Author Topic: Forum will be down for a period next week  (Read 25398 times)

Offline GTX_Admin

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Re: Forum will be down for a period next week
« Reply #25 on: January 26, 2012, 06:55:03 AM »
Greg: for minor panic attacks, I heartily recommend your local Cabernet/Merlot blends. Major panic attacks may require repeat applications.  ;)

Maybe not that early in the day ( look at what time I was having my panic attack). ;)
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Re: Forum will be down for a period next week
« Reply #26 on: January 26, 2012, 07:05:53 AM »
I am sure some of you had a minor panic attack a little while ago when the forum first disappeared and then reappeared all odd looking before getting back to normal (well improved actually).

I was like  :o then I  :icon_music: and the problem was solved
Well done Jon and thanks!

Alex
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Re: Forum will be down for a period next week
« Reply #27 on: January 26, 2012, 07:23:19 AM »
You're welcome folks, I definitely had a Kübler-Ross DABDA moment then the air turned blue and the dog ran and hid.

I'm better now.  :icon_meditation:

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Re: Forum will be down for a period next week
« Reply #28 on: January 26, 2012, 07:25:46 AM »
Be thankful - my real worry was that after doing the changes, the forum would vanish altogether! ;).

I just realised.  I must have jinxed us with the above comment.
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Re: Forum will be down for a period next week
« Reply #29 on: January 26, 2012, 01:24:12 PM »
Thanks to all who keep things rollin' along  :)
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Re: Forum will be down for a period next week
« Reply #30 on: January 27, 2012, 07:26:49 PM »
Is it just me or has the forum been up and down today? Earlier on, visiting http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php just gave me the "something cool coming soon" page.

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Re: Forum will be down for a period next week
« Reply #31 on: January 28, 2012, 03:33:09 AM »
I'm not aware of anything - anyone else?
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Re: Forum will be down for a period next week
« Reply #32 on: January 28, 2012, 03:48:24 AM »
Nope.

Coops did you by chance go to http://beyondthesprues.com/ rather than http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php ?
The link without '/Forum/index.php' takes you to a placeholder page that is exactly as you describe.
That is the page for which Greg requested ideas/page designs.

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Re: Forum will be down for a period next week
« Reply #33 on: January 28, 2012, 05:39:24 AM »
Still getting ' Time outs' when I'm trying to post something, even on really short posts

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Re: Forum will be down for a period next week
« Reply #34 on: January 28, 2012, 05:41:20 AM »
Hi Robert,
I just experienced that today for the first time.
I'm looking into it as it may be a simple settings issue.

Regards
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Re: Forum will be down for a period next week
« Reply #35 on: January 28, 2012, 05:44:17 AM »
Sorry to add to your place Mr JCF, but I keep getting a time out error when I post replies.

Since you're taking a look at the settings, any chance you can look into this?

Gratefully,
Brian da Basher

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Re: Forum will be down for a period next week
« Reply #36 on: January 28, 2012, 06:10:52 AM »
In the meantime, I would keep remembering the 'reload' option - works for me every time.
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Offline Geoff

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Re: Forum will be down for a period next week
« Reply #37 on: January 28, 2012, 07:10:49 AM »
Still getting ' Time outs' when I'm trying to post something, even on really short posts

Me too.

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Re: Forum will be down for a period next week
« Reply #38 on: January 29, 2012, 05:33:38 AM »
Nope.

Coops did you by chance go to http://beyondthesprues.com/ rather than http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php ?
The link without '/Forum/index.php' takes you to a placeholder page that is exactly as you describe.
That is the page for which Greg requested ideas/page designs.

Regards,
Jon


I think I see what the problem is. Chrome bookmarked the page as http://beyondthesprues.com/forum/index.php (lowercase "F" on "forum"), it looks like this link doesn't work any more.

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Re: Forum will be down for a period next week
« Reply #39 on: January 29, 2012, 06:32:35 AM »
You're right - that's odd because I am sure that used to work.  I also didn't think it was case sensitive.  Will look into further.
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Re: Forum will be down for a period next week
« Reply #40 on: January 29, 2012, 11:44:37 PM »
Still getting ' Time outs' when I'm trying to post something, even on really short posts

Me too.

Same here, but a Reload or two seems to fix it.  Methinks there's a time setting that needs tweaking.

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Re: Forum will be down for a period next week
« Reply #41 on: January 30, 2012, 12:41:13 AM »
Things are getting a bit frustrating with doing posts though, there just not enough time to write and make attachments etc,  Tried to get a post posted four times just now and it timed out everytime.

Just like this one, took two tries even with this short message

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Re: Forum will be down for a period next week
« Reply #42 on: January 30, 2012, 01:20:18 AM »
im getting same re time out error messages too, refresh doesnt seem to help either, a teeny niggle but def a pain. id thought it was just because iv been using my phone to access the site and been taking too long to type, but seems a problem elsewhere too, possibly a site setting  ???

cheers, Joe

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Re: Forum will be down for a period next week
« Reply #43 on: January 30, 2012, 02:52:28 AM »
I've been looking into it on the SMF support forum, and it appears that we'll
have to dive into the forum code and, in IT weasel speak, 'chmod line XXX on
template blah-blah to change value M to =yada yada'
 :-\

I'm not awake enough at the moment to face that dragon, however, it appears that
a 'temporary' user work around is to regularly clear cache and to load the forum cookie
anew at each session. Evidently an individual user's browser settings can also affect
the session time routine, of course after making that statement none of them
mention what those settings may be.
 :-\

Sorry for the inconvenience folks and I'll attempt to address the issue ASAP.

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Re: Forum will be down for a period next week
« Reply #44 on: January 30, 2012, 04:00:36 AM »
Thanks Jon
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Offline coops213

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Re: Forum will be down for a period next week
« Reply #45 on: January 30, 2012, 03:18:29 PM »
I get the timeout errors too. I just hit back in the browser, which takes me back to my typed out post, and hit post again. Annoying, but not catastrophic.

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Re: Forum will be down for a period next week
« Reply #46 on: January 30, 2012, 10:03:53 PM »
I get the timeout errors too. I just hit back in the browser, which takes me back to my typed out post, and hit post again. Annoying, but not catastrophic.

I've been doing that too, but then the attachments disappear and have to be reloaded.  If you're only posting one or maybe two pics then it will upload, but attaching three or four it doesn't seem to like it and 'times out' again.

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Re: Forum will be down for a period next week
« Reply #47 on: January 31, 2012, 03:59:34 AM »
Ah, I see. I haven't tried uploading photos to the forum, I've been using photobucket instead.

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Re: Forum will be down for a period next week
« Reply #48 on: January 31, 2012, 06:51:38 AM »
kit': All but a handful of my posts have timed-out too. When they do, I've just been hitting the Back button on my browser. In almost every case, the message was still there including attached images. Usually it was 'second time lucky' for posting.
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Re: Forum will be down for a period next week
« Reply #49 on: February 02, 2012, 07:01:01 AM »
Bingo, Jon's fixed something --- no timeouts  Yeehaa !