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Forum fall down, go boom

Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2017 2:28 am
by The Undying
Been having a lot of problems this week. I lost an entire post an hour ago that I am NOT retyping. Looks like there's at least a layout change.

Is this planned maintenance? If it is, can we get some maintenance window announcements?

Re: Forum fall down, go boom

Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2017 2:38 am
by Bogie
Yeah, I am about ready to fucking quit. Nothing ever fucking works right. Sorry about the problems.

Re: Forum fall down, go boom

Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2017 2:44 am
by The Undying
Lol, no worries, that's why I've always loved working R&D - maintaining something as "production" is a total pain.

Re: Forum fall down, go boom

Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2017 2:52 am
by Bogie
Yeah having all kinds of fun problems now. Not sure if css is broken with the update or its just me.

Re: Forum fall down, go boom

Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2017 2:55 am
by Bogie
Also sorry for the french. :) A bit unprofessional of me, I know, but after working the day job and then dealing with this.. definitely not the fun part of the job. Anyways it looks like most stuff is working, though I see I accidently wiped out the site logo lol.

Re: Forum fall down, go boom

Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2017 9:54 am
by Telarus
Looks good in Firefox, but very broken in Chrome: all menus open blocking thread links, the red "new posts" and blue "old posts" symbols being repeated across the frames blocking out words, some things weirdly offset.

Looks fine in IE. Restarted Chrome, still all messed up.


Sorry about the craziness, I know how it is.

Re: Forum fall down, go boom

Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2017 12:04 pm
by Bogie
Chrome apparently needs a "hard refresh". Basically I had to go into Chrome settings and wipe out the cache to clear up the problem on my computer. They tell me that is alt-F5 on Windows might do it, but on the Mac I actually had to go in and clear the cache manually.

Re: Forum fall down, go boom

Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2017 4:46 pm
by Telarus
Alt+F5 Worked For Me!

Re: Forum fall down, go boom

Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2017 12:38 am
by The Undying
Short answer: if people are having problems with the forum layout or links, force refresh (Alt+F5) or clear the browser cache for the site.

Long answer: browsers cache content to make pages load faster. Usually, web pages say that a page has been changed, which prompts the browser to clear the cache and reload the content (yeah more involved here, just boiling it down). If the web page doesn't tell the browser it has changed, then you can end up with a mix of new content and old cached content. The end result is things acting all wonky.