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Forum Development => Forum Help and Technical FAQs => Topic started by: alyssa on March 03, 2018, 11:57:19 AM
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Hi all,
I just wanted to get everyone a heads up we may have a disruption of service later on today- hopefully it won't be long. Please keep an eye on our twitter feed
@Friendsofcci for the latest info.
Suffice to say Jopari and I will be working to get back to normal if there is a disruption.
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Update:
The move to new hosting is complete. Thank you [member=1233]jopari[/member]
- Long term, this means I should be able to manage the back end easier & keep everything updated and more secure.
- Folks might notice that we are now running on 'https' a more secure platform-
- I hope to sort out the notifications & emails from the forum
- I also am looking forward to moving to a system in which good deeds are recognized and tracked. This should make deciding who to give a hotel/badge/exclusive, a little easier.
there are a few issues we're still working on;
- Avatars- uploading of images is currently disabled-
- The enhanced PM system is no longer installed & will not be coming back.
- The status for 'Likes' is disabled in the personal profile section of posts.
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[Spell Check] on posts - bravo! 8)
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- Missing posts or corrupted text should now be fixed. let us know if you come across any blank posts or posts that have strange characters still.
- Avatars have been uploaded. are they working?
- Ill be working on getting the web browser to have a nice green bar on the "https" telling you all content is secure. right now there are a few pieces of the website hard coded to be presented unencrypted. i just need to track them down and update the links to use https.
- After that I will work with Alyssa to get email working on the new server. Password resets and thread activity notifications are likely not working until we get that done.
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Update:
there are a few issues we're still working on;
Avatars- uploading of images is currently disabled-
The enhanced PM system is no longer installed & will not be coming back.
The status for 'Likes' is disabled in the personal profile section of posts.
the PT clock under the member info area in the upper left area of the forum is disables due to security issues- I will be looking for a solution
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There have been changes to the pm system-
we will be working on a write up
We had to roll that back-
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We believe we have solved the issues relating to email notifications. What this means to members of the forum;
- New member sign up will be using email verification going forward
- Members will be able to sign up to receive notifications to subscribed threads
If you encounter any structural issues please post in this thread.
People may be experencing slow load times due to old book marks. We have incressed the security of the site, added a 'https://' before the site url. Please take the time to update your bookmark to the site. It will load quicker!
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Just a FYI, it says that I have a message but I am not seeing any new messages since last week and I have read all my messages but it still shows 1 unread message.
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Seeing the following (Chrome and Firefox) in early a.m.:
"Connection Problems
Sorry, SMF was unable to connect to the database. This may be caused by the server being busy. Please try again later."
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Seeing the following (Chrome and Firefox) in early a.m.:
"Connection Problems
Sorry, SMF was unable to connect to the database. This may be caused by the server being busy. Please try again later."
Me too, I've been having connection problems and timeouts for the last couple hours - on Chrome, Internet Explorer, and the Tapatalk app.
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Alyssa is working on it
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Alyssa is working on it
Last thing she needed to deal with right now. :(
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Getting connection problems and timeouts again, intermittently.
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Getting connection problems and timeouts again, intermittently.
Seeing the same thing.
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Getting connection problems and timeouts again, intermittently.
They've been super bad the last hour. I sent screen shots to Kevin via Facebook because I couldn't get to the forum to contact anyone here.
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Just restarted the server. The hosting company is claiming we have too many website hits per hour. Maybe well get queue it and make everyone wait in line to visit the page lol
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Just restarted the server. The hosting company is claiming we have too many website hits per hour. Maybe well get queue it and make everyone wait in line to visit the page lol
(https://media.tenor.com/images/28357c1fb629177a569732561bfd939c/tenor.gif)
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Gremlins are back this morning:
"Connection Problems
Sorry, SMF was unable to connect to the database. This may be caused by the server being busy. Please try again later."
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Gremlins are back this morning:
"Connection Problems
Sorry, SMF was unable to connect to the database. This may be caused by the server being busy. Please try again later."
we're back up-
and hopefully they hosting will implement server side caching sometime today. They are continuing to suggest it's because we have too many people hanging out on the forum ;)
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They are continuing to suggest it's because we have too many people hanging out on the forum ;)
Somehow, I don’t think that’s going to change. ;)
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we're back up-
and hopefully they hosting will implement server side caching sometime today. They are continuing to suggest it's because we have too many people hanging out on the forum ;)
Just curious, if the stats are correct that there have been less than 100 people online today, how many people do they consider too many?
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Working on SSL errors. sorry for the interruption.
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Chrome is not liking the new certificate. For now please use other browsers or tapatalk. Should have this resolved tomorrow.
In this case its safe to tell chrome to continue to the site
Sent from my SM-N950U1 using Tapatalk
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I think all SSL (Certificate) trust issues have been resolved. let me know if anyone still gets warnings from your browsers or devices.
Also, I turned on some firewall rules that might affect linking content from other sites to posts here, or linking content from this site to other sites. I want to block the bad guys but not the good guys. So If anyone notices images/links not working please let me know right away so I can look into it and get the firewall to allow it.
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Chrome and Firefox:
Sorry, you have been blocked
You are unable to access friendsofcc.com
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Oh strait up blocked? Thats the firewall thinking your a hacker.. let me adjust the settings
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Try now
Sent from my SM-N950U1 using Tapatalk
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Try now
Sent from my SM-N950U1 using Tapatalk
On any modern browser, newer than 5 years or so, on desktop or mobile the forum just hangs on me since yesterday. I've had to revert to using a mobile browser from years ago for it to work.
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Ill do some extensive cross browser testing. But this is the first ive heard of the site hanging
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My mobile chrome browser, which was giving me SSL warnings yesterday, seems to be working fine now.
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fyi, we just installed a new modification which should enable caching of unposted messages due to navigation away from a page or browser crashes-
post & let us know if there's any unexpected wonkyness going on
thx