Is this forum broken?

[Spork]

fyi... Not sure if this is a known or not, but I was having issues again today... sometime after lunch (central time).   The main site worked, but the /forums/ url gave a 404.  DNS seemed ok (or at least seems consistent with what it is now, which is 208.73.210.204 -- I can't say that I know what it is supposed to be).   I have access to a ridiculous number of DNS servers and they all resolved to that. 

I'm clueless as to how CDNs work...  so I have no idea if that's the factor.  If it matters, this is Linux/Firefox 19.  But the same client works fine now.  (I was going to proxy it through a tunnel to home when it was broken... but got sidetracked with "work", damn them.)

[Kazimieras]

I can't get the error to replicate anymore (this is good). It was IE10 on a Windows 7 PC. There is a rather elaborate firewall between me and the net which may have further complicated things for me. If I see anything weird again, I'll send all the data your way.

So I was able to get the error on another machine. So IE10, Win8 this time. This is what occurred after:
Opening IE, going to the mmm forum and then pressing the logout button.

Interesting symptoms were that upon first seeing the forum the date was wrong (see screenshot). If it helps, this browser had one of those "forever" cookies for login. Let me know if I can be of further help.

[Jamesqf]

I'm seeing another intermittent problem with the reply function in the main blog.  When I try to post a reply, it gives me a "Please fill in name & email info" message - which should be, and always has been, done automatically, and then it destroys everything I've typed in the message box!

[KGZotU]

When I follow a link from the rss feed, the reported number of comments is different from the number of comments that I see reported when I visit the main page directly.

Thank you for the hard work you've been doing.

[TwoWheels]

When I follow a link from the rss feed, the reported number of comments is different from the number of comments that I see reported when I visit the main page directly.

Thank you for the hard work you've been doing.

This is happening to me too. Whenever I visit the homepage or one of the articles, I see the cached version of the page from the last time I visited it. I have to refresh it to see the latest version. I'm running Opera on Windows Vista.

[tooqk4u22]

Still having the issue of the site not resetting for pages/categories/posts viewed and the "Show unread posts since last visit" not updating either.

[arebelspy]

When I follow a link from the rss feed, the reported number of comments is different from the number of comments that I see reported when I visit the main page directly.

Thank you for the hard work you've been doing.

This is happening to me too. Whenever I visit the homepage or one of the articles, I see the cached version of the page from the last time I visited it. I have to refresh it to see the latest version. I'm running Opera on Windows Vista.

Confirmed here.

[kworthington]

Confirmed here.

Which browser and operating system? Have you cleared all cache and cookies?

I'm asking the above questions because I want to try to replicate the problem here.

[arebelspy]

Confirmed here.

Which browser and operating system? Have you cleared all cache and cookies?

I'm asking the above questions because I want to try to replicate the problem here.

Chrome, Win7, yes.

[Ottawa]

I also have to CTRL F5 my IE and Chrome browsers...(two separate systems) on both the main and forum sites.  I have cleared everything out as well...I've even turned my router on and off...

Thanks for all the work you are doing for the MMM Website K!!

[SwordGuy]

Confirmed here.

Which browser and operating system? Have you cleared all cache and cookies?

I'm asking the above questions because I want to try to replicate the problem here.

Windows and IE.  No, not cleared.

All content management systems I've worked with have the ability for the programmer to specify whether the page should used a cached version or whether it should always get new content from the server.

This forum is exhibiting symptoms consistent with those settings being wrong.

[arebelspy]

I have not been getting email notifications for private messages.

I confirmed my settings are to always receive email for PMs.

[kworthington]

Windows and IE.  No, not cleared.

All content management systems I've worked with have the ability for the programmer to specify whether the page should used a cached version or whether it should always get new content from the server.

This forum is exhibiting symptoms consistent with those settings being wrong.

The settings are correct as far as I can tell. The Varnish reverse proxy is not caching anything in regards to the forum. It is simply passing requests onto the forum without any processing or interference.

[kworthington]

I have not been getting email notifications for private messages.

I confirmed my settings are to always receive email for PMs.

Please send me a PM - I have mine set to notify me via email also... Thanks.

[Use it up, wear it out...]

Not sure if this is the place for it... on the main blog, I just clicked the 'Random Article' button 3 times and got the same article (good time to buy a bike, from 2011)

[SwordGuy]

Windows and IE.  No, not cleared.

All content management systems I've worked with have the ability for the programmer to specify whether the page should used a cached version or whether it should always get new content from the server.

This forum is exhibiting symptoms consistent with those settings being wrong.

The settings are correct as far as I can tell. The Varnish reverse proxy is not caching anything in regards to the forum. It is simply passing requests onto the forum without any processing or interference.

No, not the cache on your end, the cache on the browser's end.   There are cache settings you can put into the document's headers.

[arebelspy]

Windows and IE.  No, not cleared.

All content management systems I've worked with have the ability for the programmer to specify whether the page should used a cached version or whether it should always get new content from the server.

This forum is exhibiting symptoms consistent with those settings being wrong.

The settings are correct as far as I can tell. The Varnish reverse proxy is not caching anything in regards to the forum. It is simply passing requests onto the forum without any processing or interference.

It's on the main page for me, the "comments" show different than they actually are, not the forum.

I have not been getting email notifications for private messages.

I confirmed my settings are to always receive email for PMs.

Please send me a PM - I have mine set to notify me via email also... Thanks.

Sent.

[arebelspy]

Received another PM today, no email notification.

[arebelspy]

Not sure if this is the place for it... on the main blog, I just clicked the 'Random Article' button 3 times and got the same article (good time to buy a bike, from 2011)

Someone reported in another thread they keep getting the same article (but different from the OP - wintering in Hawaii) and I tried it and keep getting the same one (but different than those two - Two Fun Tools..)

I'm guessing hitting it the first time gives a random article, then (due to some caching?) subsequent times give the same article.

[Daley]

Not sure if this is the place for it... on the main blog, I just clicked the 'Random Article' button 3 times and got the same article (good time to buy a bike, from 2011)

Someone reported in another thread they keep getting the same article (but different from the OP - wintering in Hawaii) and I tried it and keep getting the same one (but different than those two - Two Fun Tools..)

I'm guessing hitting it the first time gives a random article, then (due to some caching?) subsequent times give the same article.

I'm getting the same behavior on my end with the random article feature, however I noticed that it catches on the first random article pulled up by the browser used. It looks like a potentially aggressive client-side caching issue, as private browsing mode or cache clearing will temporarily reset it.

Received another PM today, no email notification.

Same. Wondering if the sendmail configuration might need tweaking in SMF.

[Dr.Vibrissae]

Not sure if this is the right place to post, but I'm not receiving email notification for new comments on the most recent blog post.  They're not going to spam, and if I look at my subscriptions, it's says I'm signed up to receive updates.

[brewer12345]

Still having the issue of the site not resetting for pages/categories/posts viewed and the "Show unread posts since last visit" not updating either.

+1

[awlong]

On my computer (Chrome browser), I still have to hit Ctrl-F5 to get the homepage to refresh to show most recent article published and an updated number of comments.

[kworthington]

PM email notifications are now working again. Thank you for your patience.

[kworthington]

Still having the issue of the site not resetting for pages/categories/posts viewed and the "Show unread posts since last visit" not updating either.

+1

We made some changes on the server side. Can you please report if this is still the same or fixed?

[kworthington]

On my computer (Chrome browser), I still have to hit Ctrl-F5 to get the homepage to refresh to show most recent article published and an updated number of comments.

We made some changes on the server. Can you tell us if it is fixed or not?

[KulshanGirl]

I still have to hit refesh for every single page, every time.  Forum, refresh.  Subforum, refresh.  Topic, refresh.  This is only at work, my home computer and iPhone are fine.

[kworthington]

I still have to hit refesh for every single page, every time.  Forum, refresh.  Subforum, refresh.  Topic, refresh.  This is only at work, my home computer and iPhone are fine.

The change was made only about 2 hours ago. If you are at work, please try logging out, clearing your cache, and try it again. You shouldn't need to refresh after that, but please report back here.

[Sunflower]

It's working much better for me!

[SwordGuy]

I still have to hit refesh for every single page, every time.  Forum, refresh.  Subforum, refresh.  Topic, refresh.  This is only at work, my home computer and iPhone are fine.

The change was made only about 2 hours ago. If you are at work, please try logging out, clearing your cache, and try it again. You shouldn't need to refresh after that, but please report back here.

Didn't have to change a thing on my end (as it should be!).  Now it works.

[kworthington]

Not sure if this is the place for it... on the main blog, I just clicked the 'Random Article' button 3 times and got the same article (good time to buy a bike, from 2011)

For anyone who had trouble with the Random button, please try the following (I believe that I fixed the Random button) :

Do a hard refresh (Shift + click refresh in your browser) and then click Random a few times. Please let me know if it works for you by replying below. Thanks for your help.

[Ottawa]

Hi there - I still have to control F5 (hard refresh) home computer and work computer...I.E. and Chrome...cleared cache, history etc...

[kworthington]

Hi there - I still have to control F5 (hard refresh) home computer and work computer...I.E. and Chrome...cleared cache, history etc...

When you hover over the random link, does the destination pop up as:
http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/?random
OR
http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/?random=

[Daley]

Hi there - I still have to control F5 (hard refresh) home computer and work computer...I.E. and Chrome...cleared cache, history etc...

When you hover over the random link, does the destination pop up as:
http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/?random
OR
http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/?random=

Still hard refresh only on my end as well with the random articles. Link is as such: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/?random=

[kworthington]

Still hard refresh only on my end as well with the random articles. Link is as such: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/?random=

Is this on Internet Explorer? If so, which version?

[KGZotU]

Still hard refresh only on my end as well with the random articles. Link is as such: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/?random=

Is this on Internet Explorer? If so, which version?

I'm getting this in Firefox 10.

[kworthington]

Is this on Internet Explorer? If so, which version?

I'm getting this in Firefox 10.

That is a very old version of Firefox - the latest is version 20. That may be part of the problem. Are you able to upgrade to the latest version of Firefox? ( http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/fx/#desktop )

[Daley]

Still hard refresh only on my end as well with the random articles. Link is as such: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/?random=

Is this on Internet Explorer? If so, which version?

Server: 198.199.66.251

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:19.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/19.0 (officially Firefox 20.0).

Works fine under Chromium and Opera for Linux, same link, just borked under FF.

[Spork]

Still hard refresh only on my end as well with the random articles. Link is as such: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/?random=

Is this on Internet Explorer? If so, which version?

Server: 198.199.66.251

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:19.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/19.0 (officially Firefox 20.0).

Works fine under Chromium and Opera for Linux, same link, just borked under FF.

could this be a plugin oddity?  Or some oddball firefox profile oddity?  It works fine for me and I'm ever so close to what you're running:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0

If you haven't already, you might create a new/blank profile and test it.

[kworthington]

Server: 198.199.66.251

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:19.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/19.0 (officially Firefox 20.0).

Works fine under Chromium and Opera for Linux, same link, just borked under FF.

could this be a plugin oddity?  Or some oddball firefox profile oddity?  It works fine for me and I'm ever so close to what you're running:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0

If you haven't already, you might create a new/blank profile and test it.

It might be a Firefox on Linux issue. Using Firefox 20 on Windows, it refreshes for me every time. Those were the first 2 reports of Firefox being a problem; most reported problems have been for Internet Explorer (on Win).

[Daley]

could this be a plugin oddity?  Or some oddball firefox profile oddity?  It works fine for me and I'm ever so close to what you're running:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0

If you haven't already, you might create a new/blank profile and test it.

Might be a build quirk as I'm still running 10.04 LTS (also, updated from FF 19 to 20 today, but I was still getting the reported version as 19 until after the profile swap here - quirky). Anyway, I just created a clean profile with zero plugins and it's still misbehaving. If I wasn't procrastinating on other stuff, I'd dig deeper.

It might be a Firefox on Linux issue. Using Firefox 20 on Windows, it refreshes for me every time. Those were the first 2 reports of Firefox being a problem; most reported problems have been for Internet Explorer (on Win).

I'm starting to suspect as much... probably a build quirk since Spork's not got the problem and I suspect he's probably running 12.04 LTS.

[Ottawa]

When you hover over the random link, does the destination pop up as:
http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/?random
OR
http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/?random=

I have the "=" version of the link showing up on hover..

Work version of IE is:

[kworthington]

I have the "=" version of the link showing up on hover..

That is the "correct" (latest) version. Logging out, clearing the cache, and trying again seems to work for some people, but right now the consensus is that Firefox on Linux, and IE on Windows are the main problems.

[Spork]

could this be a plugin oddity?  Or some oddball firefox profile oddity?  It works fine for me and I'm ever so close to what you're running:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0

If you haven't already, you might create a new/blank profile and test it.

Might be a build quirk as I'm still running 10.04 LTS (also, updated from FF 19 to 20 today, but I was still getting the reported version as 19 until after the profile swap here - quirky). Anyway, I just created a clean profile with zero plugins and it's still misbehaving. If I wasn't procrastinating on other stuff, I'd dig deeper.

It might be a Firefox on Linux issue. Using Firefox 20 on Windows, it refreshes for me every time. Those were the first 2 reports of Firefox being a problem; most reported problems have been for Internet Explorer (on Win).

I'm starting to suspect as much... probably a build quirk since Spork's not got the problem and I suspect he's probably running 12.04 LTS.

I'm actually running Linux Mint 13 Maya.  (Ubuntu fork for old farts that didn't like Unity).
I'd be surprised if there was a difference in how they reacted as far as firefox was concerned.  I have had several occasions where my firefox profile got borked from a rogue plugin or upgrade and I had to start over.  If you can create a new, blank firefox profile and it works, then it's probably something in the old profile.

[Daley]

I'm actually running Linux Mint 13 Maya.  (Ubuntu fork for old farts that didn't like Unity).
I'd be surprised if there was a difference in how they reacted as far as firefox was concerned.  I have had several occasions where my firefox profile got borked from a rogue plugin or upgrade and I had to start over.  If you can create a new, blank firefox profile and it works, then it's probably something in the old profile.

Maya's built on 12.04 LTS... I suspect it might be a revision build issue between LTS repos somehow regurgitating whatever issue is causing problems for KGZotU's FF10 install, or not, dunno. *shrugs* Just know it's persistent across profiles. No worries on my end... it's clear the problem is mostly old/broken browser based and likely not worth fixing, that's the important part of the info.

[awlong]

On my computer (Chrome browser), I still have to hit Ctrl-F5 to get the homepage to refresh to show most recent article published and an updated number of comments.

We made some changes on the server. Can you tell us if it is fixed or not?

Still having the homepage show the Lending Club article with 56 comments on it.  When I hit Ctrl-F5, I get the latest article published today.

[kworthington]

Still having the homepage show the Lending Club article with 56 comments on it.  When I hit Ctrl-F5, I get the latest article published today.

And this was after logging out and clearing your cache, etc.?

[Joel]

Yesterday was my first day posting on the forums. I made posts in a few different threads. Those threads had subsequent posts in them that appeared when I was using the "Unread posts" search. When I clicked on the thread, it was as if my post had never even occured. After refreshing the thread, I was able to see my post and the subsequent post. I had to refresh several threads to get new posts yesterday.

[Jamesqf]

The comment function does not remember my name & email, and deletes my comment if I forget them. This has been a constant aggravation since you switched hosts.  Today I noticed an added "Check box if you aren't a spammer" popup, which also erases the name, email, and my intended post when I go back to check the box.

[kworthington]

The comment function does not remember my name & email, and deletes my comment if I forget them. This has been a constant aggravation since you switched hosts.  Today I noticed an added "Check box if you aren't a spammer" popup, which also erases the name, email, and my intended post when I go back to check the box.

We have removed the check box, so hopefully that alleviates the problem.