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What is wrong with the site? (Please read updated post #1)

Dav · 2015-10-05 11:15:41

Hello everyone. I'm back form 2 week's holidays today, only to arrive in and find that an ESB substation has popped somewhere around the South William St area and so we've been sitting here with no internet connection in the office for nearly 4 hours. When it rains, it pours, eh? OK, so the site has been, to use the…

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#3932 24-08-2020 4:49pm
Boards.ie: Mark

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Hi RobertFoster,

Sorry for the disruption, but this should be resolved again now.

How can I? User's guide to some features on the new site

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#3933 24-08-2020 4:54pm
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Yep, just seemed like a temporary issue.

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#3934 24-08-2020 5:40pm
The_Conductor

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Getting Database errors when trying to post- and if I hit refresh- getting a duplicate post message.
Hitting refresh a few times loads the page again.

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#3935 25-08-2020 1:50am
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I'm finding search an issue again

https://forumofgames.com/

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#3936 25-08-2020 9:18am
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The_Conductor wrote: »

Getting Database errors when trying to post- and if I hit refresh- getting a duplicate post message.
Hitting refresh a few times loads the page again.

Hopefully this was just a temporary issue. Currently seems fine to me and thankfully we haven't had other reports of this.

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

I'm finding search an issue again

What error were you being presented with JP Liz V1?

How can I? User's guide to some features on the new site

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#3937 30-08-2020 12:37am
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What's the warning symbol on the YLYL thread about?

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#3938 30-08-2020 12:45am
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Do you mean the triangle at the top? Just noticed that myself, saying site isn't secure, nothing weird in settings from what i can see.

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#3939 30-08-2020 12:51am
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I'm just getting the normal padlock. Touch site as well.
It must be warning ye it's a post from Capt'n Midnight.

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#3940 30-08-2020 3:48am
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I'm pretty sure that can come up if anything on the page is served from http instead of https.

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#3941 30-08-2020 1:56pm
KKkitty

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Yeah it's the triangle symbol instead of the normal padlock symbol. I've never seen it on any other threads before.

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#3942 30-08-2020 5:26pm
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KKkitty wrote: »

Yeah it's the triangle symbol instead of the normal padlock symbol. I've never seen it on any other threads before.

Many of the images linked to come from less than secure sites, hence the warning from the browser.

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#3943 30-08-2020 6:18pm
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Many of the images linked to come from less than secure sites, hence the warning from the browser.

^^ Exactly this!

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#3944 31-08-2020 8:26am
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More problems this morning, for me at least. 'Latest posts' and 'My forums' pages switching between showing the latest posts and posts from a couple of hours ago.

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#3945 31-08-2020 8:28am
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Yep, the glitch is back.

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#3946 31-08-2020 8:47am
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All manner of glitches this morning. When you click on a forum, your subscription notifications revert back to a number of posts previously read.

Apparently I am the only active user in AH presently, lol - I don't believe it... the glitch is a messer :pac:

...and more ghostly PM notifications.

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#3947 31-08-2020 9:05am
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Having issues as well, the latest post I could see in one thread was from 10 August!

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#3948 31-08-2020 9:05am
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Getting 404s and “there are no recent posts” message on the latest tab.

Touch site

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#3949 31-08-2020 9:10am
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Groundhog day again, just got new post notifications from a couple of weeks ago for this thread.

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#3950 31-08-2020 9:26am
This is it

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Losing new posts. When I click on the last new page of a thread it jumps back and then there is no need page, though I believe there are new posts. Opera on the touch site

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#3951 31-08-2020 10:18am
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This is it wrote: »

Losing new posts. When I click on the last new page of a thread it jumps back and then there is no need page, though I believe there are new posts. Opera on the touch site

I just thanked this post and jumped back to the previous page.

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#3952 31-08-2020 10:40am
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osarusan wrote: »

More problems this morning, for me at least. 'Latest posts' and 'My forums' pages switching between showing the latest posts and posts from a couple of hours ago.

same for me. Seems to be intermittent, but happens often.

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#3953 31-08-2020 10:56am
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Hamsters keep playing hide-the-post again this morning. Please make them stop.

I'm guessing a server behind a load balancer is out of synch somewhere

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#3954 31-08-2020 11:31am
Loughc

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Graham wrote: »

Hamsters keep playing hide-the-post again this morning. Please make them stop.

Having the same problem here, very frequently today.

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#3955 31-08-2020 11:45am
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Yeah it's showing posts from April now as the last post even though it also says it has posts from today.

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#3956 31-08-2020 11:56am
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404s and zero search results found all over the place this morning - on the touch site anyway.

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#3957 31-08-2020 12:48pm
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osarusan wrote: »

More problems this morning, for me at least. 'Latest posts' and 'My forums' pages switching between showing the latest posts and posts from a couple of hours ago.

I'm seeing that too.

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#3958 31-08-2020 12:52pm
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UserCP is pretty useless at the moment.

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#3959 31-08-2020 1:27pm
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Page one of this thread won't appear https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2058109283

edit - it's back

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#3960 31-08-2020 1:30pm
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keeps telling me my followed threads have new posts, but when I click on them, the posts are from hours ago
other threads not showing new posts

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#3961 31-08-2020 1:34pm
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Almost unusable at the moment

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