Site problems

[Jelmer]

You can go to "Settings" in the top-right of the screen, then select the "Enhanced Interface - Full WYSIWYG Editing" option. The settings screen is somehow messed up at the moment, though. I'm sure Gerry'll fix it soon

Edit: Dave - the screenshot posted is the default look, I think. Somehow you must've changed it.

 

[clarkz71]

No icons at all

When I post a pictire I have to put

 

[gerryvz]

Vader, you have failed.

When I hit "Reply" at the bottom of a thread, I get the attached formatting options in the "Quick Reply" box.

I also just double-checked the administrative options and the editing functions are enabled for all reply and editing functions (Quick and Advanced). It needs to be enabled at the individual user level.

See attached image.

Cheers,
Gerry

 

[clarkz71]

You can go to "Settings" in the top-right of the screen, then select the "Enhanced Interface - Full WYSIWYG Editing" option. The settings screen is somehow messed up at the moment, though. I'm sure Gerry'll fix it soon

Thanks bro, that did it. Full icon access.

On all screens

 

[clarkz71]

You have disappointed me Gerry.

 

[J-Sauce]

My settings screen has always looked like a jumbled mess, same as jelmer's. Is that why we haven't been getting the customary "Jelmerian" weekly avatar changes?

 

[Jelmer]

My settings screen has always looked like a jumbled mess, same as jelmer's. Is that why we haven't been getting the customary "Jelmerian" weekly avatar changes?

I'm scared that by saying 'yes' I force myself to restart this tradition ... ;-)

 

[gsxr]

My settings screen has always looked like a jumbled mess, same as jelmer's. Is that why we haven't been getting the customary "Jelmerian" weekly avatar changes?

Looks like a browser issue. Bummer.

 

[gerryvz]

I believe it's a bug in the software... Been there for a while. I've seen it with multiple browsers.


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[J-Sauce]

Same here. Doesn't matter which browser I use. Firefox, chrome, safari mobile or desktop.

 

[Jelmer]

As I emailed Gerry: it's caused by the "thanks" plugin that's active here. Must be a way to fix that, but I yield to Gerry the vbulletin expert

 

[J-Sauce]

Mine was wonky far before the thanks plugin was implemented, but far be it from me to ruin things for you if you have an agenda here

 

[Jelmer]

Oi! You got me. I got way too few "thanks" on my posts, and now I'm trying to get rid of it!

Seriously, though, the page coughs up a MySQL error which I pasted into Google, and found a few exact matches which lead me to the thanks-plugin.

Should've added "it's PROBABLY caused", though.

 

[J-Sauce]

Ahh I see. I didn't remember if you were one of the folks that didnt want the plugin added in the first place. My mistake, I thought you were really just playin!

 

[gerryvz]

I also think it pre-dated the Thanks plug-in.

 

[400Eric]

My settings screen is a jumbled mess as well, but with Saucer's help I was still able to change the setting and make the desired change. The stuff is there now! Thanks Saucer!

Regards,
Eric

 

[400Eric]

I can't get this page to completely load. It worked earlier but not now.
http://www.500eboard.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6618

 

[gerryvz]

The page loads just fine.

Kindly don't blame the site for problems that are endemic to your computer.

Perhaps your computer could use an upgrade to a bolt-on exhaust system, or a 2.82?

 

[gsxr]

PEBCAK error...

 

[400Eric]

The page loads just fine.

Kindly don't blame the site for problems that are endemic to your computer.

Perhaps your computer could use an upgrade to a bolt-on exhaust system, or a 2.82?

All of the other pages are loading fine. Just that one is not. If it were my wife's computer then I'd be having trouble with other pages.

 

[gerryvz]

PEBCAK error...

+589

 

[gsxr]

All of the other pages are loading fine. Just that one is not. If it were my wife's computer then I'd be having trouble with other pages.

Close the browser and re-start it. Try using a different browser (if you are using IE, try Firefox or Chrome). Restart the PC. Further remedies require live chickens and rabbit feet.

 

[400Eric]

Can't do that right now, too busy arguing with you on the other pages.

 

[gsxr]

Can't do that right now, too busy arguing with you on the other pages.

 

[Ascension]

Re: forum search

I have the same issue with Internet Exploder on my Windows work PC, but do NOT have this issue when using Firefox or Chrome on my Windows PC.

I do not experience this on any browser on my Macintoshes at home. It is an inherent issue with Microsoft Internet Exploiter, NOT the vBulletin software. If you reload the post (hit the reload button) before going into edit mode, it will also not do this behavior. Remedy is honestly, just use Firefox and be done with it.


I have this issue as well on my laptop, where the screen is narrow. I'll work on fixing it; indeed it is an annoyance and I just need to find a fix for it. Thanks for bringing it up.

Cheers,
Gerry

Gerry I am having some of these same issue and am running Firefox on a PC. In particular have problems here regarding spacing and running spell check. In my incidence it's not running off the page on the spacing but when i actually post it's not showing the same spacing as it did when i was writing. In particular using a quote. Surprisingly this time here the quote worked fine but normally I hit quote write a piece look up and see 2 full lines of space in the edit mode then when I post that space is no longer there and the quote runs together with what I just wrote so i have to hit edit add several lines of spacing then re post.
Spell check however is what is REALLY screwy here. Most times here I have to manually right click uncheck spell-check then scroll out rerun a check then fix any issues.

 

[KarlC]

Re: forum search

Gerry I am having some of these same issue and am running Firefox on a PC. In particular have problems here regarding spacing and running spell check. In my incidence it's not running off the page on the spacing but when i actually post it's not showing the same spacing as it did when i was writing. In particular using a quote. Surprisingly this time here the quote worked fine but normally I hit quote write a piece look up and see 2 full lines of space in the edit mode then when I post that space is no longer there and the quote runs together with what I just wrote so i have to hit edit add several lines of spacing then re post.
Spell check however is what is REALLY screwy here. Most times here I have to manually right click uncheck spell-check then scroll out rerun a check then fix any issues.

I'm using Firefox and I don't have these issues.

 

[500Eboard]

Gerry I am having some of these same issue and am running Firefox on a PC. In particular have problems here regarding spacing and running spell check. In my incidence it's not running off the page on the spacing but when i actually post it's not showing the same spacing as it did when i was writing. In particular using a quote. Surprisingly this time here the quote worked fine but normally I hit quote write a piece look up and see 2 full lines of space in the edit mode then when I post that space is no longer there and the quote runs together with what I just wrote so i have to hit edit add several lines of spacing then re post.
Spell check however is what is REALLY screwy here. Most times here I have to manually right click uncheck spell-check then scroll out rerun a check then fix any issues.

There is no need to essentially post the same issues in two different threads.

We have answered the question here: http://www.500eboard.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6660&p=82741&viewfull=1#post82741

As we type this, we are running Firefox version 32.0 on a Macintosh with no issues.




Another screen shot, from this post, detailing that there is no problem with spacing when quoting others members' posts in a reply. As can be observed, absolutely no spacing issues.


Regards,
500Eboard Administration

 

[gerryvz]

This afternoon the hosting company's servers that serve this site were intermittently up and down.

I looked into the situation on their support site and came across the following information. There are no problems with the 500Eboard site or software itself. If you do find yourself unable to access the site, just wait a little while and try again.

Thanks
Gerry

 

[gsxr]

I recently encountered a strange issue with search. The "Google Custom Search" box at the top/right of the screen does not return correct results. If you search by a VIN, for example, the results should show any forum thread that contains this VIN. Instead, it is only showing a PDF attachment (AutoCHeck report) with the VIN, but no link to the forum thread. Anyone else seeing the same problem?

Sample VIN = WDBEA36E1RC045966


The search via 500Eboard does NOT show the forum thread, only the attachment:
http://www.500eboard.com/forums/goo...com/forums/showthread.php?t=6949&ss=40j1600j2

A manual Google search for the VIN and "site:500Eboard" correctly shows the For Sale forum thread, and also the PDF attachment:
https://www.google.com/search?num=2....17.0....0...1c.1.58.hp..31.0.0.0.7WaqjqBIrVo

 

[gerryvz]

I will do some extra site maintenance tonight and rebuild the search cache; that may solve the problem.

 

[gsxr]

Problem is fixed now... thanks, Gerry!!

 

[gerryvz]

There are still a couple of problems that I know about -- specifically the long-standing "overwriting" but on the user control panel screen, where you can set your own preferences.

Please let me know if there continue to be issues with the Google Custom Search function.

Do know that with the Google Custom Search, it takes perhaps a day or three for "new" posts to be crawled and indexed by the Google spiders from when the posts are made. So if you do a post and then search for it the next day, it may not show up because it hasn't been crawled yet. That's not a bug.

I have a bit of settings tweaking to do for the Wiki, and it's on my immediate to-do list to go through all of the Wiki posts and re-attach the photos at the proper place in tables and wiki entries where those photos have been embedded.

Cheers,
Gerry

 

[Ascension]

Over the last few days I have had several issues with accessing the forum. What's going on is the page with open with the top banner but will get a message under that that the server is too busy and to try and access the board later. Been seeing this for a week or so at times so??

 

[gerryvz]

I have not seen this, nor have I received any error messages from the server.

Is anyone else getting consistent error messages from the server over the past few days?

If a "server too busy" error is received, it is not an error in the forum software, but rather on the hosting provider's end.

 

[captruff]

I have not seen this, nor have I received any error messages from the server.

Is anyone else getting consistent error messages from the server over the past few days?

If a "server too busy" error is received, it is not an error in the forum software, but rather on the hosting provider's end.

I get the "server too busy" message sometimes.

Jeff

 

[modzona]

Have got that error 2-3times i think.

 

[Klink]

Got a bunch of "server too busy" messages yesterday / last night. I didn't freak, go postal, or otherwise wig...

 

[Trae]

Same message here. Couldn't sleep because I could not read my favorite comedic posts.

 

[126v8]

Had it a couple of times too,especially yesterday.

 

[DerFuror]

It was the effects of extended "Cyber Monday" weekend. Servers were getting hammered by all the on-line shopping congestion.

 

[gerryvz]

I didn't freak, go postal, or otherwise wig...

That's good, because people who do, end up hanging out at PeachParts and Banzworld

 

[Klink]

That's good, because people who do, end up hanging out at PeachParts and Banzworld

Oy, that's a death worse than fate!

 

[Ron500E]

Oy, that's a death worse than fate!

Col. Klink saying "Oy"....
What would Hochstetter say?


http://www.amazon.com/Motorisierung-Volksgemeinschaft-Dorothee-Hochstetter/dp/3486575708

R

 

[Ascension]

I have not seen this, nor have I received any error messages from the server.

Is anyone else getting consistent error messages from the server over the past few days?

If a "server too busy" error is received, it is not an error in the forum software, but rather on the hosting provider's end.

Gerry if it was just over the last day or so wouldn't have said anything but I have been getting it at different times for well over a week now. I also understand this is not from the forum but the host that was why I raised the issue here.

 

[Klink]

Col. Klink saying "Oy"....
What would Hochstetter say?

R

"Klink ist das dumkopf mit brainzoftoasterstrudel!"

 

[gerryvz]

Today, we had a site outage of several hours. This was due to an issue with the hoster's servers. I had two phone calls with technical support at the hoster (international phone calls, as I'm currently in Sydney, Australia) and they indicated that the site traffic exceeded the limitations that my hosting package provides.

I'm going to watch this carefully, and I already have a remedy in the works if this condition continues to persist. I am not totally convinced that the site traffic is actually exceeding the limits (which is 50,000 hits per day).

Bottom line ... if the site goes down for more than a full day, then I am going to initiate "Plan B" which I have waiting in the wings. This plan is a virtual server platform that I have already bought and paid for. What I will have to do, during the downtime, is transfer all vBulletin forum files (images, site code, and database) to the new server, change some settings, forward the 500Eboard.com domain to the new domain on the new server (which would be very temporary until the 500Eboard domain gets transferred to the new server), and bring the site back up.

While not an extremely difficult process, it is tedious and requires some technical proficiency. However, it's something I can easily handle.

Bottom line, is that if the site continues to go down, please rest assured that I "am on top of the situation" and will remedy the situation as quickly as humanely possible. As I'll continue to be on the road for much of August, I'll carry all information and needed tools to perform a possible site server switch with me, so I can do the work at night while traveling.

Please be patient if the site goes down ... don't wig, go postal, or otherwise freak out. We'll get it fixed. The good thing is that I have recent database backups and copies of all files, so we shouldn't have problems with losing any information. And of course, a move to a new server will include a dump of the current database. Effectively, no one should notice any problems after the domain transfers to the new site.

Again, this is describing a worst-case/nightmare situation ONLY. Hopefully things will settle down and the site will continue as it has with no issues.

My apologies for the downtime, which seemed to last around 4-5 hours.

Happy 500E-ing !!
Cheers from the Land Down Under !
Gerry

 

[sheward]

Thanks for the notice.

drew

 

[TerryA]

Thanks Gerry,

For all your hard work and dedication to this board.

 

[r44raven]

Thanks Gerry,

For all your hard work and dedication to this board.

+ 1

Stephen

 

[Trae]

Wow, that was close. . . Klink, Jono, and GSXR told me to hang on and try not to wig, go postal, or otherwise freak out, but I was definitely wigged.
Jono said that smoking tires would help.