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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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#752 13-01-2016 10:22am
Gordon

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Png shouldn't be allowed above 1 meg. Maybe devs have recently fixed an issue.

If you have faults, like correct image size not uploading, would suggest the site development forum.

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#753 13-01-2016 10:35am
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Penny Tration wrote: »

Getting a mad error when trying to upload pics. and seemingly I can't upload any screenshot because it must be smaller than 1mb (my previous screenshots were always uploaded fine).

FWIW, I just got a 500 error when uploading a JPG. It actually uploaded fine in the end, but when I hit upload, it immediately returned a 500 error.

Same behaviour when I deleted the attachment - 500 error, but it did actually delete it.

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#754 13-01-2016 12:28pm
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I'll ask the gang to look into attachments and see if there's something up, sounds like things are misbehaving somewhat.

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#755 13-01-2016 12:35pm
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If it's of any use, I had problems with attachments last night too. I'm on the desktop site, Firefox 43.0.4. When I clicked 'Upload attachment' I got an error message (I can't remember what exactly but I think it was either incorrect file type or file too big or something like that - it was a smallish jpg). I clicked ok on the error message and it seeemed that the file got uploaded anyway, but when I clicked on the link to see it, it returned a blank page - I remember reading the word 'clear' towards the end of the URL, but the rest of the URL seemed normal. I deleted the bad attachment, and when I tried reattaching the same file again everything was back to normal.

On that note, I've come across quite a few 'blank' attachments on other people's posts too, over the last few days, and the only thing they had in common was the word 'clear' in the URL.

Hope this helps.

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#756 13-01-2016 12:38pm
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New Home wrote: »

If it's of any use, I had problems with attachments last night too. I'm on the desktop site, Firefox 43.0.4. When I clicked 'Upload attachment' I got an error message (I can't remember what exactly but I think it was either incorrect file type or file too big or something like that - it was a smallish jpg). I clicked ok on the error message and it seeemed that the file got uploaded anyway, but when I clicked on the link to see it, it returned a blank page - I remember reading the word 'clear' towards the end of the URL, but the rest of the URL seemed normal. I deleted the bad attachment, and when I tried reattaching the same file again everything was back to normal.

On that note, I've come across quite a few 'blank' attachments on other people's posts too, over the last few days, and the only thing they had in common was the word 'clear' in the URL.

Hope this helps.

Now you say it, I noticed this yesterday too. Here's an example:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=98385321&postcount=1

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#757 13-01-2016 12:39pm
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You're right Karsini, my mistake - the word 'Clear' appears in the tab 'heading', and not in the URL - now I can't remember what I saw with my 'bad' attachment...

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#758 14-01-2016 1:07pm
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Site behaving oddly. Last post in thread not showing etc.

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#759 14-01-2016 1:10pm
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Same here - last post not showing, then if I refresh the page it shows, if I thank it it shows up but if I refresh the page the 'thanks' disappears.

EDIT - If I post something and then refresh the page, all the posts from this morning disappear, and only reappear if I refresh the page once more. Case in point, this thread.

Thanks.

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#760 14-01-2016 1:14pm
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One more thing - I see a notification for 2 new posts, but when I click on the number it tells me I've no new posts and the number disappears. Rinse and repeat.

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#761 14-01-2016 1:19pm
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All of the above, plus new posts showing in threads, when you click "Go to first new post" the new posts aren't showing up.

Site incredibly slow also.

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#762 14-01-2016 1:23pm
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Same issue, posts disappearing or just not showing, also avatars not showing. I'm on touch, if that makes a difference.

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#763 14-01-2016 1:23pm
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Same here, read a new PM but then it goes back to been unread, then read, then unread.

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#764 14-01-2016 1:23pm
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full site on the laptop keeps redirecting to the touch site. what causes this?

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#765 14-01-2016 1:25pm
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PucaMama wrote: »

full site on the laptop keeps redirecting to the touch site. what causes this?

You've set the cookie on your machine to touch. - clear the cookies and it should sort it.

For the other issues you're all reporting, there seems to be a database synchronisation issue - Ronan's looking at it as we speak.

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#766 14-01-2016 3:10pm
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Dav, can I ask what the deal with getting signed out is?
Is this a step that has been implemented or a glitch?

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#767 14-01-2016 3:28pm
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Basic security measures.

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#768 14-01-2016 3:37pm
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I'm having no problems at all, I should say I'm using the old boards interface (you know the nice one that works!).

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#769 14-01-2016 10:03pm
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Site almost unusable for me at the moment, getting a lot of "service unavailable" pages and everything is incredibly slow.

Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test

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#770 14-01-2016 10:03pm
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Site slow today. No avatars and now getting 503 service unavailable errors.

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#771 14-01-2016 10:19pm
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Also, if I post something nothing shows, pages skipping backwards, 503 messages, wrong notifications, you mention it it's happening.

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#772 14-01-2016 10:20pm
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That was the first post I was able to post in the last 20 minutes or so.

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#773 14-01-2016 10:27pm
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A number of my recent posts weren't appearing either. It's the same with both touch and desktop versions of the site. It will be interesting to see if this post appears as expected [Time of posting 21:27]

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#774 14-01-2016 10:35pm
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Same here. No avatars and 503 errors.

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#775 14-01-2016 10:48pm
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Some of the stuff I posted earlier got duplicated and triplicated - it does seem to have gone back to normal now, though.

EDIT - I spoke too soon, I deleted one duplication, saved, refreshed, duplication still there. I repeat the process, and no posts left whatsoever.

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#776 14-01-2016 11:00pm
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Yes its been all over the place for a while. Losing posts (always the lengthy, thoughtful, intelligent, well argued, save-the-world type post that vanishes) 503s, hanging, the works.

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#777 14-01-2016 11:02pm
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Big issues tonight

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#778 14-01-2016 11:32pm
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It's taken over 30mins to post this
I'm experiencing all of the above mentioned issues ie Slow site, notifications problems and 503 errors since this afternoon.
Now getting 502 Bad Gateway errors as well

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#779 15-01-2016 12:00am
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I was logged out today, logged back in and took a while. Now ghost notifications for PM and followed threads.

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#780 15-01-2016 12:07am
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Also thread and post of the day not working.

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#781 15-01-2016 3:09am
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New Home wrote: »

Some of the stuff I posted earlier got duplicated and triplicated - it does seem to have gone back to normal now, though.

EDIT - I spoke too soon, I deleted one duplication, saved, refreshed, duplication still there. I repeat the process, and no posts left whatsoever.

Thanks Lumi, i never would have found out the problem until i saw it in the weather thread
I was thinking there was something wrong, with posts not showing & then to find out i posted it 4 times!
I thought it was Firefox, as i've been having trouble with the flash plug-in, as times it's like using dial-up when on E-Fibre, but i suppose that's for another thread?

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