Problem with the Forums

Ivotas

I don´t what´s wrong but for a couple of days I´ve been having the problem with the forum here that I either can´t access it OR what happens more frequently that pages won´t fully load for me. It didn´t happen all the time the last couple of days thats why I didn´t want to start a new thread about it but right now it is a permanent problem.

Here´s some examples how far I can load the pages. Main Page, Post in the Anime Forum, Post in the Manga Forum. Notice that on all three pages I scrolled down as far as I could but I´m still not at what is supposed to be the bottom of the page. Kind frustrating to browse the forums that way but it is something that seems to be an exclusive problem to this place here. All the other places I go online work perfectly fine for me.

Oh yeah, almost forgot, the banner won´t show for me either. Not that I need it anyways but I´m just pointing it out because I don´t think that this is normal either.

dinty

I've had these troubles too, Ivotas – so it's not just a problem with your computer or your connection, since we're in different parts of the world. Not only did I get the half screen and loading problems that you've described, but I was told by my computer three or four times yesterday that AP forums didn't exist!

During those times, I just assumed the site was down temporarily for maintainence, but when I was able to access it again, I noticed that there were many posts that could only have been written doing that "down" time, and also that there was no message from ocean saying "We're back!" or messages from others asking about why AP went down.

As a temporary measure, whenever I get a half-screen, I've reloaded the page, and that seems to solve that problem, but the spontaneous log-out problem is much harder to solve. To avoid that, I always copy my posts before sending them now, so that if I do get spontaneously thrown out, at least don't have to rewrite the entire message when I'm allowed back in.

Ivotas

@dinty:

I've had these troubles too, Ivotas – so it's not just a problem with your computer or your connection, since we're in different parts of the world. Not only did I get the half screen and loading problems that you've described, but I was actually told by my computer three or four times yesterday that AP forums website didn't exist.

Yep, this is also another problem that I´ve been experiencing in that time perdio.

During those times, I just assumed it was down temporarily for maintainence, but when I was able to access it again, I noticed that there were a lot of posts that cold only have been written doing that time, and also that there wasnt any message from ocean saying "We're back!" or messages from others asking about why AP went down.

Again, same thing that went through my head. That´s why I didn´t want to ask questions. But since my PC works perfectly fine everywhere else AND now even you experiencing the same problem I wonder if there might not be something wrong with this forum after all.

As a temporary measure, whenever I get a half-screen, I've been reloading the page, and that seems to solve that problem, but the spontaneous log-out problem is much harder to solve. To avoid that, I always copy my posts before sending them, so that if I do get spontaneously thrown out, at least don't have to rewrite the entire message when I'm allowed back in again.

Reloading doesn´t always work for me. Sometimes it does but often it doesn´t change a thing. And yep, I already copy my posts before I might lose them.

Buuhan1

I'm currently having problems. The forum banner isn't appearing, topic pages aren't fully loading, it gets cut off so the bottom of the page is like a post. The quick reply box isn't appearing on topics that don't fully load…is the forum upgrading or something?

Bounty1Berry

I will say "me as well". I wonder if the server is being stressed for some reason.

AD-HD Pirate

Yeah, I am having same problems. What is going on?

Buuhan1

It seems like everything is back to normal….....for now.

Goldeneye

it's like on and off problems….. it's sort of annoying

KaizokuFan22

so far the forum is acting well

Goldeneye

well yeah it is but i don't know when it'll act all hay-wire again

GearSecond

I've never had these issues.

I have HAD them a few time sbefore, on various sites, like 3 times in all I've only loaded part of a page. Maybe a few times more.

I have come to sites and had my cookies suddenly lost it seems.

And sometimes sites say they are down, I can load others fine, but it insists it's down or not there, but I come back and noone else had the issue.

But never with Arlong Park.

AD-HD Pirate

I am still having this problem… Any explanation from mods, maybe?

captain usopp

as of lately, everything is fine for me, but in the past this has happened to me from time to time. I find that if I just come back later, everything is ok.

Ms. Suave Debonair

I had this problem yesterday but now it all seems ok, hope it's behind us now.

Aldrich

Pages won't load entirely for me either. It can be resolved by changing the number of posts by page to 5 and suppressing avatars and signatures, but it's still a pain in the ass, especially as it's not the first time it happens.

Fleur

I'm still having problems, but it's only two things:
1, The page won't load and I'll get a white screen. (I think only when I'm loading something else, as described in another thread.)
2, The text box/quick reply box's rich text formatting isn't working, and I have to intput the html myself. For example, I have to insert a break/br tag instead of using "enter". Hmm.

Zulen

@Buuhan1:

It seems like everything is back to normal….....for now.

You make it sound like forum downtime can strike at your back at any second.

captain usopp

ok, ya, now the pages won't fully load for me… (ok, well this one loaded)

Mugiwara Maximus

lol now I can't see this one to the bottom

I'm experiencing this with EVERY THREAD AND SECTION in Arlong Park

Some of the functions refuse to work too. For instance I can't change font in this post because the Rich Text stuff hasn't fully loaded.

And when I click peoples names theres no drop-down list saying "View all posts, View profile etc", because the page hasn't fully loaded.

ARLONG PARK ISN'T FULLY LOADED?!

Cr4zy

The recent problems I had was clicking on a link. It would just say "Page Not Avaible." Posting, Slow load time, and no banner. Must we move to a new forum host?

Solar Knight

Ah, at least I'm not the only one who's been having problems as well. It's pretty much just the half of the page loading problem, but the banner hasn't appeared a few times (I don't much care for the banner anyway, but I thought I'd point it out as well). ^^;

Deblas

Ditto…

Only half of the page loads for me and refreshing doesn't fix it. It's been happening since yesterday. I was afraid that it was only me.

Quexinos

well I'd read the topic to see fi there's a solution but the page won't load XD

*Meh*

I am experiencing a similar problem with pages not loading properly. Often there will be a bit of source showing at or near the bottom of the page, with or without anchor tags. Reloading fixes the problem, but there are instances when I have had to reload a page three times to get it to display properly.

I'm going to PM the first paragraph of this post to ocean and see if he knows what's causing this.

CosmicDebris

That's been happening to me too.

Forum looks fine for me.

kyaserine

Thank goodness I wasn't the only one experiencing this problem. I also thought there's something wrong with my PC or internet connection, but the other websites and forums I visit are OK. And yeah, refreshing the page doesn't work for me either. It used to but not this time.

captain sogeking

Anyone got a solution ?

dumb_yugi

I couldn't even read all of this thread.

AD-HD Pirate

Yeah, still not working. Does anybody know what is going on?

Ivotas

Hm, it doesn´t get any better. But at least with that many replies that all report of the same problem I´m sure we have gained the attention and something will hopefully done against it quickly. Because right now, posting (except for here) is a no-no for me. Btw, just noticed another problem. The smileys won´t function if I click on them.

captain usopp

AP is fine for me again. it was only acting up for a bout half an hour last night. I think ocean isn't around ATM though. Are there other people who can deal with the code or programing or whatever, for the forum, besides ocean?

AD-HD Pirate

Btw, just noticed another problem. The smileys won´t function if I click on them.

Yeah, same here. Well, I hope that someone fix this problem soon.

captain usopp

hey, well even if they can't fix it; is there someone out there, with enough PC knowledge to at least know what's going on?

maybe us who are having problems, have certain settings, conflicting, or are using a sertain browser, or have some kind of program installed that is in conflict?

warp

I have had to reload the page a lot, especially late at night. Sometimes it doesn't even work though.

KaizokuFan22

the board went down for a couople of min so far.

maybe the forums servers will be working now

Monkey Luffy

same here pages arent loading

Rai

lol, didn't know there was a button to respond at the top of threads.

Anyways I'm having the same loading problem, and the logo doesn't appear only on the main page. I've just started to have them around an hour ago though..

Lieju

I also have similar problems with this forum. Mainly that the pages won't load properly, and reloading doesn't work. Also sometimes I haven't been able to log in, I just get a message that says "bad request, your browser sent a request that this server could not understand" And now I get the same message when I try to post this…

KaizokuFan22

so far just some threads load up 1/2 way and sometimes I get a message saying some random numbers and symbols

Sanctum

Same as everyone else has described. Heck, the quick reply box didn't even load for me to type this. I did what Aldrich said a page or so back to remedy the situation, but I still can't access half of the topics. I probably have acces to 7 threads max when I go to a section.

Roz

That's kind of weird, I only had this problem on Friday.

Cr4zy

Oh where are the wise words of the admins!

oceanizer

Sorry, I've been sick and was on bed for almost full 3-4 days and barely had power to get on computer to check up on things. However, I did notify the server guy right when the problem surfaced (five hours after Ivotas posted this thread), and he said he is looking into it.

Session Start (ocean:ServerGuy): Sat Mar 17 09:09:38 2007
[09:09] ocean: hi
[09:09] ocean: http://apforums.net/showthread.php?t=12210
[09:10] ocean: Do you have any idea why that's happening?
[09:17] ServerGuy: Sorry, checking now …
[09:17] ServerGuy: That has to do with the server issues from yesterday
[09:18] ServerGuy: You got my email about the 2nd web machine right?
[09:19] ServerGuy: The site was eventually redirected as forward/reverse proxies were not able to stop the load from reoccuring
[09:19] ServerGuy: Host told me machine should be online today.
[09:21] ServerGuy: Please let me know when you are back
[09:22] ocean: back
[09:22] ServerGuy: ok
[09:22] ocean: Sorry, I've been sick and haven't been caught up w/ anything yet..
[09:22] ServerGuy: It's not your job to run the server.
[09:23] ocean: Oh no, I mean… I just... probably won't understand anything even if you tell me now ^^;
[09:24] ServerGuy: One of the other sites has been getting too much traffic, enough that the cluster can't cope with the load. I ordered a machine to use NFS so and got host to setup a load balancer to bring online a 2nd web machine pretty much, so that it won't cause anymore problems.
[09:25] ocean: ok. .. so this load problem will go away eventually?
[09:25] ServerGuy: They should once the 2nd machine is setup with the load balancer
[09:26] ocean: ok thanks
[09:26] ocean: im gonna go back to sleep now…
[09:26] ocean: x.x
[09:26] ServerGuy: I should be sending out an email once host sets up server.
[09:26] ServerGuy: ok, take care.
[09:26] ocean: ok
[10:27] *** You have been disconnected. Sat Mar 17 10:27:25 2007.

I haven't received any email yet, but he's probably still working on it, so please be patient.

Quexinos

well thanks for informing him. To pass the time until it's fixed i'll poke the penguin in your sig

Buuhan1

Good to know it's being fixed, the forum has been fine for me for a few days now. But it'll be nice to know everything is fixed.

Rai

EDIT:
Oh, there's a third page. =D

Now it's okay anyways, thanks.

Ivotas

Thanks for letting us know that measures are taken. The site seemed to work for me this morning. Well, at least the first three topics I read through, afterwards the problem returned and still persist. But at least the smiley and banner thing seems to be ok again. :happy:

dinty

Thanks for the update, ocean.
I hope you – and the server -- are feeling better soon!

AD-HD Pirate

Thanks for informing us Ocean. :happy:
Well, now just waiting to problem get fixed.