Consigliere Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 Ran - any update on this Tapatalk situation? It has been over a month. If their developers couldn't be arsed to assist in sorting out the problem then I'll just go ahead and uninstall that app. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mladen Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 So, the Season 6 subforum is not moderated? I just opened the thread without mod approval... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HexMachina Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 ^Hmm,Risto makes a good point, as there also don't seem to be any mod functions available for the season 6 sub forum either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farerb Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 My email notifications have been disabled and I can't turn them back on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparks Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 2 hours ago, farerb said: My email notifications have been disabled and I can't turn them back on. Ran posted about this; we had to temporarily turn off email notifications because, due to the level of board activity, it was trying to send several hundred emails pretty much constantly. This had two effects: The server load was scary, and things stopped working right. We got flagged as spam by several ISPs that were receiving a big chunk of that mail; as a result, we got blacklisted and so a huge chunk of those mails were bouncing anyway. Which caused them to hit the mail server on the way back in, and... yeah. Email notifications will get turned back on after the season ends, or when I figure out a way to stem the tide so the email flood doesn't get us flagged as bulk-mail spammers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farerb Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 2 hours ago, Sparks said: Ran posted about this; we had to temporarily turn off email notifications because, due to the level of board activity, it was trying to send several hundred emails pretty much constantly. This had two effects: The server load was scary, and things stopped working right. We got flagged as spam by several ISPs that were receiving a big chunk of that mail; as a result, we got blacklisted and so a huge chunk of those mails were bouncing anyway. Which caused them to hit the mail server on the way back in, and... yeah. Email notifications will get turned back on after the season ends, or when I figure out a way to stem the tide so the email flood doesn't get us flagged as bulk-mail spammers. Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ygrain Posted April 27, 2016 Share Posted April 27, 2016 That box in the notification setting about allowing my browser to accept notifications is supposed to solve this issue? I sure hope so, I am feeling lonely without my usual load of morning forum spam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweetsunray Posted April 27, 2016 Share Posted April 27, 2016 (edited) Log in issues Yesterday I tried to log in from another location and it did not work, so I tried out several possible alternative passwords (assuming I had forgotten or used the wrong one). Failing any attempt, I requested a reset for my password (past 9am GMT yesterday), but did not receive a reset mail until tonight 18pm GMT. When I arrived home yesterday I was luckily still logged in on my laptop from which I usually post (permanently logged in), so I had no issue posting yesterday. After receiving the reset password mail tonight I did put in a new password so that at least I was sure again which one to use. When I later reloaded a page for newly added replies in a thread it appeared I was suddenly logged out and had to sign in again. I attempted this several times but failed, except when I selected 'log in anonymously'. And now that I have, it seems I am logged in anyway under my usual public account. ????? Edited April 27, 2016 by sweetsunray Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Arthur Smith Posted April 28, 2016 Share Posted April 28, 2016 Hello. This is my first time posting in the help subforum. So please correct me if i did anything wrong in the help subforum like post in the wrong thread. I was wondering how do you post images in the About Me profile? I remember i was able to do it, but then my images and gifs wasn't showing, so i decided to remove them and upload the images again. But i couldn't anymore. And now i can't find the tool to do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tianzi Posted April 28, 2016 Share Posted April 28, 2016 Hello. Either I've gone blind or the search function disappeared. If the former, where it is? If the latter, is it coming back? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mladen Posted April 28, 2016 Share Posted April 28, 2016 1 hour ago, Tianzi said: Hello. Either I've gone blind or the search function disappeared. If the former, where it is? If the latter, is it coming back? Usually, during TV season, the search function is disabled. It happens every year and I think that must be the case... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The North Forgets Posted April 28, 2016 Share Posted April 28, 2016 (edited) Any time I click on a section of a forum it only shows 1 topic despite saying there are over 1000 topics? EDIT: nvm Edited April 28, 2016 by The North Forgets Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparks Posted April 28, 2016 Share Posted April 28, 2016 1 hour ago, Risto said: Usually, during TV season, the search function is disabled. It happens every year and I think that must be the case... Search is far and away the single most expensive operation to perform on a forum this large. It's actually less of a giant looming problem this year due to the actual search chewing RAM or CPU than in past years, because the database and search now happen on an entirely different machine than the forum/wiki processing happens on. However, it still presents a problem due to the length of time it takes a search result to return. That holds up both a connection slot and one of the script-processing instances for far longer than any other forum operation, and we have a limited number of both. (It's a large number, but still a limited one, and "large" ceases to have quite the same meaning when you have 25,000 users hitting the site simultaneously.) Even though Varnish will hold onto a connection until a new slot becomes free, think of it like rush hour on a freeway: if you have 2-4 cars waiting to merge in behind each car, and this repeats over and over, you end up with a rather spectacular traffic jam. That's what happens to the server under load when search is enabled, just by virtue of how long searches take. To continue the freeway analogy, most of the year we need a freeway with 2 lanes in each direction; when we hit the HBO season (rush hour), we need one of those 6-lanes-in-each-direction monstrosities. Unfortunately, the six-lane freeway is overkill 97% of the time (and very, very expensive overkill at that), so we try to mitigate things during the 3% of the time when I become focused on the "Fire" in "Song of Ice and Fire". (Largely due to the fact that I'm mildly concerned the servers might figuratively burst into flame and melt.) One of those mitigations is 'temporarily disabling search'. Hopefully that helps provide a little more backstory and context. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isobel Harper Posted April 30, 2016 Share Posted April 30, 2016 Just a thought. Instead of circles showing how experienced we are in the forums (I have eight), why not have seven-pointed stars? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhaenys_Targaryen Posted May 6, 2016 Share Posted May 6, 2016 On 20-4-2016 at 8:34 PM, Ran said: I suspect this relates to a config change we made. I'll undo it and we'll see if things improve. You'll want to clear your caches later today to make sure the change takes effect. I've made quite a number of posts with my phone since this, and I didn't encounter the problem a single time, so your solution worked! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted May 6, 2016 Share Posted May 6, 2016 2 hours ago, Rhaenys_Targaryen said: I've made quite a number of posts with my phone since this, and I didn't encounter the problem a single time, so your solution worked! Excellent. Thanks for the follow-up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tormund's beard Posted May 7, 2016 Share Posted May 7, 2016 i don't know if this is the right place but i didn't want to start a new thread just for this small question. is there any way i can search for all my posts ? my activity only shows about 30 post out of the 500+ i made over the years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon's Queen Consort Posted May 7, 2016 Share Posted May 7, 2016 For some reason everytime I try to chose a new avatar There was a problem processing the uploaded file. COULD_NOT_WRITE_FILE OK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparks Posted May 7, 2016 Share Posted May 7, 2016 4 minutes ago, Jon's Queen Consort said: For some reason everytime I try to chose a new avatar There was a problem processing the uploaded file. COULD_NOT_WRITE_FILE OK Mm. Copying over the cache/upload directory caused all the webserver's permissions on those directories to be rewritten. Try again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon's Queen Consort Posted May 7, 2016 Share Posted May 7, 2016 (edited) 4 minutes ago, Sparks said: Mm. Copying over the cache/upload directory caused all the webserver's permissions on those directories to be rewritten. Try again! Ok it seems to work now. Thank you! Also, I don't know why but some times it seems that I had signed out when I haven't. Edited May 7, 2016 by Jon's Queen Consort Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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