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

Boards.ie: Niamh · 04-01-2021 11:12am

Hi all and a happy new year to you

Are you still having issues with blank pages/speed today?

The Continental Op · 04-01-2021 11:17am

Boards.ie: Niamh wrote: »

Hi all and a happy new year to you

Are you still having issues with blank pages/speed today?

For me it seemed to all be sorted out on the following day the 2nd and has been fine since.

thesandeman · 04-01-2021 11:45am

Fine for me as well. Thanks.

Boards.ie: Niamh · 04-01-2021 2:03pm

Great, thanks guys

JP Liz V1 · 05-01-2021 8:00pm

I'm finding it slow posting and with pms today

New Home · 25-01-2021 10:07pm

Lads. The gllitch! :eek:

Gremlinertia · 26-01-2021 8:25am

Had to go full site on my phone to post on a thread in my LTI forum :mad: it happens silly frequently much like the where are you now thread in AH I'd love to know what causes this glitch, the cookies history etc are cleared weekly on me phone.

Boards.ie: Niamh · 26-01-2021 10:45am

I don't know to be honest, it seems to happen on threads with a lof of gifs in them but that is not what would have happened with a new post Grem. What exactly was happening there, were you getting an error on touch when trying to post?

Gremlinertia · 26-01-2021 11:04am

Boards.ie: Niamh wrote: »

I don't know to be honest, it seems to happen on threads with a lof of gifs in them but that is not what would have happened with a new post Grem. What exactly was happening there, were you getting an error on touch when trying to post?

Nope it's the same as others have complained of, not possible to get to the newest posts, sometimes clicking on latest post might drop you three pages back, I'll screenshot next time I spot it, business or content of threads don't seem to be a factor, they are frequently visited by me that's the only common link I can see

Tom Mann Centuria · 26-01-2021 11:07am

Gremlinertia wrote: »

Nope it's the same as others have complained of, not possible to get to the newest posts, sometimes clicking on latest post might drop you three pages back, I'll screenshot next time I spot it, business or content of threads don't seem to be a factor, they are frequently visited by me that's the only common link I can see

Often the only way I can get to the newest posts (Netflix recommendation thread particularly bad) is by switching from touch site to the full site. This has been going on for months. We have the nice new icons in the top right of screen now though, so, swings and roundabouts.

New Home · 28-01-2021 12:52am

I was getting the glitch on the full site, on Monday: my list of unread threads was not updating.

Gremlinertia · 01-02-2021 10:13pm

Site (full site, desktop, chrome) sluggish and returning the odd blank page

Overheal · 01-02-2021 10:16pm

Definitely feel a difference in site responsiveness today

con747 · 01-02-2021 10:19pm

+1 on above posts today.

New Home · 01-02-2021 10:23pm

New Home wrote: »

Lads. The gllitch! :eek:

And again.

Purple Mountain · 01-02-2021 10:27pm

New Home wrote: »

And again.

Coronation Street thread is particularly bad, like usual.

Annasopra · 01-02-2021 11:14pm

Gremlinertia wrote: »

Site (full site, desktop, chrome) sluggish and returning the odd blank page

dulpit · 02-02-2021 1:43am

Is there more ads on mobile in the last week or so? Or is it that I'm just seeing them more now than previously?

Boards.ie: Niamh · 02-02-2021 11:00am

Still slow for you today anyone? Will get one of the lads to have a look if it is.

Dulpit, there aren't any more ad units than usual on the site however we may have been displaying some blank ads/no ads on occasion which we are rectifying at the moment.

Irish Aris · 02-02-2021 11:42am

Good morning Niamh.

No issues this morning. It was only a bit slow when I tried to post but just by a few seconds. Nothing major like the occasional blank page last night

Boards.ie: Niamh · 02-02-2021 12:02pm

Cool, thanks Irish Aris

02-02-2021 2:43pm

Looks like the ability to upload attachments has stopped working, I get the following message

500 Internal Server Error

nginx

Boards.ie: Niamh · 02-02-2021 3:55pm

Thanks dolanbaker, someone has just reported this elsewhere as well, have flagged it with the team to take a look. Thanks!

Boards.ie: Niamh · 02-02-2021 6:20pm

Attachments are working again now guys. Thanks for your patience

Detritus70 · 02-02-2021 7:31pm

Dear Boards. I would gladly tell you what is a bus or a bike or a train or a bus.
But if the pics are 2x3mm big on my shagging phone, I can only guess.
If I was a bot, it would be easier.
And do I REALLY have to complete this stupid captcha every three bloody clicks?
It's getting annoying.
Thankfully, when I click back and another link, the captcha mostly goes away.

So, top tip:
Annoying captcha?
Click back and try again. Mostly works.
Because it popped up again as I clicked "Edit" on my post.
Grrrrrr
I'm willing to bet there's HTML code there that's 20-30 years old

Boards.ie: Niamh · 03-02-2021 10:41am

The captchas are from Cloudflare rather than direct from Boards. Occasionally depending on traffic Cloudflare will increase security for accessing the site from various areas. It usually cools off again after the danger/issue has passed.

Detritus70 · 03-02-2021 6:45pm

Boards.ie: Niamh wrote: »

The captchas are from Cloudflare rather than direct from Boards. Occasionally depending on traffic Cloudflare will increase security for accessing the site from various areas. It usually cools off again after the danger/issue has passed.

Today is better. Yesterday was desperate.

Slideways · 04-02-2021 1:59am

I keep getting this pop up. I accept all cookies and Lo and behold I’ll open boards and the popup comes up again.

Be great if it would stop reverting to the touch site too..

Boards.ie: Mark · 04-02-2021 10:26am

Hi Slideways,

My first impression is that a cookie isn't being set correctly. Could you clear any Boards related cookies and load the site again - it will prompt you to accept cookies and direct you to the touch site, but you should be able to navigate to full site if that's your preference, accept the cookie notice there, and hopefully browse normally then.

Gatling · 04-02-2021 2:51pm

What's with the amount of ear wax ads popping up litterally every other page large ear wax cleaning ads pop up , mainly using touch

Pelvis Parsley · 06-02-2021 1:48am

Gatling wrote: »

What's with the amount of ear wax ads popping up litterally every other page large ear wax cleaning ads pop up , mainly using touch

Say that again?

Spear · 10-02-2021 8:44am

About half of requests are giving 521 this morning. Is a node dead?

The_Conductor · 10-02-2021 8:52am

Error 521 Ray ID: 61f440460c7a0834 • 2021-02-10 07:52:30 UTC
Web server is down

Boards.ie: Mark · 10-02-2021 10:11am

Good morning,

It looks as though Cloudflare has had some issues of its own this morning (https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/), but has implemented a fix and says that it has resolved the issue.

10-02-2021 2:17pm

It's been very frustrating for me the last few days. Maybe it's my location as I was having cloudfare captchas for ages from Asia and the whole site stopped working for a while as well.

Boards.ie: Niamh · 10-02-2021 3:18pm

Sorry to hear that Ads by Google, in what way did the site stop working? You couldn't log on or couldn't post or couldn't even get on to it at all?

10-02-2021 3:32pm

Boards.ie: Niamh wrote: »

Sorry to hear that Ads by Google, in what way did the site stop working? You couldn't log on or couldn't post or couldn't even get on to it at all?

It's completely random. On mobile, I saw this thread had a new post so I clicked and it took at least half a minute. Posting can be very fast or very slow. It depends.

Muahahaha · 13-02-2021 9:33pm

Is there a fix for when a thread you are subbed to doesnt go to the last unread post but instead reverts to the very last post of the thread everytime. Ive tried unsubbing and then resubbing but the problem still occurs. Its only a single thread it happens on but can be frustrating nonetheless.

New Home · 13-02-2021 9:46pm

Clear the cache and try again.

Muahahaha · 14-02-2021 5:25pm

New Home wrote: »

Clear the cache and try again.

Tried that there then resubbed to the thread but the problem remains

The_B_Man · 17-02-2021 9:43pm

Whats with the random comment tags up the top of the page?
Looks like someone was trying to leave comments inside the <body> tag.

It shows:

/* */ /* */

buffalo · 17-02-2021 9:59pm

The_B_Man wrote: »

Whats with the random comment tags up the top of the page?
Looks like someone was trying to leave comments inside the <body> tag.

It shows:

/* */ /* */

I was just coming to post same.

17-02-2021 10:26pm

Similar here but it's only displaying once:

17-02-2021 10:59pm

It's not visible on firefox running on Ubuntu, could be environment related.

Boards.ie: Mark · 18-02-2021 11:01am

I can see the comments in devtools, but not showing for me in the top menu. What browsers are ye using?

Tokyo · 18-02-2021 11:05am

Boards.ie: Mark wrote: »

I can see the comments in devtools, but not showing for me in the top menu. What browsers are ye using?

On a MacBook, can reproduce in Safari, Chrome and Firefox.

buffalo · 18-02-2021 11:30am

Boards.ie: Mark wrote: »

I can see the comments in devtools, but not showing for me in the top menu. What browsers are ye using?

Running Mac OS
/* */ /* */ showing in Brave (Version 1.20.103 Chromium: 88.0.4324.152 (Official Build) (x86_64)) and Chrome (Version 88.0.4324.182 (Official Build) (x86_64))
Nothing showing in Firefox (85.0.2 (64-bit)) nor Safari (Version 14.0.2 (15610.3.7.1.10, 15610))

oscarBravo · 18-02-2021 11:35am

They're showing at the bottom of the page for me:

There are some inside the page <head> and some more among the scripts at the end of the <body>. There's also one anomalous '/* /*' in the mix.

dulpit · 18-02-2021 12:52pm

Just spotted those comments at the bottom of my screen - Windows 10, Chrome Version 88.0.4324.150 (Official Build) (64-bit)

joujoujou · 18-02-2021 2:42pm

These fellas

/* */ /* */

were on top of the page yesterday, on the bottom of the page today. Firefox on windows 7.

None in Opera.

/* */ in Internet Explorer.

Leprechauns?

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

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