Strange. I am using Firefox and only see a few avatars.
I just tried to upload one from imageshack and it won't upload.
This is the one I am trying to use: http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/9012/berterniesingalongxz4.jpg
The following errors occurred when trying to save your profile:
* The avatar you have selected is either too large or not an avatar.
the signature shows on the right side of the message instead of below. I use Google Chrome. In Firefox everything seems working correctly.
In Chrome I also see no little * above the avatar, but instead a symbol of an image not working correctly (error-image).
There is a strange indent at the beginning of paragraphs when I shrink the screen to a certain size. No biggie; just thought you should know. I'm at work on a PC using IE browser.
I'm fine with the avatars.
There is a strange indent at the beginning of paragraphs when I shrink the screen to a certain size. No biggie; just thought you should know. I'm at work on a PC using IE browser.
Thanks.
I just tried IE (was on Firefox) and can't see them there either. Instead I get two square boxes with a red X inside underneath each persons name.
Good! Fifteen minutes later and it seems that the Red Cross problem is solved! :)
I'm working on notified problems in the background!
cheers
Rob
Yeah.
You're the background man. The men don't know, but the little girls understand.
On Chrome, my problem is that the signatures don't break (wrap) properly but extend out to the right.
Well, all you people there tryin' to sleep,
Rob's out there making it your midnight treat
On Chrome, my problem is that the signatures don't break (wrap) properly but extend out to the right.
Know what I mean?
Update: Wait, has this literally been fixed in the seconds it took me to write this post??!!
Update: Now it's back to being funny.
Update: Seems to be necessary for me to update/write a post for the line-wrapping to work properly. When I enter the site anew, it's back to the new, old skewed way.
Rob, I still do not see the subscriber sign under the avatar, while others have it already, like Jezetha.
Must that still be done by you, by hand?
Yes, Harry, I suspect that is still a hand job. Mine isn't up yet either, but I have determined to wait. Mods should be last anyway, after the others are served. :D
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Yes, Harry, I suspect that is still a hand job. Mine isn't up yet either, but I have determined to wait. Mods should be last anyway, after the others are served. :D
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...but until then, all members get the benefit of ad-free forum, (and I lose a bit of revenue).
cheers
Rob
Which reminds me...I'm sure I'm overdue to renew. I don't see a "Subscribe" tab anywhere, but if you would kindly post the direct PayPal link I will remedy that! 8)
--Bruce
Yes, Harry, I suspect that is still a hand job.
Bruce, it's under Actions in the profile account settings. :)
Rob, I still do not see the subscriber sign under the avatar, while others have it already, like Jezetha.
Must that still be done by you, by hand?
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I was wondering if a break could be inserted below one's avatar.
(See screen short.)
(Chrome.)
I'm sure you know that the actual issue is the shape of your avatar, and are looking for a workaround.
The shape (and size) of my avatar is just fine, thank you very much! >:( 8)
Size isn't important.
Great Mencken quote, Gurn!
Thanks, ^. It's the first good thing anyone has ever said about criticism... :D
>:D
For some reason only this kind of emoticon works for me now!
But "The Police" and "Angel" emoticons still refuse to work. $:) 0:)
Neither of those emoticons work for me, either (on Mac/Firefox 2).
I'd like to report this one:
(http://www.bugshieldsbydino.com/Bug%20Drawn%20Pictures/bug%20alone.gif)
Neither of those emoticons work for me, either (on Mac/Firefox 2).
I reverted to the classic smiley set (angels and police are very important to me). It adds coziness to this shiny new place. 0:)
I still have an issue with the reply window; when the reply is more than a number of lines long, what is being typed is kept firmly out of sight - the window keeps bringing you up to the first lines. Maybe it's an IE-related glitch?
If you want to see all the smileys, make sure you choose either the "classic" or "default" smiley sets.
Not all the smiley sets have all the smileys. The policeman and angel and "non-standard" smileys.
If you want to see all the smileys, make sure you choose either the "classic" or "default" smiley sets.
cheers
Rob
I reverted to the classic smiley set (angels and police are very important to me). It adds coziness to this shiny new place. 0:)
I still have an issue with the reply window; when the reply is more than a number of lines long, what is being typed is kept firmly out of sight - the window keeps bringing you up to the first lines. Maybe it's an IE-related glitch?
Do you mean a forum post reply? Using the Quick Reply feature? Could you post a screenshot?
In general: I'm happy and I feel fine. :)
But the police & angel squads still don't work here (IE 7 problem?).
Just letting you know. No rushing needed.
This is not a browser issue. Some Smiley sets do not have all the smileys, and the Angel and Police are not "standard" smileys.
If you use the "Classic" set (you can change which set you use in your profile), then you, and anyone else using that set will see the Angel and the Police.
Have I lost my out box? : )
Gurn, you have a knack for occasioning a fresh question!
Where do I find these fabled Sent Items? ; )
Still having trouble logging in--doesn't like my password--and still requires me to log in again darned near every time I want to post something, three times for instance for the last three posts, including this one, all within about 5 minutes. Doesn't encourage participation (maybe that's the idea?).
Hey, anyone who gets ex-micturated by your comments can just exercise the scroll bar . . . .
Still having trouble logging in--doesn't like my password--and still requires me to log in again darned near every time I want to post something, three times for instance for the last three posts, including this one, all within about 5 minutes. Doesn't encourage participation (maybe that's the idea?).
I would like to bump my problem up to call attention to it to the moderators.
Earlier I posted a couple of screen shots in the "Windows 7...Interested?" thread about Kaspersky alerting me to a trojan while loading the google ads on each page. I have now switched to IE8 and I''m still getting the same warnings. It just started this morning (my time in the states).
At first I thought it was possibly browser related because I just started using Opera late last night and this is the first time these errors have ever popped up. When I get the warning from Kaspersky it says that it is deleting it. The warnings are a real pain though because the dialogue pops up whenever I switch screens.
http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,12139.msg387500.html#new
Thanks.
Others are reporting this issue on the Kaspersky forum. I updated my dat files but it did not fix. No word from Kaspersky yet. The prevailing view is that it is a false positive.
BTW, instead of Opera you might be interested in Chrome.
How dare you! No one ever leaves Opera for another browser! $:)
I use AVG and Malwarebytes. I have not gotten any alerts. I just ran a MBAM system scan and came up clean. I find it highly unlikely that a google ad would contain a trojan. If in fact there is one, I'll be switching to Kapersky ;)
Sarge
Once you try Chrome, you likely won't want to go back... 0:)
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Have you ever used Opera?
(I love what's currently happening to this thread. ;D)
Yeah, I tried it once at the instigation of one of the mods. It turned out that the then-current version was buggy and it destroyed my whole hard drive, causing me to lose hundreds of $$$ worth of music and irreplaceable photos and documents. Other than that, I liked it pretty well.... ;)
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Once you try Chrome, you likely won't want to go back... 0:)
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I'm assuming this is a joke. :o
Advocating software is dangerous, because when it disappoints it is your fault, although there is a temptation to proselytize. I knew a guy who refused to recommend any software. If you asked him if a certain application could do something he would never say "yes." He'd say, "I've used it to do that."
I tried Chrome but it's not 100% compatible with websites. I prefer firefox, even if Chrome is slightly faster. Besides my years of using gmail has taught me that google's software stays at beta level unreliable spottiness for years. :D
My Kaspersky AV Software updated about an hour ago.
After the updates, the Trojan/report warnings of the Trojan have gone. I did not tell the software to ignore the Trojan, all went well after the update.
Tony
I don't like to recommend stuff either
At work, I have just been forced to switch to Internet Explorer 7 to do my "work." ;D
The problem is, every time I post, I get a white screen. The post goes through, but I am not returned to the page where I just posted, like I had previously been in Firefox.
Any ideas how I can fix this? ???
Gurn, I haven't had that problem and I have been running 3.6 for 4 days or so.
Well, that's good, I guess. If it isn't FF, then my computer is probably ready to soil the bed-linens... :'(
Or perhaps it's your internet connection? I get session timeouts all the time at work.
Yeah, but this is like type a one-liner and bang-bang instant error message. Not like it sat and waited to send, you know? Plus, the other crap, (no addressee, no message body, no subject line) that isn't rue either. It's a full fledged message. Thus the mystery, I guess.
Oh, I see. I can't say that happens to me at all. My condolences. :-\
Thank you. I deserve them :D
The problem is, every time I post, I get a white screen. The post goes through, but I am not returned to the page where I just posted, like I had previously been in Firefox.
Any ideas how I can fix this? ???
Hah, but in Opera when this happens you don't lose the text - you just click the "back" button and you get back everything you typed. 0:)
Seriously, in Firefox, you can use the back button too, but the typed text has mysteriously dissapeared. ???
Did the font change on this site? All of a sudden the font is different and I'm wondering if something happened to my browser settings, or something changed here.
It's part of an experiment to convince people who wanted more prominent link display that is was a bad idea. ;)
See the New GMG thread for more.
I'm convinced. When will it be restored to a sane state?
It seems that the date is off by a day or am I just a day ahead?
And apparently my notification funstion isn't working. I've received four replies to "Yvonne Patterson Turns 100," and not a single notice has appeared in my inbox. And yes, I checked --- I did activate the function.
And what have you chosen for the frequency of notifications and the type of contents?
Gurn has the most posts, currently? How did this happen? ;) :P :)
: )
I predict that Dr. Henning will overtake and dust me within months... :-\
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I don't know if I have capacity for more Zappa . . . .
I predict that Dr. Henning will overtake and dust me within months... :-\
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In all seriousness, did you really do all those posts in such a short period of time, and leap frog over Karl? :o
Nah, somehow the system appended a leading "2" in the MSD position. Simply ignore it and the balance is correct. :)
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appended a leading "2"
a leading "2" in the MSD position.
I see! Otherwise, you would have had to be posting 24/7 for months to make that many posts! ;D
A Lesson in Logic
A contradiction. [For a particular meaning of append.]
A tautology.
:D ;)
By the way, I did not know that this was a system error. I, too, thought that I had missed a lot of posts -- perhaps in the Haydn SQ thread. ;D
What does that say about Karl then...? ;D
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Every 60 minutes I have to make a new password, what is going on?
Simply put: you're spending too much time on GMG. :D
My message box is telling me all the time that I have still one message to read, but in fact I made all empty. Still the you have 1 message stays put.
Maybe somewhere in the server of GMG???????????????? :P
Look somewhere other than in you Inbox... just sayin'... ???
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I looked everywhere Gurn, but all's empty.
Quote from: GurnWhat does that say about Karl then...? ;D
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;D :D ;D
Does that include your out box? :)
This sounds stupid, but when I have strange things happening sometimes logging out and then back in fixes them. :-\
Hi Harry
I have been away, trekking in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney.
Back now, and I have re-set all tallies in the server. Let me know if the PMs are now back to showing the correct number.
cheers
Rob
Has the header for the forum gone funny?
This is what I have been seeing for a couple of days now:
When I send PM, they don't appear in my "sent" box.
Is this (http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,6.msg414987.html#msg414987) a bug, Rob?
The Reply button, along with a number of other buttons (including those for emoticons, images, url, etc), has disappeared on Firefox. On IE, it's fine.
I am using the latest Firefox, 3.6.4, recently updated.
EDIT - Wait, it looks like my computer is downloading an update to 3.6.6 maybe that's the problem? I'll report back once it updates. I hope so, as I have disabled Adblockplus on this site and it hasn't done a thing.
No the update did not help.
All images are gone, except the ads.
Anyone know how to fix this?
Here lately at my home computer the forum has been hanging when I try to post a reply. The screen with the posting window continues to sit "Loading mode" until finally a screen with "Bad command" shows up - but when I re-open the forum ym reply has posted nevertheless.
I'm trying IE now, I had beeen using FirefoX, and don't know if for some reason Firefox is not working smoothly with GMG.
EDIT: IE posted this reply without a glitch, so there must be something going on with Firefox.
It is not a general Firefox issue, I use Firefox with XP or Vista and posting is not a problem.
That happens to me from time to time; I think it's really slow loading via the ISP until finally it times out. At the very least, it happens only when other sites are also loading slowly, whether with Firefox or IE.
Also getting Database Error each time I click "Post."
I assume that Rob did some makeshift solution to get everything running, but he still has to repair the database when he has the time. Might take awhile. :)
Also getting Database Error each time I click "Post."
I was locked out all weekend. I kept getting the white page saying the site was not available, and I should try again later. I'm at the office now and it seems OK. So: was the site actually down, or was the problem with my home computer? :-[
Same here. Main page doesn't update, too.
Right. Error messages when I post. And recent unread doesn't work.
Don't have the options for bolding, italicizing, underlining, attaching images or links, etc this morning.
Why not, Iwonder.
No smilies either....:(
Very briefly: apparently the site crashed over the weekend (reason unknown). By Monday it was restored (by whom, we don't know), but obviously with some missing, or corrupted elements. We (the mods) have contacted Rob, the site's owner, but so far, haven't heard back. (He is not a daily visitor to the site, as far as I can tell.)
That's pretty much it, but of course we hope to know more soon.
--Bruce
After reading, threads, posts not showing as 'read'
After reading, threads, posts not showing as 'read'
After reading, threads, posts not showing as 'read'
Hah! Marking posts as "Read" works now! I can finally flush those items from 3 days ago that I didn't want to look at! ::)
Thanks for that, Rob.
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I can finally flush those items from 3 days ago that I didn't want to look at! ::)Yes; seeing the words "essential metal albums" were starting to create som grating, cognitive dissonace in my mind.
Yes; seeing the words "essential metal albums" were starting to create som grating, cognitive dissonace in my mind.
I have never been able to see the picture of police or angel when posting (when you hit reply, it is next to the list of emoticons, after the evil sign). It come up with the words 'police' and 'angel' next to a box with a red x in it. This is true on both Windows 7 and XP machines.
You need to change the settings.
Profile > Modify Profile > Look and Layout > Current Smiley Set > Then choose Classic
Well what do you know! Magic! Thanks for that!
Hi Rob, this is just an FYI report in case you weren't aware of it already. :)
The Captcha mechanism that appears when searching the forum while logged out doesn't work on my end. I started noticing this after the forum's recent move into the lager facility. Essentially, it does not accept what I type and keeps on asking me to type the same thing over and over again while the font of the letters changes each time (the letters themselves and their order remains the same, however). Also when I request the letters to be "read out," I get a pop-up but the audio doesn't play.
This happens in Firefox 3.6.11, Firefox 4.0b8 and Google Chrome 8.0.552.11 dev; all running on Ubuntu 10.04.
Thanks - I'll look into this.
Cheers
Rob
I notice that you still have this banner up:
GMG has outgrown its old hosting service - we are currently running at over 99% of my server hard drive capacity. I am upgrading to a much larger server package this weekend. GMG may be down for several hours during this time. Sorry for any inconvenience but we will emerge as a much more robust (less crash-prone) and expandable site. Cheers, Rob
Hi Rob, this is just an FYI report in case you weren't aware of it already. :)
The Captcha mechanism that appears when searching the forum while logged out doesn't work on my end. I started noticing this after the forum's recent move into the lager facility. Essentially, it does not accept what I type and keeps on asking me to type the same thing over and over again while the font of the letters changes each time (the letters themselves and their order remains the same, however). Also when I request the letters to be "read out," I get a pop-up but the audio doesn't play.
This happens in Firefox 3.6.11, Firefox 4.0b8 and Google Chrome 8.0.552.11 dev; all running on Ubuntu 10.04.
I have re-configured the Apache OS running on the server.
Spell check should now be functional.
Registration captcha image should now be working normally.
The Image module is now enabled, which should automate avatar image resizing.
Please let me know if there are continuing problems or bug.
cheers
Rob
For some reason, I am getting spontaneously logged out of the site, and have to log in frequently. It happens on several computers that I use, so I don't think it is simply a browser setting. Currently using Chrome under XP or Vista.
Yes that happen to me some time ago, don't know why, have the same configuration as you, although before it was internet explorer I used as a browser. Chrome is much better and faster.
The "outlogging" has started to happen to me too.
More seriosuly; the thread "I've been a good boy!" which I started a couple of days ago and which received some few answers; seem to have vanished without a trace.
Yes, I vaguely remember seeing that thread. I can tell you that it isn't in the trash (I can look at the last couple of days worth of trash), although where it went is beyond me... :-\I can't find it in any category, it doesn't appear when searching for key words it contained, and it doesn't appear when I go trough my list of own posts for the period.
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I can't find it in any category, it doesn't appear when searching for key words it contained, and it doesn't appear when I go trough my list of own posts for the period.
Not an important thread by any way - but a signpost of more potentially serious trouble ehead?
Well, the Gurnmeister reset my password and now things seem to be working ok (fingers crossed). Seems like something gets fowled up in the profile which causes it to forget that you are logged in.
More seriosuly; the thread "I've been a good boy!" which I started a couple of days ago and which received some few answers; seem to have vanished without a trace.
Merged with CDCDCDCDCDCD... thread (http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,15426.msg478851.html#msg478851). (As it should be. 0:))No. As it isn't about CD buying, but about not CD buying. In that case I'd much more naturally would have seen it merged with the purchasing thread. Still haven't bought anything.
No. As it isn't about CD buying, but about not CD buying. In that case I'd much more naturally would have seen it merged with the purchasing thread. Still haven't bought anything.
Shouldn't there be a merge notice at least?
Strangely enough; when I come to the site I'm greeted by "Welcom erato"; then when I click on a link I'm not linked in.
Tell us all how, mighty Gurn! It's happening to me too... :(
It's the start of the great PURGE! Only if you are on a good footing with the Gurninator, will you continue to be a member. I passed the gates of Styx.
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Now playing:
Laurence Jackson (Violin) / Ashley Wass (Piano) - Bax Ballad for Violin and Piano (1916)
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Now playing:
Laurence Jackson (Violin) / Ashley Wass (Piano) - Bax Sonata #2 for Violin & Piano 3rd mvmt - Very broad and concentrated
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Ooh, a rare sighting.
Woah! Two in a row, with a comment, to boot! :D
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- Very broad and concentrated
Woah! Two in a row, with a comment, to boot! :D
:D
Believe it or not, that's Bax's tempo indication for that movement. :) I'll give you a comment though: I liked this disk a lot, no doubt will listen again and maybe even (probably) get some more Bax chamber stuff. 0:)
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Ah, I see. Perhaps I should try his chamber works instead. I gave the third symphony a second listen yesterday... not much improved in my reaction to the work since the first listen.
:D
Believe it or not, that's Bax's tempo indication for that movement. :) I'll give you a comment though: I liked this disk a lot, no doubt will listen again and maybe even (probably) get some more Bax chamber stuff. 0:)
No shortage of gorgeous stuff.
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61NYzW7gZFL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51BPLKVsEqL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
Bug Report or Bax Report?? :)
Did anyone else have trouble logging-in on over the weekend?
All day yesterday I was getting an error script across the top of the screen (some line of code was not performing its assigned duty) - then this morning (on my work compuiter) I was able to log with no trouble.
Did anyone else have trouble logging-in on over the weekend?
All day yesterday I was getting an error script across the top of the screen (some line of code was not performing its assigned duty) - then this morning (on my work compuiter) I was able to log with no trouble.
I wonder if there is some new glitch with my home computer?
I haven't been able to log on to GMG since yesterday morning. Could you please send a message to Rob in the 'Bug Report' for me? I'd really appreciate it.
This is the error message that appears when I try to log on:
"Fatal error: Cannot redeclare ip2range() (previously declared in /home/goodmu/public_html/community/Sources/Subs.php:3752) in /home/goodmu/public_html/community/Sources/ManageSearchEngines.php on line 669"
Thanks in advance for your help, Karl.
This is the error message that appears when I try to log on:
"Fatal error: Cannot redeclare ip2range() (previously declared in /home/goodmu/public_html/community/Sources/Subs.php:3752) in /home/goodmu/public_html/community/Sources/ManageSearchEngines.php on line 669"
Yes, that is the same message I received!
I finally got in through Google by searching for the site, and then clicking on the Google result.
Strange!
I'm with Navneeth on this; I have been logged in since 2003, I never log out, and have never had a single problem related to log in. And I don't think my mod status makes any difference to that, it's just that login and logout problems aren't problems if you don't log in and log out... :)
I've noticed that for several days now, only users are acknowledged as being on-line on the bottom of the forum homepage and it now always says there 0 guests on-line. Out of curiosity, I signed out of GMG on my home computer and now I can't sign back in. I get the "Fatal error. Cannot redeclare..." message other people are receiving. I believe the only people who now have access to the GMG forum are users who have chosen to remain logged in. I'm sending this message on my laptop.
I agree, Tony, that seems to be the case. I had some email with Rob, and he is now backing up the database (it's quite huge, not a matter of minutes!) and then, perhaps by Wednesday or Thursday, he will install an update that will hopefully take care of all this. Meantime, we will have to tough it out. :-\
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Now playing:
Stott, Poltéra & Mitchell - Fauré Op 117 Sonata #2 in g for Cello & Piano 2nd mvmt - Andante
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Getting a little scary .... :o
This morning on my work computer I got this message from the forum:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare ip2range() (previously declared in /home/goodmu/public_html/community/Sources/Subs.php:3752) in /home/goodmu/public_html/community/Sources/ManageSearchEngines.php on line 669
I can no longer get to the forum from this computer, though obviously I'm fine from home.
Yeah, Poco, it's going around badly. And it seems that if you ever log off you can't come back. Anyway, Rob is working on it, he just has to do a big backup first. A couple of days of peace and quiet and then everyone will be back... :-\ :)
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Now playing:
Sviatoslav Richter - Schumann Op 26 'Faschingsschwank aus Wien' 5th mvmt - Finale (hochst lebhaft)
Sorry. Didn't realize this was already known. I went two pages back and all I could see were a lot of Bax CDs, which strikes me as a bug in itself.
Forever isn't what it used to be . . . .
Reporting no problems here in the frozen North.
I initially thought it was a cookie problem since I changed a setting in Firefox. But Chrome doesn't keep me logged in either.
When I had the problem it first showed up on Chrome but persisted on Firefox, and on a different computer, on a different operating system, and after Browsers were told to forget everything.
Did you cure the problem yourself, or did it go away by itself?
I had the same problem a few days ago but it went away.
For those of you getting log-in and log-out problems, I recommend you take the following steps in the order presented.
1. Log out of the forum manually
2. Clear your browser cache - method depends on your computer/browser combo
3. Log back in to the forum manually, choosing the "Forever" option Since you cleared your cache, your username and password will not be stored by your browser, so you should need to enter them manually when you log back in.
If problems persist, please report.
Hey, if problem solved, please let me know too.
cheers
Rob
Doing what you suggested seems to have cured the problem. Thanks 8)
Sarge
For those of you getting log-in and log-out problems, I recommend you take the following steps in the order presented.
1. Log out of the forum manually
2. Clear your browser cache - method depends on your computer/browser combo
3. Log back in to the forum manually, choosing the "Forever" option Since you cleared your cache, your username and password will not be stored by your browser, so you should need to enter them manually when you log back in.
If problems persist, please report.
Hey, if problem solved, please let me know too.
cheers
Rob
Rob, this is minutiae, but thought you should know. On the top menu bar (with "Home" at the left and "Logout" at the right), the next-to-last button, "Members," now does not show, until a cursor is over it. And even then, it is just a small vertical oval--not like the other menu choices. (But at first glance, it looks like the menu choice has disappeared completely.)
--Bruce
Rob, correct me if I'm wrong: aren't the username and password stored in a cookie?
Well, they are stored in a cookie as well as your brain.
I suspect people are being logged out because of some cookie problem, so I am asking them to log out manually, clear their browser cookie, and log back in again (using the password stored in their brain) so that the new cookie generated is correct.
Unfortunately, I read above that this has not solved the problem for all.
I will keep searching for a solution.
Rob
Unfortunately, I read above that this has not solved the problem for all.
I tried clearing the cache/cookies :
- within FF (Tools - Clear recent Histrory - selected evertyhing incl. cookies)
- also with CCleaner (full options selected)
and the log in/off still occurred.
However, I also still had GMG listed in Tools / Options / Security / Saved Password.. (even though it didn't come back up at re-log in after the clearance and i had to re-type as said). I removed GMG from that list and that seems to have done the trick. Been logged in for the last 10 minutes now. we'll see if that occurs again.
Edit : got timed out while typing this message...so that's not that either.... :-\
For some members, it seems that changing their password solves the problem.
have tried it twice and got kicked out both times... i'll put the kettle on... ;D
While the kettle is boiling, can you confirm your Firefox is not in Private Browsing mode (it shows up as a fancy mask in the address bar, and deliberately does not store history, cookies etc).
Hi Rob,
Just for an update : I have re-logged in from scratch this morning with the new password set up yesterday. Not been kicked out all morning. So far so good :)
So maybe now you can put that gun away?;D ;D
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So maybe now you can put that gun away?
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;D
hello no, I'd rather keep it for its calming and reassuring presence... It can get weird around here ... ;D
Pages are loading verrrrry slowly tonight. But not every page. The main forum pages are loading perfectly up to speed. No problems there.
Pages are loading OK for me, Don.
Thanks, George.
I wonder then if it doesn't have something to do with my old browser. I'm on Firefox 2 but unfortunately can't upgrade at this time.... :(
Could be. Maybe switching to another browser would help?
Hmm...my old unsupported Safari loads as fast as always! Although the only thing not loading 100% is that new "social networking" cluster at the top of each post. Everything is there just not in finished form.
Pages are loading very slowing also. I'm wondering if it has to do with all the extra social networking icons that show up at the top of every post. It seems to do a 'stutter page load', where it will sit on one area of the page and hang for a bit, then finally load to the area for the last unread post.
It seems to do a 'stutter page load', where it will sit on one area of the page and hang for a bit, then finally load to the area for the last unread post.
The page loading still hasn't slowed for me.
However, I did find it easy to adblock the social net icons (I am using Firefox), as I won't be using them. Maybe that might help you?
I seriously doubt that the addition of new icons have anything to do with the slowing down of the website*. However, ABP is an extremely useful addon to have in any case. Ray, install this (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/) and, after having restarted the browser, right click on those SN icons and select Adblock Plus: Block Image... . (NOTE: Using this addon blocks most of the ads in the Web by default, based on a regularly updated blacklist. If you have some image or ad that you would like to reappear, you can edit the options later.)
Will blocking ads on GMG result in GMG failing to collect revenue for ads?
I seriously doubt that the addition of new icons have anything to do with the slowing down of the website*. However, ABP is an extremely useful addon to have in any case. Ray, install this (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/) and, after having restarted the browser, right click on those SN icons and select Adblock Plus: Block Image... .
All correct, except that in this case Adblock Plus: Block Frame works better. Using block image didn't get it all for some reason.
I seriously doubt that the addition of new icons have anything to do with the slowing down of the website*. However, ABP is an extremely useful addon to have in any case. Ray, install this (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/) and, after having restarted the browser, right click on those SN icons and select Adblock Plus: Block Image... . (NOTE: Using this addon blocks most of the ads in the Web by default, based on a regularly updated blacklist. If you have some image or ad that you would like to reappear, you can edit the options later.)
*GMG works fine on my end.
Thanks George and Nav. I couldn't install it at this time, because I'm still on FF 3.0
For those of you getting log-in and log-out problems, I recommend you take the following steps in the order presented.
1. Log out of the forum manually
2. Clear your browser cache - method depends on your computer/browser combo
3. Log back in to the forum manually, choosing the "Forever" option Since you cleared your cache, your username and password will not be stored by your browser, so you should need to enter them manually when you log back in.
If problems persist, please report.
Hey, if problem solved, please let me know too.
cheers
Rob
I am having the logging in/out problem now. I tried clearing my cookies and cache, but when I tried to log in again the first time (on two separate occasions) it said I had the wrong password. I haven't changed my password yet, as I often have trouble remembering them, but if that is still working for folks, I will try it. :-\
OK, I kept getting logged out, so I have changed my password. Hopefully that fixes the problem.
Hi George,
After clearing the cache/history/cookies, if you are using Firefox, you could try also to remove your stored password (if it is there, that is) from the list in
Tools / Options / Security / Saved Passwords.
then create your new password afterwards
that didn't not stop the logged off issue immediately at the time for me but the next day at re-log in with the new password, it settled itself.
then I got FF to store it again after that.
Thanks.
I actually don't have Firefox configured to store passwords, though.
The log-in settled back as randomly as the log off had occured for me, after some repeats of all those steps.
Maybe try the storing of the new p/w in FF just in case that helps ?
A new development: I am still auto logging out every few minutes, but now I can't even log in using the window at the top left. Each time it says "wrong password" and prompts me to log in again, this time in the center of the screen. Then it works, but I still keep getting logged out. Am I the only one this is still happening to? :-[
Following Rob's instructions cured my log in problem. Very surprised it didn't cure your troubles. It's weird that it seems to happen to only one or two members at a time. Have you tried using a new browser? Chrome perhaps?
Sarge
OK, I tried a new account to see if that fixes things.
Is it fixed now? (PS, if you start a new account, the first post has to be approved by a moderator before it will show up. I saw four posts just now--and approved them all--but just wondering if the login might be related to that?)
--Bruce
Oh sorry--OK, well then this is obviously something for Rob! :-\ He usually checks this thread regularly.
--Bruce
Good question; I'm not sure. If you have time, perhaps enable them just long enough to try it out?
--Bruce
OK, I just enabled them.
Prior to that, I was logged out, so the problem was still present.
Desperately unstable, and getting logged out all the time.
This board is now so agonizingly (and randomly) slow that two thirds of all my connection requests times out, and when I get thruogh, I need to log on agaian, just to see that there are no unread posts since my last access. Something is very wrong, and the problems are the both in IE and Firefox.
What kind of connection to the internet are you using? I have a hunch connection speed has something to do with it.Please; as a computer professional I would have better sense than to complain about speed if I was using 19.6 kb/s. I'm using 10 Mb broadband, and I'm using far more demanding services than this board. Neither have I had speed issues with the board before, though the last few minutes things seem to work better than the last couple of days which have been horribly frustrating.
I have not had any speed issue as yet, but have found myself logged off when i first clicked my GMG shortcut this morning (although cache/cookies were still left on from last night). I logged in again with the saved details from FF. Had one further auto log off mid morning, repeated the saved log in, and been ok for the last couple of hours.
Really random how this occurs though, as it had been stable since last week-end.
I'm not having any problems at all. Switch to Chrome! :P
I'm not having any problems at all. Switch to Chrome! :P
Nope, still getting logged out. :-[
EDIT: I tried power cycling my modem and router too. Didn't help.
I hear your pain. But I'm on a small island with just an iPhone and have no access to the server. I'll look into this when I get back Feb 2.
Cheers
Rob
Thanks Rob! It seems that the problem has gone for me, as I haven't had to re-log in for a few days.Maybe you just had to reboot or something similar like that.
Maybe you just had to reboot or something similar like that.
I don't think so, as I tried many different things (including rebooting, a new account, clearing cookies, cache, etc) and the problem continued. After I gave up trying to fix the problem, in a few days it went away on its own.Then it must be Microsoft! When in doubt.... :D
Well, just to get into this game - :D
I do most of my GMG work on a Dell laptop at home (Wi-Fi to my desktop router in another room) - VISTA OS w/ MS firewall & Defender; using the 'free' version of avast! - and the latest version of Firefox browser - so far, I've had no problems. :)
Starting this morning, each post that quotes a previous post containing an ASIN image is acompanied by a big grey box on the left, with the text [...] Unavailable [...] to see this item [...] Amazon.com. ([...] replaces text I can't see because it's out of the window). Also, the "Click to buy" tag is attached to this grey box. Anyone else experiencing this? ???
I saw one instance of it, I think in the listening thread, and that particular recording had only a customer-supplied image, which doesn't work with the ASIN tags -- so far. Either Amazon has changed something on their end, or Rob has tweaked something on his end, so that there is a place-holder in case no image appears.
I have done the ASIN tags a bit more elegantly (HTML-speaking) - its working flawlessly for me now, tested on Mac/Safari, Mac/Firefox and PC/IE
If there are any further reports of problems with image rendering, please post here.
cheers
Rob
Since two days having similar problems with the ASIN Images: Right under the picture, that is only partly shown, a big grey blok with part of the "Buy at Amazon" tag next to it. Using Firefox on a MAC.
Those of you having problems with the ASIN images, could you post a screenshot (press PRNT SCRN on a PC, Command-Shift-4 on a Mac) and quote your browser/operating system combination.
I found one quirk with asin. If you put an asin reference at the very beginning of a post the forum will refuse to take it, and tell you that "the message body has been left empty." If you put a bit of text before the asin reference, works fine.
Surely not, seems like we have people who post a picture and nothing else... :P
That's interesting. I would have never discovered that because of my post construction habits. Wonder if it does that with IMG too? Surely not, seems like we have people who post a picture and nothing else... :P
8)
I am starting to get (intermittent) messages of this type when opening threads or replying:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '=', expecting ')' in /home/goodmu/public_html/community/Sources/Subs.php on line 1262
I am starting to get (intermittent) messages of this type when opening threads or replying:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '=', expecting ')' in /home/goodmu/public_html/community/Sources/Subs.php on line 1262
Occassionally, I tweak certain files in the forum software. I then have to upload the new file to the server, which usually takes 2-3 seconds. If you click on a topic at the same time as a critical file is uploading, you will get an error message. Ideally, I should put the forum into Maintenance mode while I tweak, but that would inconvenience everyone.
As long as error messages don't persist for more than a few seconds, everything is OK. Just refresh.
cheers
Rob
So it seems the forum is refusing to accept the amazon ASIN for Young's Bruckner 8th. I deleted the link and now the post goes through. Go figure...
You can't put the asin as the first thing in the post, see my post above on this thread.
I am having the logging in/out problem now. I tried clearing my cookies and cache, but when I tried to log in again the first time (on two separate occasions) it said I had the wrong password.
This problem is back again. :-[Just thought I'd mention that I never had this issue until today, when I had to re-login after being logged in.
It happened last night and again this morning.
This problem is back again. :-[Happened to me this morning too after a troublefree period.
It happened last night and again this morning.
Just thought I'd mention that I never had this issue until today, when I had to re-login after being logged in.
What you can do in the meantime:
- Make your Displayed Name different to your actual Username. You can do this in your Profile --> Account Settings. You can choose to either change your Displayed Name (easy) or your actual member Username (requires password re-set).
What I am doing to address this:It will takes a few days or weeks to collect the IP addresses, and add them to the list of banned addresses
- Increased the failed login threshold so that members don't get logged out after 3 spambot attempts
- Made memberlists invisible to non-members
- enabled an error log database so I can track failed logins and collect their IP addresses
- once I tally enough IP addresses, I can add them to a list of automatically denied IP addresses
What you can do in the meantime:cheers
- Make your Displayed Name different to your actual Username. You can do this in your Profile --> Account Settings. You can choose to either change your Displayed Name (easy) or your actual member Username (requires password re-set). Your displayed name is shown on every post you make, but if that is not the same as your actual username (which is not displayed), the bots won't be able to try to log in with your real username. All members currently reporting problems have their displayed name the same as their username.
- Make sure your password is complicated - definitely not the same as your username, not a dictionary word or a dictionary word with numbers attached. These are just too easy to guess.
- Log out - clear cache - log in again
- report back on this thread about success or otherwise.
Rob (now Dungeon Master)
Click on Profile -- > Account Settings
Then click on the link under your current username (see attached file)
I don't have that link below my username:
(http://www.dmethods.com/images/gmg-profilemenu.png)
Click - Profile > Modify Profile/Account Settings
Then enter the new name in the box, your password and you're good to go.
To be clear, I am trying to change my username, not my name, as Rob suggested in an earlier post.
Yes, what I suggested changes your username, not your name.
I don't have a box to change my user name, only my (displayed) name is editable. If you see the UI I am presented and compare it with with Rob's own (by looking at our respective screenshots), you will see that I am lacking the "change" link below the user name.
I don't have a box to change my user name, only my (displayed) name is editable. If you see the UI I am presented and compare it with with Rob's own (by looking at our respective screenshots), you will see that I am lacking the "change" link below the user name.
I don't have the "change" link that Rob has either, FWIW.
Rob, I see an extra post appended to the regular posts in this and other threads. The member who posted it is "GMG Classical Music Forum" and the content is the blue Amazon banner which is usually below all the posts. Its time stamp reads the same as that of the actual last post in the page.x2
Screenshot (http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/9576/screenshotjsy.png) (taken before posting this message)
(Oh, and I deleted my post with Bill 'O Reilly on it, because somehow the picture got changed while the link to it remained the same.)
Rob, I see an extra post appended to the regular posts in this and other threads. The member who posted it is "GMG Classical Music Forum" and the content is the blue Amazon banner which is usually below all the posts. Its time stamp reads the same as that of the actual last post in the page.
Screenshot (http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/9576/screenshotjsy.png) (taken before posting this message)
(Oh, and I deleted my post with Bill 'O Reilly on it, because somehow the picture got changed while the link to it remained the same.)
I'll report back in a day or so and let you know if this works or not.
It didn't work.
I followed Rob's suggestions and this morning when I stopped by GMG I was logged out. :-\
Since it already knows your username, it is probably still at work trying to log into your account. Just a hunch, of course.
Log Me Out, Please
That sounds creepy, it's like cyber euthanasia. ;D
I see an extra post appended to the regular posts in this and other threads. The member who posted it is "GMG Classical Music Forum" and the content is the blue Amazon banner which is usually below all the posts. Its time stamp reads the same as that of the actual last post in the page.
Sometimes the ads are shown as actual posts.
I only began to notice this in the last two days.
It must be nice to have a palindromic name. :)
It must be nice to have a palindromic name. :)
Or at least a semordnilapish one.
:-[ That was a boob.
- Made memberlists invisible to non-members
Looks like you've succeeded admirably, now they're invisible to mee too.
Looks like you've succeeded admirably, now they're invisible to mee too.
Fixed. Yes?
Rob
I have also set my session to Forever. Still had to login a few times, these past few days. Though now everything is fine (writing this on my mobile).
Check the bug thread. The "spontaneous" logouts are apparently caused by hackers trying to guess your password and getting you kicked out of the system.
I'm permanently logged in. 8)
Thanks. I'll have a look. What hackers would like to do with my account? Post under my name?!
People often use the same password on different sites. If they get your password here they can try it on your e-mail account, on various banks and brokerage sites, etc.
Rob, I changed my username and password. Then logged out, cleared cookies and cache, but I am still getting logged out. :-\
I'm finding it very difficult to post anything. When I submit the thing just the browser just sits there indefinitely saying "waiting for response" until it times out. Then if I go back and look the post is there.
Once per day, the server does a complete backup. During that time (about 30 minutes, in the early hours of the night, USA time, the least busy time on the forum), the forum may move very slowly.
Today's backup is complete. Can you confirm the problem is fixed? Or is anyone else having the same problem?
No probs at my end.
Cheers
Rob
Anyone else using Opera 11.01? When I click "Post", the browser stays in the editing page, but the posting has been sent.
Anyone else using Opera 11.01? When I click "Post", the browser stays in the editing page, but the posting has been sent.
Today, no matter how many times I click "mark all messages as read", the "What are you listening to" and "What are you currently reading" threads always show up as "Unread".
Anyone else experiencing this issue?
Today, no matter how many times I click "mark all messages as read", the "What are you listening to" and "What are you currently reading" threads always show up as "Unread".
Anyone else experiencing this issue?
Though it seems OK now, I was getting very slow page loading for the entire forum over the past hour. All other sites were loading fine and though I tried deleting my cookies, that didn't help.Same deal. The whole thing went kaput on me for a while and I gave up.
Just noticed that all my personal messages have gone. :(
:o
Anyone else??
Mine too.
Is there a particular reason why members can no longer post (link) photos/pictures?
Never mind... just found out about the reason.
Can you tell me? I have wondered this for months, but since I rarely upload an image (I usually just hotlink) to the site, I never bothered to ask.
http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,19467.msg570441.html#msg570441
Look up, Que. ;)
The image insertion tag has been temporarily disabled due to a security breach (an influx of spammers, posting inappropriate images, causing GMG's standing to drop with Google).
I have disabled the image tag until I find a solution.
Argh.... anyone also experience the bug (since updating) that text doesn't break, that one cannot adjust the size of they text-box, that one cannot scroll down... in other words: that the right of the input box is basically indefinitely long?!
Almost makes GMG unusable for me. (Chrome 14.0.835...)
Ths is not a serious bug, but just FYI:Do you mean it does not appear immediately, but with a delay? Or that it never appears? Mine appears, but with a delay. I thought it was a feature!! :)
I find that when I make a post, and I am brought back to the Home Page, the post I've just made does not appear at the head of the Recent Posts section of the Info Center.
Delay . . . oh, is that a feature?
Again . . . it ain't serious, but here's an example of what I mean.
Note that in the screenshot below, the most recent of the Recent Posts in the Info Center is Today at 05:05:09 PM
But up in the Recordings and Reviews section the last post is Today at 05:05:49 PM
Again . . . it ain't serious, but here's an example of what I mean.Maybe there is a setting where it looks for new posts within some interval? So if you post before it 'refreshes' itself, for example every 60 seconds, it won't appear until the next 'refresh'?
Note that in the screenshot below, the most recent of the Recent Posts in the Info Center is Today at 05:05:09 PM
But up in the Recordings and Reviews section the last post is Today at 05:05:49 PM
It's a sad, sad day when such fine gentlemen as Gurn and Mac dis the great Havergal Brian. I think I shall never be the same again :'(
Sarge
True, Sarge, I'm no good. I have a thing about symphonies going over 30 minutes. I can only think of 2 that can justify it, and they weren't written in the 20th century, or even after 1825.
It's a sad, sad day when such fine gentlemen as Gurn and Mac dis the great Havergal Brian. I think I shall never be the same again :'(Me?!?! I guess I'm Mac! It wasn't me. It was my evil twin! Honest pa! I didn't wanna get anyone in trouble! Shucks.... :P
Sarge
Whenever the Itunes ad appears at the top of the page, it causes the entire page to have centered text.
There it is again! (And this time I see it's an iTunes ad on top. Might be due to an unclosed <center> somewhere.)
Thanks to the Apple Itunes add on the page I am constantly asked to install a plugin. That really annoys me tons. Was this add really necessary?
It has taken me 2 years of trying to get my Apple iTunes affiliate approval. I'm pretty proud of it - the vast majority of applications gets rejected.
Can I ask what plugin you are being asked to install?
cheers
Rob
who am I to protest. :)
Well, you are one of the valued members of GMG. I listen to all feedback and take it into account, and I'll certainly take your comments on board. I think it is fair to say that I do listen to feedback, and frequently make changes to the forum based on that feedback.
I have the aim of making GMG financially self-supporting. An iTunes affiliate link has been one of my aims for several years, but GMG has been unsuccessful in its applications in the past. I have finally been awarded an affiliate status, and am trying it out to see if it worth my while.
I am happy to make changes to the link. Perhaps a simple text link would work better? I'll try a few things over the next few days/weeks.
In the meantime, I'll run a quick poll as to who, if anyone, uses iTunes for their music downloads.
cheers
Rob
When you say "and return to the forum homepage", do you mean you press the "Back" button on your browser (which on many browsers simply loads the previous page as it was), or do you click on the "Home" button (which should reload the page?
I cant't reproduce the problem on my machine, using Safari, Firefox or Chrome.
Is it possible that new posts have been made since you reset the unread posts?
I don;t know if these are bugs, but there are two things on the Profile Stats page I have never understood:
1. In the middle of the page, there is a graphic that shows the posts by time of day. But the day corresponds, I think, to Australia time or something like that. Is this supposed to be like that?
2. In the bottom right is a table that shows percentage of popular board by activity. But they add up to 8% (in my case). And there are only 11-12 Boards in total. SO it seems to me that this is either a) A labelling problem, b) a decimal problem, or c) something else.
Anyone know the answers to these issues?
On #1, I believe you're right.Hmm. Well that makes more sense anyway, though I am not sure how useful it is. Would be really cool to see it by thread. That would be interesting! But I understand if that is too difficult. Anyway, we can consider it a request. Thanks!
On #2, the percentage isn't of your total posts, it is a percentage of the total posts on that board that you have made. In simple terms (which is all I'm capable of), if there are 1000 posts on that board, and you made 100 of them, then that number will be 10%.
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Hmm. Well that makes more sense anyway, though I am not sure how useful it is. Would be really cool to see it by thread. That would be interesting! But I understand if that is too difficult. Anyway, we can consider it a request. Thanks!
. . . over to Rob for when he is bored.
I don;t know if these are bugs, but there are two things on the Profile Stats page I have never understood:
1. In the middle of the page, there is a graphic that shows the posts by time of day. But the day corresponds, I think, to Australia time or something like that. Is this supposed to be like that?
However, if for some reason you do not want to syncronise (yes, its spelt with an 's') your life with Australian time, you can change your local time offset in your Profile --> Look and Layout, and then the Profile Stats page shows posts made according to your local time.
Not that I'm overly interested in my forum stats, but I just wanted to point out that for the posts to show in my local time (AEDT - 5.5), the offset has to be set to 13.5 for some rasonYes. This is why I noticed it. They don't match.
Yet when I look at the bar graph of my timestolen from a normal lifespent at GMG, the peak occurs at 0600, which is far from the truth. So I wonder whether the offset and the tiem zone followed by the stats page are correlated.
Yes. This is why I noticed it. They don't match.
syncronise (yes, its spelt with an 's')
The 'h' is optional ;)
Couldn't eyeresist?
The 'h' is optional ;)
For those of you that live in the USA and are not be aware, but the world actually revolves around Australia. Hence the forum's default time zone is set to Canberra time.
At the moment, I'm pretty proud of myself for writing this current script (that actually works). So I won't have you saying bad things about it! ;D
cheers
Rob
At the moment, I'm pretty proud of myself for writing this current script (that actually works). So I won't have you saying bad things about it! ;D
cheers
Rob
There are 3 types of ads on GMG:
1. The Amazon banner ads
2. The CD cover displays of recently discussed and new release recordings
3. Google ads.
I have little control over what ads Google serves up in its slot. It does try to look at the context of the page and serve up appropriate ads. So a page discussing music will often show ads for guitar lessons, sheet music or concerts. A dating ad will show up on a page (usually in the Diner) where people (I'm looking at you, Greg) are discussing relationships etc.
Trying to use the search mechanism, I keep getting "Did you forget to put something to search for?"
I wonder if the search uses Google, because they've just changed their search page to java compulsory.
Stop running this script?
A script on this page is causing Internet Explorer to run slowly. If it continues to run, your computer might become unresponsive.
When I'm searching the forum, I get this annoying little arrow at the left-hand corner of my screen and when I click on it: it contains a link to a YouTube video. It also seems to take longer to bring up pages. So annoying. I left GMG for a month and survived just fine. I don't mind leaving forever if you can't do something about this annoying arrow.
Since yesterday, threads take longer to come up, and I keep getting this pop-up:I have this exact same problem.
It doesn't tell me what the script actually is. Something to do with Twitter or Facebook?
EDIT: It's Twitter. Clicking the "back" button when viewing a thread doesn't work, and when I look at the drop-down recent page history, I just see repeated entries of "http://platform.twitter.com/widgets/twe".
I have this exact same problem.
It's getting really annoying now.... Damn you, new media!
Load times on this forum haven't been great at all. I don't want to hear it's on my end because it's not. I have no other problems surfing the internet and bringing up pages but when I get here it feels like the pages get sticky. It's really pissing me off. I just hate all these "improvements" on this forum. They're not helping and they're just irritating more than anything. I think Rob should really give the members the option to turn off all this extra media. I mean why should people who don't want anything to do with this junk be forced to use it or even look at it? Something really needs to be done about this issue.
If you hate all these improvements, you could not come to this forum. Nobody is forcing you to be here you know. Your cold back on GMG and already you start to demand and dictate.
I think that's rather harsh, Harry. For one, MI is not the only member noticing a problem with page-load times; secondly, he's hardly dictating terms but simply voicing his opinion and wants Rob to consider giving everyone an option to turn these things off (which I think will not be possible, or at least not easy to accomplish).
As a work-around in Firefox, one can block the yahoo.com, yimg.com and yahooapis.com domains using 'NoScript', an add-on for the browser, to prevent Yahoo Player from loading. Of course, that would create a hassle if you want to browse a Yahoo site and GMG in parallel.
I think its rather harsh what he is saying, voicing his opinion in this way I consider bad behaviour. He is bashing against things I rather like.
Well, that's just MI. A milder version that we're usually exposed to, I'd say. :D
Don't quote me on this, as this is just a guess, but I don't think he has an agenda against you. ;)
Well, that's just MI. A milder version that we're usually exposed to, I'd say. :D
Don't quote me on this, as this is just a guess, but I don't think he has an agenda against you. ;)
Maybe but it makes me think if it will be a wise decision for me to come back to GMG after the renovation of my house. I think MI is the drop for me overflowing the bucket. I think you are right, he probably has no agenda against me, but there are far to many of his kind overflowing GMG. Just voicing my opinion.
I have this exact same problem.Problem has now gone away. No idea who did what, but thanks to the DM anyway!!
Problem has now gone away. No idea who did what, but thanks to the DM anyway!!
As to load times, no issues on my end. I just post that to indicate it is not a global problem.
I left GMG for a month and survived just fine. I don't mind leaving forever if you can't do something about this annoying arrow.
Maybe but it makes me think if it will be a wise decision for me to come back to GMG after the renovation of my house.
Maybe but it makes me think if it will be a wise decision for me to come back to GMG after the renovation of my house. I think MI is the drop for me overflowing the bucket. I think you are right, he probably has no agenda against me, but there are far to many of his kind overflowing GMG. Just voicing my opinion.
Is there a reason the "new releases at Amazon" script is stuck on the week of August 4?
The "recently discussed" script seem to be working properly, but the new releases is now a month and a half out of date....
Page created in 0.238 seconds with 40 queries.I'm on Earthlink dial-up, so I know part of the slowness is certainly on my end, but it actually took about two minutes for the page to fully load on my screen (and sometimes pages don't fully load). I've got my setting so the newest posts show at the top, which means I usually don't have to wait for the page to fully load to see them (except in topics that get many posts like the Listening thread).
You mean like this:I'm on Earthlink dial-up, so I know part of the slowness is certainly on my end, but it actually took about two minutes for the page to fully load on my screen (and sometimes pages don't fully load). I've got my setting so the newest posts show at the top, which means I usually don't have to wait for the page to fully load to see them (except in topics that get many posts like the Listening thread).
Dial-up? What's that? ;) :D Yeah, the slowness is definitely on your end if you're using dial-up. Why do you continue to use that dinosaur of technology?1) the broadband alternatives in this area are either expensive, or unreliable, or both.
2) My PC is a relatively older one (2006, Windows XP SP1 with Firefox and Opera as my main browsers)--won't play Youtube videos, for instance
1) the broadband alternatives in this area are either expensive, or unreliable, or both.
2) My PC is a relatively older one (2006, Windows XP SP1 with Firefox and Opera as my main browsers)--won't play Youtube videos, for instance--so I suspect until I get a new one (probably in the next few months) broadband would be wasted.
I do intend to switch up at least to DSL once I have a new PC.
Hmmm...do you have AT&T U-Verse in your area per chance? This is a great service. Yeah, I would seriously think about getting a new computer too. You can a laptop or desktop cheap now. Just don't buy HP or Dell whatever you do. Horrible computers.
If you installed the updates and installed SP3 your computer would be fine, if the drive is still reliable. I have one computer of the same vintage (but with SP3) and it can do everything my newer one does.
Note to Navneeth--
Apparently this computer is too old to work with the newer versions of Flash, or something. Not being a techie, I'm not sure; I only know the end result. When I want to see something on Youtube or similar, I go to the library and use their public terminals.
I do. But to get internet with them I have to bundle it with either TV cable service (which I get from Comcast as part of my townhouse association dues, so I'm stuck with that) or ATT long distance, for which I have absolutely no need, what with this cell phone in my pocket that lets me call out of state for nothing extra....
And my computer is really an HP :o Although I've had no actual problems with it other than it getting apparently too outdated to handle new software.
Apparently this computer is too old to work with the newer versions of Flash, or something.
Have you tried using an older version of flash? Also on many sites, notably youtube you can opt-in for html5 and not use flash.
When it becomes too much of a hassle to do every day things, then it's long overdue for an upgrade.
Do you have to register for that? Youtube just refuses to run for me unless I get the latest Flash (I can get around it by using a portal).
Here you go:
http://www.youtube.com/html5 (http://www.youtube.com/html5)
and then click opt-in for html5 trial at the bottom. Make sure that your browser is on the supported list (including version) first.
What now? Without warning the twitter and facebook buttons are gone??????
When I mouse-over, I see the Twitter &c. buttons.
And, a cross-post:
For whatever reason, Rob, Tapatalk by me has failed to connect to GMG for a couple of days now.
Internal Server Error
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Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@good-music-guide.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
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Hi Rob - having a problem posting - has been occasional for a while but today, every post that I make is delayed, then the message below appears - I can arrow back and copy my post (just a Ctrl-C) in case I need to re-post, BUT when I return and look at the listings, my posts have appeared - today this has been happening in the listening thread (have not yet posted to other threads) - Dave :)
I have been noticing this for many weeks; it does not happen frequently and not in any particular thread, so I let it pass. One thing not to do when one encounters this message is to refresh the page thinking that the post might not have gone through. It would have, actually; but when the page is refreshed a duplicate will appear and one has to go through the process of deleting it. Another effect: one's own post will appear among the list of unread messages, which really shouldn't happen.
Happens pretty often to me recently (last few weeks), for my 4-5 last posts today it's happened every time.Ironically not for that post.
Hi Navneeth - well, glad that others have had the same experience - I've only duplicated a post once; as stated I've just used the back button to copy my message in case it does not get posted, but so far w/ this particular issue the server ends up posting the messages? Dave
Ironically not for that post.Not for that post, either. This can go on.....
I have been noticing this for many weeks; it does not happen frequently and not in any particular thread, so I let it pass. One thing not to do when one encounters this message is to refresh the page thinking that the post might not have gone through. It would have, actually; but when the page is refreshed a duplicate will appear and one has to go through the process of deleting it. Another effect: one's own post will appear among the list of unread messages, which really shouldn't happen.All of this, all the time, for me, too.
It happens to me too occasionally.
I have been noticing this for many weeks; it does not happen frequently and not in any particular thread, so I let it pass. One thing not to do when one encounters this message is to refresh the page thinking that the post might not have gone through. It would have, actually; but when the page is refreshed a duplicate will appear and one has to go through the process of deleting it. Another effect: one's own post will appear among the list of unread messages, which really shouldn't happen.
Go to the "Look and Layout" page of your forum profile.
You'll see an option that reads Don't warn on new replies made while posting.
Uncheck that option.
This will result in the forum not posting any post you make if someone has posted a reply in that thread while you were typing your reply, and showing you any replies to the thread made while you were reading the messages before deciding to reply. This has two advantages:
1)it averts the danger of duplicate posts.
2)it allows you to add to or modify your post to take account of whatever was posted while you were reading/typing.
The downside is that if it's a particularly chatty thread, you may have to hit the post button a couple of times before your message for the ages gets posted.
Hi all. I can find nothing in the error logs or on the server that would indicate what might be causing this.
So I have done a routine database repair and rebooted the server. Are we still getting the problem?
I have reset everybody's Smiley set to a default which includes all smileys we need.
Does this solve the problem?
Rob
I think I have located the problem. The clue was the "what are you listening to" thread. That particular thread is now 6000+ posts long. Every time somebody adds a new post, the forum has to process the entire thread to work out how to add the new post to the database. Processing 6000 posts every time is a huge server load, and sometimes it chokes. Anyone else posting at the same time will also experience problems because the server is still processing the big WAYLT thread.
So.... I am shutting the old WAYLT thread down as read only, and we can start a new one.
Let me know if this helps.
Cheers
Rob
I cant tell these new ones one from the other... :-\
Thanks!
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I think I have located the problem. The clue was the "what are you listening to" thread. That particular thread is now 6000+ posts long. Every time somebody adds a new post, the forum has to process the entire thread to work out how to add the new post to the database. Processing 6000 posts every time is a huge server load, and sometimes it chokes. Anyone else posting at the same time will also experience problems because the server is still processing the big WAYLT thread.
So.... I am shutting the old WAYLT thread down as read only, and we can start a new one.
6000 posts shouldn't be a problem; now, 6000 pages, for a total of almost 128,000 posts, appears to be :).
Indeed! My mistake. 6000 pages, 128000 posts, in the old WAYLT thread. In fact, the old WAYLT thread makes up almost 20% of the entire forum, at least in number of posts. No wonder the server was struggling.
Rob
But does locking it really help? Doesn't it strill have to reload every time the db updates? Might severing all the links might be useful?
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No, from my reading of the SMF support material, it seems that the main server load is when a new post is made to a large thread. Each thread is a separate database table. When a new post is made, the server has to read the table from the hard drive, load it into RAM memory, work out where the new post needs to go, add it to the relevant table, and then save the modified version back to the hard drive. Its that reading/processing/writing that takes up such a large amount of server load.
Now that the thread is locked, and presumably not read very often, the server rarely needs to access that particular thread/table, and even if it does, its simply to extract a single page to display.
Again, since the new WAYLTN thread was started, has the posting bug been resolved?
Again, since the new WAYLTN thread was started, has the posting bug been resolved?
Even after marking the entire forum as read many times, this post from Mandryka (look above) keeps showing as new. :-\
All the other unread threads "disappeared" for me, while Mandryka's post registered as unread however many times I read it.
How interesting. Well, if the posts have been edited then that might account for the continued unread status. But they would've had to have been the last post on the thread of course. Or the gremlins are indeed invading.
Am I the only one getting this message when checking new replies to my posts (at the top):
The server is currently under high stress. Please try again shortly.
???
Am I the only one getting this message when checking new replies to my posts (at the top):
The server is currently under high stress. Please try again shortly.
???
ASIN codes are gone?
I've noticed this too, Brian. This forum is falling apart.
What's going on with the Amazon ASIN link button? I thought this problem had been repaired?
I didn't realise the ASIN was such a critical part of your foruming experience! ;D
I didn't realise the ASIN was such a critical part of your foruming experience! ;D
Selfish
The Amazon links at the bottom of the thread pages have disappeared!
(Until they come back, for convenience of Yankee GMGers, the URL to use (I hope it's still valid) is
http://www.amazon.com/?ie=UTF8&%2AVersion%2A=1&tag=goodmusicguideco&link_code=hom&%2Aentries%2A=0
Bumping this up, because the Amazon links are still not appearing at the bottom of thread pages.
I'm hoping that this is simply a mod that Rob hasn't yet (re)installed.
Looks like some of the magazine covers in the top banner haven't been updated in a long while. I see some issues that are many months (maybe over a year) old.
Clicking on the orange 'new' button (available next to every thread which has unread messages) takes me directly to the second-to-earliest message rather than the earliest message. Of course, this happens only when I have more than one unread messages in the thread. I constantly find myself looking for context in someone's post, only to realise that the person was replying to the previous post, which is out of my view.
I like that, it takes me right to the next post after the last one I read. It's a feature, Nav, not a bug!! :)
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::) Among the posts I hadn't read since my last visit.... stuff which were posted when I was logged out and nowhere near a computer.
This really seems like a bug. Whenever I hit "show unread posts since last visit" it shows no unread posts, even if my last visit was a day ago. Since I am perpetually logged in it is always ambiguous when my "last visit" was, but the behavior of showing no unread posts is new.
When I click on "show unread posts since last visit", I'm shown a listing of all unread posts since the last time I clicked on "show unread posts since last visit"--whether that was two days or two minutes ago. Apparently I'm refreshing the page everytime I click on that button. This happens both when I'm at home (Opera on Windows XP) or at the public library (IE 8 on XP, I think).
Not sure if this is proper thread, but some iOS7 issues I'm experiencing...
-YouTube posted videos are not probably displaying in the safari window.
-Tapatalk will not allow me to post anything since the upgrade.
...it might be because I have an older 4S trying to run iOS7. Any suggestions or comments are appreciated.
Thanks! :)
My girlfriend's emails have been going straight into my trash bin (yahoo email), so it seems the OS for the iphone is causing numerous problems.I'm sure you claim it's some fault in the system, George ;)
I'm sure you claim it's some fault in the system, George ;)
What happened to the 2 links just under the home button? They took you to posts to which you had replied that had new entries and the other showed new posts since you last logged in. I'm not seeing them now...?
Sting,
I'm looking at those 2 links on MY screen right now. I would suggest that you clear your cache of cookies and restart your browser and they will be back like before. If that proves to be ineffective (it works for most issues that I've had) I will have to wait for Rob to apply his peculiar brand of logic to this one. :)
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What happened to the 2 links just under the home button? They took you to posts to which you had replied that had new entries and the other showed new posts since you last logged in. I'm not seeing them now...?Not sure if you are looking in the wrong place or not, but for me they do not appear below Home. They appear next to my avatar, below the 'Hello <member>'. If that is what you meant to say, the only other thing I can think of is a setting in your profile.
Not sure if you are looking in the wrong place or not, but for me they do not appear below Home. They appear next to my avatar, below the 'Hello <member>'. If that is what you meant to say, the only other thing I can think of is a setting in your profile.
It wasn't, since I can't see "Hello <member>" nor my avatar either. lolUpper right corner, click the arrow pointing down.
Upper right corner, click the arrow pointing down.
Lately, I sometimes get a centered format for the posts and the headers (actually, the whole page). Anyone else getting this? It doesn't happen all the time. When I reload the page, it usually goes back to normal.
Me too!
Same here.
Likewise.
Ditto.In like wise
Lately, I sometimes get a centered format for the posts and the headers (actually, the whole page). Anyone else getting this? It doesn't happen all the time. When I reload the page, it usually goes back to normal.
Fixed
For displaying CD cover images using the "ASIN" tags, is anyone else getting just half of the covers - as if they aren't fully loading properly?No problems at my end.
Example:
--Bruce
For displaying CD cover images using the "ASIN" tags, is anyone else getting just half of the covers - as if they aren't fully loading properly?
Example:
--Bruce
The Amazon links at the bottom of thread pages seem to have disappeared!!!!I think they disappear when you take out a subscription. Myself thinks they are useful, not annoying adverts.
Not a bug exactly, but this forum has been VERY slow for me lately.
Other internet sites aren't slow, so it can't be my connections.
Tried Opera and Safari. Tried logout+log in. No effect. Takes minutes to load a page!
I don't know if others have experienced the same.
EDIT: Now the forum is working normally for me, whatever the problem was... :)
Is anyone else noticing that pages download slowly or have to be refreshed to download at all?Still having this problem. It's a bit maddening...
If you are reporting slow-loading pages, please quote the time shown at the bottom of every GMG page - "Page created in xxx.xxx seconds".Actually base 12, Imperial, is more rational than the decimal system. It is our bizarre base 10 number system that is weird. 12 is more easily and usefully partitioned, a virtue in ages past. 12 is a better radix.
I am consistently getting page load times of less than 0.2 seconds. (Sorry, not sure what that is in US units - maybe half a furlong, or perhaps a quarter bushel)
cheers
Rob
Actually base 12, Imperial, is more rational than the decimal system. It is our bizarre base 10 number system that is weird. 12 is more easily and usefully partitioned, a virtue in ages past. 12 is a better radix.
Just sayin'.
I'm getting times like 0.192 and 0.401 and such but pages are definitely "sticking" and actual load times can be more like 4-5 seconds on occasion. One page about three before this post took literally almost ten seconds to load. I hadn't noticed that the page had more to load until the final "lurch" into load-land.
None of this is happening anywhere else on the net (I'm on Safari).
I did check those numbers at the bottom of the page and it was usually between 0.1 and 0.2. With me, I had to refresh all the time. It would load, but just bits at a time. It was like it was hiding it and revealing posts at a time every few seconds, but not necessarily at a regular interval. It still happens ocassionally, and sometimes requires refreshing several times.
My understanding is that the "page created" time is how long the server takes to create the html for each page. There are other factors that may delay page loading, such as the number of images in that page. Many of the images are hosted elsewhere and I have no control over how fast or slow they load.
Is this slow-loading being experienced by many members? If so, what time of day (and timezone)? I get very fast load times, but I am in Australia, when the bulk of users are asleep.
Odd. This started happening to me at my house when my parents got a new (supposedly faster) internet service. I moved out recently and haven't had this problem with my new internet. I know what you mean, though. I'd reload a page like five or six times and it would get hung up, each time loading more.At first I thought it was an issue with my speed at home, but when I logged on from work, I would still have the problem some of the time (particularly when I first posted). Since then, the problem has been appearing less and less, to the point where it hasn't happened since I last posted in this thread. As it was the only site I was having issues with (despite streaming and downloading files, etc.), it didnt seem that the issue was local (as opposed to a site issue), but I suppose anything is possible.
Please post here if you are having slow loading pages or not.
The pages have been loading normally for me (i.e., fast).
Sarge
I have a bit of a problem with loading pages. Many times it keeps loading, when the page already is refreshed.
The pages have been loading normally for me (i.e., fast).
Sarge
Ditto.+1
I'm missing a lot from the top of the page (avatar, unread topics link, search bubble, etc...), all have disappeared. I noticed this earlier today on my iPhone as well.Click the arrow at the top-right corner, and voila (or, I guess I should say viola!).
I've included a pic...
Click the arrow at the top-right corner, and voila (or, I guess I should say viola!).
I too fell prey to that "bug". lol
So I wasn't the only one buggin out on this one. 8)
Well, that was an easy one!Here's a trickier one. Every time I refresh a page, MirrorImage has a new avatar. I believe he has mentioned several times that he tried to fix the problem by picking a permanent avatar, but something is obviously wrong.
Here's a trickier one. Every time I refresh a page, MirrorImage has a new avatar. I believe he has mentioned several times that he tried to fix the problem by picking a permanent avatar, but something is obviously wrong.
Here's a trickier one. Every time I refresh a page, MirrorImage has a new avatar. I believe he has mentioned several times that he tried to fix the problem by picking a permanent avatar, but something is obviously wrong.
Here's a trickier one. Every time I refresh a page, MirrorImage has a new avatar. I believe he has mentioned several times that he tried to fix the problem by picking a permanent avatar, but something is obviously wrong.
I'm only responsible for bugs in the software, not bugs in the users.Perhaps You should hire a general practitioner and a psychiatrist to the moderator team. :laugh:
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I'm only responsible for bugs in the software, not bugs in the users.You couldn't keep up! :laugh:
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What are the size limits on avatars? I am trying to use this one but the system reports thst it is either too large or not an avatar, whatever that last phrase means.
What are the size limits on avatars? I am trying to use this one but the system reports thst it is either too large or not an avatar, whatever that last phrase means.
Can't open the picture.
Try using the URL of the file. That's what I did and it worked all right.
xJay F. is offline right now, he was getting non-graphic text only pages showing. He narrowed it down to being a problem with AdBlock, which he activated to block the ads on the site.
Is anyone else having a problem with the Forum when they activate AdBlock? If so, post it here along with what browser and OS you use, and we can see if it is a common problem or if Jay is just being Jay. :)
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I am Jay. I am online now. I still get "non graphic text only pages" when I have Adblock Plus on (just checked). My computer uses Windows 7 Pro 64. And I browse using the lovely Firefox 33.0.3.
This is Jay being Jay.
Your setup is the same as mine, except I have the Firefox update, 33.1. I don't use AdBlock though, not exactly sure how to activate it either.
Don't mind me, just Gurn being Gurn. :D
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Dear GBG - Here's how to get Adblock Plus for Firefox: https://adblockplus.org/
JBJ (who will upgrade to 33.1 next time he boots his computer up)
Here, I don't really understand why the middle sentence + photo don't show. I tried different things like changing the picture source, doesn't change anything.
http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,21529.msg847626.html#msg847626
Recently GMG has been showing up a little squished on my iPhone. I've tried to clear data/cookies and retry but same results. Wanted to bring this up and I also didn't know if there was a way for me to adjust it. See the attached pic.
And thank you in advance!
I use Chrome on my Nexus 7 tablet (Lollipop 5.0 I think is the current OS). It shows up exactly as seen in Greg's screenshot. Notice all the information is missing regarding last post, etc.
The Opera for Android browser I use as an alternate to Chrome presents GMG in exactly the same way.
To be honest, I prefer the non mobile version even on my Tablet. If this new version stays, is there a way to toggle back to standard Internet look?
To be honest, I prefer the non mobile version even on my Tablet.
. . . You know how it is in software: the customer is always wrong.
The default setting is: User Error
I've not even tried a non-mobile v. on my Kindle Fire.
Do you just visit the website via Fire browser not using an app?
Do you just visit the website via Fire browser not using an app?
Right. Reason I asked was because I remember Tap-a-Talk being used but I couldn't find GMG on it any longer.
FWIW, it is all squished up on my Windows phone too, which it never used to be. It is like there is one narrow column at the left side of the screen, and all the text is there, while the rest of the screen is just the light blue background. :(the same on my iphone 5 with Safari
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FWIW, it is all squished up on my Windows phone too, which it never used to be. It is like there is one narrow column at the left side of the screen, and all the text is there, while the rest of the screen is just the light blue background. :(
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First on my iPhone, now it's doing it on my kindle fire as well. :'(
Update: only when held vertical. Landscape mode produces the proper GMG page format.
Update: only when held vertical. Landscape mode produces the proper GMG page format.no. The unread posts is just as useless in any orientation on my iPhone.
no. The unread posts is just as useless in any orientation on my iPhone.
In Tapatalk on my Droid, the avatars all look normal, although they are cropped to a circle (neither of Greg's elbows is visible, e.g.)
That's a shame, it's the elbows that really accentuated the strength of the Harnoncourt. 8)Gordie Howe should have such elbows.
I had a little shiraz about an hour ago, and it's gone right to my iPad . . . .
;D
Thanks for thebedtimemorningtime story, Rob!
I would like to make it clear, esp. in light of the Shiraz, that it is late evening here in Australia.
Rob, many thanks for that clear, patient (even amusing) explanation - much appreciated.+1
(Perhaps the Shiraz brings its own unique insights. 8))
--Bruce
Hi allA real thriller! You have a knack for explanation - that was an entertaining and yet educational read.
Regarding the layout on mobile devices - its a long story:
Once upon a time, Google ruled the internet. Google could make or break a website by ranking websites by content, relevance and links.
That was in the days before mobile devices, when the peasants viewed websites on big-screen computers. Remember those times? If you had a good website with good content, Google smiled on you and life was roses.
Along came iPhone, tablets, androids, blackcurrants and phones with windows. The peasants started to ignore their big screen home desktop computers, and sated themselves on little itty-bitty screened things that were originally meant for making phone calls only.
The peasants all got mobile phones and androids and black things. They got cross because their favourite websites were very small on their small phone machines. The could not read the text. The buttons were too small to press. Menus were microscopic. The peasant started revolting. They were cross that their big-screen websites did not display well on their phone-call-making devices. But they persisted. Come 2015 and almost 70% or 120% or some such biggish number of web browsing is now done on tiny-screened devices.
Google looked down and frowned. Their ads did not display well on those small screens. In fact, the peasants were ignoring the Googly bits. Google was not happy. Google decided to smite the big websites, those websites that did not display well on tiny, eensy screens. Smite them and smite them and smite them again until they changed their ways.
Google decreed that any website that was not mobile friendly would be punished by being thrown into the darkness. Google announced a date for the great change. That date was April 21 in the year of Google, 2015.
Suddenly, all the makers of big websites trembled. There was no way they could re-design their websites and software and shit in such a short amount of time. It just couldn't be done. Software updates take months. Years. Sometimes never. But Google had made up her mind.
What is one to do? If one does not go mobile-friendly in just days, one is banished from the garden of good things forever.
There was only one thing to do. A quick and dirty fudge. Quickly come up with some code that detects a mobile device and makes bigger buttons to press, bigger text to read, and hope that it works on most operating systems on most devices most of the time. Meanwhile, get working on a more comprehensive, stable and better system that can be rolled out when it actually works well. But get the quick fudge in before Google notices.
So that is what has happened. For those people that care, a website that conforms to small screens automatically is called a "responsive" website. Here is my website (http://www.quickbas.net.au) for my business app called QuickBAS. I designed it to be responsive. View it on a big desktop, and then drag your browser window smaller and smaller until it approximates a mobile screen. Note how the actual layout changes as the screen gets smaller (4 columns merge into 1 column, and the text menu changes to a drop-down menu for example) to make it look good (or at least readable) on any screen size.
GMG and SMF, the software that runs it, is not responsive. It simply scales on small screens making text unreadable and buttons unpressable.
The developers of SMF have been working on version 2.1, a responsive layout of SMF for almost a year. It is in a beta stage of development. But Google's sudden deadline caught them (and many others) with their pants around their ankles. So they decided to roll out a quick fix that makes Google happy while they continue to develop the definitive responsive version of SMF.
What does that mean for us peasants? It means that the layout on some small screen is quite good (I have an iPhone 3gs (circa 2009!) and it looms pretty good), but other users a reporting strange compressed layouts, based on their mobile device/operating system/browser combination.
What can we do? Well, for now we live with it. I am hoping SMF version 2.1 gets to a release stage soon, then I can update the forum, and it should look good on all screen sizes, all mobile devices, all browsers, all operating systems. As you can imagine, its a big job to make software and websites comply with so many viewing environments.
I do apologise to those of you who are seeing weird layouts, but I hope you understand the issue. By all reports, SMF 2.1 is not far off release, and us peasants can be happy again.
cheers
Rob
PS sorry for the rambling, I've had just one small single lone unitary glass of Barossa shiraz. Or maybe 3, I don't recall. Nice drop.
Any news on when SMF will be rolling out 2.1, Rob?
An Error Has Occurred!
The server is currently under high stress. Please try again shortly.
I've been getting this message intermittently, over the last few days:+1
I am hoping it's because the server is loading new updates to the software for smart phones, which Rob previously told us about.
Ah, thanks; I was inattentive.No, that's not it:
The server is currently under high stress. Trump. migrants, Chinese currency manipulation, ISIS, the sinking Euro, how awful Colbert is. It's got a lot to worry about. Give it some space. Please try again shortly.
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gK2if_iHGNc/TOrmysDrSAI/AAAAAAAABxA/zd9nUoILol0/s1600/08_PhoneBug.jpg)
"Hello, I'm a bug and I'd like to make a report."
:)
Rob
PS we dumped our dip-shit Prime Minister!!! Yay! You can do it too, Canada!
Yes, congratulations, Rob. :) I was very happy to hear of Tony Abbott's ousting. We hope and will do the same on October 19th. Fingers crossed. :D
I take it this is automated in some fashion. I put a new topic in Concert Announcements, and got nuttin' - this is clearly anti-Anglo-Saxon'ation!!
No, not the post itself - the "new" button/flag beside it - orange rectangle/white text ....
If you wrote the post, you are assumed to have already read it, so you don't get a 'new' on your computer. However, when I logged on, I had it as 'new' on MY computer... right then? :)
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I take it this is automated in some fashion. I put a new topic in Concert Announcements, and got nuttin' - this is clearly anti-Anglo-Saxon'ation!!
I think you are referring to the "New" badge for new posts. These badges are to be interpreted as "Unread". If you post the item yourself, you have obviously read it (and written it) so it is not "unread" or "new" for you, so you don't see a "New" badge. It will be "New" to all other users until they have read it.
If you wrote the post, you are assumed to have already read it, so you don't get a 'new' on your computer. However, when I logged on, I had it as 'new' on MY computer... right then? :)
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When the post appeared as new for me, clicking the orange link didn't take me to the post either, though.
Harry is telling me that he cannot access the site, and it appears to be down for him.
Nope. Explorer on Windows 10 works fine at least.
Nope. Explorer on Windows 10 works fine at least.
As does Firefox on Win 7 & 10... :-\
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And Chrome on 10.
Could be caused because I upgraded to Windows 8 some time ago.
I'm having zero problems, so we'll just blame you, Henk. ;) ;D
Could be caused because I upgraded to Windows 8 some time ago.
I'm running an Apple Macbook with El Capitan (OS X) and I'm no issues whatsoever. Of course Henk is having problems with Windows, who doesn't? ::)
*Gurn timidly raises hand* "Me sir". I have had Windows since 3.0 in 1990, and I have to say, other than WinME and Vista (which I never had), I have had no problems directly traceable to Windows in all that time. Of course, I have had hardware soil the linen, but OS issues have given me a miss for 25 years. Maybe Windows is having problems with Henk... ;)
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After switching to Apple last year, I have to say as someone who used a PC for many years, I'm glad I made the move. I think PCs are plagued with problems and the fact you have to have an update for your update all the time can certainly try one's patience. ;) But, seriously, I actually liked Windows 10. It seems much easier to use than any of their previous OSs. Let's just hope they continue this trend and make everything more 'user-friendly' in the future. So far, I've turned several people onto Apples and these were people who have used PCs for years and years. I think anyone who dismisses Apple are usually diehard PC fans who really enjoy the customization of them, but, speaking as someone who's been on both sides of the fence, I have to say that Apple has found a loyal customer in me.
Oh yes, I don't disagree with any of that. I really did start out as a heavy customizer, although this is where Windows became a 2 edged sword. The majority of people weren't into that sort of thing, and in an effort to shield inept users from the workings of the machine, they ended up making it so arcane that only a total geek can do anything with it anymore. I don't even bother, I just do basic things and then leave it alone. What I like is the availability of different software packages, some of which don't work worth a damn, others are outstanding. Microsoft doesn't need to approve each one or say 'OK' before you can try it, something which irks me with Apple. I have nothing against them, unlike some folks, but their business model just doesn't suit me. Whatever works for you, that's my philosophy! :)
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Talk to your ISP - they may have changed something that requires a tweak in your modem/router device.
No problem loading on Mac OS X 10.6, or 10.9, or 10.10 with Firefox, Chrome, Opera, SeaMonkey, Safari . . .
No arguments here, Gurn. I really do feel, however, that Apples are more intuitive and were designed by people who want a computer to be uncomplicated. I remember when I booted up my Macbook for the first-time, I had to enter my Apple ID and then pretty much after that it was just a series of prompts and BAM! I'm done! Another thing I disliked about buying a new PC is all the junk that came along with the computer. I'd spent hours just getting rid of useless programs that Windows thought I would like. Also, the accessibility factor of an Apple blows PCs away. Where it would take me 20 minutes to hook-up a mouse, now takes me 5 minutes (of course I'm exaggerating for effect here). ;) Anyway, you're right, whatever works best for you is always the best philosophy to uphold.
Probably my next laptop will be a Mac.
Henk, you are a wise man if you go with a Mac.
Oh, no, not that "Macs cost more" myth again?
Setting that aside, Henk could easily save quite a few quid buying a slightly used model from a 99% / 5-star seller on Amazon, eBay, whatever.
How do I cancel a subscription? I've gone to Profile -> Actions -> Paid Subscriptions, and it shows the subscription options and my current subscription, but I don't see any way to cancel it.
My cancellation is due to paypal, not any unhappiness with GMG. My credit card company sent me a new credit card and paypal has decided not to let me link it. Paypal sucks.
I think it just expires at the end of the paid up period.
You reminded me to renew mine for the year. But I chose the credit card option, and did not go the Paypal route. I have a PayPal account but use it so little I never remember the password.
Mine is set to auto-renew, and I don't see any payment option other than paypal.
Well, then, the only thing I can suggest is PM the DM.
Slow here, too, and at one point not loading at all. But in the last few minutes, it seems to be more like the usual speed.
(Posted at 2:46 PM US Eastern Daylight Time)
Is the board running very slow today, or is it just me?
Slow for me, too, though faster now.
I'm unable to see any Youtube videos. I've checked and each time the videos were linked properly.
Is the flash feature when embedding YouTube videos (using the /v/ trick, of course) broken?
Example:
https://www.youtube.com/v/d0eangK_KBo
Hah, great minds think alike!
I have a few computers at home, all Windows based, Apple is just not my thing, despite the fact that they build good hardware.
I have Windows 7 pro, Windows 8 pro, and 10 pro, all work fine with GMG.
But at regular times, GMG gets slow, or inaccessible. I have learned to be patience, and sit it out.
Yes, blank rectangle. That's all I get, too.Try a click on the lover right corner - partial youtube logo
Try a click on the lover right corner - partial youtube logo
I don't think the youtube issue is a problem with the forum software, I think it's a browser thing. On Chrome, I got the blank rectangle. However, I got the video to play on firefox.I have the same problem on IE, Edge and Opera.
Did Chrome stop supporting flash?
A broken "Watch on Youtube" link in the lower right corner is hardly symptomatic of a browser problem.As I said, the video worked properly on firefox for me.
As I said, the video worked properly on firefox for me.
Yes, blank rectangle. That's all I get, too.
So, for me, anyway, YouTube videos are back in action. Hopefully for good.
So, for me, anyway, YouTube videos are back in action. Hopefully for good.+2
Two issues: 1) there's this "Mirror Image" Russian-spam thing that pops up on so many threads - obviously, some Putin-paid-for spambot - any way to track it down with nanites to eat it to the core? ;D :P
Ok, that was mean.
but 2) - some Amazon images show up with the ' ' and some don't - I get around it sometimes by going to different Amazon domains - i.e., .UK or .FE or .DE ...
any idea what causes this and how to fix-er-upper?
I've tried on the MI thing, but there it is... :-\Well if you go to all that bother, you can just make the actual image the link after you get the GMG address using the ASIN code. 8)
The reason the Amazon picture thing happens is when Amazon doesn't actually have that item in stock themselves, they don't have a picture for it either. Usually you can see that the picture they have in those cases is a 'customer image', which is not attached to the description like an internally hosted picture will be. Usually I go and copy the image location and put it into a [img][/ img] bracket and it will display underneath the actual link. It isn't pretty but it serves the purpose. You need to give Jeff Bezos' email to MI and see what he can do there. :)
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Well if you go to all that bother, you can just make the actual image the link after you get the GMG address using the ASIN code. 8)
[url=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000006NXP/?tag=goodmusicguideco][img height=370]http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000006NXP.01.L.jpg][/img][/url]
GMG a bit buggy today, a lot of "an error occurred" messages when trying to go to All Unread, for instance.Ditto.
When I want to visit the forum, I very often get a message telling me, that access is denied. This may happen almost every day and last for many hours.I got that once today.
Anybody got similar problems?
I seem to be having problems posting as there seems to be some kind of lag when I go to make a post. Anyone else having this issue today?
Yes, I am experiencing something similar. I preview a post if it contains an image [to ensure that the image will be OK] and sometimes I have a slight delay while the image is being retrieved. Today this is taking longer than normal.
Due to high stress on the server, the search function has been automatically and temporarily disabled. Please try again in a short while.
Probably reported before, but I see this quite a lot recently.
Related? Today I again get the (periodic) The server's resources are temporarily under too high a demand to find all the topics you have not read. msg
This morning I changed my avatar. I tried a few different images, but it kept getting cut off on the right side. :-[
I fixed it by shrinking the image down to 160x160. Still, the forum used to do this automatically, right?
I keep getting this error message on the Schoenberg thread:
Connection Problems
Sorry, SMF was unable to connect to the database. This may be caused by the server being busy. Please try again later.
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/goodmu/public_html/community/Sources/Errors.php:415) in /home/goodmu/public_html/community/Sources/Errors.php on line 346
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/goodmu/public_html/community/Sources/Errors.php:415) in /home/goodmu/public_html/community/Sources/Errors.php on line 347
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Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/goodmu/public_html/community/Sources/Errors.php:415) in /home/goodmu/public_html/community/Sources/Errors.php on line 351
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/goodmu/public_html/community/Sources/Errors.php:415) in /home/goodmu/public_html/community/Sources/Errors.php on line 352
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/goodmu/public_html/community/Sources/Errors.php:415) in /home/goodmu/public_html/community/Sources/Errors.php on line 353
Connection Problems
Sorry, SMF was unable to connect to the database. This may be caused by the server being busy. Please try again later.
I've seen that a few times today, as well.
Rob has explained elsewhere that he is in the process of moving to a new server because the current one lacks the resources to manage the board. I suspect the flakiness is related to that straining of server resources.
Ah yes, that’s a strong possibility indeed.
The "unread posts" function does not seem to be working, although the "read new replies" is.
Yes, I know about http vs https, but my point is that it didn't used to tell me "Not Secure" so I was wondering if something changed. Now I see that it is not showing "not secure" on one computer, but it is showing it on another computer which should be identical (OS and browser). Probably I unknowingly changed a browser configuration setting on that computer without realizing it and that affects whether the warning is displayed.
Had I been winning a dollar every time I visited a "not secure" web page I would have been a millionaire by now.
I never changed any settings on Chrome or Firefox (work), probably both after they updated, they just suddenly started showing that one day, as though it was some big new scary feature. I'd sooner they wouldn't... ::)
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The Secure warning only means that any data you send to the website is encrypted. This is important if you are entering bank passwords or other high-risk data. Not so important if you are just browsing a classical music forum. Theoretically, some hacker could intercept your login password, but I regard that as low risk.
Simple solution: click (and/or bookmark) "https://www.good-music-guide.com/community". The https is the important bit. You are now browsing the same forum, with no more security warning.
cheers
Rob
I have been getting sporadic bouts of slow loading, or even not loading at all, today, for the first time in a while.
I am also having the same problem today.
Looks like a Botnet/DDoS attack to me.Indeed:
Not Acceptable
An appropriate representation of the requested resource /community/index.php could not be found on this server.
Additionally, a 406 Not Acceptable error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
It literally took me many hours before I could successfully log on here tonight. This is a worrying development.
Most of the day no entering this forum, its on and off like a traffic light.
The problem seems to be at its worst when it's late evening/early morning in the US. (It was slow about an hour ago, but right now seems fine.) [That would be morning/mid day in Europe, correct?]
Hello, all of you patient GMG denizens, the moderators have contacted Rob (the site's owner, for those here who are new), and he will likely have a solution to the problem. That said, he may be on holiday, so "back to normal" may take awhile. (I have also been experiencing slowdowns here and there.)
We've also noticed an unusually high number of bots hanging around the site, which may be the source of the problem.
In any case, stay tuned, and in the meantime, hang in there, and hope you're hearing something great. (Me: Dvořák Symphony No. 6, in the recording below.)
(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000E4KO.01.L.jpg)
--Bruce
I don't know, maybe it's just me, but the site is flying today, like nothing was ever wrong. Hmmmm.... :)
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Lucky you!+1
For me the site is unresponsive 80-90% of the time.... :(
Unfortunately it has now become a major chore to visit this site and next near impossible to log on to it.
With me it is worst in the middle of the day, UK time.
Yes, seems to come and go. Earlier today I couldn't get on at all, but now it's lightning fast.
Still no word from Rob, which makes me think he's on holiday.
--Bruce
I don't think he is retired in anyway. But he does have a personal life that includes being away for more than a fewdaysmonths at various times.
Please forgive my ignorance in these matters [I am a child of the Analogue Age after all] but do these Bot attacks pose any substantial risk of a virus infection to those computers that access here in any way?
The answer can be short....YES.
Yes, but it's usually around mid-afternoon that it tends to stop working for me.
I hate to say it too, but it does concern me a bit that the person who owns the site seems to be so hard to get hold of. If the mods can't even get contact, we're all kinda stuck. It's a shame if we do have to leave; this is by far the friendliest, most welcoming classical forum I've come across.
It's no fun actually.
Even though I've become mainly a modest lurker.
The board needs a 2nd man (or woman) who can solve problems like these.
No offense against Rob, I truly love him for creating this forum and keeping it going for such a long time already, but IMHO solid technical support should be available when issues like these turn up.
This site is most likely the target of spam bots that are hitting it on regular schedules because it wasn't routinely monitored or updated. Unless someone can reach the original maintainer of this site who probably hasn't logged on in years, we should do as he did and abandon this place. This problem will not go away on its own. Any other recommendations for classical music discussion forums, please post.
Bruce, The IT Crowd is one of the funniest shows ever, but very much in the tradition of British comedy (eg Monty Python, Fawlty Towers) , so may not translate well to US tastes.
So far so good, fast and available at a mouse click. Thanks Rob, much obliged.
Yes, fast access again. Thanks Rob.
I'm still getting occasional long pauses.
I'm still getting occasional long pauses.Yes. It's about 50/50 for me whether the page dies, or loads extremely quickly.
Hi All. The rumours of my demise have been exaggerated. Been away. Back now.
Looks like a few issues to sort out. I will start will a reboot of the server (IT Crowd (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn2FB1P_Mn8)) and see if that resolves things.
A few tweaks and forum seems to be fast again. I'll keep my eye on things and see if it lasts.
Intermittently very slow or fails to load here, and seems to correspond with 800+ guests being active. Not an expert but I do suspect DDoS, not sure if server-side DDoS protection is worth the extra money it costs though.
What are DDoS, and what business do they have in a classical music blog ?? >:(
Now that the bots have gone, apparently the Havergal Brian thread also fell silent. ???
Yes, the site is literally flying! At least for me it is. Many thanks for your huge efforts! I hope it remains as fast as now. But it gets slow when I try post (just right now).
No. It depends when you access it. It crawls at times and flies at times.
I am aware that the forum is running very slowly and I'm working on it.
Greatly appreciate all your efforts, sieur!+1
No luck accessing the site this morning. I only got in around noon, and it’s been all right since then.
I am aware that the forum is running very slowly and I'm working on it.
Are we good?
GMG seems to work quite nicely this morning.
Certainly.
By all appearances, Rob's efforts have been successful. This is the first time in 2 weeks I can get on in the morning. :) And smoothly, too! Thanks, Rob!
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Good job, Rob !
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Says something that so many forum members have stayed loyal during such a difficult period.
I cannot remember the last time that I was able to log on. Even lurking was a big problem for me. However, it is great to be able to resume normal business. Long may this continue.
I suppose the moderators would be able to tell me for sure, but I think I have been here for over 15 years.
Amen! 0:)
No, records beyond this particular iteration of the software are lost as far as membership goes, so April 12, 2007, same as all the old-timers. I know I started here in Spring of 2003, and remember you here, like, forever! :)
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Thanks for the information! So I might be closer to 17 years of writing about Classical Music...and other things! Oy! :D
Karl predates me, so perhaps he has a more exact memory than I do! 0:)
Been good today. Except for the content of course 8)That's not fair - I didn't post anything. ???
That's not fair - I didn't post anything. ???
It's perfectly fair, actually: Ken posted a lot.The spam filter is broken again.
The spam filter is broken again.
You think he does? I was here for certain when he joined, I was already a mod. I got several PM's warning me about what a troublemaker he was. Better now, I guess... :D :D
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Wouldn't bank on it!
You think he does? I was here for certain when he joined, I was already a mod. I got several PM's warning me about what a troublemaker he was. Better now, I guess... :D :D
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Yeah, I remember.
Early 2003 was the time of the great migration from CMG to GMG.
Somehow this also brings back memories of one Pink Flamingo.... or what was it? The guy who mostly confined himself to Debussy's L'apres midi?
Good to hear. Happy listening everyone.
Somehow this also brings back memories of one Pink Flamingo.... or what was it? The guy who mostly confined himself to Debussy's L'apres midi?
It was Pink Harp, I think, and Pelleas & Melisande.
Yeah, I remember.
Early 2003 was the time of the great migration from CMG to GMG.
Somehow this also brings back memories of one Pink Flamingo.... or what was it? The guy who mostly confined himself to Debussy's L'apres midi?
Yes Pink Harp aka Eric.
(http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/asheville/guidewr3.png)
Sarge
Great pic, Sarge. You've encapsulated the entire persona perfectly, except for the persistence, of course. Perhaps a thousand copies, side by each? ;)
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It was Pink Harp, I think, and Pelleas & Melisande.
I can't take credit for it. I don't recall who made this photoshop'd pic but it's brilliant.
Sarge
yes in the true spirit d'escalier, "Pink Harp" occurred to me later, as I was out of the house, too.
It's interesting to see that these highly persistent, ideosyncratic posters, occurring on any group of any size, are quite endearing in hindsight.
Yeah, I remember.
Early 2003 was the time of the great migration from CMG to GMG.
Somehow this also brings back memories of one Pink Flamingo.... or what was it? The guy who mostly confined himself to Debussy's L'apres midi?
It was Pink Harp, I think, and Pelleas & Melisande.
Pink Harp !!!
Oh my! A man who must have had an army of psychiatrists either treating him or taking notes on his massive Obsessio mentalis with Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande, so that they could write papers for medical journals about him!!!
I wondered a day or two ago: What has happened to (former?) member PINK HARP? :o
For those who do not know, Pink Harp had a tendency to reduce nearly every conversation to a jeremiad on the marvels of Debussy's opera Pelleas et Melisande. And for anyone who begged to differ, you were blasted as insensitive and a Philistine.
This led to the creation of the adjective "pinkharpian" which meant an obsessive refusal to be the slightest bit broad-minded about one's opinions in aesthetics.
Is Pink Harp possibly still here, but under a different name and under the influence of Prozac? $:)
Has he/she surfaced on other classical music discussion sites?
How many Pink Harps do you know?
Yes Pink Harp aka Eric.
(http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/asheville/guidewr3.png)
Sarge
aka Pelleastrian aka Homo Aestheticus
(* chortle *)
Very slow here today also.
aka Pelleastrian aka Homo Aestheticus
me too - mainly very good and then suddenly painfully slow. It usually loads in the end but certainly it precludes easy browsing.......
aka Pelleastrian aka Homo Aestheticus
(* chortle *)
Yeah, good times. Ya know, what this forum really needs are some good Mozart conspiracy theories... ;)There are no Mozart conspiracies left.
FYI, I was unable to log in for most of the morning EST, but it seems to be working fine now. Not a complaint, as I know these kinds of things take a while to figure out -- just trying to provide some hopefully useful data... :)
Yeah, good times. Ya know, what this forum really needs are some good Mozart conspiracy theories... ;)
There are no Mozart conspiracies left.
Mozart’s descendants through the Mme Lavoisier have systematically murdered the adherents.
The Mozart Conspiracy
No, I'm not talking about the "Mozart effect." This is something much more sinister.
Google "Robert Newman Mozart Myth" and you'll see a bunch of discussions started by this tireless and tiresome conspiracy theorist in his travels about the message boards of our not-so-new millennium. Robert Newman is a guy in England who makes dramatic allegations about Mozart. Namely, the man was a Freemason stooge who never composed a note:Quote"I am sure (and have much supporting evidence) that the musical career of Mozart was almost entirely manufactured, falsified, even from the time of his childhood onward by the fraternities of the Holy Roman Empire, this involving the supply to Mozart (even after his death in 1791) of music he never composed but which, being published and performed in his name as 'evidence of his genius', eventually, led to a Mozart-dominated musicology, the hijacking of historical reality, the destruction of musicology itself, and the control of what is taught and believed on music in this important period of musical history. The musical evidence (from manuscripts etc etc) is now very clear. And other researchers are increasingly agreeing with this view."[/b]
This is garden variety delegitimization. He calls mainstream Mozart scholarship "corporate mythology" and "a fairy tale," even though (naturally) he mines the works of legitimate Mozart scholars for factoids that supposedly support his bizarre theory.
The Jesuits/Freemasons, he claims, had to come up with a homegrown Austrian genius (he also questions the authorship of the works of Haydn and Beethoven), so they presented this supposed child prodigy as a prolific musical giant. The real composers of his works were people like Sarti, Vanhal and Myslivicek: successful composers in their day, but unknown now. This also served to dumb down musical history, presumably so the musical historians would have less names to remember. He refuses to answer the many questions his strange claims raise, or to provide anything resembling evidence supporting the ideas he expounds.
Seemingly on the brink of publishing his explosive, controversial Mozart exposé for the past five years, Robert Newman has been kicked off some half a dozen classical music message boards for his predictable lack of civility and his aversion to rational dialogue. He may be a crackpot, but he's a crafty debater: he has an enormous storehouse of ominous-sounding factoids, and always tries to make the "defenders of the Mozart Myth" assume the burden of proof.
Always something new under the sun in Conspiracy World, right?
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You just put yourself in the crosshairs!
Not really, because I didn’t reveal the connection to Hillary Cli
Yeah, good times. Ya know, what this forum really needs are some good Mozart conspiracy theories... ;)
FYI, I was unable to log in for most of the morning EST, but it seems to be working fine now. Not a complaint, as I know these kinds of things take a while to figure out -- just trying to provide some hopefully useful data... :)
I don't believe you guys realize the debt you owe yours truly. Against all (very sound) advice from other mods and members, it was I who allowed RN into the Forum, with the exact purpose of keeping you guys amused. Now, 10 years on, he is still being discussed. I would say "success achieved". You're welcome. 0:) >:D 0:) >:D 0:) >:D 0:) :laugh:
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Stout fellow!
Well, not any more, I've lost 60 pounds... :)
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slow-quick-quick-slow here, and occasionally no access at all.Same. Just got a database error. Then a few minutes later it’s fast again
Between 2:30 and 3:00 pm Brussels/Copenhagen time: very very slow. Took me a couple of efforts to log in. Pictures and emoticons are also very slowly loading.
And we still have a lots of guests around here. Do we really have a continuing amount of 1000+ genuine music loving guest visitors at GMG? Or have the fake invaders kinda 'settled' in? Can this still be of any influence on performance/safety?
Looking into it.
Thanks, Rob. FWIW, on a whole, it is far better than it was before you intervened.
Not quite dear George, at least not for me. The out times where almost constant, with an exception in the morning. I actually could get in a few times, but not for long.
Nor quite for me. The site is extremely variable. Earlier this evening I got an error message for several hours when trying to access the forum. But now everything is perfect, maybe not for that long time.
Yep, working smooth again here.
...keen to hear if this has improved things. Please let me know if you are getting good access or otherwise AFTER you read this post.
cheers
Rob
The pattern was very slow to load in the morning (US East Coast time) and quick in the afternoon/evening. Today is the first morning the forum is loading quickly.
So
Hurrah for the Dungeon Master!
At this moment it goes very well. :)+1
Unfortunately I can only add another negative report. It is currently taking three minutes for each page to load.
It's very quick for me. I notice that there are currently 6 members online, and no guests.1125 guests at the moment, and working fine
Last 2 days, completely inaccesible in the morning and afternoon US EST. Works fine in the evenings.
Curse those bots, I'm actually being productive at work... >:( :P
Very slow again today unfortunately.
Yeah, same here.
I would like to take full credit for doing technical and intelligent servery tweaks and stuff to the server and fixing the internet in general. In fact, I'm just crossing my fingers in a superstitiousy way like the rest of you.
I would like to take full credit for doing technical and intelligent servery tweaks and stuff to the server and fixing the internet in general. In fact, I'm just crossing my fingers in a superstitiousy way like the rest of you.
Deceptive site ahead
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Just got a warning from google that this site is
I don't know what googlegroups.com is. It happens when I try to enter What are you listening to now?, but other threads seem to be uneffected.
When you say "log on via Google", do you mean you are using Google's Chrome browser?
Make sure you are going to (and bookmarked) https://www.good-music-guide.com/community
Not http://www.good-music-guide.com/community
That extra "s" in the "https" tells the browser to go to the secure (certified) version of the site.
When you say "log on via Google", do you mean you are using Google's Chrome browser?
Make sure you are going to (and bookmarked) https://www.good-music-guide.com/community
Not http://www.good-music-guide.com/community
That extra "s" in the "https" tells the browser to go to the secure (certified) version of the site.
Ups, I also have to correct myself, because I just got the warning now - even if I used the https address with Chrome.
Earlier today: 300+ guests, already slowing down.
15 minutes ago: 700+ guests, even slower.
Now: 900+ guests… guess the rest.... extremely slow.
Have not tried other threads than this one so far.
But after the sigh of relief yesterday, the last few messages/experiences (including mine) do not give me a good feeling, alas. :(
It feels as if we're invaded and 'hijacked'.
l'Histoire se repète: had no access for most of the day until just a few minutes ago. Now it's fast again.
Same here... bummer.
Darn bots. Who woulda thunk Cylons were so into classical music?
(http://www.criticalcommons.org/Members/ccManager/clips/bsgorigcylonleader.mp4/thumbnailImage)
Earlier today: 300+ guests, already slowing down.
15 minutes ago: 700+ guests, even slower.
Now: 900+ guests… guess the rest.... extremely slow.
Have not tried other threads than this one so far.
But after the sigh of relief yesterday, the last few messages/experiences (including mine) do not give me a good feeling, alas. :(
It feels as if we're invaded and 'hijacked'.
All day today, including right now, super-fast. No, really, I mean it.
Yes, just now fast, but only 319 guests pt.
Why are there sometimes lots of guests and sometime very few?
It seems to run a 24 hour cycle, with the problem worst in the (US )morning, possibly earlier .
I made this comment earlier, but I think no one saw it because it was during the period when my posts had to be approved by a moderator, and it didn't appear until it has already been buried by pages of subsequent posts.
I made this comment earlier, but I think no one saw it because it was during the period when my posts had to be approved by a moderator
how could it possibly be an anyone interest to deny access to this site?
Remember that the internet abound in peculiar existences whose greatest pleasure for unknown reasons is to annoy others as much as possible.
There are a lot of reasons why
- beta testing attack software, we are one of the test cases
- the political threads attracted attention, probably from bots
- bots aimed at other sites that connect to us periodically to disguise themselves from snooping algorithms
- a disgruntled former member. I can think of one I wouldn’t put it past, had he the requisite skill
My money is on the second.
I agree with your conclusion.
I think the bots see a server that has (on the global internet scale of things) a small presence, and therefore try to make it a vector for attacking other sites.
I think the bots see a server that has (on the global internet scale of things) a small presence, and therefore try to make it a vector for attacking other sites.Huh? I don’t see the mechanism you mean. How do guests reading these pages attack other sites? It looks like bots overloading the server behind GMG by hitting GMG pages. Ie the classic denial of service attack.
Huh? I don’t see the mechanism you mean. How do guests reading these pages attack other sites? It looks like bots overloading the server behind GMG by hitting GMG pages. Ie the classic denial of service attack.
438 guests and 8 users
I use also the Firefox and no messages
I made this comment earlier, but I think no one saw it because it was during the period when my posts had to be approved by a moderator, and it didn't appear until it has already been buried by pages of subsequent posts.
I think it is worth considering the possibility that this site is not being attacked by bots, as seems to be assumed. It is possible that this site is periodically attacking another site as part of a DDoS attack. Possibly someone has managed to install malicious software on the server that is periodically attacking some other site, consuming system resources and making this site unresponsive, as a side effect. I wonder if the Dungeon Master has checked for an unfamiliar process running on the server and generating a lot of network traffic. The main argument for this; how could it possibly be an anyone interest to deny access to this site?
The problem with this theory is that such activity wouldn’t obviously show up as guests here, and the slow down is strongly linked to the number of guests. Why should a virus running on the server show up as a guest Connecting via http to a site running on that server?
I have not met serious problems during the last three days, whatever the reason.
I have not met serious problems during the last three days, whatever the reason.
I'm consistently getting very fast response, but I'm on Australia time. Can I assume the slow forum problem is not an issue anymore?
It is not no. The problem seems to be solved. Thanks Rob for all your efforts
Everything is running smoothly here in Europe (or inSpainIreland at least) at all times. Many thanks for your efforts, Rob. They’re greatly appreciated! :) :)
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Everything is running smoothly here in Europe (or in Spain at least) at all times. Many thanks for your efforts, Rob. They’re greatly appreciated! :) :)
All ship shape here in the UK
Not a phrase though I'd use about much anything else at the moment ... ::):P
Man, did we jinx it? I am getting:
An Error Has Occurred!
The server is currently under high stress. Please try again shortly.
...whenever I click on "Show unread posts since last visit."
UPDATE - And now it's OK. Hopefully a temporary thing.
Man, did we jinx it? I am getting:
An Error Has Occurred!
The server is currently under high stress. Please try again shortly.
...whenever I click on "Show unread posts since last visit."
UPDATE - And now it's OK. Hopefully a temporary thing.
The lattest issue I've perceived is that when I try to post anything, the site gets slow and the post doesn't appear. I have to click on the post title (next to Post reply above the Subject part) to go back. Likewise when I try to modify any post, it gets slow. I sometimes have to delete the post and write it (or paste it) again. (I had to try 4 times before this post appeared).
The lattest issue I've perceived is that when I try to post anything, the site gets slow and the post doesn't appear. I have to click on the post title (next to Post reply above the Subject part) to go back. Likewise when I try to modify any post, it gets slow. I sometimes have to delete the post and write it (or paste it) again. (I had to try 4 times before this post appeared).
It's mostly good to very good.
Sometimes, when using the 'search' function, I get this message though: The server is currently under high stress. Please try again shortly.
For the rest, it's fun to wander around here again. Thanks, Rob!
This morning (more than 2000 "guests") it is running very awkwardly again.
Message:
Service Unavailable
The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.
Additionally, a 503 Service Unavailable error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
A new record was broken recently:
Most Online Today: 2662. Most Online Ever: 3977 (October 23, 2019, 12:09:32 PM)
That's probably counting John's avatar changes.
That's probably counting John's avatar changes.8)
Most Online Today: 5244. Most Online Ever: 5667 (November 03, 2019, 08:03:30 PM)
This is getting crazy!! Incredibly I haven't felt the site slow lately.
I have felt the slowdown occasionally.
Almost 6000. At least we know it isn’t Webern fans!
And now I do feel slowness coming back.
No problems at all here.
Nor here - so far.
2320 guests at the moment seems a bit high,
Compared to earlier today, that's a low figure.
Certainly. Just now we have 5119 guests.
Where do you see this?Scroll down a bit on the home page.
You may have to be on a laptop to see the number, which is near "Users Online" at the bottom of the page -- not sure it shows up on a phone (at least, not on mine).
Some of the site's functionality doesn't translate to mobile devices. (Rob explained why, awhile back, when he gave the site a makeover.)
--Bruce
Everything seems to be running fine for right now. I haven’t run into any snags.
Very slow today. Like watching a Clevelander get a blond joke.
What do you mean?
Sarge
What do you mean?
Sarge
No access at all last night but seemingly ok this morning.
Oh dear, back at square one it seems. Would a block or a ceiling on visitors solve the problem? Or is that too simplistic.
Right now it's very fast.
Everything is running smoothly for me now. Let’s hope this continues!+1
Guests are down to 185, where it was around 1185 earlier. Seems like that would explain it.
More or lessgave up trying to connect yesterday but ok now.
« Due to high stress on the server, the search function has been temporarily disabled »I get that not infrequently. Oddly though the site is rarely slow when I get it.
???
« Due to high stress on the server, the search function has been temporarily disabled »
???
Guests are down to 185, where it was around 1185 earlier. Seems like that would explain it.
This morning the laptop seemed to be thinking about whether to connect to the GMG Forum or not but after I gave the screen an evil stare it connected fine and its been ok since then.
Nothing like a bit of intimidation and bullying as far as laptops go ;D
I have received an email notification below ( in bold) but when I attempt to view the thread's link I receive this notification.
An Error Has Occurred!
The topic or board you are looking for appears to be either missing or off limits to you.
This appears to be somewhat of a contradiction. Is there a reason I’ve been declared ‘off limits’ or is this a software bug?
Dissily Mordentroge
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My position is yes, gay rights groups — any civil rights group - should have criticized that law. Forget Albert, it is the law that deserved comment.
Forget Albert?
If you had never mentioned Albert none of this would have ever happened. I specifically brought up the UK case (R v Brown) as a contrasting example of a case where consent wasn't in dispute. Where THE PROSECUTION SAID it was consensual.
That was your opportunity to sort this out. But no. Instead it was all about me having the facts wrong, about Wikipedia having the facts wrong.
And now your position is that gay rights groups should have picked some other random moment in time not involving Albert to criticise a law? How would you have noticed? Do you spend your time monitoring what gay rights groups are saying? Did you follow any other cases that everyone agreed were about consensual activity to see what gay rights groups said about them?
Spare me. You followed (however haphazardly) the trial of a man for sexual assault, you believed his version of events (and might I say that in itself is perfectly understandable), and somehow you reached the position that because you "knew" it was consensual BDSM, it was a trial for consensual BDSM and in your mind everyone else had to treat it the same way you were treating it.
You utterly confused the difference between the facts as you understood them and the facts as the prosecution were claiming them, and made it a case about the law instead of a case about the facts.
As dissily Mordentroge says, it's a case about how to deal with 2 individuals with different claims about what happened. Just like many sexual assault or rape cases. He said, she said. That's a whole other issue and has precisely nothing to do with how the law deals with the sexual proclivities of 2 consenting adults, which was the context in which you brought Albert up.
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If this is any indication of the general approach here I’m inclined to think leaving the forum altogether may by the sensible thing to do.
I don't know whether the same message happens if a thread is closed. I doubt it. Because a link to a closed thread will still work.Well having moderated several forums myself over the years I have to say this is one of the most peculiar aberations I’ve thus far encountered.
For whatever reason the choice on this occasion was to outright delete it. And so basically you're getting the message for a broken link. I certainly don't know why the message says both "missing" (ie the thread is gone) and "off limits to you".
EDIT: I will also say that I don't think deleting an entire thread is "the general approach here". But to the extent that it happens it is not a policy I will defend. I find it completely wrong-headed.
FWIW, moderation here is on the permissive side of the scale.
Indeed.Given the nature of this last incident how could anyone know where on any scale the decision was made?
Well having moderated several forums myself over the years I have to say this is one of the most peculiar aberations I’ve thus far encountered.
Yes, well, I have moderated a forum in the past and I find it as mystifying as you do. As I have expressed a number of times here in the past with no result. Deleting material was an absolute last resort in my previous experience.Let's see. A non-musical thread in a music form. Two increasingly vitriolic posters. Perhaps if the posts had been a bit...more respectful, this wouldn't have been an issue It seems to me we are blaming the wrong the people...
Here, while moderation is not common, when moderation IS in effect it seems that deletion is actually a preferred method. Other methods of dealing with situations - the kinds of methods I'm used to from elsewhere - don't seem to be used much.
In other words, I am not saying you can anticipate lots of deletions. What I am saying is that you can anticipate moderators dealing with issues by performing deletions. They will have to explain why on earth they think this is a good solution, because (as indicated in another thread I started at much the same time you were submitting a bug report) I think it's generally a bad one.
Let's see. A non-musical thread in a music form. Two increasingly vitriolic posters. Perhaps if the posts had been a bit...more respectful, this wouldn't have been an issue It seems to me we are blaming the wrong the people...
The question is not why moderation exists. The question is why moderation consists of rewriting or erasing history.You've missed my point. Or ignore it.
If you have a problem with non-musical threads in a music forum, then delete the sections of the website that are explicitly for non-musical threads.
You've missed my point. Or ignore it.
I understand your point perfectly and I'm explaining why it's misconceived.I don't share your views.
I'm sorry you're angry. I hope you feel better.My objection is not to moderation. I object to a thread being deleted without any of us being given at least a brief outline of the reason for doing so. How are we, if necessary, to moderate our own posts if we aren’t given the specifics, even in general terms, for why the axe has been weilded?
It's a moderated forum. So by being here, we accept that. I cannot answer why the mods choose one method of moderating over another. That question would be better directed to them.
My objection is not to moderation. I object to a thread being deleted without any of us being given at least a brief outline of the reason for doing so. How are we, if necessary, to moderate our own posts if we aren’t given the specifics, even in general terms, for why the axe has been weilded?My suggestion would be to ask them.
Yes, we can read the rules but a re-reading of them doesn’t explain why a particular thread suddenly vanished. The danger here is some who’ve posted on a deleted thread may mistakenly imagine they’ve crossed an unnominated line.
My objection is not to moderation. I object to a thread being deleted without any of us being given at least a brief outline of the reason for doing so. How are we, if necessary, to moderate our own posts if we aren’t given the specifics, even in general terms, for why the axe has been weilded?
My suggestion would be to ask them.
How? If not by posting here, how?Given we’ve heard nothing from any of them thus far, what’s the point?
None of us know which one of the various moderators or administrators has, apparently, deleted the thread. Do you propose sending private messages to each one?
Given we’ve heard nothing from any of them thus far, what’s the point?It's a Saturday night on a holiday weekend. It's likely they will be around later or in the morning.
How? If not by posting here, how?
None of us know which one of the various moderators or administrators has, apparently, deleted the thread. Do you propose sending private messages to each one?
Less than 200 visitors, yet this message:Question is, whose server?
"Due to high stress on the server, the search function has been automatically and temporarily disabled. Please try again in a short while."
Have notifications been disabled?You too? It’s a real puzzle if this isn’t universal only happening for a few users. Isn’t the 21st century wonderful?
Last week I signed up for a few threads for which I wanted notifications, but none have appeared although I know there have been new posts.
It’s excruciatingly slow for me this morning. Slow load times. Frustrating to say the least.
It’s excruciatingly slow for me this morning. Slow load times. Frustrating to say the least.
Still slow as dripping molasses here. I barely could even make a new post and actually failed on many occasions. I do believe this issue needs to be thoroughly looked into and if push comes to shove, why not just make GMG’s content viewable only to registered members? This might eliminate the 1,000+ guests this forum gets and will help decongest the server’s processing time.
It will possibly work but possibly not. If the server has to check each request and send back "sorry you're not allowed to see this" each time then this doesn't necessarily take much less effort than displaying the content.
As I understand it from a similar situation that arose at work (in between the bouts of the problem here), the situation arises from bot crawlers looking at sites. So they're not necessarily going to go away if we tell them they can't come in. They might just keep hammering on the door and making a racket. :-\
Slow, slow, slow the last few days.Here too, always with around 1000 "guests" hanging around. Bots seem to be busy.
Thanks Rob and the same to you.Same here.
All fine here this morning.
Jeffrey
Thanks Rob and the same to you.
All fine here this morning.
Jeffrey
Most Online Today: 7602. Most Online Ever: 7883 (January 16, 2020, 02:08:02 PM)
I could not bring up GMG for a half hour or so just now [iow, about 8:30 PM US East Coast time]
Although at the moment there are only 275 guests.
Server under high stress if clicking on ‘new replies’, but ok if clicking on ‘unread posts’.
Server under high stress if clicking on ‘new replies’, but ok if clicking on ‘unread posts’.
But now really fast :-\.
It’s running quite smoothly considering there are almost 7,000 guests tonight. :-\
We are becoming very popular these days; veritably the place to be ;D
As a possibly-helpful aside, a few days ago I sent an email to Rob, noting that 90% of the "guests" originated from ISP's starting with the same 6 digits. He may have been able to block them -- I don't know.
--Bruce
Nice work. Well done.
I have been and will continue to be away from the forum during summer. You may or may not be aware there is a state of emergency declared for our region in Australia. South East Australia has been on fire since early December. Temperatures will be over 41º today and tomorrow. Today's fire prediction map shows that the fires may enter our capital city, Canberra, where I live. We have been told to be ready to evacuate.
(https://esa.act.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-01/ACT%20prediction.jpg)
I understand the forum has patchy performance, and I detailed my plan for this in a previous post. The forum is located on a server in the US, so the data is not compromised.
My apologies for the inconvenience.
Rob
PS if anyone here is a climate change denier, you are a fucking idiot and are dragging humanity down.
I have been and will continue to be away from the forum during summer. You may or may not be aware there is a state of emergency declared for our region in Australia. South East Australia has been on fire since early December. Temperatures will be over 41º today and tomorrow. Today's fire prediction map shows that the fires may enter our capital city, Canberra, where I live. We have been told to be ready to evacuate.
(https://esa.act.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-01/ACT%20prediction.jpg)
I understand the forum has patchy performance, and I detailed my plan for this in a previous post. The forum is located on a server in the US, so the data is not compromised.
My apologies for the inconvenience.
Rob
PS if anyone here is a climate change denier, you are a fucking idiot and are dragging humanity down.
Best wishes to you, Rob. Hopefully, things will get better.I hope so too.
I have been and will continue to be away from the forum during summer. You may or may not be aware there is a state of emergency declared for our region in Australia. South East Australia has been on fire since early December. Temperatures will be over 41º today and tomorrow. Today's fire prediction map shows that the fires may enter our capital city, Canberra, where I live. We have been told to be ready to evacuate.
I have been and will continue to be away from the forum during summer. You may or may not be aware there is a state of emergency declared for our region in Australia. South East Australia has been on fire since early December. Temperatures will be over 41º today and tomorrow. Today's fire prediction map shows that the fires may enter our capital city, Canberra, where I live. We have been told to be ready to evacuate.
(https://esa.act.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-01/ACT%20prediction.jpg)
I understand the forum has patchy performance, and I detailed my plan for this in a previous post. The forum is located on a server in the US, so the data is not compromised.
My apologies for the inconvenience.
Rob
PS if anyone here is a climate change denier, you are a fucking idiot and are dragging humanity down.
Terrifying, Rob! I read on the BBC site that people are being told it's too late to leave and should stay put in Canberra. Hope very much you and everyone else are okay, and the situation is resolved quickly! All the best.
Actually more like me 'reporting badly' .. the report below was the one I read earlier, rather too quickly apparently, checking now I see it says: 'Residents in some areas around the capital, Canberra, had been warned that it was "too late to leave" and they should try to seek shelter.' Somehow read around, as meaning in.
Anyway, I hope things stabilise with improving conditions. Watching from outside, it has seemed like a real nightmare. I wish you luck.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-51338314
I couldn’t even get on most of the day, but now even though I’m obviously finally being able to access the forum, it’s still slow for me.Similar story here.
Similar story here.
Yep. No access for most of the day. I was actualy obliged to do productive things at work... >:(Yes, I know the feeling!
For the second night in a row I have experienced a short interval of slow loading and timing out. Last night it went in for about 15 minutes, tomight about 5.
It seems I had a bit of an issue just moments ago with the website loading, but now it seems to be doing okay.
+1+2 earlier
I thought that it was just me today.