Poll
Question:
I had to do this to post
Option 1: Sorry
votes: 0
Option 2: ^
votes: 0
I've gotten the forum back up and running. Somewhat. The login issues seem to be fixed, but I know there are some problems that still linger. That being said, if you guys come across any errors that you don't remember happening in the past, can you please post them here?
Here's what I have noticed thus far:
*Posting a new thread in the Welcome and Suggestions and Questions boards does not work - redirects back to board index (I posted this via New Poll)
*Attempting to view profiles redirects to board index - fixed?
*Board theme defaulted back to SMF default - go to User CP and use Button Copy V2 theme if you like the old one
Other users noticed:
*Chat link missing
*Ranks not showing up
But logging in SHOULD work. If it goes down I'll have to bring the forum offline again. Hopefully this'll be fixed soon!
What caused the forum to go down?
Quote from: Zeffy on July 27, 2016, 09:10:55 PM
*Attempting to view profiles redirects to board index - fixed?
This function is working properly for me.
I have noticed that we cannot see the ranking system at the moment. (dirt road, interstate, expressway, "likes the forum way, way too much", etc.)
The theme is absolutely hideousgusting right now. Don't you think we should go back to the roadgeek theme?
Quote from: 74/171FAN on July 27, 2016, 09:39:07 PM
I have noticed that we cannot see the ranking system at the moment. (dirt road, interstate, expressway, "likes the forum way, way too much", etc.)
I was about to mention that. Switching themes does not fix it.
Quote from: bootmii on July 27, 2016, 09:45:54 PM
The theme is absolutely hideousgusting right now. Don't you think we should go back to the roadgeek theme?
But not the Clearview theme I didn't even know we had until today. Please. Most of us are not in British Columbia, Pennsylvania, or Texas.
Quote from: cl94 on July 27, 2016, 09:48:32 PM
Quote from: bootmii on July 27, 2016, 09:45:54 PM
The theme is absolutely hideousgusting right now. Don't you think we should go back to the roadgeek theme?
But not the Clearview theme I didn't even know we had until today. Please. Most of us are not in British Columbia, Pennsylvania, or Texas.
That was only forced upon us April 1, 2015? I think it was 2015.
Quote from: 1 on July 27, 2016, 09:51:31 PM
Quote from: cl94 on July 27, 2016, 09:48:32 PM
Quote from: bootmii on July 27, 2016, 09:45:54 PM
The theme is absolutely hideousgusting right now. Don't you think we should go back to the roadgeek theme?
But not the Clearview theme I didn't even know we had until today. Please. Most of us are not in British Columbia, Pennsylvania, or Texas.
That was only forced upon us April 1, 2015? I think it was 2015.
It was and it was optional, with a "click here to see our upcoming new theme" link.
Quote from: cl94 on July 27, 2016, 09:48:32 PM
Quote from: bootmii on July 27, 2016, 09:45:54 PM
The theme is absolutely hideousgusting right now. Don't you think we should go back to the roadgeek theme?
But not the Clearview theme I didn't even know we had until today. Please. Most of us are not in British Columbia, Pennsylvania, or Texas.
As Zeffy mentioned, you can switch back to the Roadgeek theme–go to Profile in the top nav, then click Look and Layout; under "Current Theme" click Change, then select Button Copy 2.0–this is the version without Clearview.
Another one: The link to chat is gone. I can still get to it by manually entering the URL, but it doesn't transfer my login info.
Quote from: briantroutman on July 27, 2016, 09:55:03 PM
Quote from: cl94 on July 27, 2016, 09:48:32 PM
Quote from: bootmii on July 27, 2016, 09:45:54 PM
The theme is absolutely hideousgusting right now. Don't you think we should go back to the roadgeek theme?
But not the Clearview theme I didn't even know we had until today. Please. Most of us are not in British Columbia, Pennsylvania, or Texas.
As Zeffy mentioned, you can switch back to the Roadgeek theme—go to Profile in the top nav, then click Look and Layout; under “Current Theme” click Change, then select Button Copy 2.0—this is the version without Clearview.
No such animal showing up on my end.
Rick
Quote from: 1 on July 27, 2016, 09:27:23 PM
What caused the forum to go down?
Still unknown, but I think a faulty .htaccess file is to blame for a lot of these issues. Doesn't explain some of them though.
Quote from: nexus73 on July 27, 2016, 10:14:18 PM
Quote from: briantroutman on July 27, 2016, 09:55:03 PM
Quote from: cl94 on July 27, 2016, 09:48:32 PM
Quote from: bootmii on July 27, 2016, 09:45:54 PM
The theme is absolutely hideousgusting right now. Don't you think we should go back to the roadgeek theme?
But not the Clearview theme I didn't even know we had until today. Please. Most of us are not in British Columbia, Pennsylvania, or Texas.
As Zeffy mentioned, you can switch back to the Roadgeek theme–go to Profile in the top nav, then click Look and Layout; under "Current Theme" click Change, then select Button Copy 2.0–this is the version without Clearview.
No such animal showing up on my end.
Rick
Just got it to work on mine.
Quote from: nexus73 on July 27, 2016, 10:14:18 PM
Quote from: briantroutman on July 27, 2016, 09:55:03 PMAs Zeffy mentioned, you can switch back to the Roadgeek theme–go to Profile in the top nav, then click Look and Layout; under "Current Theme" click Change, then select Button Copy 2.0–this is the version without Clearview.
No such animal showing up on my end.
Rick
It looks like the procedure is slightly different when you're starting from the SMF Default theme vs. the Roadgeek theme.
Do this:
- Click Profile in the top nav
- Hover over Modify Profile; a drop-down menu will appear
- Click Look and Layout
- Under Current Theme (which will be "Forum or Board Default" ), click Change
- Scroll down to Button Copy 2.0, and click [Use this theme]
I think the default theme should now be the Button Copy Theme, so if it wasn't working for some hopefully that alleviates that issue.
Quote from: Zeffy on July 27, 2016, 10:26:54 PM
I think the default theme should now be the Button Copy Theme, so if it wasn't working for some hopefully that alleviates that issue.
Yes, the default was reset to the Button Copy Theme for everybody so they don't have to change it manually.
Also, the rank problem should be fixed too. Same with the 'CHAT' problem.
If you notice anything else weird, please don't hesitate to post about it here in the thread and it will be looked into.
Chat is kicking us out if the window is inactive. We used to be able to sit in there. Now, sitting in there for long periods of time (Carl) isn't great, but if I want to open another window for 10-15 minutes and then return to chat, I should still be in there so that I can see what I missed. Can you disable that auto-kick function?
Quote from: Alps on July 28, 2016, 12:05:05 AM
Chat is kicking us out if the window is inactive. We used to be able to sit in there. Now, sitting in there for long periods of time (Carl) isn't great, but if I want to open another window for 10-15 minutes and then return to chat, I should still be in there so that I can see what I missed. Can you disable that auto-kick function?
Noted that. It's also forcing me to log into chat separately, when it didn't before.
Hmmm, Alex might have to look into the chat timeout problems as I don't have access to the database part for it.
Quote from: cl94 on July 28, 2016, 12:13:54 AM
Quote from: Alps on July 28, 2016, 12:05:05 AM
Chat is kicking us out if the window is inactive. We used to be able to sit in there. Now, sitting in there for long periods of time (Carl) isn't great, but if I want to open another window for 10-15 minutes and then return to chat, I should still be in there so that I can see what I missed. Can you disable that auto-kick function?
Noted that. It's also forcing me to log into chat separately, when it didn't before.
Might want to first logout and then back into the forums. That might fix that problem.
I want a refund due to not being able to access the forums yesterday.
Quote from: Alps on July 28, 2016, 12:05:05 AM
Chat is kicking us out if the window is inactive. We used to be able to sit in there. Now, sitting in there for long periods of time (Carl) isn't great, but if I want to open another window for 10-15 minutes and then return to chat, I should still be in there so that I can see what I missed. Can you disable that auto-kick function?
Related to this, can everyone use the logout button? If one just closes the chat tab without logging out properly and there's nobody else, he will remain in the chat until someone comes in, and at that point the chat will kick off him. I like to do that overnight thanks to my time zone :sombrero:, like I've done a few minutes ago (It's now 4:35 a.m.).
Quote from: 1 on July 27, 2016, 09:27:23 PM
What caused the forum to go down?
I was about to ask the same thing. I almost started to think that it got canned like the bip...
http://biproads.com/?reqp=1&reqr=nzcdYz5hMJWhpJLhpTW6 (http://biproads.com/?reqp=1&reqr=nzcdYz5hMJWhpJLhpTW6)
Quote from: LM117 on July 28, 2016, 06:16:03 AM
Quote from: 1 on July 27, 2016, 09:27:23 PM
What caused the forum to go down?
I was about to ask the same thing. I almost started to think that it got canned like the bip...
http://biproads.com/?reqp=1&reqr=nzcdYz5hMJWhpJLhpTW6 (http://biproads.com/?reqp=1&reqr=nzcdYz5hMJWhpJLhpTW6)
I remember this happening at least once before. If I remember right, the forum got hacked in late 2010 and it was down for a few days. Otherwise it may have just been down for SMF related things and that other time.
Quote from: 74/171FAN on July 28, 2016, 06:44:52 AM
Quote from: LM117 on July 28, 2016, 06:16:03 AM
Quote from: 1 on July 27, 2016, 09:27:23 PM
What caused the forum to go down?
I was about to ask the same thing. I almost started to think that it got canned like the bip...
http://biproads.com/?reqp=1&reqr=nzcdYz5hMJWhpJLhpTW6 (http://biproads.com/?reqp=1&reqr=nzcdYz5hMJWhpJLhpTW6)
I remember this happening at least once before. If I remember right, the forum got hacked in late 2010 and it was down for a few days. Otherwise it may have just been down for SMF related things and that other time.
There have been a number of times where the forum was hacked and had to be taken into maintenance mode. This time appears to be related to a slight .htaccess change I made regarding a 301/RewriteEngine on command line in the parent directory of the site.
Two things, given some of the above comments:
- I'm having no problem viewing the ranks.
- Not everyone uses the Button Copy theme (nor the default theme).
Quote from: froggie on July 28, 2016, 08:53:37 AM
Two things, given some of the above comments:
- I'm having no problem viewing the ranks.
- Not everyone uses the Button Copy theme (nor the default theme).
The ranks are visible now, but they were not yesterday.
Thanks for resetting to the "old" style look. It's much easier to deal with for me.
Rick
Quote from: 1 on July 27, 2016, 09:27:23 PM
What caused the forum to go down?
Aliens :evilgrin:
Quote from: 1 on July 28, 2016, 08:56:06 AM
Quote from: froggie on July 28, 2016, 08:53:37 AM
Two things, given some of the above comments:
- I'm having no problem viewing the ranks.
- Not everyone uses the Button Copy theme (nor the default theme).
The ranks are visible now, but they were not yesterday.
Ranks weren't visible when it went back up, as said above. Only 1 person isn't using button copy.
I accidentally turned mods off and then realized they weren't present and put them back.
QuoteOnly 1 person isn't using button copy.
Probably because Button Copy is the default, and I'm the only one who bothered to change.
Quote from: Alex on July 28, 2016, 07:52:48 AM
Quote from: 74/171FAN on July 28, 2016, 06:44:52 AM
Quote from: LM117 on July 28, 2016, 06:16:03 AM
Quote from: 1 on July 27, 2016, 09:27:23 PM
What caused the forum to go down?
I was about to ask the same thing. I almost started to think that it got canned like the bip...
http://biproads.com/?reqp=1&reqr=nzcdYz5hMJWhpJLhpTW6 (http://biproads.com/?reqp=1&reqr=nzcdYz5hMJWhpJLhpTW6)
I remember this happening at least once before. If I remember right, the forum got hacked in late 2010 and it was down for a few days. Otherwise it may have just been down for SMF related things and that other time.
There have been a number of times where the forum was hacked and had to be taken into maintenance mode. This time appears to be related to a slight .htaccess change I made regarding a 301/RewriteEngine on command line in the parent directory of the site.
May I respectfully suggest, that with any future outages, to add a note on your Twitter, Facebook, or blog, with some sort of status update, or a "we know its down" note.
Quote from: chays on July 28, 2016, 02:43:47 PM
May I respectfully suggest, that with any future outages, to add a note on your Twitter, Facebook, or blog, with some sort of status update, or a "we know its down" note.
I have done that before, but the timing of this outage coincided with a day where I was not going to have internet access outside of my phone. I will again next time we take it into maintenance mode.
Quote from: Alex on July 28, 2016, 04:50:28 PM
Quote from: chays on July 28, 2016, 02:43:47 PM
May I respectfully suggest, that with any future outages, to add a note on your Twitter, Facebook, or blog, with some sort of status update, or a "we know its down" note.
I have done that before, but the timing of this outage coincided with a day where I was not going to have internet access outside of my phone. I will again next time we take it into maintenance mode.
10-4 thanks!
My avatar isn't shown in my posts. I looked in my forum profile, and the avatar displays correctly there; just not in my posts.
Other people who seem to have uploaded their own avatar images as I did, rather than selecting one of the forum's own images, seem not to be having this issue.
Quote from: oscar on July 28, 2016, 07:14:35 PM
My avatar isn't shown in my posts. I looked in my forum profile, and the avatar displays correctly there; just not in my posts.
Other people who seem to have uploaded their own avatar images as I did, rather than selecting one of the forum's own images, seem not to be having this issue.
I can see your avatar. Yesterday this was a problem for me, but it's been okay today.
I have an issue (only me, and only on this computer) where I can't post new topics in this or the Suggestions forum without posting a poll. It's beyond bizarre, because I tried making a topic at work from my phone and it worked just fine.
Quote from: 7/8 on July 28, 2016, 07:28:39 PM
Quote from: oscar on July 28, 2016, 07:14:35 PM
My avatar isn't shown in my posts. I looked in my forum profile, and the avatar displays correctly there; just not in my posts.
Other people who seem to have uploaded their own avatar images as I did, rather than selecting one of the forum's own images, seem not to be having this issue.
I can see your avatar. Yesterday this was a problem for me, but it's been okay today.
Now so can I, from both my desktop and notebook PCs.
I'm disappointed the poll is closed. I want to vote for "Sorry".
Quote from: Zeffy on July 28, 2016, 08:20:21 PM
I have an issue (only me, and only on this computer) where I can't post new topics in this or the Suggestions forum without posting a poll. It's beyond bizarre, because I tried making a topic at work from my phone and it worked just fine.
Just a possible idea that came to mind, have you tried to delete ALL of you cookies for your browser? Maybe that will fix it. Or maybe just use CCleaner to manually delete just the aaroads cookie and then try again. That just might be the trick to fix it on your PC Zeffy.
I'm getting some visual weirdness (the drop-down box doesn't fill the Suggestions and Questions box) but this could be on my end. Other than that everything is fine now.
Took 3 tries to log in just now "Please wait 2 seconds before trying again"
Quote from: US71 on August 01, 2016, 06:09:44 PM
Took 3 tries to log in just now "Please wait 2 seconds before trying again"
That's to prevent somebody from bruteforcing access to an account.
Quote from: rickmastfan67 on August 01, 2016, 10:58:57 PM
Quote from: US71 on August 01, 2016, 06:09:44 PM
Took 3 tries to log in just now "Please wait 2 seconds before trying again"
That's to prevent somebody from bruteforcing access to an account.
It shouldn't take 3 tries, but I've not had that problem since. Maybe it's Win10
Thanks for your work maintaining the forum!
Great work on the site as always! :clap:
Bumping this thread. Not sure if this is a bug or a feature, but every time I use an emoticon, it appears at the very end of the post, not where I put it in the post. :confused: There seems to be no rhyme or reason to why. (https://www.aaroads.com/forum/Smileys/default/HMMMMM.gif) It doesn't even work when I use the img tag, but other inline images like (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/US_20.svg/20px-US_20.svg.png) work as expected. I've been trying to place emoticons throughout this message, but they still all bunch up at the very bottom. :-/
Let me know if it's a bug, or if I just need to do something stupid like change my theme. Thanks! :spin:
All icons should appear here -->
Quote from: JasonOfORoads on September 11, 2016, 05:49:08 PM
Great work on the site as always! :clap:
Bumping this thread. Not sure if this is a bug or a feature, but every time I use an emoticon, it appears at the very end of the post, not where I put it in the post. :confused: There seems to be no rhyme or reason to why. (https://www.aaroads.com/forum/Smileys/default/HMMMMM.gif) It doesn't even work when I use the img tag, but other inline images like (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/US_20.svg/20px-US_20.svg.png) work as expected. I've been trying to place emoticons throughout this message, but they still all bunch up at the very bottom. :-/
Let me know if it's a bug, or if I just need to do something stupid like change my theme. Thanks! :spin:
All icons should appear here -->
It's something with you. I'm seeing a bunch of emoticons throughout your post and none at the end.
Quote from: cl94 on September 11, 2016, 05:53:37 PM
Quote from: JasonOfORoads on September 11, 2016, 05:49:08 PM
Great work on the site as always! :clap:
Bumping this thread. Not sure if this is a bug or a feature, but every time I use an emoticon, it appears at the very end of the post, not where I put it in the post. :confused: There seems to be no rhyme or reason to why. (https://www.aaroads.com/forum/Smileys/default/HMMMMM.gif) It doesn't even work when I use the img tag, but other inline images like (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/US_20.svg/20px-US_20.svg.png) work as expected. I've been trying to place emoticons throughout this message, but they still all bunch up at the very bottom. :-/
Let me know if it's a bug, or if I just need to do something stupid like change my theme. Thanks! :spin:
All icons should appear here -->
It's something with you. I'm seeing a bunch of emoticons throughout your post and none at the end.
Same here.
Quote from: US71 on September 12, 2016, 07:03:26 PM
The last email sent from your IP was less than 75 seconds ago. Please try again later.
I got this message trying to contact a duplicate registration.
I do not think that you meant to post this here.
Quote from: 74/171FAN on September 12, 2016, 07:21:04 PM
Quote from: US71 on September 12, 2016, 07:03:26 PM
The last email sent from your IP was less than 75 seconds ago. Please try again later.
I got this message trying to contact a duplicate registration.
I do not think that you meant to post this here.
My bad. Blonde moment. As you were.
Is it just me, or does "Forever" sometimes not mean forever?
...As in the login cookies.
Quote from: coatimundi on December 12, 2016, 09:02:11 PM
Is it just me, or does "Forever" sometimes not mean forever?
...As in the login cookies.
I was on constantly from 2013 to 2015 (until a software update, or possibly all the way until I got a new computer).
Quote from: coatimundi on December 12, 2016, 09:02:11 PM
Is it just me, or does "Forever" sometimes not mean forever?
...As in the login cookies.
Not just you...I've been noticing this for the past week or so. I thought it was my antivirus being overly protective.
Quote from: coatimundi on December 12, 2016, 09:02:11 PM
Is it just me, or does "Forever" sometimes not mean forever?
...As in the login cookies.
I've never been logged off since I started my account (in June of 2015), so it could be something on your end. For whatever reason though my total time logged in should be higher (right now it's listed at about 34.5 days), considering I've never needed to log off.
Quote from: DaBigE on December 12, 2016, 10:07:53 PM
Quote from: coatimundi on December 12, 2016, 09:02:11 PM
Is it just me, or does "Forever" sometimes not mean forever?
...As in the login cookies.
Not just you...I've been noticing this for the past week or so. I thought it was my antivirus being overly protective.
I only had that issue when using an iPhone...which was over a year ago.
Quote from: noelbotevera on December 12, 2016, 10:26:08 PM
Quote from: coatimundi on December 12, 2016, 09:02:11 PM
Is it just me, or does "Forever" sometimes not mean forever?
...As in the login cookies.
I've never been logged off since I started my account (in June of 2015), so it could be something on your end. For whatever reason though my total time logged in should be higher (right now it's listed at about 34.5 days), considering I've never needed to log off.
I was logged in on four separate devices, with at least two originally logged in at different times, and the login cleared on all of them at the same time this weekend.
I guess someone just decided to screw around with me.
Quote from: DaBigE on December 12, 2016, 10:07:53 PM
Quote from: coatimundi on December 12, 2016, 09:02:11 PM
Is it just me, or does "Forever" sometimes not mean forever?
...As in the login cookies.
Not just you...I've been noticing this for the past week or so. I thought it was my antivirus being overly protective.
Yup, me too.
Quote from: Alps on December 13, 2016, 12:02:53 AM
Quote from: DaBigE on December 12, 2016, 10:07:53 PM
Quote from: coatimundi on December 12, 2016, 09:02:11 PM
Is it just me, or does "Forever" sometimes not mean forever?
...As in the login cookies.
Not just you...I've been noticing this for the past week or so. I thought it was my antivirus being overly protective.
Yup, me too.
This has happened to me twice yesterday, though on two separate devices, within minutes of each other. My first thought was, "shit I got banned".
Quote from: noelbotevera on December 12, 2016, 10:26:08 PM
Quote from: coatimundi on December 12, 2016, 09:02:11 PM
Is it just me, or does "Forever" sometimes not mean forever?
...As in the login cookies.
I've never been logged off since I started my account (in June of 2015), so it could be something on your end. For whatever reason though my total time logged in should be higher (right now it's listed at about 34.5 days), considering I've never needed to log off.
It only lists 34.5 days because it only counts the time that you are actually using the forum. It will consider you to be online for 15 minutes after loading a page.
Quote from: coatimundi on December 12, 2016, 09:02:11 PM
Is it just me, or does "Forever" sometimes not mean forever?
...As in the login cookies.
You browser might have a setting that eats your cookies after X amount of days turned on. I have the same login on my PC in Firefox for over 8+ months without the need to re-login except in the Admin parts of the site (which is by default).