Thread: Upgrade 2012 - Problems & Help

To all,

the admin and tech staff (both of them) are trying to re-create some of the problems but can't without a bit more information.

Would you please report issues in the format set out between the lines below (copy and alter it to suit), it will make finding problems much easier and save PMs to and fro to try and sort it out.

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Operating System: Windows
Operating System Version: 7
Browser: Internet Explorer
Browser version: Version 9.0.8112.16421

Date and time of the problem: 2 Oct 12 0930

Description of the problem and other relevant information. Clicked on Reply to Thread but could not edit in the reply box, it was 'greyed out'. Happens all the time (or occasionally, whatever)

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How to find your Browser version number, it will look like the red text:

Internet Explorer: Help->About Internet Explorer - Version 9.0.8112.16421

Firefox: Help-> About Firefox - 15.0.1

Chrome: Settings-> Help - Version 22.0.1229.79 m

For those missing iSpy, try this link and put it in your favourites:

Activity Stream - Woodwork Forums

It does not automatically update, you need to refresh (I think)

I'm having a minor drama that I don't think anyone else has listed yet...

When I reply to posts (including this one!) I keep having to save the text into notepad first...because as soon as I hit the "Post Quick Reply" icon it freezes. I get the "woodworking forums not responding" message and I have to reload the page; often several times, and of course it loses my text-hence why I save it in another program first. Last night I tried to reply to a post and it took 7 attempts.....

Maybe it's me, maybe my software (W7 & IE), I don't know....computer luddite.

I would like to offer my gratitude to the moderators who are trying to herd all the cats required to get this upgrade online and working.


Oh, has anyone mentioned the colours yet?

Is anyone else having issues with being logged off? I am getting logged after a while (can't give an exact time frame)

OVERLAPPING SCREEN TABS:
Sorry about the overlapping tabs not being fixed last night but there was a much more pressing problem with the mail server putting us out of action. Hopefully the tabs problem will be fixed today some time.

For now an easy fix may be to use Firefox or instead of IE or if the eyesight is good Ctrl - (that's Ctrl and the minus key) will reduce the screen size and fix it.

ADS AND POPUPS:
If you see ads at the top of the screen you ere not logged in to the forums. There is only one ad block on the forums for for logged in members. It is a trial ad block found right down at the bottom of the page and when it is just text it is almost impossible to see. When it is a graphic ad (it switches between text & graphic) you can't miss it.

The ads on the Guest view of the forum and in the Archive are there to help pay to keep this site FREE (some people seem to have forgotten it's all free and run by unpaid volunteers) and are hopefully are annoying enough as to act as an incentive for guests to sign up and become contributing members.

Popups.... What popups? There are no popups installed on these forums (other than those in the tabs etc which have been here for ever including on the old forms). If anyone sees a popup ad on these forums it will most likely be coming from your own computer infected with a tracking virus or similar.

What's happening:
Steven and I are still hard at it trying to get all the fixes in place but having businesses to run and is slowing us down a little. Since last Sunday I have been working until 2 & 3 am in the back room every night updating the counters and trying to do stuff to cause the least disruption and Steven is endeavoring to do things whenever he gets a few spare minutes.

It is happening albeit slower than anticipated. Mostly because of the massive size of this beast we call Woodwork Forums. There are around 15 million items that need to be updated, The Search Engine update took a little over 32 hours, attachment thumbnail update run yesterday went for around 10 hours until it in conjunction with the mail serve made the forums fall over due to the load on the server.

I'm off to the factory for a late start and will be working there all weekend trying to catch up on many lost hours over the past weeks due to shows, forums, and other bloody annoying stuff like 30+ emails a day from disgruntled members demanding immediate responses as to why the forums are stuffed and how it is inconveniencing them and why they will never be back again, and how dare we.... etc etc, etc.

It's free people. Suck it up or leave. Bit harsh but some people just don't seem to get it.

Anyway as they said during another great conflict:

KEEP CALM.jpg

Personally I prefer this one

kettle.jpg

Cheers - Neil

There is only one thing that is starting to really annoy me about the new format.

If I navigate away from the forum to another website for more than just a few minutes the forum logs me out and I have to resubmit username and password.

With the old format, I could stay logged in for days or weeks at a time and just click on the forum tab and carry on where I left off.

Is there a reason for this, or a setting i haven't found yet?

Doug

For those having problems staying logged in I have done some tinkering and maybe... MAYBE it has fixed the problem if not you may need to clear your cache. Below is info on how to do this:

Internet Explorer

• 1 Launch Internet Explorer.
• 2 Click the "Tools" menu and select "Internet Options."
• 3 Select the "General" tab and click "Delete" under Browsing History.
• 4 Check the boxes next to "Temporary Internet Files," "Cookies" and "History," and click the "Delete" button.
• 5 Click "OK."

Mozilla Firefox

• Launch Mozilla Firefox.
• Select the "Firefox" menu, choose "Options" and choose "Options" again from the menu that slides out.
• Click the "Privacy" tab and choose "Settings."
• Check all the boxes under the History section and click "OK."
• Choose the "I Close Firefox" option in the Keep Until drop-down menu.
• Click "OK" and Close Firefox.

No guarantee it will work but it is an option.

Fred,sorry if I seemed abrupt in my earlier post. Except for a couple of years in the late eighties, when I used Netscape, I have been using Internet Explorer in various versions. In the past 20 or so years I have had only one serious viral infection and that was my own fault for visiting a site that SWMBO would not have approved of .
I now use IE8 and have no problems with it either security wise or speed wise. With the various version of vBulletin the compatabiliy mode tab was not enabled therefore I assume there were no issues between vBulletin and IE8. Since the upgrade the compatability mode tab has appeared and there are slight differences with the forum depending what mode I am using.
I don't believe that this is the forum to be discussing the pros and cons of the different browsers. I use what I use because I like it, I've tried Firefox and Chrome and I didn't like them.
I'm not criticising the forum, I'm just posting what I see in the hope that small problem like this can be rectified and everyone gets the best out of the forums. I don't blieve that I'm the only one having these issues, I'm probably the only one anal enough to to bother posting .


With compatabilty mode off

Comptability Mode Off 1.jpg Compatability Mode Off 2.jpg


With compatability mode on

Compatabity Mode On 1.jpg Compataility Mode On 2.jpg

I'm still having trouble with the screen freezing after I've written the reply and pressed the "submit reply"; so much so that I've been coping the reply to word before I submit it. Sometimes it uploads but mostly freezes and I have to redo it 2 or 3 times to get the reply to work. I'm using Win7, IE8, compariable mode. It's worse in the late afternoon evenings and there are a few of the toymaking blokes having similar issues to the point of frustration too [I've had emails saying this]. Appreciate all the work by the computer people & admin staff BUT please can this issue be addressed before we loose members, thank you. Cheers, crowie
PS – happened as I was trying to do this reply 3 times…..woodwork forums not responding…..even saw the "auto save flash!!!

Starting yesterday afternoon, I have been logged off 4 times. This is happening even though I keep my browser session running. ie. I haven't closed the browser, and keep the forum running in one tab. I can't recall this ever happening before. I am using IE 9, on a Windows 7 64bit machine.

To all,

the admin and tech staff (both of them) are trying to re-create some of the problems but can't without a bit more information.

Would you please report issues in the format set out between the lines below (copy and alter it to suit), it will make finding problems much easier and save PMs to and fro to try and sort it out.

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Operating System: Windows
Operating System Version: 7
Browser: Internet Explorer
Browser version: Version 9.0.8112.16421

Date and time of the problem: 2 Oct 12 0930

Description of the problem and other relevant information. Clicked on Reply to Thread but could not edit in the reply box, it was 'greyed out'. Happens all the time (or occasionally, whatever)

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How to find your Browser version number, it will look like the red text:

Internet Explorer: Help->About Internet Explorer - Version 9.0.8112.16421

Firefox: Help-> About Firefox - 15.0.1

Chrome: Settings-> Help - Version 22.0.1229.79 m

The thread is now open for posting. A few requests, please...

1. Please read the posts already copied here.

2. To give us some idea of how widespread the problem, please post "Same problem as Post #6 etc", then list your configuration details.

3. Keep the chatter to a minimum so readers don't have to scroll through dozens of off topic posts.

4. Use this as the ONLY thread to put your feedback, do not create new threads in other forums.

Originally Posted by corbs

Is anyone else having issues with being logged off? I am getting logged after a while (can't give an exact time frame)

Originally Posted by chrisb691

Starting yesterday afternoon, I have been logged off 4 times. This is happening even though I keep my browser session running. ie. I haven't closed the browser, and keep the forum running in one tab. I can't recall this ever happening before. I am using IE 9, on a Windows 7 64bit machine.

Are you ticking the Save? box when you log on? If you don't tick this box, your cookies expire, which then logs you out.

Operating System: Ubuntu
Operating System Version: 10.04
Browser: Firefox
Browser version: 15.0.1

Date and time of the problem: 2 Oct 12 1710

Description of the problem and other relevant information.
1) Despite always clicking the "Save" box, my logon details were not remembered.
2) After logging on, was taken to the blue colour scheme vBulletin "FORUMS HELP DESK" page where I had to scroll down, down, down to click the "Full Site" button to get to what I think is meant to be the new forum.

Simultaneously accessing via Chrome under Ubuntu, and from my android phone, had me logged in automatically, so in this instance it only appears to be a Firefox issue.

Operating System: Windows
Operating System Version: XP SP3
Browser: Firefox
Browser version: Old
sidebar.jpg
I keep getting this new posts section on the right hand side of the forum lists.
It is the section that then goes and hits Googlesyndication over and over again.
It seems to be related to the error you can see on the top line where is says sidebar=right as it does not show when I go into the metal or boat forum tags.

Browser: IE
Browser version: 8

This new posts section does not appear in IE.

And this is what my router tells me is being hit, You can see the mutilple hits everytime I go to FORUMS tag.
[www.woodworkforums.com] Source: 192.168.1.2 Wednesday, 03 Oct 2012 08:41:53
[googlesyndication.com] Source: 192.168.1.2 Wednesday, 03 Oct 2012 08:41:56
[googlesyndication.com] Source: 192.168.1.2 Wednesday, 03 Oct 2012 08:42:05
[googlesyndication.com] Source: 192.168.1.2 Wednesday, 03 Oct 2012 08:42:11
[googlesyndication.com] Source: 192.168.1.2 Wednesday, 03 Oct 2012 08:42:45
[googlesyndication.com] Source: 192.168.1.2 Wednesday, 03 Oct 2012 08:43:17
[googlesyndication.com] Source: 192.168.1.2 Wednesday, 03 Oct 2012 09:00:38
[googlesyndication.com] Source: 192.168.1.2 Wednesday, 03 Oct 2012 09:00:46
[googlesyndication.com] Source: 192.168.1.2 Wednesday, 03 Oct 2012 09:01:08
[googlesyndication.com] Source: 192.168.1.2 Wednesday, 03 Oct 2012 09:01:17
[googlesyndication.com] Source: 192.168.1.2 Wednesday, 03 Oct 2012 09:01:58
[googlesyndication.com] Source: 192.168.1.2 Wednesday, 03 Oct 2012 09:02:09
[googlesyndication.com] Source: 192.168.1.2 Wednesday, 03 Oct 2012 09:03:03



How can I kill it off?
Peter