Forums Moved to New Servers

[arn]

Hi all,

The forums have been moved to new servers. There will likely be some glitches. We are also in the process of moving other sites (guides, macbytes) to the new servers... so there may be some issues.

If you notice specifically issues with the forums themselves. please post here.

arn

[skoker]

Homepage could use an update in that case...

[lexus]

Is it normal that the servers are a lot slower compared to before?

[grafikat]

Yup..was asked to log into att.macrumors.com a few seconds ago when I went to the 4,000,000 post thread :confused:

Hit cancel and it finally let me by.

[xUKHCx]

I'm getting some errors that weren't present before the switch. I treid to attach some screen shots but a when i pressed the upload button i was greeted with a login screen.

To view this page, you need to log in to area "test" on att.macrumors.com:80.

Edit: BTW the errors are mainly to do with weird text dispaly such as usernames appearing with all characters piled on top of each other. And "Upload File from your Computer" nows displays as "Up/sadfF /efdisc fysRiCsc pr.ei" which oddly enough when copied and pasted into the write post text box is converted back to english.

[pknz]

Forum Spy doesn't seem to be updating much.

[R.Youden]

Forum spy doesn't appear to be very responsive.

[xUKHCx]

I'm getting errors all over the place. I'm building up a lot of screenshots, but unfortunately that is still not working properly.

Buggier than Leopard :D

[arn]

I'm getting errors all over the place. I'm building up a lot of screenshots, but unfortunately that is still not working properly.

Buggier than Leopard :D

attachments not working?

arn

[Eidorian]

It took me about 75 seconds to log-in but I made it. :D

[xUKHCx]

attachments not working?

arn

Nope.

Picture 3.png:
Upload of file failed.

[arn]

turned spy off temporarily

arn

[Eidorian]

turned spy off temporarily

arnI noticed this.

[xUKHCx]

I noticed this.

=Eidorian are you noticing an error displaying your signature.

I can't type an equals sign

Quoted text looks horrible, badly spaced and missing characters.

[Eidorian]

=Eidorian are you noticing an error displaying your signature.

Also when i press quote it misformats it

e.g

Notice the missing equals sign, which oddly enough i can't type, another error?I'm not noticing either of the errors you've pointed out.

[arn]

test

[arn]

attachments should work now.

arn

[Eidorian]

testWorks.

[xUKHCx]

Attachments now working?

Edit: Yes

[Nermal]

Times are all out by an hour for me now: It's 11:36 but this post says 10:36.

[Eidorian]

Attachments now working?

Edit: YesI'm not seeing that.

[xUKHCx]

Some more

[Eidorian]

Some moreNow let me say one thing.

I did clear my cookies and cache a few hours ago before getting back online.

[arn]

Some more

Can you go to terminal, and tell me what comes up for

"nslookup forums.macrumors.com"

Nermal: times should be corrected from this point on.

thanks
arn

[Nermal]

Quoted text looks horrible, badly spaced and missing characters.

No issues here with text either.

Nermal: times should be corrected from this point on.

Nope.

[xUKHCx]

Now let me say one thing.

I did clear my cookies and cache a few hours ago before getting back online.

Already reset my safari, was the first thing i tried.

In case anyone is wondering i'm using Safari 3.0.4 in Leopard by erase and install.

The only change i made to my computer since it was offline was replacing libcrypto.0.9.dylib to the universal verison that was in Tiger (a Leopard bug where it is only compiled as PPC)

[arn]

let's give it another try...

arn

[Eidorian]

Here we go again.

[pilotError]

I'm looking pretty good here...

[WildCowboy]

So far so good here. Had a little trouble loading pages for minute or two right at the top of the hour, but everything seems to be displaying fine for me.

[arn]

if anyone else has weird character rendering issues, let me know. It might be isolated to xUKHCx. (you don't have to reply if it's working fine for you :) )

arn

[cube]

Doesn't seem any faster...

[italiano40]

the forum spy doesn't update automatically i need to refresh to see new post

[4God]

I think I can, I think I can, I think.............

[Eidorian]

the forum spy doesn't update automatically i need to refresh to see new postGive it a second.

It took sometime for it to kick in for me.

[arn]

Doesn't seem any faster...

we might have some more tricks under our sleeve... but one step at a time.

arn

[arn]

the forum spy doesn't update automatically i need to refresh to see new post

Spy was broken. I should have fixed it now.

arn

[xUKHCx]

if anyone else has weird character rendering issues, let me know. It might be isolated to xUKHCx. (you don't have to reply if it's working fine for you :) )

arn

Just to clarify to anyone reading this it was an issue related specifically to me and my completely screwed up version of Safari.

[4God]

Just to clarify to anyone reading this it was an issue related specifically to me and my completely screwed up version of Safari.

Is everything o.k. now?

[mac-convert]

I just got home and got on. Looks good here on 10.5 under Safari. Speed was good getting on, and afterwards. No visual glitches that I can see.

Thanks for the hard work Arn.

[xUKHCx]

Is everything o.k. now?

Short answer yes

long answer it took a reboot, then a second so i could get online (thanks to leopard bug). Then found safari was fubar. To to my Time Machine backup to get Safari from there. Still fubar. The pop the installer DVD in but my superdrive has intermittent problems. So after 5 goes ejecting the disk, it finally takes then I managed to install Safari.

[Nermal]

Clock's still an hour slow for me. I'm in GMT+13.

[janitorC7]

Spy was broken. I should have fixed it now.

arn

arn, of all people, I thought that you would combine posts, and not have two in a row....

naughty naughty :eek:
:p:p:p

[EricNau]

Clock's still an hour slow for me. I'm in GMT+13.
Clocks are correct for me (-7 GMT).

Could it be an issue with the time change? We're switching from daylight savings time to standard time (1 hour back) tonight.

[Eidorian]

I noticed mine says -4 when it should still be -5.

At least I think so. I'm not used to this DST thing.

[xUKHCx]

Clocks are fine for me.

[puckhead193]

the site in general feels snappier :)

edit i take it back a lot snappier

[psychofreak]

the site in general feels snappier :)

edit i take it back a lot snappier

The Members List is MUCH faster, apart from that, I'm not noticing any speed increase...

Unfortunately the British spelling www.macrumours.com doesn't work now :(

[xUKHCx]

Clocks are fine for me.

edit: They are fine in forum spy but not in the actual threads out by -1, weird. The clocks are weird, it just went from 2.06AM to 2.07 PM on FS

[MacNut]

The smileys are all out of whack again.:o

[Eidorian]

The smileys are all out of whack again.:oIt seems that my forums have changed their layout for those.

It's not just here.

[HexMonkey]

The Guides give me a database error when searching:
MySQL returned error "145: Table './idb_wikidb/searchindex' is marked as crashed and should be repaired (74.86.39.122)"

I also have the same issue as Nermal related to the time (we're in the same time zone). I think it's a bug in vBulletin; it's a recurring problem that occurs about twice a year when time zones change in the US, but it seems to fix itself after a day or two.

[Doctor Q]

I get search Guide errors too, but with a different error message.

[Nermal]

I also have the same issue as Nermal related to the time (we're in the same time zone). I think it's a bug in vBulletin; it's a recurring problem that occurs about twice a year when time zones change in the US, but it seems to fix itself after a day or two.

I haven't noticed it since vB 3 but that doesn't mean it hasn't been happening :)

[flopticalcube]

Are you sure the forums aren't being hosted on Aluminum iMacs? They seem to freeze up quicker than an eskimo in an outhouse.

[WildCowboy]

Yeah, still experiencing periodic outages of 1-4 minutes where the forums just stop responding.

[Eidorian]

Yeah, still experiencing periodic outages of 1-4 minutes where the forums just stop responding.Likewise

[decksnap]

holy slow servers. Takes 30-40 seconds to load a page in the forums over here.

[MacNut]

I just got a major 2 minute lag.

[psychofreak]

I just got a major 2 minute lag.

Same here, but then some pages are fast...I'm going to bed, and hopefully it will be sorted when I wake up...

[mac-convert]

It seems like getting into a thread or forum is okay, it's when I back up when I see the lag. Could be coincidence. But yes, I just had a major wait, but it did finally come back.

[mad jew]

This place is slower than a **** in a nursing home right now.

[mac-convert]

This place is slower than a **** in a nursing home right now.

So did the other eleven of you go home to bed? :D

[mad jew]

They're upgrading to Leopard. You've been warned... :p

[Markleshark]

Yeah, still experiencing periodic outages of 1-4 minutes where the forums just stop responding.

Ditto.

In the UK, FWIW.

[Killyp]

Seems relatively fast for me, haven't noticed any glitches so far.

It did go 'down' about 15 minutes ago though, but only briefly...

[mad jew]

It has been a bit better for me since the vBulletin search was turned off (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=381241). Still struggling to a degree though. :(

[xUKHCx]

When you edit a post and press "Go Advanced" it is extremely slow takes about 40+seconds to get to the edit window.

[Luis]

Forums are indeed slooww. Just experienced a 2 min lag.

[Nermal]

Time is correct now!

[GeeYouEye]

What host are we on now?

[arn]

we're still working on tweaking the system, so you may notice some intermittent downtime today.

arn

[xUKHCx]

Just got a couple of database errors when trying to view a thread form FS

[skunk]

we're still working on tweaking the system, so you may notice some intermittent downtime today.

arnIsn't that what the lookout on the Titanic said in 1912?

[lofight]

pretty good, some lags of half a minute and sometimes i can't see the avatars of people.

[grafikat]

Advanced Search is no longer an option in the menu bar (search drop down).

[WildCowboy]

Advanced Search is no longer an option in the menu bar (search drop down).

Yep...arn has turned off the vBulletin search temporarily.

[psychofreak]

Sometimes I have to refresh to see my avatar, and the first time I switched to Hybrid Mode there was an error...

[xUKHCx]

Error in search - but it does display the answers

90245

[arn]

still having errors in search?

arn

[lofight]

I'm having some errors in user cp
a time after i visited a page that was highlited (dark blue) that i subscribed to it comes back as highlited

[xUKHCx]

Can we get back google search for me it seems to work a whole lot better than the standard search.

[lofight]

Another thing i noticed that isn't quite working well is, changing my signature, i can't select the text and choose font, so i needed to do it manually