For the past few days the "view new content" button doesn't seem to work for me. What can I be doing wrong?
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View new content?
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Lou
, Jul 13 2012 05:43 AM
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Posted 13 July 2012 - 05:43 AM
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"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."-- Benjamin Franklin
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Posted 13 July 2012 - 07:09 AM
I went through a spell of that too. I finally tracked it to the filters I had inadverdently checked on the left side of the "New Content" screen. Somehow I had them screwed up and wasn't getting much if anything to show as "new". I reset some of them and made it better.
Hope that gives you something to check anyway!
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Hope that gives you something to check anyway!
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Posted 13 July 2012 - 08:15 AM
Thanks Tim. I'll give that a try,
Edit -- That was it Tim. Thanks again
Edit -- That was it Tim. Thanks again
Edited by Lou, 13 July 2012 - 08:18 AM.
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. -George Orwell
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."-- Benjamin Franklin
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."-- Benjamin Franklin
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Posted 13 July 2012 - 04:12 PM
Is the New Content supposed to "time out"? I'll try to explain....
I click on IC, then I click on "View New Content", and a list of threads comes up. I read a thread, click the "back" button on my Windows browser, and sometimes it goes back to the list of threads, and sometimes it comes up blank and says "No new content". No rhyme nor reason to it - sometimes I can read 6 or 8 threads before it "blanks", other times I only read one, then click back and the new content is gone. Very frustrating.....
The only filter I have selected is "content I have not read".
I click on IC, then I click on "View New Content", and a list of threads comes up. I read a thread, click the "back" button on my Windows browser, and sometimes it goes back to the list of threads, and sometimes it comes up blank and says "No new content". No rhyme nor reason to it - sometimes I can read 6 or 8 threads before it "blanks", other times I only read one, then click back and the new content is gone. Very frustrating.....
The only filter I have selected is "content I have not read".
Edited by XJCraver, 13 July 2012 - 04:13 PM.
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Posted 15 July 2012 - 12:19 PM
This just happened to me.
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Posted 17 July 2012 - 06:32 PM
Happened again today. Anybody have any ideas??
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Posted 17 July 2012 - 08:51 PM
I'm not sure. I haven't had this problem since the load balancer config was corrected, several months ago.
This may be something to do with cookie expiration, but I dont have an explanation as to how the "back" button triggers the condition.
I'll start with the typical question
1. Browser type and version? (example: Internet Explorer 9, or Firefox 13)
Also, when it happens - take note of the time and how many users are on when the incident occurs. I'm curious if the issue happens under load.
This may be something to do with cookie expiration, but I dont have an explanation as to how the "back" button triggers the condition.
I'll start with the typical question
1. Browser type and version? (example: Internet Explorer 9, or Firefox 13)
Also, when it happens - take note of the time and how many users are on when the incident occurs. I'm curious if the issue happens under load.
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Posted 18 July 2012 - 06:27 AM
Windows 7, IE 9. I'll look at user activity next time, but I'm not leaning towards a load problem. It's happened at 6 in the evening when this place is packed, and at 2 in the morning when it's dead. Cookies are cleaned weekly, hasn't seemed to help.
On another note - This is the only forum where this issue presents itself. Several others that run this (or very similar) software function fine on my machine.
On another note - This is the only forum where this issue presents itself. Several others that run this (or very similar) software function fine on my machine.
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Posted 18 July 2012 - 07:38 AM
XJCraver, on 18 July 2012 - 06:27 AM, said:
Windows 7, IE 9. I'll look at user activity next time, but I'm not leaning towards a load problem. It's happened at 6 in the evening when this place is packed, and at 2 in the morning when it's dead. Cookies are cleaned weekly, hasn't seemed to help.
On another note - This is the only forum where this issue presents itself. Several others that run this (or very similar) software function fine on my machine.
On another note - This is the only forum where this issue presents itself. Several others that run this (or very similar) software function fine on my machine.
The cookies are used to identify the relative "new content" based on what you've looked at. Granted, based on what you've said, you should only see the problem once a week. If you have some other, more aggressive, cookie policy, that might be the culprit. I think that Abolt is using the same setup ie9/w7.
I guess I'll be showing up for a week or 2 using ie9 on win7. I'll let you know if I reproduce the issue.
Thanks for confirming about the load too..
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Posted 18 July 2012 - 08:11 AM
pyre400, on 17 July 2012 - 08:51 PM, said:
I'm not sure. I haven't had this problem since the load balancer config was corrected, several months ago.
This site is load-balanced across multiple servers? That surprises me. It must get a lot more traffic than I thought. One decent-sized web front end can handle quite a lot of "view" traffic and even a good amount of concurrent transactional (e.g. posting) operations. I assume it's on VMs. What are the WFE specs?
Or is it just LB for high availability, not for performance?
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Posted 18 July 2012 - 08:45 AM
pyre400, on 18 July 2012 - 07:38 AM, said:
XJCraver, on 18 July 2012 - 06:27 AM, said:
Windows 7, IE 9. I'll look at user activity next time, but I'm not leaning towards a load problem. It's happened at 6 in the evening when this place is packed, and at 2 in the morning when it's dead. Cookies are cleaned weekly, hasn't seemed to help.
On another note - This is the only forum where this issue presents itself. Several others that run this (or very similar) software function fine on my machine.
On another note - This is the only forum where this issue presents itself. Several others that run this (or very similar) software function fine on my machine.
The cookies are used to identify the relative "new content" based on what you've looked at. Granted, based on what you've said, you should only see the problem once a week. If you have some other, more aggressive, cookie policy, that might be the culprit. I think that Abolt is using the same setup ie9/w7.
I guess I'll be showing up for a week or 2 using ie9 on win7. I'll let you know if I reproduce the issue.
Thanks for confirming about the load too..
No problem. Thanks for trying to help me figure it out.
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Posted 18 July 2012 - 09:21 AM
Xwing, on 18 July 2012 - 08:11 AM, said:
This site is load-balanced across multiple servers? That surprises me. It must get a lot more traffic than I thought. One decent-sized web front end can handle quite a lot of "view" traffic and even a good amount of concurrent transactional (e.g. posting) operations. I assume it's on VMs. What are the WFE specs?
Or is it just LB for high availability, not for performance?
Or is it just LB for high availability, not for performance?
Yes, it is LB/HA (active server/fault tolerance).
The site serves as a reliable source for many. So, whenever we would have a significant vote or ruling, the site would nearly crash due to the load. In fact, Chris and I had to do a fair amount of scrambling in May 2011 just to keep things responding within 15/30 seconds. Since the load balancer configuration was implemented, we have been able to handle the heaviest traffic without any issue whatsoever. The forum software upgrade has also helped to some extent. ..but yea, you'd get 300 anxious folks, concurrently hammering the "view new content" button, and things would start shutting down on the old server.
We are are actually running on physical HW. These services are provided to us by our top notch provider, TechPro http://techpro.com
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Posted 19 July 2012 - 05:50 AM
Again, this morning. 29 members, 31 guests online. Aggravating......
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Posted 19 July 2012 - 07:47 AM
XJCraver, on 19 July 2012 - 05:50 AM, said:
Again, this morning. 29 members, 31 guests online. Aggravating......
Do you consistently log into a single machine?
Or do you log in from home at night, at work in the morning, and then via a wireless at lunch? I think your issue may be the result of switching various machines. If this is the case, are you using win7/IE9 on all of them?
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