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

_Kaiser_ · 06-08-2020 09:24AM

Boards.ie: Mark wrote: »

Were you browsing a specific thread (and page within that thread) when this warning appeared?

Sorry Mark.. busy morning but thanks for coming back.

Had a few open at the time - the "Relaxing of restrictions" one in CA was the one I was reading at the time I think

Boards.ie: Mark wrote: »

I've been informed that this is most likely from Cloudflare, and is captcha related and also a false positive.

Yep I figured it probably wasn't much to worry about as Kaspersky is the best at picking these things up in my experience, but just thought I better flag it

Boards.ie: Mark · 06-08-2020 09:36AM

Better safe than sorry

The_Conductor · 06-08-2020 09:48AM

Mark- pages seem to be taking an abnormally long time to load (but are loading fine).
I've tried pinging the site to see if there is some delay- but there doesn't seem to be- max response of 30ms over 4 hops- which seems to be remarkably good.
Similar load times on a few different devices.
It is working- just taking a bit longer than you'd expect it to.

Boards.ie: Mark · 06-08-2020 10:03AM

We are undertaking some work on the backend today, but unfortunately this may result in some outages, delays, or 503 errors. We apologise for any disruption caused over the next few hours.

Muscles Schultz · 06-08-2020 06:32PM

Still going on.....

“
An exception occured in driver: SQLSTATE[08004] [1040] Too many connections”

Overheal · 06-08-2020 06:40PM

Getting dozens of those errors now back to back.

un5byh7sqpd2x0 · 06-08-2020 07:08PM

Touch site is unusable, sqlstate errors when entering every thread. Switching to desktop site on the same device works just fine.

pjohnson · 06-08-2020 07:18PM

It was working but hopeless again now.

corsav6 · 06-08-2020 07:39PM

Took a good few attempts to get in here tonight. Didn't seem as bad on main page but anytime I clicked into a thread I got the "too many connections" error. This thread seems to be the worst, so far.
I only use touch site so not sure how the main site performs.

06-08-2020 08:55PM

Odd, no issues here at all, using Eir and firefox running on ubuntu

06-08-2020 09:18PM

Hate being the bearer of bad news. Just had SQL error too.

Signore Fancy Pants · 06-08-2020 09:22PM

Touch site is fcuked again.

Is this the new normal now? Can't be arsed dealing with this every day.

Deebles McBeebles · 06-08-2020 09:30PM

All seems to be working fine again on desktop site, no issues today at all.

Overheal · 06-08-2020 10:29PM

Signore Fancy Pants wrote: »

Touch site is fcuked again.

Is this the new normal now? Can't be arsed dealing with this every day.

Well they did say they were undertaking work on it today so it’s not alarming. Touch site is just borked right now. Full site on mobile looks to be stable.

Pelvis Parsley · 06-08-2020 10:49PM

This is reminiscent of the "good" old days when boards had no money...

Muscles Schultz · 06-08-2020 11:02PM

Pelvis Parsley wrote: »

This is reminiscent of the "good" old days when boards had no money...

Call that excitable neckbeard Dav and you will have it complete.

Purple Mountain · 06-08-2020 11:10PM

Still getting the too many connections errors on the mobile site.

07-08-2020 04:54AM

Yeah the touch site is in bits.

07-08-2020 05:00AM

Honestly, this would be a good time to just kill the touch site and add some responsive css to the desktop site so it works properly on mobile. I know I'd rather deal with that as a dev over a couple of days than deal with fixing touch and having to continue maintaining it.

It's usable, though. Click Full Site at the bottom of the page.

07-08-2020 05:06AM

I don’t know what that is but the layout needs to be like touch with no need for horizontal scrolling.

07-08-2020 05:12AM

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

I don’t know what that is but the layout needs to be like touch with no need for horizontal scrolling.

That's what responsive css is. It uses rules based on screen width to apply extra styling which automatically to turns a desktop site into a mobile site while serving the same html. Very few websites have dedicated mobile sites anymore.

boards.ie have never implemented any of my code or styles, or changed anything based on site development feedback, so I'm not doing it for them. They'd just ignore it.

07-08-2020 05:15AM

Definitely wouldn’t. We’ll just get the usual lines trotted out anyway and then it’ll be half patched up until the next time.

07-08-2020 05:28AM

Come to think of it, this is what the tried to do last year when they implemented the new site. Everyone hated the styling direction and usability so they had to revert. It would have been better in hindsight to take the current one and just add to it I guess. I'd say they'd love to not have to deal with a touch site.

07-08-2020 06:13AM

20 minutes over a coffee with no effort done to tidy it up or make it right.

Wanderer78 · 07-08-2020 06:17AM

Deleted User wrote:

20 minutes over a coffee with no effort done to tidy it up or make it right.

Its 7am!

07-08-2020 06:20AM

Wanderer78 wrote: »

Its 7am!

The time is in the screenshot

I have no work because of Covid-19 so I've little to be at.

Wanderer78 · 07-08-2020 06:22AM

Deleted User wrote:

The time is in the screenshot I have no work because of Covid-19 so I've little to be at.

Sounds like you could be fixing things, devs heads must be melted with this thing

07-08-2020 06:30AM

Deleted User wrote: »

20 minutes over a coffee with no effort done to tidy it up or make it right.

That looks class, and so much more functionality over the touch site.

Tokyo · 07-08-2020 07:01AM

Muscles Schultz wrote: »

Call that excitable neckbeard Dav and you will have it complete.

Admin: Not feedback, just using feedback to make backhanded swipes at others. Don't post in this tread again.

07-08-2020 07:28AM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

The time is in the screenshot I have no work because of Covid-19 so I've little to be at.

What would the screen look like when you’re typing out a post?

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

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