new site issues

[Wild and Free]

I had not been able to acess the site for several days and was not sure if it was down yet or there were issues, saw on the main web page, not the forum page a link to update info and saw a conversation about issues others were having, and saw a post about clearing cache ect and hitting ctrl and f5 which I had to do on a couple computers I use so far. was wondering if this info needs to be put on a main page so others can re-access the site. seems slow so I assume others are having issues as well.

[Me78569]

Yea I am needing to post something in the annouchment

 

Mike and I are working through it.

[Mopar1973Man]

Me78569 and myself have been looking for the cause of the issue and believe its in the forum software somewhere and trying to narrow it down.

[dorkweed]

Very, very slow loading with everything.  Just saying.  

[Mopar1973Man]

We've disable a bunch of the caching functions trying to narrow down issues. I think I might have an idea I'm still working on it as rapidly as possible. I'm in the process of rolling back some setting to a old backup and attempt to work back forward one step at a time.

[Buzzinhalfdozen]

I'm primarily a mobile user since I can't get reliable internet service at my house. On the old mobile app when I clicked on a thread it would bring me to the last post since the last time I had clicked on it. That was a very nice feature. Unless I'm missing something, now I have to start at the beginning of every thread and there's no option to jump to the last post. Small complaint I know but my thumb is getting sore from all the swiping. Other than that seems pretty user friendly. 

[Me78569]

That issue may go away once we figure out the caching issue.

[Mopar1973Man]

Tap on the stars. That should take you to the newest post just tried it on my tablet. 

[dorkweed]

Real slow Mike.  I'm on a Mac with the latest OS................but with DSL...............but still it's slower than it was.........................for me anyhow!!

 

[dripley]

It works reasonably quick for me but the control F5 is annoying. i have to do it on the main pages and the threads. DSL cant be helping the speed for sure. I know your working on it Mike. Not complaining just thinking out loud.

[Mopar1973Man]

Again this is because of a caching issue. We have had to shut down all caching software on the server to try and isolate the current caching issue. This picture below shows the reply from the server and you can see highlighted that it set to cache all pages for 86,400 seconds (1 day). So every page you have to CRTL-F5 or force a refresh on your mobile device to see up to date pages.  I've got 2 companies working on this right now and several support tickets submitted to both. It up to the two companies to sort this mess out. I've done all I can right now.

This is why the site seems to be in stand-still because of the caching issue I can't skin the site, I can't get the store opened for selling the high idle kits, etc. It's got me over a barrel.

 

[Me78569]

thanks for your work Mike,

 

sucks when you are between a rock and a tight spot.  I guess all we can do is wait.  

[dripley]

Same her Mike. I know you are dong the best you can. I try and make all my jobs as trouble free as possible but i still have to depend on others to help make that happen. Some are much better than others at making that happen.

[Mopar1973Man]

It's 9:34pm my time and here I am bouncing back and forth checking for updates of the current problem.

Again I got slapped down to holding pattern. I was going to attempt to get other things tuned in guess what??? I start tweaking and the caching problem caused me to assume the site was working and then after double checking to find out the site had partially crashed again for a short time. Which knowing what I change I was able to comment out my changes and bounce back in a few minutes. This caching issue is driving me nuts because nothing can be done... Everything is on hold.... Arrrrrggggghhhh...

[Killer223]

still getting this. it doesn't bother me much. as i just reload the page again and all is well. 

[Mopar1973Man]

Problem has been solved. It was a session cache limit in PHP complier do this. I've got most of the site speed back up and going lots of fine tuning to do later on. For the time being we can move forward and get the store rolling for the High Idle Kits".

[Hawkez]

Great job on the site update and thanks for the time that you spend resolving issues.  Most of us take for granted what it takes to keep all of this up to date and I have no idea what you are talking about when you discuss the updates and caching issues and "F5"?.  Things seem to be running great now.

[Me78569]

thankfully there is no more need for f5

 

Glad to hear stuff is running well.  It was a long road, mostly for Mike.

[Wild and Free]

Seems to be working normal now for me too as of yesterday I noticed. Now how do I turn the video in my signature back to a link like it used to be and not the annoying full blown video in every post? Or at least shrink it to a thumbnail size at minimum.

Edited October 26, 2015 by Wild and Free

[Royal Squire]

With the old system, when using my phone, which what I use primarily, when choosing new content it would jump to the unread post not just to the first page that I already read. New system is faster to surf to the new posts. Has anyone else noticed this. Could be operator error !