Topic: V1.0 - is anything borked? (Read 17824 times)

Foxeye · « **on:** March 09, 2009, 12:28:48 AM »

Please post here if you find any bugs or problems with the site. I'm already working on v1.1 of the site, just a few tweaks and enhancements, and the more bugs I can fix the better.

Thanks!

Obi-Rak Kaeliri · « **Reply #1 on:** March 10, 2009, 12:03:16 AM »

So far we've got:

* general slowness, which we are trying to remedy
* image hotlink prevention is currently disabled
* image embedding on elfquest.com is currently not working
* some more polishing of the visual presentation is needed

Foxeye · « **Reply #2 on:** March 10, 2009, 12:30:33 AM »

Well...site is finally up, and I'm going to bed. I know this is a bad idea. I'll wake up and it'll be all dead and slaughtered and hacked and crashed and stuff.

*afraid*

Nevaratoiel · « **Reply #3 on:** March 10, 2009, 11:47:28 AM »

I don't think it has anything to do with the forum, but more with the site: I got the message just now that the site had exceeded (temporarily I must add) it's maximum connections. Just wanted to let you know.

Foxeye · « **Reply #4 on:** March 10, 2009, 11:55:06 AM »

Oh frack, I'm seeing it too. Thanks. I'll have to talk to our webhost to see if something can be arranged. I thought they were scaleable, but after a bunch of DoS attacks a few years ago they may have gotten paranoid.

Foxeye · « **Reply #5 on:** March 10, 2009, 12:00:41 PM »

Interesting...from their FAQ:

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What does the error "This site has temporarily exceeded its connection limit." mean?

This error means there are too many simultaneous non-cacheable requests in progress for your site. This is an extremely rare condition, but the causes, in order of decreasing likelihood, are:
1. For sites like CMS or blog sites that generate content dynamically, a spammer or email address harvester attempts to hit all or a large number of the site's pages at once. Our system will throw up this error to dissuade the spammer and stop them from dragging the whole server down. In this case, the message will typically only appear for a few seconds to a couple of minutes; as soon as they start getting errors, they move on.
2. This message can also occur if requests for your site content hang or take an inordinately long time to complete. In such cases, they can backlog to the point where the server feels that allowing more of them to build up would just cause a death spiral. (I.e. more requests taking longer causing more requests to take even longer, wash-rinse-repeat until nothing happens at all).
3. Under exceptionally rare circumstances, this message can indicate that the server that hosts your site is having severe problems. Such conditions are automatically detected and we are notified, so they tend not to persist for very long.
4. If your site has several hundred simultaneous visitors for sustained periods of time, it's remotely possible to hit this limit even if your connections complete very quickly. In this case, and only in this case, we will raise the limit, because this limit provides your site with important protection against all the other cases. (Please be aware that while almost everyone starts out thinking this is the reason that applies to their situation, the cause almost inevitably turns out to be something else.)

(A good rule of thumb is that each possible explanation above is about ten times less likely than the one above it, so the top one is 90% likely and the bottom one is about 0.09% likely.)

So, according to them, 90% chance is that we were actually the target of a spammer/harvester. Already.

Hrm, well, that would be flattering. I suspect #2 though, with a lot of people setting up their albums. Once people have their backlog uploaded the rush will hopefully die down.

Kitt · « **Reply #6 on:** March 10, 2009, 12:52:01 PM »

For some reason, my quotes and apostrophes are showing up as question marks in two of my posts under Chief's Son :'(

Obi-Rak Kaeliri · « **Reply #7 on:** March 10, 2009, 01:00:32 PM »

They appear ok to me, so it probably has something to do with the character encoding. We'll see if we can rectify that...

Foxeye · « **Reply #8 on:** March 10, 2009, 01:32:47 PM »

I suspect it is happened due to a copy-paste mismatch...there are some quotes that look like quotes but are not understood by SMF (Word does this). Are you copying from another forum, or a document on your system?

Foxeye · « **Reply #9 on:** March 10, 2009, 08:15:09 PM »

Woops, there was a bug where not everyone with an album was showing up under the "User Albums" section.

Fixed now!

Kitt · « **Reply #10 on:** March 11, 2009, 06:56:46 AM »

Well, I was copying and pasting it from a forum. The first two posts came out fine, but the following two came out kind of screwy while the last one was alright, too.

Obi-Rak Kaeliri · « **Reply #11 on:** March 11, 2009, 12:52:14 PM »

Can you try re-pasting them now? We changed the forum so that there should not be further character mis-matches.

Sweetwater · « **Reply #12 on:** March 12, 2009, 12:32:59 PM »

hmmm so on my album...
1. I can't upload anymore art, it like freezes and doesn't continue! its weird... help?
2. this is just a little tweak thing that doesn't hurt anybody... but it says i uploaded two of my pictures in October...? and its March...

Obi-Rak Kaeliri · « **Reply #13 on:** March 12, 2009, 01:09:23 PM »

@ Sweetwater: for item #2, we have set our gallery software to pull the creation date of a picture from EXIF data embedded inside the original picture. If this date is available, it'll use that as the upload date. That's probably what's going on. We could change it, or we could let the "upload date" to reflect the creation date -- thoughts?

For item #1, we'll do some poking around...

Sweetwater · « **Reply #14 on:** March 13, 2009, 10:37:26 AM »

For #2 oh no its fine! no worries! i was just a little confused, and worried i had screwed something up!
I sorta like the idea of keeping it the way it is! so that people can see how much someone has improved over time!

#1 its working now... i dunno what went wrong... its probably just my blasted computer!

Flowerstar · « **Reply #15 on:** March 14, 2009, 12:27:02 AM »

When I am on the forum's main page, the Gallery link on the right does not work

.
The one at the top does, though, and when I'm in a subforum or the gallery the one of the left works, too.

Also, is it normal that when posting in the forum you get taken back to the forum instead of to your post? I find that slightly confusing

.

Foxeye · « **Reply #16 on:** March 14, 2009, 01:29:52 AM »

Quote from: Flowerstar on March 14, 2009, 12:27:02 AM

When I am on the forum's main page, the Gallery link on the right does not work .
The one at the top does, though, and when I'm in a subforum or the gallery the one of the left works, too.

Hmmm...which browser are you using? I don't experience this problem (I'm guessing you meant left, not right...though if the gallery link is on the right, that would *definitely* be a problem!).

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Also, is it normal that when posting in the forum you get taken back to the forum instead of to your post? I find that slightly confusing .

You can change this with a setting

Profile -> Look and Layout Preferences -> "Return to topics after posting by default."

Check that box.

Flowerstar · « **Reply #17 on:** March 14, 2009, 01:50:37 PM »

Err, yes, left

...

Firefox, version 2.0.0.20

And thanks

.

Edit: It's working now though I didn't change anything

. Ah well

...

Foxeye · « **Reply #18 on:** March 14, 2009, 11:15:11 PM »

~~Ack, just found another bug. You can't set something to "mature" when you add it (though you can edit it after upload to make it mature).~~

Fixed!

Flowerstar · « **Reply #19 on:** March 15, 2009, 02:48:02 PM »

It seems I can't add icons for folders in the gallery subsequently - when creating a folder it worked but neither when editing the folder itself nor editing a picture and checking the "Use as thumbnail" box. Have to try yet if it works if I upload a picture into an already existing folder sans thumbnail ...
Edit: Nope, that doesn't work either. Seems it only works when a folder is created.

Foxeye · « **Reply #20 on:** March 15, 2009, 03:21:58 PM »

Huh! You were sure to refresh the page after making the change? I usually have to refresh it twice myself (once to show the image, and a second time to get it to size right). ~~Lemme go test and make sure it works for me...~~ Yep, I can still change the icon. But of course, I have admin permissions, so this could still be an issue for non-admins.

Don't suppose any other users could confirm whether it works or not for them?

Flowerstar · « **Reply #21 on:** March 15, 2009, 03:46:58 PM »

0.o Okay, sorry, I was not aware that that was what was needed to do the trick - I always got transported back to the "My Gallery" page and then, when accessing the folders, there was nothing there

. But with refreshing it worked.

Foxeye · « **Reply #22 on:** March 15, 2009, 03:56:46 PM »

No no, no embarassed-faces needed.

These things aren't always as intuitive as we'd like them to be. As nice as this gallery software is, it was only written at the end of 2008, and it's a free project by a couple of guys...it's bound to have some odd quirks.

Flowerstar · « **Reply #23 on:** March 19, 2009, 10:33:21 PM »

Yeah, it's me again

... Just stumbled upon an error: I got a warning that I was not allowed to view mature content. Well, while I had not checked 'View mature content' the picture I tried to access was

Details

- hardly mature content and I could access it from the gallery overview

.

Err ... Or there actually is a mature content pic between Sganaa's Norse Gods Group and her Illo for Undecided because I get the same message when clicking 'previous' on the latter and 'next' on the former. In that case the error would be that the gallery did not accept my change to the 'View mature content' setting

.

I hope that was not too confusing ^^'.

Edit: Okay, found out via the 'Unseen' feature that it is indeed the latter case ... Yup, the box is checked in my profile and everything.

Foxeye · « **Reply #24 on:** March 19, 2009, 11:04:58 PM »

It sounds like it may be preventing you from viewing the wrong picture. I'll look into it.

In the meantime, there is another reason why you wouldn't be able to see mature content...if you hadn't entered your birthday into your forum profile.

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