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[Saru]

If you see this happening it simply means that the server is busy and that you need to wait for the action to go through, it's not a bug.

In this case i think you were posting during the daily maintenance cycle, we also still haven't finished archiving all the large threads.

[conspiracybeliever]

Has anyone else had problems signing in? Yesterday morning about 6am I was trying to sign in and it just kept going back and telling me to log in. Not sure if that was a maintenance time.

[Saru]

Update:

There will be a short downtime tomorrow morning ( May 22nd ) while a patch is applied to the forum software, this shouldn't take more than 15-20 minutes. Once this has been done the like system will be re-enabled so that we can determine if it is still causing database performance issues.

[Saru]

conspiracybeliever, on 21 May 2012 - 09:42 AM, said:

Has anyone else had problems signing in? Yesterday morning about 6am I was trying to sign in and it just kept going back and telling me to log in. Not sure if that was a maintenance time.

Sounds like it could have been an issue with your browser, make sure you have cookies enabled and that no firewalls or plug-ins are interfering with it.

[conspiracybeliever]

Saru, on 21 May 2012 - 03:29 PM, said:

Sounds like it could have been an issue with your browser, make sure you have cookies enabled and that no firewalls or plug-ins are interfering with it.

Thank you.

[Orcseeker]

Just another for the mobile version. For threads you have posted in usually there is some sort of indicator if you've posted in a thread. I don't believe there is one on this version I can see.

Another is when selecting a thread it doesn't always open to the latest post, which you then need the navigate to it with the "next" page option.

Edited by Orcseeker, 21 May 2012 - 11:56 PM.

[Colonel Rhuairidh]

Saru, on 21 May 2012 - 08:32 AM, said:

If you see this happening it simply means that the server is busy and that you need to wait for the action to go through, it's not a bug.

In this case i think you were posting during the daily maintenance cycle, we also still haven't finished archiving all the large threads.

I'm really not sure; it seems to do it very often, and it isn't as if it's just slow loading, it doesn't load at all and those three little squares just keep going flickering back and forth. And then it usually works if I re-open it and copy & paste the reply, while meanwhile the first time it still hasn't loaded. It says at the bottom "saving post", though I don't know where it saves it to.

[Saru]

Orcseeker, on 21 May 2012 - 11:54 PM, said:

Just another for the mobile version. For threads you have posted in usually there is some sort of indicator if you've posted in a thread. I don't believe there is one on this version I can see.

This feature was disabled on the forums, it was wreaking havoc on loading times when viewing the topic index.

Orcseeker, on 21 May 2012 - 11:54 PM, said:

Another is when selecting a thread it doesn't always open to the latest post, which you then need the navigate to it with the "next" page option.

Click the arrow on the far right-hand side of the topic to be taken to the latest post in the thread.

747400, on 22 May 2012 - 06:49 AM, said:

I'm really not sure; it seems to do it very often, and it isn't as if it's just slow loading, it doesn't load at all and those three little squares just keep going flickering back and forth. And then it usually works if I re-open it and copy & paste the reply, while meanwhile the first time it still hasn't loaded. It says at the bottom "saving post", though I don't know where it saves it to.

If it sticks for ages and then works immediately if you resubmit then that could be a browser issue, what browser are you using and do you experience the same problem if you try posting on the forums using a different one ?

[Saru]

Update:

The forum software patch has now been installed, a trial of the like system will be going ahead a little later on today.

[Saru]

Update:

The like system has now been re-enabled so that we can see if the patch has resolved the performance issues we were having with it.

It is possible we will need to disable it again if the problem persists.

[Abramelin]

Just a minute ago I looked to the left of the screen and saw I had "6 warning" points...

Is that a new feature so people will be warned or something?

"Stay away from this guy, 'he's no good".


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Edited by Abramelin, 22 May 2012 - 12:11 PM.

[DKO]

Yeah i just noticed I have '0 Warning Points' under my name. But i don't see it on anyone else's name.

[Saru]

That's part of Invision Board's warning points system that we don't use, it should be disabled but the patch automatically re-enabled it for some reason.

It should now be disabled again.

[Abramelin]

DKO, on 22 May 2012 - 12:18 PM, said:

Yeah i just noticed I have '0 Warning Points' under my name. But i don't see it on anyone else's name.

LOL, they disappeared before my eyes.

Oh well, 6 points in 11,000+ posts. Could be worse, eh?

[conspiracybeliever]

Wow I'm glad that one was disabled.