The Energon Pub

[Emerje]

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

[Zordon]

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

[Burn]

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

[Sabrblade]

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

Same with the "View Your Posts" and the Search function.

[Jazzman_Crothers]

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?

[Sabrblade]

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.

[Emerje]

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

[Emerje]

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

[Burn]

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.

[Emerje]

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

[Emerje]

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

[Burn]

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.

[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.

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

[EvasionModeBumblebee]

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

[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

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

[Jazzman_Crothers]

Thanks for your efforts. I'm dying to post here.

[Red Sentinel]

Is there anything to be expected for the game with regards armors or weaponry? Will there be a reboot or reset, or should we let things be?

If the latter, hey- this game has had one awesome run!

[Light Metal]

Is there anything to be expected for the game with regards armors or weaponry? Will there be a reboot or reset, or should we let things be?

If the latter, hey- this game has had one awesome run!

Truthfully, I wouldn't expect much of anything to happen. I mean, it still mostly works, the game. That's good, isn't it?

Until something else stops working. ;P

[Bazillatron]

Is it even work now?

Anyone`s alive there?

I am new here and it seems as if anyone is dead.

[crossyroad]

I will have to look into this tomorrow.

[Psycho Warrior]

I'm just hoping to get 1 transformer to level 10 before the site shuts down. been at it for decades.

[Seibertron]

I'm updating some legacy code on Seibertron.com to enhance performance and stability. The improvements include better handling of redirects, cleanup of search engine referral URLs, refinements to SEO-friendly URL processing, and significant adjustments to eBay link management.

If you encounter any errors or find any non-functional eBay links, please let me know so I can address them. Although these updates won’t change the site's appearance, they should improve overall speed and prevent issues like infinite redirect loops that can impact server stability.

If ebay links aren't working in some situations for you, please provide examples so that I can resolve those specific situations.

Thank you for your feedback.

[Seibertron]

Ok, I finished making my changes for the evening. If you encounter any problems, please let me know. Thank you.

[Emerje]

For the last couple days when I first come to the forum (after, say, several hours) I get a 503 error that is corrected with a refresh and doesn't happen again for sever hours later.

Emerje

[Seibertron]

For the last couple days when I first come to the forum (after, say, several hours) I get a 503 error that is corrected with a refresh and doesn't happen again for sever hours later.

Emerje

There does seem to be a random 503 error that keeps happening (not just on the forums). I'm not sure what's causing it yet. I've been cleaning up and optimize legacy code on the site as well as make adjustments to the server. Hopefully we can get to the bottom of the pesky 503 errors caused by Kremzeek.