Trouble getting into the forum

[didit]

Hmm --

Busy with attentions elsewhere. That said, when I do check in it's common to get clean few page loads, and then a 400 or 500 level error. And then back to clean pages. Rinse and repeat.

Seems arbitrary, perhaps load dynamics related. This feels like defects we'd call a Heisen-bug (vs a Bohr-bug) back in past operating system software engineering career days. Hard to track and close. Perhaps a system restart and maybe PHP server configuration tweaks will be enough to restore stability.

Best .. Ian

[johnnyreece]

Seems to be running smoothly this morning? Fingers crossed it was just a hiccup!

[Stephen1966]

Using Firefox. Running okay. Notifications are displaying for me as well.

[Phil_S]

Last few days I've encounters a lot of error messages. It seems to be somewhat random, however, once a topic gives an error, it seems to be stuck in that mode. I am using Firefox. This afternoon, I tried Firefox private browsing feature and things seem to be working well and so far no errors. I wonder...what's the difference between private and "regular?" Anyway, I hope the problem gets cured soon.

[GAStan]

I'm not sure what was done, but wanted to say the forum has began working GREAT for me since last evening.

[xtian]

It IS working more reliably today, though the "unread posts" link I normally use is still broken:

https://ampgarage.com/forum/search.php? ... nreadposts

[didit]

Yea --

For the past two days I've had no issues, including using "unread" quick link bookmark. Safari and Brave on Mac and iOS.

Best ..

[martin manning]

Still having issues here, making the site unusable off and on. I see different views from my MacBook and iPhone. The index page fails to display, or sometimes I get the text only view. Clearing cookies using the link at the bottom of the html page sometimes helps, sometimes not.

[Colossal]

Today is the first in a while where the forum has behaved normally for me.

[sluckey]

Today is the first in a while where the forum has behaved normally for me.

Same here. These type issues don't usually self correct. I wonder who did what?

[Colossal]

Today is the first in a while where the forum has behaved normally for me.

Same here. These type issues don't usually self correct. I wonder who did what?

My guess would be Xtian or Phil.

[xtian]

Alas, I don't have access to the guts of TAG, only the user/forum admin functions.

[Colossal]

Alas, I don't have access to the guts of TAG, only the user/forum admin functions.

Huh. Thought Phil gave you the keys to kingdom as he is/was moving on? I know he is periodically around, but not like he was. Hope he is doing well these days. I know there is little that can be done because Allen won't give anyone authority to fix what's broken, which is a shame, and he won't fix it either.

[pompeiisneaks]

I've done nothing to 'fix' it sometimes the hosting provider does 'upgrades' to the underlying infra and started seeing a ton of errors and realized they broke something and fixed it without us touching it. I have given Xtian admin and moderator status, I think, but the board software is a landmine of complex crap even I rarely touch. There are also some caches that the board manages and maybe something triggered a 'prune' that fixed the bad behavior as well. Honestly we're already on a pretty old version of php and phpbb. I don't have it in me to try to move this again since the owner of the domain doesn't really let me fully do what we need to anyway. Last time I wrote some custom ETL stuff to migrate the db parts that weren't compatible and even that wasn't great, it had limits.

To be completely honest, I'd almost say that creating a new forum with a new name that people could manually migrate content to over time may be a better 'fresh start' if anyone was interested. I have a domain parked once that I copied the forum over to, but I don't really want to just wholesale clone it as that feels a bit dirty, but the content being publicly accessible here means that if we started somewhere else, anyone that was interested could download files on site A and upload them to site B.

at any rate, rant over
~Phil

[martin manning]

It's working more or less reliably for me now, but not quite back to the appearance it had a few weeks ago, it's missing some graphics objects. Response is still slow, too.