Reply to: New Forum Bug Reports

[mudskipper]

Pressed the back button a few times after paging through a thread then replying to a post and got this... (It doesn't appear to have actually stopped me using the site though!)

[Contractor UK]

Thank You NickFitz - hopefully this helps alot

[NickFitz]

Just a quick update: it seems there have been a lot of web crawlers of the more useless kind hammering the site of late. These have now been blocked, which will hopefully make things run more smoothly.

I've also been working out some stuff which will shift some of the load that currently gets imposed on the database onto more suitable technologies (memcache, to be precise) which we'll look to get deployed this week. And I'm looking into a database upgrade, which will further improve performance. So things will hopefully have improved somewhat as of this morning, and will improve some more in the near future

[Contractor UK]

Sorry for the delay jamesbrown and others

Hopefully will sort this week and defo worth the investment.

Just for various reasons not completed the work - hopefully this week.

Thanks for the patience

[jamesbrown]

Will stick around a little longer, but can't be bothered with the constant server errors, lost posts, failed connections etc. for too much longer. I guess the forum doesn't have the traffic anymore to really justify the investment, so fair enough, but it may be worth killing it in that case.

[JustKeepSwimming]

It seems whenever I post a new thread I end up with

Invalid Page URL. If this is an error and the page should exist, please contact the system administrator and tell them how you got this message.

I'm starting to feel victimised!

As what DSC said, on some threads the last poster doesn't seem to be accurate on others it is.

[dsc]

Constantly getting the dreaded:

Error while saving content: %1$s

Error information: " 524 error "

It posts, but always hangs on this. Also sometimes it shows some threads with the wrong info re last post, for example it would show the last post with user X at 9:00 yesterday but if you open the thread you find it had multiple replies since then.

[ladymuck]

Getting the 'Invalid Page URL' error yet again this morning when trying to view a thread...

No-one cares about Christmas Adverts anyway

[edison]

Getting the 'Invalid Page URL' error yet again this morning when trying to view a thread...

[Dactylion]

Thanks for this - we will have a look why this is happening and get it fixed.
Looks like it is a Cloudflare 524 error. Apologies all - will sort.

Have you? and Did you?

Both rhetorical obviously

I've been asked to investigate the cause of the hangs which result in both the JavaScript errors and the CloudFlare timeout messages (they're the same thing at heart) so with a bit of luck things will be sorted out in a few days

Good job I'm on holiday this week so I have the time to work on it

Did you? and Are they?

Both rhetorical obviously

[ladymuck]

I note with interest that you personally don't appear to have issues with your Monday posts...

He did - last weeks' post had to be done twice

[Zigenare]

I've been asked to investigate the cause of the hangs which result in both the JavaScript errors and the CloudFlare timeout messages (they're the same thing at heart) so with a bit of luck things will be sorted out in a few days

Good job I'm on holiday this week so I have the time to work on it

I note with interest that you personally don't appear to have issues with your Monday posts...

[jamesbrown]

Thanks, Nick.

[NickFitz]

I've been asked to investigate the cause of the hangs which result in both the JavaScript errors and the CloudFlare timeout messages (they're the same thing at heart) so with a bit of luck things will be sorted out in a few days

Good job I'm on holiday this week so I have the time to work on it

[DoctorStrangelove]

Of the 13k "users" about 10k have never made a post.

And looking at some old posts, Specifically In General, some haven't made a post in 10 years or more.

Where are they now?

SallyAnne.

Xenophon.

Threaded.

etc. etc. etc.