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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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#152 08-10-2015 1:13pm
thesandeman

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It made me log in again about an hour ago and it's working fine since.
Hope I'm not tempting fate by posting.

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#153 08-10-2015 1:27pm
Insect Overlord

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I might be letting my imagination run wild, so feel free to tell me so, but is there any chance the crowd who did this http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057505130 could be involved? (I don't for a moment believe it's actually ISIS, obviously)

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#154 08-10-2015 2:08pm
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An File wrote: »

I might be letting my imagination run wild, so feel free to tell me so, but is there any chance the crowd who did this http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057505130 could be involved? (I don't for a moment believe it's actually ISIS, obviously)

I doubt it. I work in web hosting and we get that quite a bit, website defacement. It's normally down to out of date CMS or vulnerable coding.

The issue with boards was a failed sever and a DDoS as far as I'm aware

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#155 08-10-2015 2:20pm
Ruu

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Assume you have run Scandisk.

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#156 08-10-2015 2:25pm
Synode

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Corvus Maximus wrote: »

The same here and I'd like to add that I also can't quote any posts because they're invisible.:(

Hit back, then quote again. You might have to do it a few times but it will work eventually. Pretty annoying all the same

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#157 08-10-2015 2:46pm
thesandeman

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Still running behind on fast moving threads like Liveline and YLYL.

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#158 08-10-2015 2:55pm
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thesandeman wrote: »

Still running behind on fast moving threads like Liveline and YLYL.

Surely a sign that the time has come to talk to Joe about this

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#159 08-10-2015 3:51pm
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Synode wrote: »

Hit back, then quote again. You might have to do it a few times but it will work eventually. Pretty annoying all the same

I did that and got duplicate posts..

Ode To The Motorist
“And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, generates funds to the exchequer. You don't want to acknowledge that as truth because, deep down in places you don't talk about at the Green Party, you want me on that road, you need me on that road. We use words like freedom, enjoyment, sport and community. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent instilling those values in our families and loved ones. You use them as a punch line. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the tax revenue and the very freedom to spend it that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise I suggest you pick up a bus pass and get the ********* ********* off the road”

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#160 08-10-2015 11:34pm
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Touch site still having issues for me. New post in Mayo thread 3 mins ago. Click into thread, 2 days ago. Refresh page and jumps to the 3 mins ago post. Bottom of the page shows another page of posts. Click on that and it jumps back to 2hrs ago

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#161 09-10-2015 12:02am
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Main Site still saying I've a rake of followed Threads with new posts........from 7 days ago...Oct 2.

One from this morning said it had new posts and when I clicked in it actually had but the post itself was from 3 or 4 days ago, wherever that was hiding.

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#162 09-10-2015 11:18am
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Still having problems with threads jumping back a page when refreshed (main site)

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#163 09-10-2015 5:46pm
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click link for thread,

navigated to 2nd to newest page.

click on newest page, end up on same page.

click again finally taken to newest page.

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#164 10-10-2015 12:26am
Azalea

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Just throwing it out there: postcount and thanks count keep changing too - not a big problem for me (honest!) but perhaps it has more ramifications for the site.

Otherwise things seem to be getting there.

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#165 10-10-2015 12:39am
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Was struggling to connect to the site for the last 10 minutes or so, other sites working fine.

Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test

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#166 10-10-2015 12:41am
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ScienceNerd wrote: »

Was struggling to connect to the site for the last 10 minutes or so, other sites working fine.

Same here, it went down altogether for a while.

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#167 10-10-2015 12:56am
Stheno

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whatismyname wrote: »

Same here, it went down altogether for a while.

Same here

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#168 10-10-2015 2:55pm
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All the usual problems happening again here in the last few mins.

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#169 10-10-2015 2:59pm
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When I post on touch and the timer circle thing appears it doesn't redirect me back to the thread, again, not a big issue but something you may want to look into

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#170 10-10-2015 9:01pm
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Site just seemed to down for a while again there, somewhere between 5 - 10 minutes.

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#171 10-10-2015 9:03pm
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whatismyname wrote: »

Site just seemed to down for a while again there, somewhere between 5 - 10 minutes.

Same here

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#172 10-10-2015 9:11pm
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Thread should be retitled to "What is right with the site?" :pac:

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#173 10-10-2015 11:46pm
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Still getting that weird "click on the last page and get a previous page, having just read that page" thing.

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#174 11-10-2015 12:38am
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Would a UPS or a position in a high tier data centre help abate the problem?

I may be stating the obvious or perhaps you're already covered? Wouldn't have prevented the attack I know...

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#175 11-10-2015 12:42am
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Com'on lads, reboot the servers!

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#176 11-10-2015 2:29am
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Rig the hamster wheels to give the odd electric shock or two when slow - should be sorted then.

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#177 11-10-2015 4:48am
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Call a meeting with the elders

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#178 11-10-2015 11:10am
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All avatars and attached images are broken now.

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#179 11-10-2015 11:12am
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Complete deja vu on touch site, read a page, press next and it repeats the same page

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#180 11-10-2015 12:33pm
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Am I losing it, or before, if you were viewing a thread / forum when not logged in, you could log in and be brought back to the same page you were on?

For the last while, once I log in, it brings me straight to the home page. Which is kind of annoying 'cause I end up seeing another thread to read and forgetting about the last one!

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#181 11-10-2015 9:21pm
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Site down completely again tonight for me for about ten minutes.

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