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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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#3122 29-01-2017 8:40am
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James Bond Junior wrote: »

I'm IOS

This the message I get all the time on opera browser

The www.boards.ie page isn’t working

www.boards.ie redirected you too many times.
Here are some suggestions:

Reload this webpage later.

It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.
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#3123 29-01-2017 11:12pm
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Is the main site kaputt?

Can't get anything at all except a white screen and an endlessly rotating wheelie thing.... (on laptop using firefox)

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#3124 29-01-2017 11:21pm
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I am on laptop using safari, seems ok for me atm, but I haven't logged off and on today.

Firefox used to do that for me on boards. Kept having to re-enter boards.ie in search (was frustrating, especially when you were attempting to send a PM and the screen would never re-coop itself).

You've probably cleared your cache and cookies, refreshed, tried closing browser and re-opening, I assume?

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#3125 30-01-2017 12:03am
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B00! wrote: »

I am on laptop using safari, seems ok for me atm, but I haven't logged off and on today.

Firefox used to do that for me on boards. Kept having to re-enter boards.ie in search (was frustrating, especially when you were attempting to send a PM and the screen would never re-coop itself).

You've probably cleared your cache and cookies, refreshed, tried closing browser and re-opening, I assume?

None of the above!

All seems to be ok now, dunno what happened - even re-entering the address in the box didn't result in anything other than a blank screen and the wheelie thing going round and round.

Had to log off for an hour, though, and it all seems to be working perfectly now.....

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#3126 30-01-2017 1:20pm
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I cant access the Building Regulations & Legislation forum.

Im on a desktop PC running W7 and using Firefox browser version 51.0.1

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#3127 30-01-2017 1:25pm
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muffler wrote: »

I cant access the Building Regulations & Legislation forum.

Im on a desktop PC running W7 and using Firefox browser version 51.0.1

This forum? What's happening when you try to navigate to it?

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#3128 30-01-2017 1:52pm
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Boards.ie: Mark wrote: »

This forum? What's happening when you try to navigate to it?

Cant say if the link is to the right forum or not but I assume it is. I tried that link and all Im getting is a blank white page with "connecting" appearing on the tab and the wee blue yoke spinning round and round. I let it run for about 5 minutes to see if the page would load but to no avail.

Strange, as I can access every other forum ....... and no, I'm not banned

Edit/ just tried it on IE and no problems at all. So its the browser then

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#3129 30-01-2017 2:01pm
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Hmmm, that is a strange one. Could you try clearing the cache or an incognito / private browsing window to see if that helps?

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#3130 30-01-2017 2:16pm
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Getting in with plenty of notice. Boards.ie will be undergoing some maintenance on January 31 between 10am and 3pm, which may result in some disruption. Apologies in advance for any inconvenience caused.

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#3131 30-01-2017 3:27pm
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Boards.ie: Mark wrote: »

Hmmm, that is a strange one. Could you try clearing the cache or an incognito / private browsing window to see if that helps?

Cheers Mark, clearing the cache worked.

Just out of curiosity re the incognito / private browsing - is that the invisible setting in the user CP?

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#3132 30-01-2017 3:31pm
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muffler wrote: »

Cheers Mark, clearing the cache worked.

Just out of curiosity re the incognito / private browsing - is that the invisible setting in the user CP?

No, incognito/private browsing are related to your browser.

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95464?source=gsearch&hl=en

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#3133 30-01-2017 3:43pm
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AlmightyCushion wrote: »

No, incognito/private browsing are related to your browser.

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95464?source=gsearch&hl=en

Is that feature in Chrome only?

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#3134 30-01-2017 3:44pm
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muffler wrote: »

Is that feature in Chrome only?

CTRL + Shift + P in Firefox - Or the three lines in the top right, New Private Window

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#3135 30-01-2017 3:51pm
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Boards.ie: Mark wrote: »

CTRL + Shift + P in Firefox - Or the three lines in the top right, New Private Window

CTRL + Shift + N*

Your combo will quick-print the webpage, which is annoying.

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#3136 30-01-2017 3:53pm
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hullaballoo wrote: »

CTRL + Shift + N*

Your combo will quick-print the webpage, which is annoying.

Firefox seems to have changed it from the quick prompt it's telling me. Other browsers are Ctrl + Shift + N. Not sure why Firefox feels it has to be different :D

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#3137 30-01-2017 3:58pm
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Thanks Mark

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#3138 30-01-2017 4:21pm
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That's what I get for skim reading - I saw muffler mention Chrome and just saw your shortcut!

It's strange that FF would use a shortcut that commonly has a completely different function in other applications!

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#3139 30-01-2017 9:20pm
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HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Is the main site kaputt?

Can't get anything at all except a white screen and an endlessly rotating wheelie thing.... (on laptop using firefox)

Same thing has happened tonight - site just froze and nothing will load or refresh.

Switched to Chrome and all working ok..... other websites working fine in Firefox, just boards packed up.....

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#3140 31-01-2017 1:26pm
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Getting a load of 503 errors today - Backend fetch failed

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#3141 31-01-2017 1:26pm
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delta_bravo wrote: »

Getting a load of 503 errors today - Backend fetch failed

Yes, the site is undergoing maintenance which may produce errors. Things should be wrapped up by 3pm or so. Sorry about that.

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#3142 31-01-2017 1:29pm
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I assume these are to be expected today ?

Error 503 Backend fetch failed

Backend fetch failed

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XID: 181928022

Varnish cache server

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#3143 31-01-2017 1:31pm
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Yep, but should be all done and dusted by 3pm.

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#3144 31-01-2017 4:49pm
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Several duplicates all over the shop again today. Please don't tell us this issue is back? I'm addicted to using Post Quick Reply

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#3145 31-01-2017 4:50pm
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unkel wrote: »

Several duplicates all over the shop again today. Please don't tell us this issue is back? I'm addicted to using Post Quick Reply

Possibly tied to the database maintenance. Hopefully all is back to normal now.

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#3146 31-01-2017 5:23pm
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unkel wrote: »

Several duplicates all over the shop again today. Please don't tell us this issue is back? I'm addicted to using Post Quick Reply

More than several I can't be the only one seeing them. Best so far is an original and 5 dupicates and a good few with 4 posts instead of one.

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#3147 31-01-2017 8:19pm
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Im just after quoting this post, typed up a reply and when I hit the submit reply button my reply disappeared and the quoted post remained.

Similarly earlier today when replying to a couple of PMs the original message disappeared as soon as I hit the reply button. I had this issue in the past but don't think it was ever sorted. Im using IE btw and for replying to one of the PMs I also tried in IE and FF but neither retained the original text either so its probably not the browser.

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#3148 31-01-2017 8:24pm
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Some sort of residual issues with duplicate posts- haven't seen multiple copies that some of the guys here have mentioned- but duplicates aplenty.

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#3149 31-01-2017 8:49pm
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The_Conductor wrote: »

Some sort of residual issues with duplicate posts- haven't seen multiple copies that some of the guys here have mentioned- but duplicates aplenty.

I didn't quote any as I thought the posters might have noticed and gone back and deleted them but here is one example http://www.boards.ie/ttfthread/2057696408 posts 8-13.

Assuming this is fixed but have been seeing a good few duplicates over the last few weeks not just today during maintenance.

Some of the duplicates are I am sure due to poor quality mbb connections where the posters device sends uploads the post looses connection and fails to get notified the post has been successful so when the connection comes back the device sends the post a second time. In those cases you can see the time stamps on the posts is a few minutes (or more) apart.

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#3150 31-01-2017 8:54pm
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muffler wrote: »

Im just after quoting this post, typed up a reply and when I hit the submit reply button my reply disappeared and the quoted post remained.

Similarly earlier today when replying to a couple of PMs the original message disappeared as soon as I hit the reply button. I had this issue in the past but don't think it was ever sorted. Im using IE btw and for replying to one of the PMs I also tried in IE and FF but neither retained the original text either so its probably not the browser.

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Same bloody thing happened again when quoting another post and attempting to reply. I also noticed this message then appeared...."1. The message you have entered is too short. Please lengthen your message to at least 1 characters"

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#3151 31-01-2017 8:57pm
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just to note that smileys have also gone off the menu when replying

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