, not Supercollider. My friend doesn’t even have a
keyboard right now & would like to start using Sonic-Pi.