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Boosting this bug report from the HMW forum in case it's missed there:
hmw-bug-reporting-thread-p2184894.php#p2184892

Red Sentinel wrote:Seems like we can't buy armor for our bots anymore. The result comes back "Invalid"

From what checks I've been able to do in userland, my guess is that something happened either to the Armor table data or with the armor_id variable being passed in from the armor.php form?

I know this has been posted everywhere (although I'm hoping the squeaky cog can get the grease), but is there anything that can be done about the armor purchase issue?

OK. Is there armor available now?

Not at this time- it still says "an invalid armor identifier was given".

Red Sentinel wrote:Not at this time- it still says "an invalid armor identifier was given".

I'll have to look at the code to figure out why tomorrow. I thought adding quantities back would fix it but apparently there is another issue.

I'd be happy to look at it.

Anyone else having a lot of trouble with the site lately - last week or so?

I keep getting really slow page loads - especially on the forums - plus Kremzeeks and upstream server errors referencing the database connection that don't even make it to the Kremzeek page. I don't know if it's just the times I happen to be on, but haven't really been able to correlate to any particular times of day atm (though early afternoon GMT is often pretty bad).

Glyph wrote:Anyone else having a lot of trouble with the site lately - last week or so?

I keep getting really slow page loads - especially on the forums - plus Kremzeeks and upstream server errors referencing the database connection that don't even make it to the Kremzeek page. I don't know if it's just the times I happen to be on, but haven't really been able to correlate to any particular times of day atm (though early afternoon GMT is often pretty bad).

Yeah, it was really sluggish for a few days last week for me, and then barely useable over the weekend. Seems better now.

Emerje

Sabrblade wrote:

Emerje wrote:

Glyph wrote:Anyone else having a lot of trouble with the site lately - last week or so?

I keep getting really slow page loads - especially on the forums - plus Kremzeeks and upstream server errors referencing the database connection that don't even make it to the Kremzeek page. I don't know if it's just the times I happen to be on, but haven't really been able to correlate to any particular times of day atm (though early afternoon GMT is often pretty bad).

Yeah, it was really sluggish for a few days last week for me, and then barely useable over the weekend. Seems better now.

Emerje

Just now it kept crashing for me. Took me forever to reach this page.

Yeah, I spoke too soon for sure! Hopefully that just means Ryan is working on it...

Emerje

The site seems to be working fast today, pages loading up within a few seconds. Now to test Armour

Looks like we've lost the "VIEW NEW POSTS" links. Oh well.

Been having problems posting. As in, everything I post doesn't show up. I get a message saying the moderator has to approve the post before its visible. Been that way for months. Can anything be done about it?

Jazzman_Crothers wrote:Been having problems posting. As in, everything I post doesn't show up. I get a message saying the moderator has to approve the post before its visible. Been that way for months. Can anything be done about it?

Sorry about the late reply (and approval)! Sometimes if you're the last one to post in a section it doesn't update to let us know there's a post waiting for approval and our approval panel isn't very good about updating...

Emerje

Sabrblade wrote:I don't mean to sound complain-y or indignant, but the removal of the Search function from the forums has really made it difficult to look for older content throughout both the forums and the News post history.

Yeah, it definitely doesn't make things easy. We do still have the search at the top of every page, it does search posts as well.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:

Jazzman_Crothers wrote:Been having problems posting. As in, everything I post doesn't show up. I get a message saying the moderator has to approve the post before its visible. Been that way for months. Can anything be done about it?

Sorry about the late reply (and approval)! Sometimes if you're the last one to post in a section it doesn't update to let us know there's a post waiting for approval and our approval panel isn't very good about updating...

Emerje

The Moderator Control Panel should be checked regularly to see what posts are waiting to be approved or which ones are spam to be disapproved.

Burn wrote:

Emerje wrote:

Jazzman_Crothers wrote:Been having problems posting. As in, everything I post doesn't show up. I get a message saying the moderator has to approve the post before its visible. Been that way for months. Can anything be done about it?

Sorry about the late reply (and approval)! Sometimes if you're the last one to post in a section it doesn't update to let us know there's a post waiting for approval and our approval panel isn't very good about updating...

Emerje

The Moderator Control Panel should be checked regularly to see what posts are waiting to be approved or which ones are spam to be disapproved.

Yeah, I need to make it a point to actually check that more often. When I approve or disapprove a post it takes me to a version of that page with only a few posts in there to moderate and then I clear those and it says there's nothing left... now I'm noticing it's just for that particular section and not the entire forum. In my defense, I wasn't hired as a moderator, but nobody else seems to be doing it.

(Edit: All clear, most of it was spam. Apologies to anyone that got an approval notice to something they posted over the summer. )

Emerje

Burn wrote:

Emerje wrote:

Jazzman_Crothers wrote:Been having problems posting. As in, everything I post doesn't show up. I get a message saying the moderator has to approve the post before its visible. Been that way for months. Can anything be done about it?

Sorry about the late reply (and approval)! Sometimes if you're the last one to post in a section it doesn't update to let us know there's a post waiting for approval and our approval panel isn't very good about updating...

Emerje

The Moderator Control Panel should be checked regularly to see what posts are waiting to be approved or which ones are spam to be disapproved.

OK, I can now say with 100% certainty that this thing is broken. After clearing all of them the other day another legit post from the buy/sell/trade section from July popped up along with a new spam post from today. Cleared those, the list showed nothing else waiting. Started reading through the forum and found four more in the Hot Wheels section. Cleared the first one, checked the list and the others still didn't show up. There's definitely something wrong, glad it isn't just me missing things.

Emerje

In the Moderator Control Panel you'll have a few tabs, Main being the first, on that there should be a side tab for Front page, going on that one should list ALL pending posts across the entire board from the main page through to all the sub-forums.

Burn wrote:In the Moderator Control Panel you'll have a few tabs, Main being the first, on that there should be a side tab for Front page, going on that one should list ALL pending posts across the entire board from the main page through to all the sub-forums.

I see what happened. Somewhere along the line it was flipping me between "pending posts" and "pending topics" depending on what I moderated last.

Emerje

I wanted to ask about uploading images to the site, as of late most of the time the images I try to post won't load and just show the name of the image instead. Just seems to be my posts from what I can tell, I'm a little worried my customs page hit critical mass xD

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:I wanted to ask about uploading images to the site, as of late most of the time the images I try to post won't load and just show the name of the image instead. Just seems to be my posts from what I can tell, I'm a little worried my customs page hit critical mass xD

Try removing the spaces. Your pictures eventually show up, maybe it takes the server a while longer to figure out what to do with them.

(edit) Weird, your latest custom was showing up and I saved one image to take a closer look at the file itself and then couldn't access them on the forum again and couldn't download them again even though I still had the same window open. Definitely seems to be a conflict somewhere on the server. I did notice the file sizes are a little larger than they need to be, resaving in Paint cut the file size nearly in half (trick I learned from a site I worked at that had strict file size limits), but that shouldn't cause issues.

Emerje