Is Anyone Having Trouble with the Forum?

[Bowwowmeow]

Is anyone having any trouble using any of the posting functions or other features? Let me know if something doesn't seem to work here, and tell me which skin you use to view the forum, so I can check. There may be problems with one skin that don't happen with another.

[thevegantwins]

Is anyone having any trouble using any of the posting functions or other features? Let me know if something doesn't seem to work here, and tell me which skin you use to view the forum, so I can check. There may be problems with one skin that don't happen with another.

Yes, when I hit Quick Reply, like I just did, the previous post is quoted instead. I use Sun, Moon and Stars skin. Always have, always will. :sun:

Oh and when I click Edit, it does a weird thing. It works but it loads the post a few times first.

[Bowwowmeow]

Try switching skins. "Standard" is the unaltered version, but try a few, and see if the same thing happens.

[Bowwowmeow]

I didn't have any trouble using the edit button, either. I am using "Celestial", but I'll try them all out. I've got to restore some buttons in "Berries n Dream" next anyway, so we can get it running again.

[Bowwowmeow]

Have you checked to see if the little box under the quick reply window that says "quote message in reply" is unchecked? The default setting is that it is unchecked, but maybe something's wrong there.

[Bowwowmeow]

Ok, here's a list of some of the problems with 3.7 that upgrading to 3.8 is supposed to fix:
Internet Explorer hangs on forum home
Quick reply errors with PHP 5.0.5
'Show edited by' note appears in some circumstances where it shouldn't
Email activation can lead to the users being moved to the wrong usergroup
Suspect file check identifies addon file versions incorrectly
Support for Safari 3.0 on Windows

[my3labs]

I've never been able to use the "Multi Quote" feature and I use the gray skin. I don't get an error or anything, it just doesn't do anything when I click it.

[my3labs]

Same problem with "Quick Reply"

[Bowwowmeow]

I've never been able to use the "Multi Quote" feature and I use the gray skin. I don't get an error or anything, it just doesn't do anything when I click it.Press the "MultiQuote" button in more than one post. They should turn pink if you are using the "Gray" skin. After you have pressed all the buttons you want, press the "Post Reply" button, and all the posts you clicked "MultiQuote" buttons on should appear in your posting window. That's what I just did with your two previous posts.

Same problem with "Quick Reply"
Ok. Its strange to me that some people should be able to use the quick reply and others are not. But its a bug in the new version which will not be fixed until we upgrade. I am thinking of upgrading this Monday, and I will close the forum again while we do it.

[1vegan]

I've never been able to use the "Multi Quote" feature and I use the gray skin. I don't get an error or anything, it just doesn't do anything when I click it.

Same problem with "Quick Reply"

I'm using gray and the multi quote works for me (using firefox 2.0.0.6)

[Oracl]

Quick reply works fine in Dusk. :)

[Gliondrach]

I don't think I've ever been able to use the quick reply on any forum I've been on. But I'm not bothered about that. The ordinary reply button does the job. I have noticed that the reply box (that I'm writing in now) jumps across to the left when I type words that go over to the right of the box. It only happens the first time. Perhaps the size of the screen display has changed and is now too big for my screen. But, again, I'm not bothered by it. I can't even be bothered to use the 'full screen' function - which I have to do sometimes on some websites, which shows how not bothered by it I am.

[paul]

Im having no trouble at all, but then im hardly posting.

[Bowwowmeow]

...I have noticed that the reply box (that I'm writing in now) jumps across to the left when I type words that go over to the right of the box. It only happens the first time. Perhaps the size of the screen display has changed and is now too big for my screen. But, again, I'm not bothered by it. I can't even be bothered to use the 'full screen' function - which I have to do sometimes on some websites, which shows how not bothered by it I am.
Its probably because the smilie box got bigger.

[1vegan]

I've had trouble reaching the forum in my afternoon.

So.... 8 to 4 hours before this post, nothing loaded for me.

The only thing I got was "connection timed out", not sure if that's just a internet hick up or that the site was really down?

[Gliondrach]

I had the same thing earlier. I thought BWM had decided to do maintenance a day early.

[Oracl]

Same thing happened to me last night, Oz time. :updn:

[Bowwowmeow]

Maybe its time to get more bandwidth.

[1vegan]

Maybe its time to get more bandwidth.

I don't think it's a bandwidth issue?

Though that depends on how your provider handles it, if they do limit your bandwidth to a daily maximum, it could be the problem, but then I would have expected a bandwidth exceeded message on my screen?

And you should have had a bandwith exceeded email too?

[paul]

on sunday i logged on in the morning uk time,im not sure if i posted anything,oracl was logged on ,then i couldnt get the naked vegan for the rest of the day, i kept trying all day long:(

[Oracl]

And then you stole my smilie to use as an avatar! :rollingpin:

[Bowwowmeow]

If you children can't stop fighting over Slappy I'll have to take it away.

[thevegantwins]

I'd really like to see Slappy and Marvin go at it.

[Gliondrach]

I like Paul's new avatar.

[veggiesosage]

Nothing seems to work any more, no skins no smilies nuffin *hyperventilates*

[Bowwowmeow]

Tech Support has lost all my images, smilies, avatars, buttons, logos, status icons, for all the skins but this one. I am still waiting for them to tell me whether they are lost completely, or where they stuck them so I can move them to the proper folder. Right now I am praying that they haven't lost them, or it will take days to get everything back.

I decided to get the forum back online though, as I figured people would be upset if it were still off while Tech Support deals with this. I am waiting to hear from them before I start to work, because if I start, and then they find them, it won't do any good, and I'll still have tons more work to do. Its so much easier to just move them from the old folders they should be in and move them in one go, than to reupload them. That's why I am hoping Tech Support haven't lost them completely.

[Gliondrach]

Fingers crossed.

[Bowwowmeow]

I've had nothing but silence on this issue from two separate folks at Tech Support, so I am beginning to feel that the news is not good. I will submit one more new appeal to them, and if I don't hear anything, I will commence adding the images back tomorrow, one at a time.

This didn't happen the first time we upgraded, so I had no idea it would happen now. I do know what to do to prevent it from happening again; however, this is a rather expensive lesson for me to learn, in terms of time and work, if not money.

But don't worry folks, I do have copies of all the smilies on a CD, its just that I was hoping they were still stored somewhere in my web root, and therefore more easily restored as a mass upload, rather than one at a time.

[thevegantwins]

:( Sorry, BWM. What a pain in the ass. Also, the Quick Reply which was working again yesterday has stopped working. Is Tech Support out of Norway, per chance?

[Bowwowmeow]

No, India.
*needs rofl smilie*
*also needs crying smilie*

[Bowwowmeow]

:( Sorry, BWM. What a pain in the ass. Also, the Quick Reply which was working again yesterday has stopped working. Is Tech Support out of Norway, per chance?
Good news! We have smilies and skins again, though only partially. It seems that my latest additions are missing, and what we have now are from a back up of the old forum. But its better than nothing, and starting over from scratch. All the avatars, except the animated ones, seem to be missing . They will be back in a few days. I want to do a thorough check of all the skins before I make them available, though.

[Oracl]

:thumbsup: :cheer:

[Gliondrach]

Let's hope you can soon relax, BWM.

[thevegantwins]

I like the new NV logo. Very classy.

[Bowwowmeow]

Thanks! I found another site for designing logos, buttons, etc. full of goodies. I got tired of the old logo, and wanted a different font for each skin.

Look folks! Slappy is back! :slappy: But you'll have to share, or someone just might push the big red button again and send them into oblivion. :bigredbutton:

[Charmagne]

I like the new NV logo. Very classy.

I like the new one too but I was fond of the old one because it seemed to glow!

[my3labs]

The smilies are back! Everything seems to be working great now.

[Bowwowmeow]

We've got glowing ones still Charmagne! You'll see them when I restore the skins. :uhuh:

[Bowwowmeow]

The smilies are back! Everything seems to be working great now.
Not quite! The Land Animals and the Foodies still need uploading. Right now I am working on the Animated Avatars.

[Oracl]

This site is working really well right now. :thumbsup: Very, very fast! :woohoo:

[Bowwowmeow]

The Animated Avatars are all done. For some strange reason they were the only ones that weren't lost, which was good, because I didn't have them saved on a CD. I removed them from the old directory after copying them, and reuploaded them, which was a time consuming pain in the butt. I am grateful that I won't have to do that with all our images, or it would take weeks instead of days.

[thevegantwins]

Look folks! Slappy is back! :slappy: But you'll have to share, or someone just might push the big red button again and send them into oblivion. :bigredbutton:


:smile2: Yeah....:slappy:

[Oracl]

I ain't sharin' with no one! :slappy:

[Bowwowmeow]

Hmmph. :pouty:
*realizes Oracl is the only one without an infraction button in her profile*

[Oracl]

Hmmph. :pouty:
*realizes Oracl is the only one without an infraction button in her profile*

:nahnah:

[Bowwowmeow]

I can still put you in :attica!: ! Button or no button! :order:

[Oracl]

Oh yeah? :slappy:

*excited to have any excuse to use slappy*

[Bowwowmeow]

:douse:

[paul]

:rofl:
try to nick my smilie, mine i tell ya MINE:wigglebutt:

[Oracl]

:douse:
:slappy:

try to nick my smilie, mine i tell ya MINE:wigglebutt:
:slappy:

[thevegantwins]

The Quick Reply and Multiquote stopped working for me again. :(

[1vegan]

I got a "database error" yesterday evening (my time), and I sometimes get a time out message.....

[Bowwowmeow]

Yes, I did too, and I notified them. I believe it is all fixed now.

[thevegantwins]

I got 'database error' for most of the day today, this is my first successful attempt logging on. Guess it isn't fixed. :hbang:

[1vegan]

Same here, I got database error from 10 am pacific time to at least 11 am too.

Now, 2.30 pm pacific time, it's working again.

[Gliondrach]

I managed to make one post just over two hours ago but everything was very slow. I tried to post again but nothing happened. I logged out and tried to log in again a few minutes later but there was a message which meant the site was unavailable.

[Bowwowmeow]

Yeah, we had another database error. I contacted them before I left for work, and now it looks like its fixed again.

[veggiesosage]

Couldn't log on this morning, just got a white screen :confused:

[Gliondrach]

I managed to log on and post this morning but then it all went slow. I logged off but couldn't get back on. I am back on now, though.

[Bowwowmeow]

Sometimes these problems are so random and temporary that by the time I get to Tech Support, the problem has self corrected and Tech Support can't find it anymore.

I didn't have any trouble today though.

[Oracl]

I had a problem getting on for about an hour last night.

[my3labs]

The last few times I've tried to edit and save a post, the system seems to lock up during the save process.

[Phoenix]

Try hitting Go Advanced and then saving from there. It seems to work better.

[Bowwowmeow]

What she said. :uhuh:
Its a bug in the software, my3labs. Other forums using VBulletin have the same intermittent trouble with that function, and sometimes with Quick Reply too.

[my3labs]

Ok, I'll give that a try next time.

[Bowwowmeow]

Please report any problems you are having after the upgrade here. The permissions were all reset to "no" apparently. Some people are not seeing the avatars of other users, if they are selected from our collection. I don't know why, because I can see them all, and was not aware that there was a problem.

[Fauxmage]

Hey everyone! We are still experiencing a problem with the Usergroup Permissions, which I cannot edit at this time. Everything else seems to be working, so i have turned the forum back on. If you encounter a problem let me know, but it might have to do with the Permissions, which got really messed up.

Until this get fixed, I won't in again as Fauxmage, because Tech Support will need to. So if you see "Fauxmage" online, it won't be me, until further notice.

I hope you enjoy your new Profiles!

[Bowwowmeow]

Sorry guys! It looks like veryone is under moderation, and I can't fix it until Tech Support sorts out my admin cp problems. You haven't been bad!

Stand by! :o

[thevegantwins]

You haven't been bad!


How do you know? :lech:

[Bowwowmeow]

Well, even if you were, I probably wouldn't moderate you. :whistle:

[thevegantwins]

:nanakiss: :D

[Bowwowmeow]

Ok, how the HELL did I pick up this broccoli avatar??? Where is Nessie???? The next time I decide to upgrade the software, will one of you just shoot me please?

[Bowwowmeow]

I'll be shutting the forum off in about half an hour from now, at 11:00 AM Pacific time. Our problems have not been fixed, and I am tired of having to validate posts that shouldn't be getting moderated in the first place, and constantly removing myself from the banned list, only to find an hour or so later that I am back on the banned list. Our problems are too many and too complicated to list here, and I need to take the forum back offline until tech Support can figure them out. Nothing I do in the admin cp stays stable; whatever changes I make to correct our moderating problems automatically revert to the condition that is causing our problems.

[Bowwowmeow]

Ok guys, I finally figured out what the problem is. Tails4wagging didn't put her 666th post in the right place (http://www.thenakedvegan.net/showthread.php?t=298), and this has made our benefactor very angry. :shiftydvil:
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y31/lauralb/Screenshots/Tails666thpost.jpg

[Phoenix]

Ok guys, I finally figured out what the problem is. Tails4wagging didn't put her 666th post in the right place (http://www.thenakedvegan.net/showthread.php?t=298), and this has made our benefactor very angry. :shiftydvil:
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y31/lauralb/Screenshots/Tails666thpost.jpg


:D :laugh: :rofl:

[paul]

i get this message on my visiters profile message.

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in [path]/includes/functions.php(1378) : eval()'d code on line 3

Warning: require_once([path]/includes/blog_functions_shared.php) [function.require-once (http://www.thenakedvegan.net/function.require-once)]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/functions.php(1378) : eval()'d code on line 47

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require (http://www.thenakedvegan.net/function.require)]: Failed opening required '/home/nakedveg/public_html/includes/blog_functions_shared.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/nakedveg/public_html/includes/functions.php(1378) : eval()'d code on line 47

[Fauxmage]

Thanks paul. We are still working on it.

[Phoenix]

I don't know if this is a problem with my compy or if it's Firefox :hbang: or something else entirely. When I logged on using Firefox as the browser, every time I tired to change the page, I got the message that the connection had timed out and I had to actually log out and log back in using IE. I was told that Firefox was better but it's nothing but trouble. :hbang:

It seems to be working OK with IE but I thought it was worth mentioning just in case anyone else is having similar problems. :s:igh:

Edit: OK, now I'm getting the same "timed out" message with the IE browser as well. :(

[Oracl]

I haven't had that problem. :no: I use IE.

[Brandy]

I posted quite a lengthy reply to Tails & Gliondrach the other day in my More Magazine Articles thread, and it's not there now. :dizzy:

It could be that I made a mistake while posting. (Highly probable.) :dunce:

Or did one of the mods remove it, perhaps? (I was in a bad mood when I posted.) :o :sigh:

Or perhaps it was Divine Intervention because it was a stupid post? :order:

In any case, I thought it best to "report" it in case anyone else's posts go MIA. :twocents:

[dreamer]

BWM posted that posts from certain dates were accidentally deleted when they were trying to get the blogs to come back up. Maybe you posted on that date(s).

Here's the relevant section of BWM's post (from September 7th): It looks like we lost some posts and threads folks. Everything that's been posted since the fifth of September is gone. I'm really sorry. In an attempt to find our lost blogs, Tech Support restored an old backup without telling me before they did it, and now that the forum's been restored, the posts from the last few days were lost, because a backup wasn't made before the restoration.

[Bowwowmeow]

I posted quite a lengthy reply to Tails & Gliondrach the other day in my More Magazine Articles thread, and it's not there now. :dizzy:

It could be that I made a mistake while posting. (Highly probable.) :dunce:

Or did one of the mods remove it, perhaps? (I was in a bad mood when I posted.) :o :sigh:

Or perhaps it was Divine Intervention because it was a stupid post? :order:

In any case, I thought it best to "report" it in case anyone else's posts go MIA. :twocents:

BWM posted that posts from certain dates were accidentally deleted when they were trying to get the blogs to come back up. Maybe you posted on that date(s).

Here's the relevant section of BWM's post (from September 7th): It looks like we lost some posts and threads folks. Everything that's been posted since the fifth of September is gone. I'm really sorry. In an attempt to find our lost blogs, Tech Support restored an old backup without telling me before they did it, and now that the forum's been restored, the posts from the last few days were lost, because a backup wasn't made before the restoration.
:agree:
I made a reply there too, as Fauxmage, and it got lost as well. :sigh:

[Brandy]

Thanks Dreamer. Thanks BWM.

When I'm feeling less dopey I'll go back and leave a proper response to Tails & Gliondrach.

[veganbikerboy]

seem to be having trouble posting pictures. I thought it was only fair to let you see how beautiful i am;)

but i cant do it?? any ideas? i get the box to paste the link to my pics, which are hosted on photobucket, but they dont appear in the post?

[Fauxmage]

seem to be having trouble posting pictures. I thought it was only fair to let you see how beautiful i am;)

but i cant do it?? any ideas? i get the box to paste the link to my pics, which are hosted on photobucket, but they dont appear in the post?
I usually just copy the image code from photobucket, and paste it right here into the post. Are you trying that, or using the "Manage Attachments" button under the posting window here?

[Bunny]

You probably know this, but anyway .... when you have registered, but not been approved you can access the mods page and read everything on there. Which I did, and I was confused. It's only since I've been approved that I can suddely see that I can't see that bit anymore and realised it was some kind of error thing.

Does that make sense? Did you already know?!

[Fauxmage]

No I didn't, Bunny, thanks so much for mentioning it. We have had hundreds of problems since we upgraded the forum software, and this seems to be another one in our latest set. At least we aren't in the wormhole anymore! People were getting randomly banned, and moderated, and even "promoted". I even got banned myself. We had to go offline for weeks til it all got fixed. :dizzy:

[SinnerCal]

I can post as SinnerCal but not as Oracl. :disbelief:

Oracl, thevegantwins and Phoenix are no longer in the Members List as far as I can see. :disbelief:

Oracl cannot post, has lost her avatar, profile pic and signature, cannot see the Members List and is told she is banned forever. :disbelief:

[SinnerCal]

I've lost my SinnerCal signature too in that post!! :(

[Fauxmage]

It looks like we are going into the wormhole again. I tried to fix Oracl's account, and I can't. There is something really weird going on, because as far as the actual account, everything looks absolutely normal. There is nothing to fix. :hbang: :hbang: :hbang:

[Oracl]

It's OK, I'm back! :bouncy:

[Bunny]

These computers! What will they do next?!! :)

[Gliondrach]

I blame the EU.

[veggiesosage]

I can't seem to edit my sig. I get an error message saying 'the BB code URL is not allowed'.

[Pob]

I just tried and got the same message.

Looks like someone has changed what we're allowed to have in our sigs.

[Fauxmage]

That's the fault of the Usergroup Permissions bug that Tech Support can't figure out how to fix. All of the defaults were reset to "no" when the software was upgraded, and I can't make any changes stick. I am hoping we won't have to wait until the next version comes out, because every time that happens, we get one set of problems fixed, and another one crops up. I really hate 3.7.0. I wish I'd never upgraded.

Let me know exactly what you want your new sigs to say, and I may be able to change them in the admin cp. I haven't had any trouble changing usernames since the upgrade, so maybe changing siggies will work if I do it for you. I've always been pretty open to whatever people want in their sigs as far as fonts, sizes, colors, links, smilies, etc., except for images, which I personally find too distracting, and don't allow.

[Fauxmage]

Ok, we just had another major wormhole event. ALL of the Registered Users got banned by the forum ghost, and disappeared from the Member's List. I have managed to move everyone into the Chin Waggers usergroup, and I can see you all in the Member's List now, so nothing should be any different for any of you. But if it is let me know. Something just like this happened to half of my mods a couple of weeks ago, and a couple of months ago, I even got banned. :hbang:

[Oracl]

It's OK so far. :crossfingers:

[Fauxmage]

It's OK so far. :crossfingers:
It didn't happen to you this time, Oracl, it happened to SinnerCal, and Ped. TestiCal was spared, on account of being a noob. :D
There were only twenty members in the Member's List last night. The Mods and the Noobs. :disbelief:

[Oracl]

:dizzy: :crazier:

[Gliondrach]

That'll be a job for Fauxmage.

[Fauxmage]

We are having major usergroup problems right now, tabitha, which is why registration is closed. I will be taking the forum offline tomorrow, Wednesday afternoon my time, which will be while you are all asleep early Thursday morning in the UK, I think, to try to get it fixed, and make sure that whatever it is that is banning random members and mods is corrected, and we can go back to normal again.

[Gliondrach]

Tails sent me an e-mail to say that she has put her present e-mail address on NV and now can't post anything. She said NV had had her old e-mail address.

[Oracl]

Tails sent me an e-mail to say that she has put her present e-mail address on NV and now can't post anything. She said NV had had her old e-mail address.

So who is posting as Tails right now?!! :eek: An imposter? :cool:

[Gliondrach]

So who is posting as Tails right now?!! :eek: An imposter? :cool:


I don't know. Unless she sent me a spoof message in the hope that I would post it here and would then look like an idiot. I wouldn't put it past her.

[Oracl]

I don't know. Unless she sent me a spoof message in the hope that I would post it here and would then look like an idiot. I wouldn't put it past her.
:agree: :laugh:

[Fauxmage]

Almost everything seems to be in working order, both here and in the Admin CP, except for an odd lack of access to editing functions for me as Admin, which is really stupid. The Mods have more editing options than I do at present.

The Mods and Super Mods are back, so you guys need to try some things out and see if everything is working like it used to. Everyone is back in the proper user group, but if you were in the Chin Waggers as well, and find you are not, please rejoin, as it was unintentional.

As always, please feel free to post any questions or problems here so I can look into it.

Registration is now open, so tell your friends!

Thanks for your patience everyone. I'll appreciate any input, since it is nearly 1 AM here, and there is so much to look at and check in the Admin CP that I could have missed something that would cause a problem for someone.

[Oracl]

No problems so far. :) Running a bit slow though. :rubchin:

Exciting to be a mod again. :bouncy:

[Gliondrach]

I don't have time to check anything but will later. Thanks for all your hard work.