Skip to main content ↑ ↓

Notice

Please note that most of the software linked on this forum is likely to be safe to use. If you are unsure, feel free to ask in the relevant topics, or send a private message to an administrator or moderator. To help curb the problems of false positives, or in the event that you do find actual malware, you can contribute through the article linked here.
Topic: Forum outage (Read 7023 times) previous topic - next topic
0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Forum outage

Hi all,

the forum software started acting up earlier today and made the forum inaccessible for several hours. Attempts to manually revive it were in vain, so we had to restore from last week's backups. I succesfully restored the post, topic and member data to the moment before the crash, so I think most important data wasn't lost.

There may be some general goofiness related to the schizophrenic condition the forum is now in. For example, some avatars seem to be broken.

I suspect a recent forum software upgrade to be responsible for these problems, so it's possible more issues pop up or this happens again. We'll try to find a fix.

Forum outage

Reply #1 –
thanks for the info and good luck 
Nothing but a Heartache - Since I found my Baby ;)

Forum outage

Reply #2 –
That's it, someone must be fired.

Oh wait, you guys do this out of the goodness of your hearts.

Sorry you had the hassle, thanks for the hard work all of you put in.

Forum outage

Reply #3 –
I don't know if it is relevant, but in the last week I noticed that I wasn't always getting all of the email topic subscription reply notifications - only some of them.
 

Forum outage

Reply #4 –
Heh, when I saw the forum offline, I thought it was related to posts disappearing due to Google's Web Accelerator horrendous bugs.

BTW, so that's the reason why I no longer have my avatar?

Forum outage

Reply #5 –
Quote
Heh, when I saw the forum offline, I thought it was related to posts disappearing due to Google's Web Accelerator horrendous bugs.

BTW, so that's the reason why I no longer have my avatar?
[a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=297472"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]

It appears random avatars broke. Including mine

Forum outage

Reply #7 –
I'm checking if there is a way to fix all avatars rather than to restore them manually.

Forum outage

Reply #8 –
I see that some of the image dimensions are also screwed - your (Garf) avatar is a bit deformed.

OT: Why is Fast-Reply disabled? It saves time for both the server (since it doesn't have to send the whole post form) and the user (since he doesn't have to wait for the server/browser to serve/load the full post form).

Forum outage

Reply #9 –
Fast reply has always been disabled in Validated News.

Forum outage

Reply #10 –
Quote
I see that some of the image dimensions are also screwed - your (Garf) avatar is a bit deformed.


It's showing the wrong image, actually?!

Edit: Well fixed that. Weirdness!

Forum outage

Reply #11 –
heh. The forum engine is going kooky.

Thanks for looking into the avatar issue, Garf.

Forum outage

Reply #12 –
Sorry, looks like avatars are nonrecoverable. You will have to reupload/reset them.