Some changes are coming.

He's using the latest version of Firefox. When he tries to post something and hits Post Reply,it looks like it is trying to post but the screen never comes back. (He waited a good 5 minutes with no result). This was sent at 340 am board time.
I suggested trying IE and he was able to post as of around 755 am board time with it but it was slow.

As of 1155 am board time he posted: Whatever is wrong is getting worse, I can view messages, and send PM's, but I can't post messages on either Firefox or Internet Explorer at the moment. I have Internet Explorer 7 (7.0.6) and Firefox 3.0.5

For both, when trying to post, I get a waiting for http://boards.theforce.net..., in the status bar and that's it nothing happens.

I can post on other forums okay, so it seems to be some problem, which started this morning. It did get better, but now I can't post at all.

And in his most recent PM he says I currently have Windows Vista, running Norton 360 Anti-Virus. I have tried on Both Firefox 3.0.5 and Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 (7.0.6). It also only seems to be the forum posting, I can get threads up, and send PMs, although it took a long time to load. It used to be okay, and I was posting 24 hours ago, but stopped this morning, and has been iffy since.

That is a new one for me. I have Vista, also have Norton 360 2008, plus the Beta version of IE8. However I do not use Firefox. boards sometimes come in slow, but over all, I have no problems. Only question I have for him, "Did you have full use of the internet, for weather can affect your posting on the boards, I have found out." Granted, he may have DSL or some such, but if it is slow for some reason, it will greatly slow down your connection to the boards and to many other places.

I know that my post may not be very helpful, but it may give some in sight.

 

In one of his PMs he said that other sites were OK. I know the boards are slower since the big change - I'm on dialup and parts such as sending PMs and posting are markedly slower, as are some of the admin functions I use. However his problems seemed to start the other day when the board pages were set to XHTML Transitional. I haven't seen any problems other than the ones we had with some older CSS code associated with some of the banners that affected their display. (We've fixed the ones we've found).

 

Mine's actually faster, when posting a reply. I've had this problem (that I asked about, nobody could help) where posting replies would hang for about 45 seconds. Since the upgrade, the hang is gone. Note there were two firefox updates, maybe it was that.

 

Same.

 

Ditto

 

Okay, I have changed my Modem, And it is working fine now!

I use three mobile broadband, but I borrowed a different modem mobile phone thing, and it wouldn't work. Back to my own one, everything seems fine now.

Very Odd...

Thanks for your assistance, though.

Merry Christmas,

Daft-Vader

 

Actually in searching your error messages in Google I did see some references to modems. I'm glad you fixed it!

 

I am seeing some bold black lines here and there between the posts.
Do they mean anything?
There does not seem to be a pattern that I have figured out yet.

 

So am I.

I can't believe how it was just because I was using a different mobile modem, how strange. The site is faster too now.

Thanks again for you assistance, LAJ_FETT

Daft-Vader

 

Same. OPPM was annoying before - but this is really bad.

 

I've been unable to log in since the system update. The only reason I can do so now is that I'm using a different computer.

I'm usually on a Mac, using an older version of Safari. What happens when I click "log in" button, it flashes blue but doesn't really click. And nothing happens. I'm able to log in with an even older non-Mac browser, but I'm unable to reply to anything. I've cleared my cookies, but it didn't help.

I know this is probably due to an older browser, but is there anything more I can do to fix this?

 

I'm still having problems staying logged in. I just made a post in the WNU and had to log in in excess of five times just to make one post. I'd write my post out, hit "post reply" and would take me to the main forums page and would log me out. This didn't happen until the changes came about and only happens on this site. No other site gives me this problem.

 

I noticed two problems so far:

1. The welcome screen doesn't notify of pm's

2. Since when does 1ppm apply to edits?

 

Out of curiosity, what version of Safari are you using? I'm one of the few Mac people (fairly few) and I've had no problems of any kind on either, Safari, Camino, or Firefox. Why not just update Safari or is it a bit more complicated than that?

The only (slightly) annoying thing is waiting the 1ppm to edit a mistake I might have made in a post.

 

If you have a firewall running or if you have your browser's security setting high make sure you have allowed cookies for this site.
Also you can try clearing any old cookies for this site and your internet temp files. If that doesn't work post up what browser, operating system, and firewall/antivirus system you are running.

 

MSN Explorer 9.6 and IE 7, Windows XP and Norton 360 2.0

I've been using the browser(s) since the most updated versions came out a couple years ago, XP for over four years and the Norton 360 for a year(2.0 upgrade/update came out a few months ago) so it has accepted the cookies for ages and the IE's security is set at medium(the lowest setting on IE7).

Norton 360 automatically clears cookies and temp. files when the system is idle.

I had to reformat my hard drive and re-install Windows with all it's updates a few weeks before the board changes. I don't think that would really have any affect on it but I will admit that you know a heck of a lot more about these things than I do so do you think that would have anything to do with it?

 

I would suspect Norton. I have Norton IS 2005 and I had to do some tweaking to get one of the admin functions working. I have the following setup for boards.theforce.net set under Privacy>>Configure>>Advanced:

Add in boards.theforce.net as a site and click on it.
Set the following for the site:

Global Settings: Permit 'Information about your browser', permit same site 'Information about visited sites', Permit 'animated images', Permit 'scripts', Use default settings 'Flash animation'

User settings: Permit cookies, Java applets, ActiveX Controls. Pop-up ads - use Ad Block settings

I'm not familiar with Norton 360 but I'm sure it has the same or similar options somewhere. If it diesn't have 'Privacy Controls' check the firewall options.

Also if Nortom 360 automatically cleans up when the system is idle, is it possible it's wiping the cookies this site needs to tell it you're logged in? If you can try disabling that function for boards.theforce.net.

 

I've looked through all the settings and such and can't find anything that has privacy controls or will allow me to do what you suggested in the firewall settings or any other of the settings. I did however turn off the "automatic scans" so it won't whipe out cookies while idle.(hopefully)

 

I thought I was the only one. Can something be done about that?

 

Seriously, it is really annoying.

 

Interesting feature (assuming we have the site changes to thank for them)...

Makes it easy to see who's been banned since their profile becomes inaccessable to other users (as if they don't exist any more). I hear you can still access their post history if you find one of their posts...haven't yet tested that out myself, though.


I like the fact that we now have the same options for formatting and preview in PMs as we do for posting. Kudos for whomever finally got around to adding that.

 

no, the way you can see their post history is if they are in the 'who's watching you' list, as the update now shows the last time said person logged in and posted, saving you the hassle of clicking on a name.

 

Assuming you're interested in the comings and goings of those who watch you, that is.