Technical problems

Mr. Brown wrote:

As a protective measure (and I haven't checked the terms and conditions lately), perhaps we should indicate that this site is for members 18+, and anyone joining below that age is doing it on their own accord, removing the admins here of any responsibility in that area. I'm not saying that I think there would ever be a problem with the younger members around here, but, just to be safe...

It's a tough one. For a while now, I've been meaning to put together a disclaimer to go at either the top or bottom of the front page, just to cover our backsides over content. I'll have that done very soon, especially in light of what's happened recently with the suspensions(?), and I'll look into how to implement any kind of age restriction features, though I'd only actually go ahead and implement those restrictions if they were deemed universally necessary.

I don't know about anyone else but when I signed in there were boxes to the side showing top posters/topics and other bits as well as a rolling box showing the latest topics, the main boards were squashed to the side but just now...back to normal when I signed back in.

I got the same. Thought it would be M experimenting a bit with the layout but he wasn't signed in, unless he's invisible. :?:

Half-glad I wasn't the only one. Thought I was seeing things :)

Well, we can but wait and see.

I got a 'We are fixing technical problems, sorry' type screen a couple of times earlier today.

Hilly wrote:

I don't know about anyone else but when I signed in there were boxes to the side showing top posters/topics and other bits as well as a rolling box showing the latest topics, the main boards were squashed to the side but just now...back to normal when I signed back in.

I noticed that early this morning too. Didn't like it, thought M made some changes. Glad to see it back to normal.

Since the colour scheme has been changed, (which I think looks great by the way :) ) there's been, in some cases, up to a 10 or 15 second wait for pictures and smiles to load in posts. No biggie, but can that be sorted or is it just something at my end?

G section wrote:

Since the colour scheme has been changed, (which I think looks great by the way :) ) there's been, in some cases, up to a 10 or 15 second wait for pictures and smiles to load in posts. No biggie, but can that be sorted or is it just something at my end?

Are you still having this problem, G Section? It's just that I've had no other complaints about this, nor have there been any delays when I've been using the boards myself.

Yes. I guess it's just my connection but it began literally straight after the board's colour scheme was changed from grey to blue. I don't want to make a big fuss about it, as it's such a small and hardly inconvenient matter, but I don't normally believe in coincidences. :)

This is happening for me too. Not all pictures though. Tux's avatar seems to take longer than the others.

Me too, but I just noticed it starting today. Its not a biggie as everything does get loaded.

Hasn't happened for me - it was a few days agao but that was from the internet slowing down at my plce so no real issue.

Fae wrote:

Hasn't happened for me - it was a few days agao but that was from the internet slowing down at my plce so no real issue.

Yes, things have normalized on my end too. No biggie. A blip.

Wonder if the recent picture resizing has something to do with it? I've noticed a few pics have re-sizing options now, as opposed to presumably being too big for the boards. Maybe this coincided with people having slower photo loading? If so, maybe M could switch back to non-resizing on the photos?

No, I'd stick with this re-sizing thing. Makes it a lot easier for those of us who can't be bothered doing it ourselves.

Nah, I prefer it when it manually re-sizes.

Its cleaner

Fae wrote:

Nah, I prefer it when it manually re-sizes.

Its cleaner

Why? Everything's the same width - so no screwing up the page. Even if some avatars do load a little slower, we're better with things as they are now.

Yep I like that the pictures are now a proper size, automatically. I could never figure out how to make them smaller and fit better :oops:

Sharky wrote:

Fae wrote:

Nah, I prefer it when it manually re-sizes.

Its cleaner

Why? Everything's the same width - so no screwing up the page. Even if some avatars do load a little slower, we're better with things as they are now.

Sorry I wrote that wrong.

I like it when the boards resize things to fit right without us having to do it.

There.

I'm having some trouble with the search function. If I type 'Ambler' - I get "No topics or posts met your search criteria". Likewise, 'Baker' just comes up with Lazenby's post here.

Sharky wrote:

I'm having some trouble with the search function. If I type 'Ambler' - I get "No topics or posts met your search criteria". Likewise, 'Baker' just comes up with Lazenby's post here.

I'll see if I can figure it out and get back to you, Sharky.

I posted on the Scratching Post forum, but I can't read the post I made, because -

Quote :

"Sorry, but only administrators can read topics in this forum."

Help?

...what gives?

Quote :

Sorry, but only administrators can read topics in this forum.

Must be a mistake of some sort. Mods can't even read it.

M will probably just have to go in an make it viewable for everyone. Won't take long.