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What is wrong with the site? (Please read updated post #1)

Dav · 2015-10-05 11:15:41

Hello everyone. I'm back form 2 week's holidays today, only to arrive in and find that an ESB substation has popped somewhere around the South William St area and so we've been sitting here with no internet connection in the office for nearly 4 hours. When it rains, it pours, eh? OK, so the site has been, to use the…

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#3062 31-12-2016 10:29am
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JCX BXC wrote: »

Was everyone flung onto a new mobile site this evening or is it just me?

I couldn't load the fullfat site on Firefox on my tablet this evening- it insisted on loading the mobile site. This morning, its the same on my tablet, but I have the full site on a laptop.

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#3063 31-12-2016 1:03pm
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joujoujou wrote: »

Last couple of days cannot get to the last page of one particular thread --> http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057536595&page=26 (page 26 is the last atm, but there was the same issue earlier when that thread had less posts/pages)

Think that happens when a post was deleted and the number of pages in the thread should have gone down by one but didn't. When someone else posts on the thread then you will be able to get to the last page again.

ED E wrote: »

Whats the status of boards' own image host? I find load times horrendous from that server/CDN. Experienced users all use 3rd party hosts like Imgur but newbies often use the boards host which is a pain.

You mean attaching pictures? No problems for me. Nothing worse than finding an interesting thread from six months ago (e.g. in Motors or DIY where you want to see how a job is done) and none of the third party image hosting links still work. Attachments don't suffer from link rot (or link re-use as something else entirely, even porn!!)

The Dublin Airport cap is damaging the economy of Ireland as a whole, and must be scrapped forthwith.

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#3064 01-01-2017 7:21pm
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Is boards having issues with Opera? i'm just getting:

www.boards.ie page isn’t working
www.boards.ie redirected you too many times.

I've already clear cookies to no avail. No problems on Chrome, Mozilla or Android.

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#3065 01-01-2017 7:58pm
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Cloudflare DDOS confirmation that I am not a robot- when on Firefox on my mobile phone- however, its working fine on my laptop. Its one of those generic 'I am not a robot' boxes that you tick. It seems to think I am one

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#3066 01-01-2017 8:54pm
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Satriale wrote: »

Is boards having issues with Opera? i'm just getting:

www.boards.ie page isn’t working
www.boards.ie redirected you too many times.

I've already clear cookies to no avail. No problems on Chrome, Mozilla or Android.

its logging on now but only to the Boards 404 page and every link i click after that redirects to the same Opera warning page as before.

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#3067 02-01-2017 3:27am
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Satriale wrote: »

Is boards having issues with Opera?

Fine for me on opera-beta 43

The Dublin Airport cap is damaging the economy of Ireland as a whole, and must be scrapped forthwith.

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#3068 03-01-2017 3:02pm
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Hi all,

Playing catchup now, so sorry for the delay.

ED E wrote: »

Whats the status of boards' own image host? I find load times horrendous from that server/CDN. Experienced users all use 3rd party hosts like Imgur but newbies often use the boards host which is a pain.

As a workaround to Imgur and the likes, you could try the Responsive Site, which allows for uploads from your computer.

Satriale wrote: »

Is boards having issues with Opera? i'm just getting:

www.boards.ie page isn’t working
www.boards.ie redirected you too many times.

I've already clear cookies to no avail. No problems on Chrome, Mozilla or Android.

Can you try using Incognito mode if you run into issues like this and see if that helps?

How can I? User's guide to some features on the new site

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#3069 03-01-2017 5:26pm
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Boards.ie: Mark wrote: »

Can you try using Incognito mode if you run into issues like this and see if that helps?

Thanks Mark, that works.

(FYI i also disabled any extensions on the ordinary Opera and it made no difference.)

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#3070 04-01-2017 12:52am
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Tried sending a PM earlier and got one of these "captcha" pages followed by a blank page. Done it twice in FF (version 50.1.0) and twice in IE 11 (version 11.0.9600.18537). I'll clear the cache and reboot to see if that helps.

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#3071 04-01-2017 10:41am
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muffler wrote: »

Tried sending a PM earlier and got one of these "captcha" pages followed by a blank page. Done it twice in FF (version 50.1.0) and twice in IE 11 (version 11.0.9600.18537). I'll clear the cache and reboot to see if that helps.

Clearing the cache and rebooting hasnt worked.

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#3072 04-01-2017 11:26am
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Hey muffler,

Unfortunately it comes down to your location and IP - as you're in the land of the brave, you will be subject to Captcha checks. As for why there's a blank page popping up after, that's something I'll have to ask around about.

How can I? User's guide to some features on the new site

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#3073 04-01-2017 11:54am
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I noticed that the torrent site I use now uses Cloudflare (is that ironic?), how do they manage to provide a world wide service without the need for captha checks?

How can a bunch of pirates manage to make Cloudflare work for them when boards.ie can't?

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#3074 04-01-2017 12:19pm
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Just got boards.ie is unreachable (dns error) then a basic html version of site a few times.

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#3075 04-01-2017 12:27pm
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Boards.ie: Mark wrote: »

Hey muffler,

Unfortunately it comes down to your location and IP - as you're in the land of the brave, you will be subject to Captcha checks. As for why there's a blank page popping up after, that's something I'll have to ask around about.

I can post, start a new thread etc but this captcha thing only happens when Im sending a PM. Why is that?

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#3076 04-01-2017 12:50pm
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muffler wrote: »

I can post, start a new thread etc but this captcha thing only happens when Im sending a PM. Why is that?

Seemingly there are a variety of checks that Cloudflare makes when determining if a request should be made or not. It could boil down to the actual content of the message or you might just be unlucky

How can I? User's guide to some features on the new site

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#3077 04-01-2017 1:38pm
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Boards.ie: Mark wrote: »

It could boil down to the actual content of the message or you might just be unlucky

It's the latter. Story of my life

cheers anyhow

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#3078 05-01-2017 12:21pm
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Hopefully nothing breaks, but some changes are being made so there might be the odd error for the next little while.

How can I? User's guide to some features on the new site

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#3079 06-01-2017 11:12am
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Something I only noticed this morning - I posted in the Photography forum in the sub forum, Cameras & Accessories, but when looking at "My Forums" the thread didn't show to have had any update. But it did show as being posted on the "latest posts" tab.
Shouldn't posts within the forum including sub forums show up on the my forum page? Maybe this has been covered before.

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#3080 06-01-2017 11:18am
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GBX wrote: »

Something I only noticed this morning - I posted in the Photography forum in the sub forum, Cameras & Accessories, but when looking at "My Forums" the thread didn't show to have had any update. But it did show as being posted on the "latest posts" tab.
Shouldn't posts within the forum including sub forums show up on the my forum page? Maybe this has been covered before.

They're treated as different forums, as some would get too unwieldy for the Follow feature to work effectively if it covered all subforums too - take Television, for example.

Unfortunately you will also have to follow this sub forum to see updates in the My Forums tab. Also, that thread should appear under the My Threads tab, which is useful if it's the only thread of the sub forum that you're interested in.

How can I? User's guide to some features on the new site

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#3081 06-01-2017 11:28am
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Boards.ie: Mark wrote: »

They're treated as different forums, as some would get too unwieldy for the Follow feature to work effectively if it covered all subforums too - take Television, for example.

Unfortunately you will also have to follow this sub forum to see updates in the My Forums tab. Also, that thread should appear under the My Threads tab, which is useful if it's the only thread of the sub forum that you're interested in.

That's understandable. Yes some forums have many sub forums. No worries, I'll follow the ones I need separately. Thanks

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#3082 14-01-2017 10:23pm
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Evening all,

So unfortunately two of our webnodes have gone TITSUP this evening. Working on getting them back online but for the moment you may receive a few errors, primarily with signing in and the responsive site. Legacy site should (hopefully) be largely unaffected.

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#3083 15-01-2017 12:15am
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Boards.ie: Ronan wrote: »

Evening all,

So unfortunately two of our webnodes have gone TITSUP this evening. Working on getting them back online but for the moment you may receive a few errors, primarily with signing in and the responsive site. Legacy site should (hopefully) be largely unaffected.

Just to update on the situation above - we should be returning to normality now. Things might be a little slow for a time while everything settles down. Apologies for the inconvenience.

Ronan

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#3084 15-01-2017 2:35pm
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I being redirected to the Mobile site on desktop https://www.boards.ie/b/ I have cleared cache and cookie and still nothing

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#3085 15-01-2017 9:18pm
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Boards.ie: Ronan wrote: »

TITSUP

That's Total Inability To Support Usual Performance, lest anyone think it's rude

The Dublin Airport cap is damaging the economy of Ireland as a whole, and must be scrapped forthwith.

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#3086 15-01-2017 9:46pm
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Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

That's Total Inability To Support Usual Performance, lest anyone think it's rude

I prefer FUBAR myself!

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#3087 16-01-2017 11:30am
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stevek93 wrote: »

I being redirected to the Mobile site on desktop https://www.boards.ie/b/ I have cleared cache and cookie and still nothing

If you scroll to the end of the page and click on Full Site (or Legacy Site), what happens?

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#3088 24-01-2017 1:30pm
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Loads of cloudflare errors the last few mins

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#3089 24-01-2017 1:52pm
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ibarelycare wrote: »

Loads of cloudflare errors the last few mins

Apologies - we were patching an important bug this morning which resulted in a lot of services being restarted. Should be back to stability now.

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#3090 24-01-2017 2:03pm
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I have a few problems trying to log in from phone yesterday and day before

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#3091 24-01-2017 3:08pm
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JP Liz V1 wrote: »

I have a few problems trying to log in from phone yesterday and day before

Hi there,

What error message are you getting? And it's from the login screen?

Also, what OS and browser are you using?

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