Forum problems? Editing posts

[Radiosity]

Is there some problem with the forums at the moment? I have to wonder because 99% of the time I'm not able to post properly. Posts using quick reply generally go in ok, but a good number simply refuse to post (it just sits there indefinitely without posting.)

Most annoyingly of all is the inline edit feature. It simply doesn't work at the moment, it just sits there and won't post my changes. If I click Go Advanced, it does the same. If I refresh the page and use Go Advanced, it loads the advanced edit page, but when I click Save Changes it does the same as the inline version, hangs completely and forces me to refresh.

I'm 99% certain it's not my browser/ connection since I visit a number of vB powered forums and they all work fine, it's just AS causing problems. While I might feel special if it's just me... I kinda hope it's not :o

Cheers.

[NightWish]

All of the servers are online and in sync, so there are no problems that I'm aware of... Which server were you using when you had the problems? (The ID is displayed at the bottom of the page).

Edit Inline edit test...?

Seems ok... for me?

[Radiosity]

Posting a long message seems to hang, but a short message seems to get through, so I'll keep this brief:

Server 7 at the moment. Earlier I was using server 6 (when I made this thread), I've just cleaned my cache, history, cookies etc. to be sure, and restarted my machine, so now I'm on server 7.

edit: testing...

edit2: that seemed to work... let's hope it stays that way. I'll post back if it stops working again. This is really quite strange and bizarre...

edit3: Testing

edit4: Well, I've just disconnected my Router and reinstalled my old usb modem, and it seems it's working properly again. I had a number of problems going there, including not being able to upload anything to my site and torrents not seeding anything a lot of the time. Seems the router was the cause of those, and this. Guess that's what happens when someone decides to buy a router on the recommendation of a shop assistant instead of listening to me and buying a decent one.

Thanks Nightwish, and gomen for wasting your time :)

[Vexx]

I occasionally have that problem Radiosity describes.... it acts like some sort of handshaking hwarf between server-client during network congestion. Usually killing the browser (and making sure ALL the firefox processes are killed) and/or reducing network congestion (i.e. stopping torrents :) ) fixes the problem though. I don't use IE for anything but win-updates but the next time I encounter it, I'll fire up IE and see if the same behavior exhibits. At the moment I'm more suspicious of Firefox or a JRE oddity.

Note: Firefox still seems to have the "feature" that if you let the Download window get very deep (more than 10 or 20), then Firefox starts acting oddly (ignores clicks, hangs) until you hit the clear button to restart the download datafile.

Of course, I'm assuming you're using Firefox :)

[Radiosity]

Opera is my poison of choice actually. And it was working fine on all received data, such as loading pages, downloading files, download on torrents etc., but uploading was screwed for whatever reason. Ports were all open and working correctly, and the router was set up correctly (because I did that myself.) Now I'm back to my modem, my nets are working as they should again.

As an example of how sporadic it was: A torrent that was working at 60 down and 25 up (30 limit, I had a second torrent running as well) went down to 1-3k down and anywhere from 0-25k up, randomly dropping and picking up all the time when I changed to the router. It's now back to a steady 50-60 down and 25 up on my modem.

[felix]

I have the same problem. It seems to happen after some considerable time has passed. Mostly enough that the Edited by.... bla bla appears.

To avoid the problem I Go Advanced before saving the changes, that seems to work.

[NightWish]

I've not had the problem before, even with very old posts... however I have just replicated it with a very large post. As it doesn't happen on my test server, with similarly sized posts. This might not be the same issue as the original post mentioned, but I'm going to assume there is a problem of some sort... just don't know why it happens or how to fix it yet.

[Vexx]

I have the same problem. It seems to happen after some considerable time has passed. Mostly enough that the Edited by.... bla bla appears.

To avoid the problem I Go Advanced before saving the changes, that seems to work.

I've also found the same "band aid" fix. After it spins for a while.. if I switch to "go advanced" it seems to "re-awaken" the functionality.

[SeijiSensei]

I always thought problems like these had more to do with the number of database transactions occurring on the server. I see delays like these from time to time as well, but usually at busy times of day (like late afternoon and evenings in the Western Hemisphere). I don't know how MySQL prioritizes SELECTs vs. INSERTs/UPDATEs, but I'd bet SELECTs are handled first. When there are lots of people making GET requests for forum threads that use SELECT queries, you might expect to see delays in POSTing messages that require database INSERT/UPDATE commands.

(Sorry for all the caps, but these are all words that are commonly capitalized in discussions using SQL and HTTP grammars.)