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Title: Weird screen popping up.
Post by: Cornflower MM on March 04, 2015, 06:23:45 PM
Today, almost every time I've gone to move around the forum, a white screen pops up and it says 'Request timed out. Please try request again.' or something like that. Is it the forum, or my computer, or what? I'm getting a little worried, to be honest - We really don't need a dead computer right now.
Title: Re: Weird screen popping up.
Post by: Jukka the Sling on March 04, 2015, 06:31:10 PM
Oh, yeah, I've had that a few times today when I tried to post or send a PM. I'm wondering if it has something to do with the fact that the forum was down (for me at least) for an hour or more last night.
Title: Re: Weird screen popping up.
Post by: Mhera on March 04, 2015, 06:32:26 PM
Quote from: Jukka the Sling on March 04, 2015, 06:31:10 PM
Oh, yeah, I've had that a few times today when I tried to post or send a PM. I'm wondering if it has something to do with the fact that the forum was down (for me at least) for an hour or more last night.
^exactly what I was going to say.
Title: Re: Weird screen popping up.
Post by: LT Sandpaw on March 04, 2015, 06:43:21 PM

I've had it too, just refresh the page and it allows the post to go though.
Title: Re: Weird screen popping up.
Post by: The Skarzs on March 04, 2015, 07:31:38 PM
It happens to me a lot to, mostly with posts more than three lines deep.
Title: Re: Weird screen popping up.
Post by: Jukka the Sling on March 04, 2015, 08:50:52 PM
The forum has kept going down over the last little while. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Anyone else having this?
Title: Re: Weird screen popping up.
Post by: Mhera on March 04, 2015, 08:59:58 PM
Only last evening; otherwise it's been fine.
Title: Re: Weird screen popping up.
Post by: The Skarzs on March 04, 2015, 09:18:16 PM
It's been working for me, just posting has been a bit problematic sometimes.
Title: Re: Weird screen popping up.
Post by: Skyblade on March 04, 2015, 09:49:23 PM
Yes, I noticed this last night but it seems okay now. I suppose these sort of problems are inevitable from time to time.
Title: Re: Weird screen popping up.
Post by: Wot, wot! on March 04, 2015, 11:28:06 PM
Quote from: Jukka the Sling on March 04, 2015, 08:50:52 PM
The forum has kept going down over the last little while. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Anyone else having this?

Yes. I tried posting last night and this morning, and it took me out of the forum  :-\ it was the weirdest thing. I hit the preview button and now it works  :D
Title: Re: Weird screen popping up.
Post by: Skyblade on March 04, 2015, 11:41:31 PM
Looks like it's still a problem. Hopefully somebody will take a look.
Title: Re: Weird screen popping up.
Post by: Lady Ashenwyte on March 04, 2015, 11:48:05 PM
It happened to me a lot yesterday. It was annoying.
Title: Re: Weird screen popping up.
Post by: Luftwaffles on March 05, 2015, 01:28:19 AM
It sounds like the server is having a bit of a downtime. Don't you guys worry, I'm a member of another forum that has to deal with that constantly and I left another that had the same error popping up everyday at midnight due to a popular trivia game.
Title: Re: Weird screen popping up.
Post by: James Gryphon on March 05, 2015, 01:01:22 PM
I haven't been able to get on at all since Tuesday evening. I actually still can't get in with my WiFi connection; I'm typing this on my phone because it has 4G access.

That's why I'm behind more than a day on things. I'm trying to figure out what the problem is, but until I do, it will be harder for me to keep up with the forum.
Title: Re: Weird screen popping up.
Post by: Skyblade on March 05, 2015, 03:03:46 PM
How will we get this fixed? Do we just wait it out, or is there somebody who can take a look into it?
Title: Re: Weird screen popping up.
Post by: Leatho Shellhound on March 05, 2015, 10:53:40 PM
I haven't had problems with the forum for years, Hope it works again soon James.
Title: Re: Weird screen popping up.
Post by: Faiyloe on March 06, 2015, 06:06:56 AM
I am having the same problem particularly when Posting a PM Sometimes it takes me three or even four tries before I will let my message threw.  :P

Edit: And there it goes again.
Title: Re: Weird screen popping up.
Post by: Luftwaffles on March 06, 2015, 03:42:22 PM
I had said problem yesterday while trying to enter the forum at night... it lasted like five minutes and then everything went back to normal.
Title: Re: Weird screen popping up.
Post by: MeadowR on March 06, 2015, 05:13:49 PM
Had the problem yesterday and today. It is also being slow to click on certain boards, or just not doing so at all at the mo.

(And naturally this post is not sending first time!)
Title: Re: Weird screen popping up.
Post by: Søren on March 06, 2015, 05:26:18 PM
It's messing up with me too. What's helping me is copying the post, then attempting to post. If it does the time out page, hit the back button, and refresh the page. Quickly paste the message into the post field again, and post. Should work.
EDIT: Just worked again. :)
Title: Re: Weird screen popping up.
Post by: Jukka the Sling on March 06, 2015, 06:55:13 PM
You might not have to refresh it. Once when this happened, all I did was hit the back button, hit 'preview', and then post it.

And the forum is still really unreliable. One minute it'll be up, the next minute, I can't access it. Then it'll be fine a few minutes later. Anyone else having this?
Title: Re: Weird screen popping up.
Post by: Skyblade on March 06, 2015, 09:00:49 PM
Yes, the forums have been very iffy lately. I really hope this doesn't go on the road to a major problem. The admins and mods are probably looking into it.
Title: Re: Weird screen popping up.
Post by: Søren on March 06, 2015, 11:30:13 PM
I've had a message come up and it says the "Server can't be found". It's annoying.
Title: Re: Weird screen popping up.
Post by: Cornflower MM on March 07, 2015, 04:28:48 PM
Quote from: Soren the Warrior on March 06, 2015, 11:30:13 PM
I've had a message come up and it says the "Server can't be found". It's annoying.

That problem might actually be your Internet - That even happens for my dad, and he's never been on the forum.

EDIT: This is getting kinda annoying. . . There it goes again!
Title: Re: Weird screen popping up.
Post by: Luftwaffles on March 07, 2015, 04:46:34 PM
I don't know if it's just me, but when I have said problem, it never lasts more than five minutes... and it doesn't happen all that often either.
Title: Re: Weird screen popping up.
Post by: Wylder Treejumper on March 09, 2015, 10:54:03 PM
Yeah, sometimes it says the server has a feedback loop and it won't let me in, but after a few tries it works fine. Sometimes when I try to post it just freezes, but I just press the back button and post it again. Works fine.

Edit: Don't mean to be cliche, but... Like now. :P
Title: Re: Weird screen popping up.
Post by: Hickory on March 12, 2015, 09:08:39 PM
How do you join a fanfic contest?

EDIT: Oh shucks. Thought this was the Q&A thread.
Title: Re: Weird screen popping up.
Post by: Luftwaffles on March 12, 2015, 09:20:45 PM
Lately I've been having this problem when there are very few users online. I don't know what that means but it was usually the other way around.