Development Cycle Archive
Thread: Forum Troubles
OHMSS225
Tue Feb 10, 2004 2:29 pm
#144
If they are having that problem, wouldn't they have a little trouble posting here?
I guess the Imperial Crackdown on the forums went a little better than planned. The empire wouldn't even let us Rebels post! Hah.
Lordkage
Tue Feb 10, 2004 2:31 pm
#145
I think it funny you tell everyone who has trouble posting to post here.....
OdiousEncounter
Tue Feb 10, 2004 2:37 pm
#146
Odd that Mozilla is the problem. my friend recently switched from IE to Mozilla. He could never log in with IE (said he didn't have an SWG account), but it worked when he tried Mozilla. I don't think he's been on the forums recently, though, so maybe it just broke.
VaithKrikon
Tue Feb 10, 2004 2:55 pm
#147
winXP
latest IE
This problem has happened to me a couple of times and I've been able to fix it by deleting mytemp internet files/cookies
_Arkane_
Tue Feb 10, 2004 3:45 pm
#149
btw i hate the new colors (f***ing hard to see, too dark)of the board .. let us use which we want.. old one or new one tks
Abominable-TCO
Tue Feb 10, 2004 3:47 pm
#150
At home mozilla 1.6 on WINXP SP1 I seem to be able to login there with no troubles! It only lets me post in html edit mode tho!
At work the same setup but it won't let me login in so I end up using whatever version of IE is about!
TheLonelyZabrak
Tue Feb 10, 2004 3:57 pm
#151
When using any Mozilla browser I can't post in the Graphical Editor part
Imperial Bounty Hunter
LazarusAndSleub
Tue Feb 10, 2004 5:36 pm
#152
This is a long-standing problem I've had, but never bothered to bring it up (knowing the forum software is licensed by an outside company, and is frequently experiencing other problems, and that the software is very MSIE-centric)... but here goes.
On many occassions, when I open a thread, it opens *extremely* wide, greater than 1024 pixels (when this happens, I maximize the browser, and with a monitor resolution of 1024x768, the text is still wider than the window, and I must use the horizontal scroll bar to read the end of each line). On many other forum packages (and it's just poor design) if one post in a thread contains an extremely long "word" (any string of characters not broken by a space... this is usually long URLs), or if the post contains a large picture, the entire thread will widen beyond the default width, rather than just the post in question. On a few occassions I have found such threads, I have checked all the posts in the thread, and this was not the problem, so it has some other cause.
System basics: AMD Athlon XP +1700, 512mb SDRAM
OS: Windows XP Pro (updated at least weekly)
Brower: Mozilla (updated with each non-beta release)
Thank you,
Lazarus Long
On many occassions, when I open a thread, it opens *extremely* wide, greater than 1024 pixels (when this happens, I maximize the browser, and with a monitor resolution of 1024x768, the text is still wider than the window, and I must use the horizontal scroll bar to read the end of each line). On many other forum packages (and it's just poor design) if one post in a thread contains an extremely long "word" (any string of characters not broken by a space... this is usually long URLs), or if the post contains a large picture, the entire thread will widen beyond the default width, rather than just the post in question. On a few occassions I have found such threads, I have checked all the posts in the thread, and this was not the problem, so it has some other cause.
System basics: AMD Athlon XP +1700, 512mb SDRAM
OS: Windows XP Pro (updated at least weekly)
Brower: Mozilla (updated with each non-beta release)
Thank you,
Lazarus Long
Ekhben
Tue Feb 10, 2004 6:09 pm
#153
Ok, here's a list of forum issues I have:
1) The site renders horribly, horrendously, grindingtoahaltingly slowly on:
Mozilla 1.4 on GNU Linux
Mozilla 1.5 on GNU Linux
Mozilla 1.5 on Mac OS X 10.3
Safari (whatever current is) on Mac OS X 10.3
And I mean, REALLY slowly. Fetch time is good, render time is bad. The poor Mac machine tends to lock up entirely for a minute at a time trying to display a thread.
2) When various devs vanish from the Dev Tracker, I resort to searching for their posts. Unfortunately, Lithium defaults to showing oldest posts first. If you try to change the sort order to by-date, it orders by date ALPHANUMERICALLY. This, combined with the strange American habit of putting month before day, makes it quite hard to find the most recent post.
3) Please. Please. PLEASE. Don't open new windows. If I want to open a new window to visit that URL, I will right click and select "Open link in new window..." Opening new windows via HTML is the height of web design rudeness. It's worse than the blink tag. Really.
4) Currently, the Dev Tracker shows different numbers of posts per page. I'm not really sure what it's doing, but when I only see five or six posts on a page, I wonder if perhaps it's just lost some.
5) I had some issues yesterday with the Javascript go() function not doing anything. This meant that I couldn't reply (except by viewing source, finding the URL to reply via, and pasting it manually), I couldn't use the quick jump bar to change forums, and I couldn't access any of the profile or menu options. I suspect it was related to high load on the server and the .js file not being served, but the only reason for that suspicion was seeing the "Processing your request..." redirect page fairly frequently when the problem was occuring.
6) Did I mention that the thread views render slowly?
7) Thanks very much for the Preview option. It's most appreciated.
8) However, when previewing, it would be nice to have HTML the forums don't accept rejected at that point. It would also be good if HTML entities didn't get messed around with (those're the things between ampersands and semicolons; I'd show you one, but they tend to get messed around with
9) Even after all this time, that little checkbox that asks if my login info should be remembered appears to have no effect. Pretty minor issue, but maybe the checkbox should be removed until the feature works?
10) Dev posts that mention Test Center render with smiley faces and laceName halftags throughout the words Test Center. I suspect the smiley face stuff is replacing less-than, P with an image. I've no idea what kind of smiley that would be; I'd look at the textual representation, but as I mentioned earlier, HTML entities don't work right, so I can't do a less than symbol.
Despite technical issues with them, I want to let you know I appreciate the forums and the level of communication associated with this game. I cannot promise to appreciate the content of that communication, however.
1) The site renders horribly, horrendously, grindingtoahaltingly slowly on:
Mozilla 1.4 on GNU Linux
Mozilla 1.5 on GNU Linux
Mozilla 1.5 on Mac OS X 10.3
Safari (whatever current is) on Mac OS X 10.3
And I mean, REALLY slowly. Fetch time is good, render time is bad. The poor Mac machine tends to lock up entirely for a minute at a time trying to display a thread.
2) When various devs vanish from the Dev Tracker, I resort to searching for their posts. Unfortunately, Lithium defaults to showing oldest posts first. If you try to change the sort order to by-date, it orders by date ALPHANUMERICALLY. This, combined with the strange American habit of putting month before day, makes it quite hard to find the most recent post.
3) Please. Please. PLEASE. Don't open new windows. If I want to open a new window to visit that URL, I will right click and select "Open link in new window..." Opening new windows via HTML is the height of web design rudeness. It's worse than the blink tag. Really.
4) Currently, the Dev Tracker shows different numbers of posts per page. I'm not really sure what it's doing, but when I only see five or six posts on a page, I wonder if perhaps it's just lost some.
5) I had some issues yesterday with the Javascript go() function not doing anything. This meant that I couldn't reply (except by viewing source, finding the URL to reply via, and pasting it manually), I couldn't use the quick jump bar to change forums, and I couldn't access any of the profile or menu options. I suspect it was related to high load on the server and the .js file not being served, but the only reason for that suspicion was seeing the "Processing your request..." redirect page fairly frequently when the problem was occuring.
6) Did I mention that the thread views render slowly?
7) Thanks very much for the Preview option. It's most appreciated.
8) However, when previewing, it would be nice to have HTML the forums don't accept rejected at that point. It would also be good if HTML entities didn't get messed around with (those're the things between ampersands and semicolons; I'd show you one, but they tend to get messed around with
9) Even after all this time, that little checkbox that asks if my login info should be remembered appears to have no effect. Pretty minor issue, but maybe the checkbox should be removed until the feature works?
10) Dev posts that mention Test Center render with smiley faces and laceName halftags throughout the words Test Center. I suspect the smiley face stuff is replacing less-than, P with an image. I've no idea what kind of smiley that would be; I'd look at the textual representation, but as I mentioned earlier, HTML entities don't work right, so I can't do a less than symbol.
Despite technical issues with them, I want to let you know I appreciate the forums and the level of communication associated with this game. I cannot promise to appreciate the content of that communication, however.
shafar
Wed Feb 11, 2004 1:24 am
#154
I get these same errors at work.
Ackis wrote:
Jeassa, when I'm at work (win2kpro, IE 6) I seem to get script errors which prevent me from posting all the time. Usually within a half hour they're fixed. At home I never have a problem posting.
mmaughme
Wed Feb 11, 2004 1:29 am
#156
Skins aren't working! I keep resetting mine back to the SWG Skin, but keep getting the Imperial Skin anyway. I'm getting the Imperial Skin on the forum pages, but the SWG Skin on the thread pages (sigh).
And we still have to log in several times a day.