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[Ser-Arthur-Dayne]

ser bronn of blackwater, on 07 November 2012 - 07:48 AM, said:

Hi, did the forum change the way it looks recently? Because all of a sudden the site looks like this to me: fonts are larger, the spacing is wider, the links are blue and there's that weird grey border around the board....It wasn't like this last night. I tried on both Firefox and Opera browsers.
Or is it just me?

^ Same. I also tried it on Chrome + IE.

Edited by Ser-Arthur-Dayne, 07 November 2012 - 08:11 AM.

[Raja]

It's not just you, I'm facing the same problem right now.

[Xray the Enforcer]

this happens occasionally, although I can't remember exactly what the problem is. A style sheet not loading properly, I think.

And yeah, I think it might be site-wide. We had a board meltdown last night, so it could be an artifact of that.

Edited by Xray the Enforcer, 07 November 2012 - 08:31 AM.

[Ran]

Temporary issue due to having shut down the westeros blog for à bit. Should clear up soon.

[Zar Lannister]

Looks like it's starting to get back in shape.

[Sparks]

When things look like that, that generally means your browser isn't loading the CSS file for some reason, as noted.  Might be due to Linda and Ran doing some work on the site (as with the other night), or just a browser being wonky with cached files.  

Whenever it happens, if it's still going on after a clean reload, I'd generally wipe your browser cache and try again.

Edited by Sparks, 07 November 2012 - 05:40 PM.

[needle]

Hi

I can't seem to sign in for some reason? Would my account have disappeared due to not logging in for a while

Cheers

Zak

[Ran]

We had to reset all passwords at one point, due to a security issue. If you haven't logged in since then, and your account email address is no longer valid, drop me a line with needle or at [email protected] and point me at a new address and I'll correct it.

[Florina Stark]

Hai.

I ran into an Internal Server Error. On top of that, i tried to post this same thing a minute ago and my post wouldnt go through...
Is it because of the like system again?

[Horus Bergeron]

Been seeing this message superimposed on the left side of most forum pages lately.  Interestingly enough, this is the first page that I've seen that it hasn't been on:

Warning: include(/home/sites/westeros.org/forum_web/Archive/News.txt) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in/home/sites/westeros.org/forum_web/cache/skin_cache/cacheid_12/skin_global.phpon line 143

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening '/home/sites/westeros.org/forum_web/Archive/News.txt' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php:/home/sites/westeros.org/forum_web/ips_kernel/') in/home/sites/westeros.org/forum_web/cache/skin_cache/cacheid_12/skin_global.phpon line 143

[Xray the Enforcer]

Yep, just saw the same.

OSX/Chrome 23.0.1271.64

[Sparks]

Ran and Linda have the ExpressionEngine support folks doing some maintenance/upgrade work on the main Westeros.org site's ExpressionEngine installation, which means both the main site and the chunks of the forum that pull from the main site may be a bit... wibbly... for a bit.  Should go back to normal when they're done.

[Xray the Enforcer]

Cool, thanks for the update, Sparks.

[Greywolf2375]

Posting from my phone, so can't link the error but on my computer I am getting the same "website associated with malware/spyware" error that had occurred a while back as well.

[Pebbles]

Greywolf2375, on 15 November 2012 - 08:47 AM, said:

Posting from my phone, so can't link the error but on my computer I am getting the same "website associated with malware/spyware" error that had occurred a while back as well.

and I am getting the same message as before from work  

I can only see the main index page,  can't look at any of the threads or login.




This Page Cannot Be Displayed

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Based on your corporate access policies, this web site ( http://asoiaf.wester...ssues-2/unread/ ) has been blocked because it has been determined by Web Reputation Filters to be a security threat to your computer or the corporate network. This web site has been associated with malware/spyware.

Threat Type: othermalware
Threat Reason: Domain reported and verified as serving malware. Identified as a malicious site via network activity logged during malware analysis.


If you have questions, please contact your corporate network administrator and provide the codes shown below.


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Notification codes: (1, MALWARE, othermalware, Domain reported and verified as serving malware. Identified as a malicious site via network activity logged during malware analysis., BLOCK-MALWARE, 0x00531a2b, 1352961828.407, AAAD6gAAAAAAAAAAJP8ACP8AAAD/AAAAAAAAAAAAAAE=, http://asoiaf.wester...ssues-2/unread/)

[Ran]

Hate when that happens. Our website is just fine, somehow it's returning a false positive for no good reason. Probably due to our use of Cloudflare.

Edited by Ran, 15 November 2012 - 10:42 AM.

[Pebbles]

we know its not your fault Ran  and Sparks and there is probably nothing you can do.    You both do amaising work here keeping this place up and running.  

I just wanted to let you know incase there was someone (Pod) you can shout at about it.

[Ran]

Oh, appreciated. I'll be digging into it again, see if there's anything we can do to get it fixed.

[Greywolf2375]

Pebble doesn, on 15 November 2012 - 10:56 AM, said:

we know its not your fault Ran  and Sparks and there is probably nothing you can do.    You both do amaising work here keeping this place up and running.  

I just wanted to let you know incase there was someone (Pod) you can shout at about it.

Oh, completely - this Pod's fault, just wanted to let you know whatever was triggering it happened again.

[Ran]

Website was down for just about 12 hours, for which we apologize! Varnish, the system we use to cache the site and help make it more robust under heavy load, crashed but was still registering as running, which prevented getting things back up earlier. Now sorted. Not quite sure why this happened, yet, but given that we had an outage the other day to a scripted attack on this server (and others), doesn't seem unlikely that it happened again.