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    #1202
    M.T. Cranium
    Registered Users Posts: 14,353 ✭✭✭✭M.T. Cranium


    If you can read this you probably figured out what I eventually figured out but a site admin might find this useful info ...

    all one sees after logging in is a text-based menu that looks like the very early days of the internet. It is not immediately obvious that when you click on menu, a menu has appeared way down below some ads at the bottom of the screen. Once I figured that out, I was able to get to the place I wanted to post, but first attempt no luck posting, so I double clicked, got the message about a duplicate post that one normally gets, yet there is only one post showing.

    Tricked the system. Such a waste of creative ability to turn that into a denial of service attack. This seems to be round two. I wish you well, boards administration.


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    #1203
    the_barfly1
    Registered Users Posts: 578 ✭✭✭the_barfly1


    I'm not reading the entire thread so I don't know if it has been brought to your attention that the "login with boards.ie" option is a non-runner on adverts.ie the past few days. Probably costing ye a few bob.


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    #1204
    seamus
    Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Speed is pretty good today. Not rocketing along by any means, but very usable. Hopefully this means you guys have a bit of breathing space. I imagine having the other issues still sitting there waiting for the speed issue to be sorted has been driving you mental.


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    #1205
    511
    Closed Accounts Posts: 532 ✭✭✭511


    seamus wrote: »
    Speed is pretty good today. Not rocketing along by any means, but very usable. Hopefully this means you guys have a bit of breathing space. I imagine having the other issues still sitting there waiting for the speed issue to be sorted has been driving you mental.

    Seems pretty zippy now.

    Edit, posting takes a while.


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    #1206
    Dav
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,840 ✭✭✭Dav


    Hello all, quick update for you this morning.

    We've made a significant change that should prevent our strikes table filling up and giving people that "too many login attempts" error.

    We've also made some other changes that should stop the Captcha's showing up as often, but if this is happening to you it's because your ISP is sharing huge numbers of connections over a single IP address.

    I'll have more for you as the day progresses.


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    #1207
    Shrap
    Registered Users Posts: 3,163 ✭✭✭Shrap


    Whoohoo, now we're sucking diesel lads!


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    #1208
    Going Forward
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8,224 ✭✭✭Going Forward


    I know this will have been covered before, but the search function isn't working-

    IS there now no way of searching for ones's previous posts???????

    TIA.


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    #1209
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Going Forward wrote: »
    I know this will have been covered before, but the search function isn't working-

    IS there now no way of searching for ones's previous posts???????

    TIA.

    Have you tried googling your user name with boards.ie It might work though your user name is not a help in this regard - you'll probably get a lot of returns that happen to feature political themes "going forward/s"


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    #1210
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,168 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Dav wrote: »
    Hello all, quick update for you this morning.

    We've made a significant change that should prevent our strikes table filling up and giving people that "too many login attempts" error.

    We've also made some other changes that should stop the Captcha's showing up as often, but if this is happening to you it's because your ISP is sharing huge numbers of connections over a single IP address.

    I'll have more for you as the day progresses.

    I get a Captcha every time I open a thread on the desktop and I'd imagine the number of members from my ISP is in single figures. Also still completely unusable on the phone.


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    #1211
    airuser
    Registered Users Posts: 1,433 ✭✭✭airuser


    Have signed in this morning with Safari.
    Thanks


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    #1212
    airuser
    Registered Users Posts: 1,433 ✭✭✭airuser


    Have signed in this morning with Safari.
    Thanks


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    #1213
    um7y1h83ge06nx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,029 ✭✭✭um7y1h83ge06nx


    For some reason I'm having strange issues now on Desktop using Chrome.

    None of the styling seems to be working, I just get a plain site with white background etc. Looks like something from the 90's!

    Is this a known issue?


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    #1214
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users Posts: 85,279 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Dav wrote: »
    Hello all, quick update for you this morning.

    We've made a significant change that should prevent our strikes table filling up and giving people that "too many login attempts" error.

    We've also made some other changes that should stop the Captcha's showing up as often, but if this is happening to you it's because your ISP is sharing huge numbers of connections over a single IP address.

    I'll have more for you as the day progresses.

    Yay back in, great work all ;)
    https://forumofgames.com/




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    #1215
    Dav
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,840 ✭✭✭Dav


    Andres Early Madwoman wrote: »
    For some reason I'm having strange issues now on Desktop using Chrome.

    None of the styling seems to be working, I just get a plain site with white background etc. Looks like something from the 90's!

    Is this a known issue?

    Looks like your connection to http://www.b-static.net (where all our images and style sheets etc are stored) is still blocked. Try to click the link here and load it and let me know if you're still experiencing issues.


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    #1216
    Mountainsandh
    Registered Users Posts: 6,700 ✭✭✭Mountainsandh


    AlmightyCushion wrote: »
    I got the emails but 30 minutes later I'd get logged out and have to go through the same rigmarole again.[/QUOTE

    Same here getting logged out, I'm grabbing this quick opportunity to post, and I'll leave it for a few days.

    Getting logged out randomly, then "too many log ins with wrong password" message (using the right password). Reset password once, now asked to reset but haven't received email.
    Then tried at random with same old password and it worked.

    It would be great to have a sticky on front page when log in issue is resolved, that way those who have that problem will know it's good to go, rather than having to try log in repeatedly.

    Thanks to all the board fixers.

    edit : only saw Dav's post now, thanks.


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    #1217
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,168 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Dav wrote: »
    Looks like your connection to www.b-static.net (where all our images and style sheets etc are stored) is still blocked. Try to click the link here and load it and let me know if you're still experiencing issues.

    The link in your post doesn't work for me - it redirects to www.boards.ie/was.b-static.net - but the good news is that typing that address in to the address bar and validating a captcha restored the full skin for me.


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    #1218
    Dav
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,840 ✭✭✭Dav


    pickarooney wrote: »
    The link in your post doesn't work for me - it redirects to www.boards.ie/was.b-static.net - but the good news is that typing that address in to the address bar and validating a captcha restored the full skin for me.

    yea, I forgot the htt://, sorry about that :) I've fixed it now.


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    #1219
    The_Conductor
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 32,279 Mod ✭✭✭✭The_Conductor


    Navigation fine- as long as you don't try to load imagery of any nature.
    Duplicates still spawning all over the place though- I'm deleting any of them that I find in my own forum- when I have the time.

    Making progress guys- I don't envy you your task.

    S.


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    #1220
    The_Conductor
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 32,279 Mod ✭✭✭✭The_Conductor


    Navigation fine- as long as you don't try to load imagery of any nature.
    Duplicates still spawning all over the place though- I'm deleting any of them that I find in my own forum- when I have the time.

    Making progress guys- I don't envy you your task.

    S.


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    #1221
    joujoujou
    Registered Users Posts: 13,525 ✭✭✭✭joujoujou
    Unregistered Users


    Use of quick reply gives 99.999% chance of doubleposting. As I already suggested, it is possible that cloudflare thing somehow won't cooperate with ajax feature. Or maybe ajax's broken?


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    #1222
    TheJoe
    Registered Users Posts: 40 ✭TheJoe


    Can't search threads, find previous threads of mine, post anonymously.


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    #1223
    um7y1h83ge06nx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,029 ✭✭✭um7y1h83ge06nx


    Dav wrote: »
    Looks like your connection to http://www.b-static.net (where all our images and style sheets etc are stored) is still blocked. Try to click the link here and load it and let me know if you're still experiencing issues.

    Thank you Dav, I'm back in 2016 again. :) I'd hate to be stuck with this DDOS crap, I most certainly don't envy you guys.


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    #1224
    Going Forward
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8,224 ✭✭✭Going Forward


    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    Have you tried googling your user name with boards.ie It might work though your user name is not a help in this regard - you'll probably get a lot of returns that happen to feature political themes "going forward/s"

    So are they completely gone from here then, my life's work;)?


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    #1225
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,168 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    I spoke too soon. The forums themselves have the normal background but the threads are all plain white with black text.


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    #1226
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users Posts: 28,717 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    Speed is FAR better today but I did get an error saying that my password was incorrect when logging in (Desktop) so I've reset it now again.

    Forums look OK (on the dark theme with Chrome)


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    #1227
    thesandeman
    Registered Users Posts: 9,958 ✭✭✭thesandeman


    Crawling again for me for about 20 minutes I'm afraid.


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    #1228
    The_Conductor
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 32,279 Mod ✭✭✭✭The_Conductor


    Sped up again on desktop- super zippy- and the incidence of duplicate posts seems to be falling (though I think its related to the 'quick reply' function). The hamster seems to be in good form!


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    #1229
    m17
    Registered Users Posts: 4,322 ✭✭✭m17


    Thanks dav and niamh and all the gang site is working better than ever cheers, let's hope that's the end of a tough 9 days


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    #1230
    Shrap
    Registered Users Posts: 3,163 ✭✭✭Shrap


    Ooh, post search is back! Nice one :)


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    #1231
    Dav
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,840 ✭✭✭Dav


    More good news! Ronán tells me that Search is back working, but that tomorrow it may disappear again for a while as he refines the fix he made after he's been able to do some analysis on how it's working out.

    So, that means that finding your post history etc is all back in action.


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