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[ProfTournesol 956]

Yep, forum hamsters seem a little wonky these days 

[haleks 8204]

I'm having a looooot of blank pages these days. And half my posts end up in the void.   

[Jack Ost 124]

2 hours ago, haleks said:

I'm having a looooot of blank pages these days. And half my posts end up in the void.   

Same for me.

Me it's random, sometimes 504, sometimes 502, sometimes it works after 5 min of waiting, sometimes works perfectly during 30sec.

 

5 minutes to post this message ...

[froggyluv 2130]

 

 Is anyone even acknowledging this issue? For really the past 2 months its been a total hit or miss just trying to get on this site -what gives? Seriously Ive never had this problem on any other gaming s......504'ed..

[cosmic10r 2320]

12 hours ago, froggyluv said:

 

 Is anyone even acknowledging this issue? For really the past 2 months its been a total hit or miss just trying to get on this site -what gives? Seriously Ive never had this problem on any other gaming s......504'ed..

 

@froggyluv you found the page... i would have looked for it but i had a 504 error :D

 

@Jervant the 504 and 502 gateway errors are still happening... I couldn't get on the forum for 12 hours last night and has been a frequent problem for at least a month.

 

edit... as a sidenote... when it happens it happens across both my laptop, the gaming pc, and my android phone. So it isnt a cache issue that i can see or something that might be specific to one type of device or setup. One thing I havent tried is using Int Explorer instead of chrome to see what it does but I use chrome on PC and samsung internet on the phone.

[Apollyanna 54]

After the recent forum update I can't change my signature's picture. It always hungs for 3-5 minutes and then says: "Unable to retrieve signature image dimensions for [link to the pic], please try another image. It happens even if I try to resave that same image which is already in my sig. I've tried several image hostings (imgur.com, radikal.ru and my own website) and different formats (jpg and png). Someone says it's a forum's software bug connected to the image size restriction and can be bypassed by disabling the restriction.
 

[Gunter Severloh 3948]

I noticed that formatted text, either with color, size, bold, or underlined wont save if you copy something from another page or post to an existing post within the same thread,

haven't tried outside of a thread, but i do know text does save if you typed something up, left the forum and came back later and you could continue it.

 

So the question is, is there something broke for existing posts within the same thread, or am i missing something, because im working on one of my threads

and copying an pasting from one post to another and the formatted text just pastes as regular text. Can you guys look into this. Thank you for your work on the forum btw :)

[ProfTournesol 956]

I don't have errors anymore, but the forum pages are sometimes not loading anymore. Not really better to say the least.

[OMAC 254]

Yes, I'm having lots of trouble reaching forums today.  Very slow and intermittent connection.  TLS handshake issues?

[.kju 3239]

any chance to get imgur gallery integration again?

 

also video embedding should get some attention (too small window size),

as well as image embedding (has no size limitation at all)

[major-stiffy 269]

tracert forums.bistudio.com

 

9   161 ms   161 ms   161 ms  us-was02a-rd2-ae2-0.aorta.net [84.116.134.61]
 10     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 11   162 ms   174 ms   162 ms  at-vie01b-rc1-ae14-0.aorta.net [84.116.130.26]
 12   162 ms   161 ms   161 ms  cz-prg02a-ra2-ae27-0.aorta.net [213.46.160.174]
 13   162 ms   162 ms   161 ms  cz-pra-pop1-rb1-vla110.net.upc.cz [84.116.222.110]
 14   161 ms   161 ms   161 ms  cz-pra-pop62-rb1-vla106.net.upc.cz [84.116.222.14]
 15   160 ms   161 ms     *     77.48.244.27
 16     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 17   163 ms   160 ms     *     213.192.54.36
 18   162 ms   161 ms   161 ms  213.192.54.36

 

[8LacK5naK3 192]

48 hours with no forum access at all. Could get to the main site, but any attempt to access the forums meant watching the browser seeking icon going round and round and round and round, and no forums whatsoever... What the hell is going on BI? This is the first time I`ve got on here in 2 whole days, and this is 2 days after a DLC was released. There`s simply no excuse nowadays whatsoever for a flaky website.

[h - 169]

Clearly the servers have to be killed with fire. 502/504 gateways of annihilation for moths now..

[Vasily.B 529]

Yesterday i couldnt reach the forum - 502 gateway errors. 10 times in a row.

[cosmic10r 2320]

Same thing with me... again... 

[genesis92x 810]

I can also confirm. The forums will often give me 502 gateway errors or take 4-5 minutes to load any page. Even attempting to add a hyperlink into a post is hit or miss.

 

Tracert if it helps at all:

 

Quote

  6   143 ms   143 ms   154 ms  207.88.13.138.ptr.us.xo.net [207.88.13.138]
  7   143 ms   175 ms   144 ms  207.88.12.164.ptr.us.xo.net [207.88.12.164]
  8   144 ms   151 ms   143 ms  207.88.12.213.ptr.us.xo.net [207.88.12.213]
  9   143 ms   171 ms   145 ms  207.88.12.216.ptr.us.xo.net [207.88.12.216]
 10   156 ms   142 ms   145 ms  207.88.12.210.ptr.us.xo.net [207.88.12.210]
 11   143 ms   142 ms   142 ms  207.88.13.57.ptr.us.xo.net [207.88.13.57]
 12     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 13     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 14   169 ms   210 ms   166 ms  at-vie15a-rd1-ae19-0.aorta.net [84.116.134.122]
 15   167 ms   173 ms   166 ms  84.116.140.1
 16   171 ms   170 ms   170 ms  cz-prg02a-ra2-ae27-0.aorta.net [213.46.160.174]
 17   169 ms   169 ms   169 ms  cz-pra-pop1-rb1-bundle-ether5-129.aorta.net [84.116.131.154] 18   170 ms   169 ms   169 ms  cz-pra-pop62-rb1-vla106.net.upc.cz [84.116.222.14]
 19   169 ms   168 ms   168 ms  77.48.244.27
 20   167 ms   166 ms   167 ms  213.192.54.36

 

[AZCoder 921]

I knew there must be a thread on the gateway errors. The forum has been unreachable several times per day for weeks from my perspective. I've also used sites like this to verify it's not just me:

http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/bistudio.com

 

Any  word on what's going on?

[XerXesCZ 89]

Forums are badly optimized I would say, Invision Power Board uses more HW resources than vBulletin used before.

 

Maybe changing/"increasing" some values in www and database server configs would rectify these problems.

[gagi2 50]

have you guys fiddled around with the forums again...

its now only reachable per https when it was a with http too a few days ago...

i already thought the forums are down now... who the fuck thinks about using https instead and it might work...

 

just make a redirection for this please...

[Undeceived 392]

Forum pages loading speed seems much better now, btw. Thanks so far.

[h - 169]

Indeed, something has happened because now this has been running smooth as... ..smooth. First time since forever.
All possible body appendages crossed it stays this way.

[SuicideKing 233]

Would be nice to get support for imgur albums. Makes it easier to insert multiple photographs, and takes less vertical space.

[Przemek_kondor 13]

I cannot sign (all the account controls are missing) on FF 57.0.4 (adblock on/off). When I click on "Sign in now" below the topic (while being logged out) it does nothing except showing (seems broken) this:

There are no errors (only warnings) in the console.

I've already cleaned bohemia.net cookies. No problems on other browsers.

[Tankbuster 1733]

2 hours ago, przemek_kondor said:

I cannot sign (all the account controls are missing) on FF 57.0.4 (adblock on/off). When I click on "Sign in now" below the topic (while being logged out) it does nothing except showing (seems broken) this:

There are no errors (only warnings) in the console.

I've already cleaned bohemia.net cookies. No problems on other browsers.

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I'm having no such issues using that browser.

[Belbo 461]

I have a suggestion for the forums:

Currently the notification system works like this: A user does an action that creates a notification on my end (let's say he quotes a post of mine).

Now I get a bleep-noise and at the bottom of the screen a notification pops up, which allows me to directly go to the post that has the quote. Additionally the notification is added to the list of notifications in the top right corner, showing a little sign that a new notification has been added. Clicking on the new notification in the notifications list, I can go to the post that has the quote just as much as using the bottom screen pop-up.

 

By clicking on the entry in the notifications list in the top right corner, the little sign is being removed and the notification is being marked as 'read'.

But if I click on the pop-up at the bottom of the screen the notification is not marked as read, so I have to click on it again in the notifications list if I want to remove the little sign.

 

I suppose it would be better if clicking on the pop-up would mark the notification as read too.