Author Topic: Forum software upgrade 1-15-2006 (Read 14470 times)

sirwoogie · « **on:** January 15, 2006, 02:56:28 am »

I have upgraded the software on the forum to a new release. This brings plenty of optimizations and another theme in the set. We will eventually only offer a single theme once we have a new design implemented.

If you notice any problems or glitches with the upgrade, please post here

Kremmit · « **Reply #1 on:** January 15, 2006, 03:27:25 am »

I noticed I couldn't get on until now!

Also, as I'm posting this, I see a blue hyperlink that says "Embarrased" mixed in with the line of DK smilies. When I click it, I get this:

I see the colon dash rightbracket smiley code as I'm typing my quote, but I just get a the word "Embarrassed" when I view my post. Again, that's with the DK smiley set.

quarterback · « **Reply #2 on:** January 15, 2006, 03:39:24 am »

I noticed that I had to log in

And then log in again. I thought somebody had hacked my password or something. But after logging in I thought I should check here and, guess what, this thread is here.

And I've noticed that clicking on images, that are attached to posts, makes them bigger and then smaller. Cool

I also notice what Kremmit was describing although I didn't understand it when he was describing it. When you're composing a reply (and you are using the DK smilie set) the row of potential 'smilies' that runs above the message-composition window is okay except for the "Embarrassed" smilie. It's not there and is, instead, replaced with the word "Embarrassed" (which is hyperlinked, as Kremmit noted)

JoyMonkey · « **Reply #3 on:** January 15, 2006, 09:47:03 am »

I don't see the DK embarassed at all now (or am I blind?).
Just incase the DK embarassed has gotten deleted, here's the original:
http://www.joymonkey.com/misc/dkong/embarassed.gif

sirwoogie · « **Reply #4 on:** January 15, 2006, 11:05:39 am »

I've disabled it as it wasn't contained in all of the themes. We should be OK now.

Lilwolf · « **Reply #5 on:** January 15, 2006, 12:42:52 pm »

I had to rack my brain for my password. I think I've typed it in twice in the last 8 years

missioncontrol · « **Reply #6 on:** January 15, 2006, 11:47:30 pm »

don't know if it was just my connection or the upgrade but I couldn't read the threads in Board Discussion from home yesterday it would quit loading right after the google ads....

sirwoogie · « **Reply #7 on:** January 16, 2006, 12:03:30 am »

Quote from: missioncontrol on January 15, 2006, 11:47:30 pm

don't know if it was just my connection or the upgrade but I couldn't read the threads in Board Discussion from home yesterday it would quit loading right after the google ads....

Are you still experiencing this?

missioncontrol · « **Reply #8 on:** January 16, 2006, 12:26:02 am »

Quote from: sirwoogie on January 16, 2006, 12:03:30 am

Quote from: missioncontrol on January 15, 2006, 11:47:30 pm
don't know if it was just my connection or the upgrade but I couldn't read the threads in Board Discussion from home yesterday it would quit loading right after the google ads....

Are you still experiencing this?

I'm not experiencing this at work... I'll try again at home in the morning.....

danny_galaga · « **Reply #9 on:** January 16, 2006, 08:07:41 am »

i dont know if this is related, but as of today i cannot sign in using firefox. but here i am on internet explorer. problem is, i donwloaded firefox only a week ago SOLELY because i was having probs with IE when viewing these forums! when i try to log in on firefox, it says :

An Error Has Occurred!
You were unable to login. Please check your cookie settings.

arent they the same cookies that are letting me log on with IE?

MameMaster! · « **Reply #10 on:** January 16, 2006, 09:52:13 am »

...sniff...it took me 5 tries to log in. For a minute there I saw my post count starting from scratch and the MameMaster!tm possibly being no more....I was so scared.....someone hold me.

missioncontrol · « **Reply #11 on:** January 16, 2006, 10:55:33 am »

UPDATE for sirwoogie :

I'm having no problems now viewing threads...

must have been my connection or random glitch that worked itself out.........

sirwoogie · « **Reply #12 on:** January 16, 2006, 11:30:04 am »

Quote from: danny_galaga on January 16, 2006, 08:07:41 am

An Error Has Occurred!
You were unable to login. Please check your cookie settings.

arent they the same cookies that are letting me log on with IE?

The cookie name has updated, thus forcing a renew of that cookie. Be sure that you are letting firefox renew the cookie

quarterback · « **Reply #13 on:** January 16, 2006, 01:01:59 pm »

Quote from: sirwoogie on January 16, 2006, 11:30:04 am

Quote from: danny_galaga on January 16, 2006, 08:07:41 am
An Error Has Occurred!
You were unable to login. Please check your cookie settings.

arent they the same cookies that are letting me log on with IE?

The cookie name has updated, thus forcing a renew of that cookie. Be sure that you are letting firefox renew the cookie

I was having this same problem. Not immediately after the upgrade and I had to log in twice, but a few hours later I came back, was asked to log in again and then got the cookie error. I had to go into FireFox's options and manually delete the arcadecontrols.com cookie and then it worked.

Hoopz · « **Reply #14 on:** January 16, 2006, 01:04:35 pm »

Quote from: quarterback on January 16, 2006, 01:01:59 pm

Quote from: sirwoogie on January 16, 2006, 11:30:04 am
Quote from: danny_galaga on January 16, 2006, 08:07:41 am
An Error Has Occurred!
You were unable to login. Please check your cookie settings.

arent they the same cookies that are letting me log on with IE?

The cookie name has updated, thus forcing a renew of that cookie. Be sure that you are letting firefox renew the cookie

I was having this same problem. Not immediately after the upgrade and I had to log in twice, but a few hours later I came back, was asked to log in again and then got the cookie error. I had to go into FireFox's options and manually delete the arcadecontrols.com cookie and then it worked.

Ditto. Is this a Firefox issue or would IE have the same thing happen? Not sure I have IE on here anymore or else I would try it.

danny_galaga · « **Reply #15 on:** January 17, 2006, 02:36:43 am »

Quote from: quarterback on January 16, 2006, 01:01:59 pm

Quote from: sirwoogie on January 16, 2006, 11:30:04 am
Quote from: danny_galaga on January 16, 2006, 08:07:41 am
An Error Has Occurred!
You were unable to login. Please check your cookie settings.

arent they the same cookies that are letting me log on with IE?

The cookie name has updated, thus forcing a renew of that cookie. Be sure that you are letting firefox renew the cookie

I was having this same problem. Not immediately after the upgrade and I had to log in twice, but a few hours later I came back, was asked to log in again and then got the cookie error. I had to go into FireFox's options and manually delete the arcadecontrols.com cookie and then it worked.

BINGO!!! thanks for the heads up.

Hoopz, if you read my post above yuo would see that i said i was signed in using IE...

quarterback · « **Reply #16 on:** January 17, 2006, 01:17:07 pm »

Any chance of resetting the "search" button to the "Advanced Search" page again?

quarterback · « **Reply #17 on:** January 17, 2006, 02:03:56 pm »

The forums now list my own posts as "new", whereas the old forums did not.

IOW, when I post in a thread and return to the forum, the thread I just posted in now indicates that it has a new post... you know, the one I just posted.

Any way to revert to the way it used to work?

EDIT: Okay, it didn't seem to happen here with this thread and my last post here, but it's been happening in The Main forum.

missioncontrol · « **Reply #18 on:** January 17, 2006, 03:01:52 pm »

I'm finding that it now takes longer to load everything after the google ads if your on dial-up....

sirwoogie · « **Reply #19 on:** January 17, 2006, 04:19:44 pm »

Yes, I believe we're having a problem with the gzip compression that is disabling it. I will work to see if I can get that going again. I feel your pain as I'm on a slow link at home too. I haven't really noticed a slowdown.

quarterback · « **Reply #20 on:** January 19, 2006, 12:17:08 am »

Quote from: quarterback on January 17, 2006, 01:17:07 pm

Any chance of resetting the "search" button to the "Advanced Search" page again?

No?

Okay, so is the ability to delete your own post going to come back?

sirwoogie · « **Reply #21 on:** January 19, 2006, 10:19:58 am »

Quote from: quarterback on January 17, 2006, 01:17:07 pm

Any chance of resetting the "search" button to the "Advanced Search" page again?

Yeah, I fixed that. It was my fault that it was set to simple. So, the search button in all themes will show the advanced search page by default.

Quote from: quarterback on January 19, 2006, 12:17:08 am

Okay, so is the ability to delete your own post going to come back?

No.

markrvp · « **Reply #22 on:** January 19, 2006, 02:31:20 pm »

Everytime I click a button it is showing me logged off. I had to open this in a new window, login on another window, and then post this here. Any idea why I keep getting kicked off? I'm using IE6.

saint · « **Reply #23 on:** January 19, 2006, 03:33:47 pm »

Have you tried deleting any byoac related cookies and then logging back in? I've seen that happen with mucked up cookies.

markrvp · « **Reply #24 on:** January 19, 2006, 04:58:03 pm »

I deleted all my cookies, cleared my cache, and deleted internet files twice. Just now when I clicked reply, it asked me to login even though it showed my name up at the top next to messages. I can click refresh 2 or 3 times and it will show me logged in again. If no one else is having this problem, then I'm sure the problem is on my end, but I don't know how to fix it.

Is there a way to manually download a good cookie?

markrvp · « **Reply #25 on:** January 19, 2006, 06:23:16 pm »

Okay, I've deleted my cookies again and opened up my:

c:\Documents and Settings\Mark\Cookies

folder and gone to three websites where I have accounts. On the first two, after I logged in, a .txt file was created in the Cookies folder with a name similar to the website. When I logged on here at BYOAC, no .txt file was created in the cookies folder. Does that mean that my browser is not downloading the cookie?

saint · « **Reply #26 on:** January 19, 2006, 08:46:34 pm »

Ummm... I may have to defer to Woogie or another on this one. What about personal firewalls, anything else blocking cookies?

markrvp · « **Reply #27 on:** January 19, 2006, 09:11:19 pm »

It's not blocking cookies from any other site. It works perfectly at home. I e-mailed my BYOAC cookie from home to my office computer and I'll try putting that in my cookies folder and see if that fixes it.

sirwoogie · « **Reply #28 on:** January 19, 2006, 09:15:37 pm »

Have you tried this in a different browser? Normally a cookie not being generated, it's a block by the browser itself. It's hard to diagnose these. I'd like to make sure the site is behaving properly on your computer with a different browser before we continue on IE6

GGKoul · « **Reply #29 on:** January 19, 2006, 10:29:50 pm »

Quote from: Lilwolf on January 15, 2006, 12:42:52 pm

I had to rack my brain for my password. I think I've typed it in twice in the last 8 years

Ah.. Thats why I had to re-login..

Like the new features.. especially the inline edit post option.

Kremmit · « **Reply #30 on:** January 19, 2006, 11:03:33 pm »

"Hardware Review" is still hiding in my blind spot- link @ the top, please?

markrvp · « **Reply #31 on:** January 20, 2006, 12:26:25 pm »

Quote from: sirwoogie on January 19, 2006, 09:15:37 pm

Have you tried this in a different browser? Normally a cookie not being generated, it's a block by the browser itself. It's hard to diagnose these. I'd like to make sure the site is behaving properly on your computer with a different browser before we continue on IE6

Using my home cookie on my office computer did not work on IE6. The site is running fine in Firefox.

Ken Layton · « **Reply #32 on:** January 23, 2006, 10:42:00 am »

Quote from: missioncontrol on January 17, 2006, 03:01:52 pm

I'm finding that it now takes longer to load everything after the google ads if your on dial-up....

I am having the same problem, but sporadically. I'm on dial-up and right as soon as the google ads finish loading nothing else happens. It's getting frustrating! I'm using IE/Win98.

One of the other problems I'm having is sometimes scrolling down a thread is very ssllooww and jerky. That problem is only occurring on the arcadecontrols.com forums and not on any other forums I normally visit at other websites.

missioncontrol · « **Reply #33 on:** January 25, 2006, 02:07:11 pm »

I'm finding a few threads that won't even load past the google ads today.........

sirwoogie · « **Reply #34 on:** January 25, 2006, 04:05:50 pm »

Sorry, I'm just not seeing this behavior at all. I do believe your seeing it, but I simply haven't had a chance to replicate it.

Ken, which IE are you using? How about you MC (OS/Browser)?

missioncontrol · « **Reply #35 on:** January 25, 2006, 11:49:15 pm »

Quote from: sirwoogie on January 25, 2006, 04:05:50 pm

Sorry, I'm just not seeing this behavior at all. I do believe your seeing it, but I simply haven't had a chance to replicate it.

Ken, which IE are you using? How about you MC (OS/Browser)?

windows 2k Pro, IE6....

quarterback · « **Reply #36 on:** January 26, 2006, 11:19:08 am »

Quote from: quarterback on January 17, 2006, 02:03:56 pm

The forums now list my own posts as "new", whereas the old forums did not.

IOW, when I post in a thread and return to the forum, the thread I just posted in now indicates that it has a new post... you know, the one I just posted.

Any way to revert to the way it used to work?

EDIT: Okay, it didn't seem to happen here with this thread and my last post here, but it's been happening in The Main forum.

This is still happening. I just made a post in the B/S/T forum. I returned to the forum and noticed that there was a "new" post in the thread. And then I look... the only "new" post is the one that I just made. What's up with this?

I have a screenshot to show what I'm talking about, but the forum is not letting me upload it. It's saying that "The upload folder is full", just as others have reported.

quarterback · « **Reply #37 on:** January 26, 2006, 11:22:28 am »

Here's the pic

Link

sirwoogie · « **Reply #38 on:** January 26, 2006, 02:25:05 pm »

qb: Thanks for the investigation, but it still isn't helping me get any farther.

But, I want to focus on your statement regarding the attachements directory. I have not had any reports of uploading attachement problems. Is this being discussed in another thread? We have plenty of space in our attachements directory, so I'm not sure why you experienced that problem.

quarterback · « **Reply #39 on:** January 26, 2006, 11:46:02 pm »

Quote from: sirwoogie on January 26, 2006, 02:25:05 pm

qb: Thanks for the investigation, but it still isn't helping me get any farther.

But, I want to focus on your statement regarding the attachements directory. I have not had any reports of uploading attachement problems. Is this being discussed in another thread? We have plenty of space in our attachements directory, so I'm not sure why you experienced that problem.

Sorry, I should have been clearer. I just noticed it mentioned in another thread... but there wasn't a specific thread about it. Let me see what threads I was reading earlier today... be right back!

EDIT: I'm back. Here's one other post here that mentions it. I thought I saw a 2nd one as well, but I'm not sure where.

I'm going to try attaching a pic to my next post and see if I get the same error.


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