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    #1712
    Dav
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,840 ✭✭✭Dav


    Getting that looked at now Carnacalla, thank you.


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    #1713
    ianal3
    Registered Users Posts: 9 ✭ianal3


    Test.


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    #1714
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Deedsie wrote: »
    I think people should be able delete old posts if they wish. I have a few old posts I would certainly like to be able delete without bothering mods.

    Maybe the deleting posts feature could be extended to posts less than two days old and over 4 years old?
    Good idea, unless someone's quoted it! :P


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    #1715
    The_Conductor
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 32,283 Mod ✭✭✭✭The_Conductor


    Its moot anyway- as the whole site is google cached.......


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    #1716
    The_Conductor
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 32,283 Mod ✭✭✭✭The_Conductor


    Deedsie wrote: »
    Does that make the point moot? I think you are trying to make it a mute point. I just want to delete the post from this website

    If you delete a post- someone can simply look at the cached version of the site and pull it that way instead.........


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    #1717
    _Tombstone_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,006 ✭✭✭_Tombstone_


    The_Conductor wrote: »
    If you delete a post- someone can simply look at the cached version of the site and pull it that way instead.........

    For how long does that work?


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    #1718
    JCX BXC
    Registered Users Posts: 18,144 ✭✭✭✭JCX BXC


    _Tombstone_ wrote: »
    For how long does that work?

    Forever

    I'm sure you know nothing you put up is ever truly deleted?


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    #1719
    my3cents
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,764 ✭✭✭my3cents


    The_Conductor wrote: »
    If you delete a post- someone can simply look at the cached version of the site and pull it that way instead.........

    But just how many people would bother?


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    #1720
    _Tombstone_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,006 ✭✭✭_Tombstone_


    Carnacalla wrote: »
    Forever

    I'm sure you know nothing you put up is ever truly deleted?

    Heres a 10+ year old thread from Boards

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=318930

    with a link to an aldi page with a pair of Binos

    so if you go off to Googles Cache

    http://cachedview.com/

    and put in the link for the Binos

    https://www.aldi.ie/special_buys2/productnl_447.html

    You get a 404

    http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.aldi.ie/special_buys2/productnl_447.html


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    #1721
    _Tombstone_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,006 ✭✭✭_Tombstone_


    I could delete this post tomorrow and check googles cache and I'd say my post will be gone in less than a week.

    A long forgotten thread probably take a month.


    But Boards won't allow this deletion anyway. It'd ruin the site. I'd delete all my posts after a while and my posts are like gold dust....gold dust.

    Ask a Mod...if they won't delete ask an Admin...if he won't ask another Admin...last resort close account/right to be forgotten.


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    #1722
    JCX BXC
    Registered Users Posts: 18,144 ✭✭✭✭JCX BXC


    _Tombstone_ wrote: »
    Heres a 10+ year old thread from Boards

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=318930

    with a link to an aldi page with a pair of Binos

    so if you go off to Googles Cache

    http://cachedview.com/

    and put in the link for the Binos

    https://www.aldi.ie/special_buys2/productnl_447.html

    You get a 404

    http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.aldi.ie/special_buys2/productnl_447.html

    Not that I am going to entertain this absurd argument, but It is caught somewhere. Aldi pages are in nature fast changing, most of boards old forums remain unchanged and are cached.


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    #1723
    _Tombstone_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,006 ✭✭✭_Tombstone_


    Carnacalla wrote: »
    Not that I am going to entertain this absurd argument, but It is caught somewhere. Aldi pages are in nature fast changing, most of boards old forums remain unchanged and are cached.
    Deedsie wrote: »
    I have requested mods in the different forums to have some posts with personal info removed/deleted. I was declined/ignored mostly.

    If it's personal then their should be no question. Ask Gordon.


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    #1724
    Johnboy1951
    Registered Users Posts: 14,007 ✭✭✭✭Johnboy1951


    I continue to have problems posting in some threads.
    A lot of the time my posts will not 'take' and I get a time-out error.

    There also seems to be either a limit on post size, or something else interfering.

    A short time ago I posted in this thread
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=99366738#post99366738

    My post failed, so I tried again with just a couple of lines and that took.
    I then did multiple edits, adding a sentence or two each time.

    Eventually it would take no more and I finished my post by doing a second post with the couple of sentences I could not edit in.

    This is only the latest example of what I continue to meet in various threads.

    It might be thread related, or length of post related or something else.
    I am unable to determine a pattern.

    Maybe someone could look at this please?


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    #1725
    my3cents
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,764 ✭✭✭my3cents


    Amusingly the HACK that got the Boards.ie menu under the Talk to... group shows up on a slow connection. As a page displays the old menu (5 items along the top) shows up including the separate Boards.ie menu and then the Boards.ie menu vanishes and is then found as it should be under the Talk to... menu.


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    #1726
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Johnboy1951 wrote: »
    I continue to have problems posting in some threads.
    A lot of the time my posts will not 'take' and I get a time-out error.

    There also seems to be either a limit on post size, or something else interfering.

    A short time ago I posted in this thread
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=99366738#post99366738

    My post failed, so I tried again with just a couple of lines and that took.
    I then did multiple edits, adding a sentence or two each time.

    Eventually it would take no more and I finished my post by doing a second post with the couple of sentences I could not edit in.

    This is only the latest example of what I continue to meet in various threads.

    It might be thread related, or length of post related or something else.
    I am unable to determine a pattern.

    Maybe someone could look at this please?

    Site Development is usually the place to post bugs that you found. Or at least that has usually been my experience.


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    #1727
    Johnboy1951
    Registered Users Posts: 14,007 ✭✭✭✭Johnboy1951


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Site Development is usually the place to post bugs that you found. Or at least that has usually been my experience.

    I dunno ..... last time I had this problem it was this thread I reported it in as it only started happening since the big downtime.

    It recovered after but not apparently for all threads.

    It is hardly a development issue ....... but what do I know? :)


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    #1728
    JCX BXC
    Registered Users Posts: 18,144 ✭✭✭✭JCX BXC


    Dav wrote: »
    Getting that looked at now Carnacalla, thank you.

    It's back, but it's 6 days old.


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    #1729
    JCX BXC
    Registered Users Posts: 18,144 ✭✭✭✭JCX BXC


    Dav wrote: »
    Getting that looked at now Carnacalla, thank you.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=99301667

    Post of the day is still in this thread, now 7 days old, will it ever update?:D


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    #1730
    Dav
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,840 ✭✭✭Dav


    I don't know what's gone wrong with it, we thought it was sorted. It's back on the bugs list now though, thank you :)


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    #1731
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,711 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    New Home wrote: »
    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.
    Karsini wrote: »
    Now you say it, I noticed this yesterday too. Here's an example:

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

    This has just happened again. The attachment seems to be 1.76MB in size, and it's a .jpg


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    #1732
    The_Conductor
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 32,283 Mod ✭✭✭✭The_Conductor


    Problems logging on on the desktop version this morning- error "Error: Unable to parse JSON data......."

    Note- manage attachments also hung just now........


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    #1733
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Just got a 503 for the first time in ages.


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    #1734
    TheBody
    Registered Users Posts: 5,621 ✭✭✭TheBody


    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    Just got a 503 for the first time in ages.

    Me too.


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    #1735
    Dav
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,840 ✭✭✭Dav


    I did too, we've got the lads looking into that at the moment, there's a huddle and I'm hearing words like memcache and php info sessions and the likes... I'd love to pretend that I knew what exactly they were talking about, but it's beyond my tech knowledge :)


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    #1736
    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 25,184 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    I'm getting blank pages intermittenly now.


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    #1737
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,711 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    I just clicked on 'First unread post' on this thread and it brought me back to a week ago...

    EDIT - I also just clicked once on 'Post Quick Reply' and the post got posted but I also got this error


    'The following errors occurred with your submission. This post is a duplicate of a post that you have posted in the last five minutes.'


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    #1738
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    Spear wrote: »
    I'm getting blank pages intermittenly now.

    Same here, as well as when clicking on say page 2 of a thread, it will load page 1 etc.


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    #1739
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Occasional blank pages since 20 mins or so, maybe longer

    Latest Chrome, Win7 but it looks serverside.
    Refresh usually works and page loads


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    #1740
    ED E
    Registered Users Posts: 36,167 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    Spear wrote: »
    I'm getting blank pages intermittenly now.
    biko wrote: »
    Occasional blank pages since 20 mins or so, maybe longer

    Latest Chrome, Win7 but it looks serverside.
    Refresh usually works and page loads

    +1. HTTP response is empty.

    EDIT: Also having issues with last page directing to the 2nd or 3rd last page instead.


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    #1741
    Michael D Not Higgins
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 7,223 Mod ✭✭✭✭Michael D Not Higgins


    ED E wrote: »
    +1. HTTP response is empty.

    EDIT: Also having issues with last page directing to the 2nd or 3rd last page instead.

    Ditto


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