One more....
Submitting a reply sometimes makes a double post... Has happened to me a few times (and i swear i only pressed 'Post Reply' once) But the Response time is long every time this happens..
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One more....
Submitting a reply sometimes makes a double post... Has happened to me a few times (and i swear i only pressed 'Post Reply' once) But the Response time is long every time this happens..
Thanks Gremlin - I"ve noticed a couple of double posts with teh same time stamp as well. It is good to get confirmation that this is a real issue.
Tranks
It's been more reliable for me the last few days in that at least it works, but it is still extremely slow compared to other similar forums. Way slower than it used to be.
OMG.. It's been deathly slow today... Takes minutes to load a page (and then still not completely) need to refresh every so often...
I'll mention this to the techs. Let's see what they say.
Brad!
More Info..Quote:
Originally Posted by Brad Jones
On rare occasion after pressing 'Post Quick Reply', I get this message box (Third time now), and every time i get this msgbox there's a dbl post..
Edited a QUICK REPLY yesterday in the VB6 forum. Came back later, and it was GONE! Replied about it today
Brad, I would appreciate if somebody looked at the article and fixed that ugly duplicates in the body. I confirm that the trouble appeared after site upgrade, and previous version showed it fine.
nice job :)
I took a look at the article and forced a refresh. Take a look and see if it looks okay to you now. Make sure you clear any local copy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Igor Vartanov
Brad!
Thanks Brad, now it looks much better, except maybe Downloads section. :)
I just noticed that almost all threads that have a rating, in every forum section, show only one star ("terrible"): is this a bug, or what? Seems statistically improbable that it just so happens to be the case...
Also, the "Rate This Thread" dropdown never shows the current rating in the corresponding field (only the tooltip does).
P.S. I noticed that the khaki theme/style is called "Blue Codeguru" (lol) in the style selection dropdown menu at the bottom left; there is another option "vB4 Default Style", which is blue (lol again), and looks pretty awesome and streamlined, so, what do you guys think? It appears that it too has been altered a bit by the edits to this theme (I guess they were done on some master css file, or something), but it ended up looking rather nice!
I have noticed the same some weeks ago. I suspected a bug making all ratings decay to one-star, but when I tested it, I could apply thread ratings as usual. To me that simply looks like someone running around, scattering one-star ratings all over the place, much like Homer Simpson saying "boooring!". :) (Perhaps I'm somewhat paranoid though...)Quote:
Originally Posted by TheGreatCthulhu
Yes, that bluish theme looks much better than "Blue Codeguru". Nevertheless, post section still has that khaki bottom bar unaltered.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheGreatCthulhu
But it looks quite OK (at least IMO) - I suppose the khaki color is an accident of some sort, carried over from the other edits, but it doesn't seem out of place, corresponds to the khaki line at the very top of the page, and it nicely addresses the "Rate Post"-related concerns expressed earlier by others - the difference in header and footer colors makes it more obvious which post will be rated.Quote:
Originally Posted by Igor Vartanov
@Eri523: LOL. Maybe the admins can check this - there's probably a record of the ratings somewhere in the vBulletin control panel. If that's the case, it's one "bug" that's easy to "debug" (insert ominous villainous laughter here).
It still seems to be painfully simple to crash the forums simply by posting something.
I just started a thread in the VC++ Programming forum. After I pressed Submit New Post my browser (Safari) just hung with nothing happening. After a couple of minutes I closed my browser and tried to access the forums using a new instance of Safari. I don't know if the whole forum had crashed but it was a further 5-6 minutes before I could access the forums again. This is at least the 2nd time this has happened to me.
I'll ask the techies to look at this forum again. This seems to be the only forum having these issues that are reported. The others (so far), have not seemed to hve similar problems that I'm aware of.
Brad!
I'll just say again, for me, it's still horribly slow. Just opening a post can take up to a minute.
It was very slow in my desktop at work (Chrome) while the same Chrome worked fast enough on the laptop.
Removing history and cookies made my desktop much faster. However, I'm not sure it will remain fast in a week or two...
The techies are looking at the slowness that creeps in here and there. They have finally seen that it is happening and are working on a solution. I believe it is a CRON type job running in the background in the forum software that is not behaving nicely.
Brad!
If it isn't a silly question, what prompted the change? Are there some new features in the pipeline or something? It seems to have caused a lot of grief for not much benefit.... :(
Another silly question: has anyone tested this new version before doing the update? If someone tested it, I can't believe they didn't find any of these many issues before...
After several weeks it is still very slow. The reason given for this poor performance was the search database re-build; I was hoping it would be finished by now.
Oh, don't get me started on 'search'. That's something else that now takes an age. I could cook a four course meal in the time it now takes to do a simple search - and to be honest, I'm not at all convinced that the results are accurate. :(
Brad!
One more bug (it appears in both IE and Chrome):Attachment 30139
PS: perhaps, it is the time to go back and restore the last working version of CG Forums? :confused::rolleyes:
I think that's the best option right now.Quote:
Originally Posted by VictorN
On top of the site being painfully slow, search not working properly and so on this Attachment 30153 is something that occurs ever so often for me. Is it just me or do anybody else get this?
I got tis message a lot of times a day last week. But since the last three or four days - no more...Quote:
Originally Posted by S_M_A
Although forum began to slow down again (note that I cleaned up the history and deleted cookies a week ago)
I'm not a regular enough poster to be sufficiently worried but I think the regular users and power posters should be polled about this as the problems aren't showing any signs of getting better. It just took me around 6 minutes to post a new topic in the Non Visual C++ forum. After I'd entered my text, the time taken to submit the post was slow, but not unacceptable. However, when I first pressed the button to post a new thread I had to wait over 5 minutes for the actual form to appear!Quote:
Originally Posted by VictorN
[Edit...] and I can't even make the smilies work today! It just keeps getting worse....
We are getting the vBulletin support involved for understanding the speed issues. The tech guys are working to make changes to help this out. Keep reporting if it is slow.
As to search - I'll need to have someone look at that. It should be up and running cleanly on this forum now.
Brad!
Brad - would a straw poll help? i.e. to find out if the speed problems are only affecting certain browsers?
Up until yesterday I'd mostly been eccessing CodeGuru from Safari on my Apple Mac. This morning I switched to Internet Explorer 9 (on Windows 7). What a difference! IE9 isn't exactly slick - but it's a LOT better than the experiences I've had up until now.
Might be just a coincidence - but worth checking?
It's not a big issue but this page has an off by one bug Attachment 30165.
Edit: Seems like it might be timing related. When I checked it again the counter was ok.
Wow! I see much more people to be online!
there are:Attachment 30167
And BTW, what could this grey button mean (in my Google Chrome browser)
Attachment 30169
I did the screen dump some time ago but forgot to post it...
This is what it looks like in IE8 Attachment 30171
Originally posted by VictorN:
http://forums.codeguru.com/attachmen...7&d=1344084348
It's the CIA!!!
I'm being followed!
Really? :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by TheGreatCthulhu
I thought it's just a zip code of a part of Hanover, Germany! :D
This is not necessarily a bug - the count might have changed in between two updates.Quote:
Originally Posted by VictorN
Hmm, could it mean that all these vBulletin developer are "hidden" MSFT co-workers? :confused::DQuote:
Originally Posted by S_M_A
That's because you quoted me before I edited my post to display the CIA data feed. Inline [ATTACH] tag seems to has a will of its own. A will of its own I tell you!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by VictorN
LOL.Quote:
Originally Posted by VictorN
Anyway, about "Who's Online": It does have the count bug - I just checked, and it was off by 2.
Also, when I "Reply With Quote" on this forum, I keep getting the "Leave Page" message box...
AFAICT this box always pops up when I click any link (including buttons) before the page has completed loading. To me this happens just rarely and only is a minor annoyance, but it may make some users develop the habit of carelessly always hitting ok on the box, perhaps eventually when there actually are unsubmitted changes.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheGreatCthulhu
To describe the issue a bit better: the reply box appears, but when I try to submit, I get the "leave page" question, and after that I'm taken to the advanced post editor, but the post is already submitted (so I have to ignore the page, in order to avoid double posting).
Actually, I never experienced what you describe myself until I submitted that post #190. :) With a bit of variation: I got the "leave page" box twice and neither got the "double post ignored" warning message nor actually produced a double post. (I'm not entirely sure whether I actually ended up in the advanced editor with that post - I may mix that up with another post I made, but I really think I did.)Quote:
Originally Posted by TheGreatCthulhu
Oh, there's no "double post ignored" warning message - i just meant that I have clink on a link that leads back to the forums, and not on the submit button. I knew that some users reported similar problems before, so when it happened I checked if the post was already published. Didn't test what would actually happen if I did click the submit button on the advanced editor page, but, gonna test now...Quote:
Originally Posted by Eri523
Edit: Was gonna test now, but it didn't happen...
Edit1: Apparently, I can't reproduce it...
Hey, just noticed this. I usually open 3 tabs to CG, and found this!
Sorry! The administrator has disabled the list of members.
forums.codeguru.com/memberlist.php
We both didn't get it in the concrete scenario discussed here, but there is one. More exactly (though still not entirely exact/complete), the message reads "this post is identical to one you just submitted a few minutes ago...". I have encountered that myself a few times, as well as having seen reports of it from other users.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheGreatCthulhu
I tried to reproduce it by replying to one of my own posts in the Testing Area but couldn't either.Quote:
Edit1: Apparently, I can't reproduce it...
Confirmed. (Don't see any potential relation to the number of open browser tabs, though.)Quote:
Originally Posted by dglienna
Ups! I hope this isn't the result of a quick-fix for the off by one bug (I got the same result from two consective updates)? Attachment 30177
Users can set their status to "invisible" (not exactly the term used in the user settings), and one of the consequences of that, besides the "green light" next to their user name in the post header not lighting up while they're online, is that they're counted as online members but don't show up in the list. I use the full-blown "Who's Online" quite rarely, but that's at least how the list at the bottom of the forum root page behaves. Three invisible users online at a time isn't really unusual.Quote:
Originally Posted by S_M_A
Ah, that explains it. :)
The db crash happened again. It becomes a routine, you know... ;)
Besides, I noticed during last few weeks that VC++ Programming forum gets not functional somewhat around 8-9 AM GMT quite often. Are there some tasks scheduled for the time, or it's just my poor luck?
How is the indexing process coming along? My impression is that I still can't find anything in posts from a long time ago, even though I'm sure I'm entering valid keywords.
This might be significant too... the main page (i.e. the one that lists all the forums) says that the chit-chat forum has a total of 4,843 threads. But when I go into that forum I only see 1-12 threads out of 12. Similarly the Visual C++ forum claims a total of 253,310 threads - but when I tried going into that forum just now it listed 1-25 of 92.
It's a similar story in most of the other forums too AFAICT. It looks like the developers simply threw away everything that existed before they started their work. :cry: