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Could the issue with the "participated" view on Tapatalk be connected to the problems with the search function? In other words, could Tapatalk be simply trying to use the search to locate those threads, failing, and not giving a useful error message? I wonder this because it seems that the two issues popped up around the same time.

 

JC - I think it's coincidence. The search issues started around April 3 and Grimby updated Tapatalk on April 4. (There's a post by him about the upgrade in the Tapatalk thread.)

 

OK, fair enough. That makes sense. I wasn't sure of specific dates, so that's why I asked.

 

I'm happy to report that the Search function seems to be working again! However, as a result of the board-wide issue, you can't seem to actively find any posts written by a user between Apr 2 and today...I tried searching through threads for recent posts and discovered this problem. Will this problem ever get fixed? It's minor issue, certainly, and I'm just glad this Search bug was corrected, but it's still a tad annoying not able to search out posts by a user during the timeframe of the error.

Also, regarding the MS Update thread noting that the tech admins intend to upgrade the forum software to XenForo 1.2, is there any reason why they aren't considering just upgrading straight to the latest, stable version of XenForo 1.3 (found here), which has more new features? Just a question, out of curiosity, for the admins. Thanks!

 

I think that announcement to Xenforo 1.2 was made before the announcement of 1.3. When we do the upgrade it would make sense to go to the newest stable version. I'm not sure about the search hole. It might mean that the indexing job might need to be rerun (which takes a looong time.) Grimby - ?

 

About 10 of 1pm my local time I lost the ability to load the forums at all. It just barely returned and it's now 2:36pm. Any noted errors in the same frame or a known cause?

 

No and no, we're looking into it. I can say that the boards were down/difficult to access for everyone during that timeframe.

 

Thanks, Ramza.

 

Difficult to access / load, still going on for me.

Also, our Facebook is harder to navigate now to find threads about site problems. Is it still called TheForce.Net?

 

There are two pages on Facebook - the general TheForce.Net page, and the Jedi Council Forums page. You sort of have to scroll around a bit to find threads now because of how facebook handles posts by other users on site pages.

 

Things seem OK now. I checked the server log and there wasn't anything unusual yesterday. Ramza - I saw your emails about the issue.

 

Ramza is pretty sure he found out what made things slow yesterday - one of our threads made the front page of r/movies on Reddit:

http://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/23p5j9/the_star_wars_prequels_used_more_practical/

So the slowness was probably caused by a bunch of people piling on as guests to view the thread. Language warning for the comments though - there may be stuff there not allowed here.

 

Not a question nor a problem, but an observation: I've noticed that all that's need to create a color markup code is the '[color=]' part... the '' seems to be unnecessary. Interesting.[/COLOR]

 

Or at least it was that way about 90 minutes ago.

 

Ok so I got a Samsung Tablet last week and installed Tapatalk. Is there a help guide? I tried and found it very hard to use. I wanted it for the Inbox and conversations but i couldn't find it. Any help?

 

I don't use it so I'm no help. Grimby , Ramza ?

 

Are you hallucinating again?

I'm glad that the search function is working again!

 

You should check out the Tapatalk App support forums: https://support.tapatalk.com/#app-support.33

 

@Ramza I had a look but I need support for this site through the use of Tapatalk. For instance I want to use the conversation feature but I couldn't find. I will only be using the app for this site so a general help might be irrelevant.

 

It's universal across all Xenforo boards so, no, it's definitely a general help issue.

I'm not familiar with the app on the user end so that's about all I've got.