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The main board's down for me. I'm using the alternate link from the main site, and its working fine, if encrypted. Anybody know what's up with this?
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Rogue 9 wrote:The main board's down for me. I'm using the alternate link from the main site, and its working fine, if encrypted. Anybody know what's up with this?
Same thing's happening, and at the same time as last night. This is really weird. :?
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I'm not getting any pop up windows for PMs....
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I don't know if you would call it a problem but I got five email messages about Private messages today and only four private message.
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Connection to the board's been off and on all day. No specific error message, just the generic "connection cannot be established" crap.
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Psycho Smiley wrote:Connection to the board's been off and on all day. No specific error message, just the generic "connection cannot be established" crap.
I've been having that too, earlier it happened a few times in quick succession too (that is, working briefly, then soing it again), and just happened again.
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The server is heavily overloaded. I'm not sure what to do about this at the moment, but I'll see if I can come up with something.
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I just tried to upload an avatar from a url it came up with this:

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you have to save the avatar to your machine/disk and upload them thataway. i asked someone about this when i first signed up and URL uploading isn't reliable.
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Ah, my av Works, thanks Darth Zod :)
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This isn't really a problem, but it's annoying as hell. The BlackSoul theme is still using the subSilver scrollbars, and it's impossible to tell where the slider is positioned when I'm trying to find it to drag it. Any chance you could change the scrollbar part of BlackSoul.css to this?

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body {
	background-color: #000000;
	scrollbar-face-color: #2F2F4F;
	scrollbar-highlight-color: #0082C8;
	scrollbar-shadow-color: #005078;
	scrollbar-3dlight-color: #D1D7DC;
	scrollbar-arrow-color:  #2AAAA8;
	scrollbar-track-color: #006699;
	scrollbar-darkshadow-color: #98AAB1;
}
This would change the arrows and slider to the same color as the post background, the track to this color, the shadow around the arrows and slider to this color, the highlight around the arrows and slider to this color, and the arrow graphic in the middle of the arrow butons to this color. I think this would match the rest of the color scheme better, and would make it possible to see the slider's position on the track.
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For some reason threads I've visited no longer get marked as having been read, not even quitting SD.net marks forums or threads as read. I have to hit the "Mark all forums read" button at the bottom of the index page to make the New Post Indicators go away.
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Sir Sirius wrote:For some reason threads I've visited no longer get marked as having been read, not even quitting SD.net marks forums or threads as read. I have to hit the "Mark all forums read" button at the bottom of the index page to make the New Post Indicators go away.
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Dalton wrote:That's a problem with your cookies.
Rebooting the computer appears to have corrected the problem.
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I've been getting gotten a couple of the password change notification messages, warning me that I had merely about 3500 days until my password expires. It seems changing the expiration date to the next decade didn't fix everything..
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Post by Uraniun235 »

Ran into this the last couple of times I posted:
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Ran into problems sending Mail. Response: 451 4.1.8 Domain of sender address bbs@stardestroyer.net does not resolve

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Line : 142
File : /home/virtual/site3/fst/var/www/html/includes/smtp.php
The posts went through, but I wasn't automatically taken back to the thread.
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The server was choking badly on some kind of Java/PostgreSQL double-team clusterfuck, so I moved it to my own server. I suppose time will tell whether this server and its connection are robust enough to handle the load.

PS. The time on this new server is resynchronized with networked NTP servers every hour, so it's generally accurate to within 1 second, whereas the time on the old server had drifted to the point that it was about an hour off, and some people had adjusted their timezone settings to compensate. If the time looks odd, check your timezone setting. Other changes related to the new server include the fact that it's using a different SMTP server, so it's possible that our PM notifications and other E-mails will begin getting through to AOL users again. And finally, you may need to delete your old cookies for things like recent-post icons to work.
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Aol is now now getting the reply notificaton emails :)
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Worst case scenario; what happens if your server is unable to take the load? Do we have any other options?
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How much bandwidth does this site take up? Will your ISP have a problem with it?
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Admiral Valdemar wrote:Worst case scenario; what happens if your server is unable to take the load? Do we have any other options?
Upgrading the server, perhaps. It's a 1GHz Athlon with 512MB of RAM and a 20GB HD. Not exactly the most powerful machine in the world, but it seems to be dealing with the load fairly well so far.

The old 20GB HD is probably the biggest bottleneck; it could use a bigger, faster HD.
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When trying to post a message in Testing (which I ended up double-posting, 'cause I didn't know if it worked the first time):

Could not connect to smtp host : 111 : Connection refused

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Line : 111
File : /var/www/html/includes/smtp.php
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I hit the "View your posts" link, then clicked on two separate thread titles. In both cases the link took me not to the thread that I wanted to see, but to the "Explanation of why I'll be missing from the forum" thread. I couldn't have clicked on it by accident because it way nowhere near the titles that I clicked on. Wierd. :shock:
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Don't know why but for some reason attempts to go to bbs.stardestroyer.net got redirected to the Yahoo login screen.
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Every once in a while (today in particular) if I click on a thread I'll get a screen that tells me connection cannot be made. It goes away if I go to another web site and then go back to SD.net, even if I only pop into the other website for a moment. The wierdest part is that if I click on the same thread I get the same error message. Eventually there are simply some threads I stop visiting while I'm at work. (It only happens at work which may be firewall related.)
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