Report board software problems here

Post by **AdmiralKanos** » 2006-10-23 12:48pm

The server is sluggish as hell right now. I checked and it looks like Googlebot is all over us.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2006-10-23 01:06pm

AdmiralKanos wrote:The server is sluggish as hell right now. I checked and it looks like Googlebot is all over us.

Damn Google spiders LOL!

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2006-10-24 08:52pm

It ain't funny!

This bandwidth sucking is totally kicking my ass, and making browsing the board almost impossible at times.

Elheru Aran · Post by **Elheru Aran** » 2006-10-24 09:59pm

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:It ain't funny!

This bandwidth sucking is totally kicking my ass, and making browsing the board almost impossible at times.

Same here. It's fucking killing my connection-- the pages are taking a minute at a time to load up, normally they should only take a few seconds...

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2006-10-25 11:41pm

For some reason I was totally unable to connect to the board for something like the last eight hours (I would try frequently, though not constantly: maybe for five minutes every 30-45 minutes), and it wasn't a problem on my end, since I could still connect to and browse other websites. I had the same problem in the early AM hours this morning.

Or something like that. All I know is that I couldn't get on for hours.

Anything on that?

Redleader34 · Post by **Redleader34** » 2006-10-25 11:52pm

The Slowdown issue is not noticed on the 56K line, but itit is on my cable internet, That confuses and makes me go huh? The cable company did not do anything so what is this problem?

Elheru Aran · Post by **Elheru Aran** » 2006-10-26 12:52am

Works fine now, but last night it kept timing out all over the place or coming up really wonky...

Enigma · Post by **Enigma** » 2006-10-26 11:14pm

one question. When did SDN started using ads at the bottom of the screen?

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2006-10-26 11:40pm

a while ago...

Havok · Post by **Havok** » 2006-10-27 02:15am

Why don't I ever see them?

Enigma · Post by **Enigma** » 2006-10-27 08:06am

The Yosemite Bear wrote:a while ago...

Ah. This is the first time I've seen them. Then again I just got a new computer.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2006-10-29 03:22pm

It seems like the Googlebot problem has subsided somewhat. I'm reluctant to lock out Googlebot because I can see some merit in being indexed by the Almighty G, but damn, it can really put a hurting on that server.

Batman · Post by **Batman** » 2006-11-20 06:25pm

So is the formatting for Sticky threads off for anybody BESIDES me? I'm reasonably certain they, too, are supposed to show the standard white/yellow sheet of paper-ish icon instead of a text saying 'No new posts' or 'This topic is locked: you cannot edit posts or make replies'.

Post by **Dalton** » 2006-11-20 09:43pm

What you are seeing is the alternate text, meaning that your browser burped while trying to download the sticky icon.

Ubiquitous · Post by **Ubiquitous** » 2006-11-21 06:26am

Is this of any use? I don't know much about how search engines operate, but from what I can gather it could enable us to attract even more members via google if it does what it says on the tin.

Post by **Surlethe** » 2007-01-02 09:27am

I don't know if this is a board software problem or what, but I was searching for some posts by Isana Kadeb for his ban poll in the Senate, and it couldn't seem to find any results. I copied and pasted his user name to be sure I wasn't misspelling it, and it still didn't find anything. The search from his profile, however, turns up material. This is opposed to searching for posts by Darth Wong, for example, which turns up some 16000 results. Is there a reason for this, or am I just missing out on some common sense again?

Post by **Dalton** » 2007-01-02 12:54pm

Surlethe wrote:I don't know if this is a board software problem or what, but I was searching for some posts by Isana Kadeb for his ban poll in the Senate, and it couldn't seem to find any results. I copied and pasted his user name to be sure I wasn't misspelling it, and it still didn't find anything. The search from his profile, however, turns up material. This is opposed to searching for posts by Darth Wong, for example, which turns up some 16000 results. Is there a reason for this, or am I just missing out on some common sense again?

I just took a look at this and I noticed that the link to search all his posts from his profile has the URL as "Isana++Kadeb". For whatever reason there are two spaces between the first and second words. If you do a search for Isana__Kadeb (where the "_" are spaces) you'll get results.

Post by **AdmiralKanos** » 2007-01-25 12:21pm

I just did a minor bugfix version upgrade. Hopefully there are no issues as a result. One of the changes related to PHP session management and security, so hopefully we don't start getting a lot of "invalid session" errors.

Braedley · Post by **Braedley** » 2007-01-25 01:07pm

AdmiralKanos wrote:I just did a minor bugfix version upgrade. Hopefully there are no issues as a result. One of the changes related to PHP session management and security, so hopefully we don't start getting a lot of "invalid session" errors.

Oh, so that's what that was.

Alferd Packer · Post by **Alferd Packer** » 2007-01-25 02:51pm

AdmiralKanos wrote:I just did a minor bugfix version upgrade. Hopefully there are no issues as a result. One of the changes related to PHP session management and security, so hopefully we don't start getting a lot of "invalid session" errors.

In this vein, I'm reporting that I encountered an "Invalid session" error while posting in this thread at about 2:50 PM ET. Hitting "Submit" again on the page allowed me to post normally.

Luke Starkiller · Post by **Luke Starkiller** » 2007-01-25 03:14pm

Luzifer's right hand is reporting in Testing that he is getting Invalid Session whenever he tries to reply to posts.

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2007-01-25 03:36pm

When I click the "View Newest Post" icon on any given thread, it only works the first time I use it for that thread. Thereafter, if there are new posts in the thread since the last time I viewed it and I click the link to go to the first new post, it takes me to the post that was new the first time I used it. What gives?

Edit: And now, ironically enough happening for the first time right in this post in the bug report thread (

) I got the Invalid Session error. I almost didn't read it at first and thought I'd accidentally hit Preview; I barely caught what it actually said before the message posted the second time I clicked Submit.

Soontir C'boath · Post by **Soontir C'boath** » 2007-01-25 03:43pm

Rogue 9 wrote:When I click the "View Newest Post" icon on any given thread, it only works the first time I use it for that thread. Thereafter, if there are new posts in the thread since the last time I viewed it and I click the link to go to the first new post, it takes me to the post that was new the first time I used it. What gives?

Are you saying it wasn't always like this?

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2007-01-25 03:57pm

Yes. Yes I am.

Invalid Session again.

Soontir C'boath · Post by **Soontir C'boath** » 2007-01-25 03:59pm

Rogue 9 wrote:Yes. Yes I am.

Well, it's been doing it for months for me... I feel cheated.

Edit: Deleted "Invalid Session" to avoid confusion.