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General Discussion => Welcome and General Discussion => Topic started by: SwordGuy on March 25, 2013, 07:38:13 PM
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I'm routinely having problems with the new forum installation.
It forgets my login info, repeatedly, often within 3 seconds of logging in.
A few days ago (after the big upgrade), I couldn't post until the next morning. Kept getting a data connection error.
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I had the same issues for the past week but it seems alright now.
Bigger probs experienced on the main blog site...posts on 23 and 24 March turned up a day after they should have.
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The "show inread posts" button does not work. You have to refresh the page to get new posts. Most of the rest of the problems seem to be resolved.
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As far as I'm aware, most issues have been resolved as of this morning/afternoon. Feel free to post any that you continue to experience/observe from here forward.
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The only problem I am encountering is the one I mentioned. Clicking on the "Show unread posts..." does not work. You have to refresh the page to see new posts. As of this morning, everything else seems to work.
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I have all kinds of issues when I try to access the forum at work - login issues, plus it isn't current with the posts, whether I'm logged in or not. I'm on IE there on a PC. Safari on the Mac at home seems to work fine, as does accessing it via my iPhone (with my FreedomPop! Yeah, baby!) I kind of gave up at work, no amount of clearing the cache was working. I'm not able to participate during the day on here. Which makes me sad because that is when I have the time to. :/
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This morning, when I stopped by to look around, I noticed that I was logged in as someone else. Every link I hit within the bar (home/help/search/profile/etc.) saw me logged in as yet another person....it appeared to be the people who had been most recently active on the forum based on the stats at the bottom of the page. It was pretty weird - I could even see messages in "My Messages". I had to tend to my littles, and the day got away from me so I'm just back now, and the site logged me in as myself, thankfully....(p.s. I'm on a mac using firefox).
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So far I only have the database connection error on both place(main site and forum). It seems everything is back to normal now.
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I fixed all the forum issues today. We had problems with logging in, attachments, and avatars not being displayed. All is working and back to normal now. Please reply to this thread or message me if you see anything else odd with the forum. Thanks.
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I've had some weird issues with the login cookie being 'stuck' for lack of a better term. The forum would display old posts as new and would also error out when I tried to log out. I've since deleted the cookie and logged back in and it seems to be fine.
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All IP addresses seem to get logged as 127.0.0.1 (localhost), seems the PHP is served from behind a reverse proxy (nginx), guessing php-(f)cgi, so the PHP should either use the $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'] or fix so that nginx sends PHP the correct heders for it to use the $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] IP.
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I'm still not able to use the site. I've cleared caches, tried multiple browsers etc etc.. Here's a screenshot below of when I try accessing mrmoneymustache.com:
(http://i46.tinypic.com/2mepzqx.jpg)
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I'm still not able to use the site. I've cleared caches, tried multiple browsers etc etc..
Your DNS is not updated. If you want to manually update it and you're comfortable doing so, OpenDNS' DNS servers are up to date. This is free to use. You can view how to change DNS servers here: https://store.opendns.com/setup/
I hope that helps.
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The "show inread posts" button does not work. You have to refresh the page to get new posts. Most of the rest of the problems seem to be resolved.
This is still not working for me either.
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And some of my posts aren't showing, and the category pages always look like I haven't viewed any of them before.
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All IP addresses seem to get logged as 127.0.0.1 (localhost), seems the PHP is served from behind a reverse proxy (nginx), guessing php-(f)cgi, so the PHP should either use the $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'] or fix so that nginx sends PHP the correct heders for it to use the $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] IP.
This should be fixed now.
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It should not be the responsibility of the readers to clean up the mess. Transitions should be seamless, especially when orchestrated by a bunch of professional software engineers. You don't have corporations instructing their customers to update their DNS. If Bank of America changes their on-line banking page, do they tell you to go to some server to update your DNS?
I use the site and the forums, but it's been very frustrating for the last week. Non-updating pages, denials for improper credientials, requests to log in or re-register, etc. I'm not technically savvy and I should not have to be to use an effing website. Man up, clean up, and let's get back to business.
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It should not be the responsibility of the readers to clean up the mess. Transitions should be seamless, especially when orchestrated by a bunch of professional software engineers. You don't have corporations instructing their customers to update their DNS. If Bank of America changes their on-line banking page, do they tell you to go to some server to update your DNS?
I use the site and the forums, but it's been very frustrating for the last week. Non-updating pages, denials for improper credientials, requests to log in or re-register, etc. I'm not technically savvy and I should not have to be to use an effing website. Man up, clean up, and let's get back to business.
I understand your frustrations. But there isn't much I can do to force someone's DNS to update, which is why I suggested the OpenDNS switchover.
We're doing our best to shake out the small issues, and most of them have been resolved. Please have some patience and know that we are working on it every day. In the meantime, please keep reporting problems so that we are aware of everything. Thank you.
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And some of my posts aren't showing, and the category pages always look like I haven't viewed any of them before.
Is this still affecting you? It seems to be working for me.
Did you try to log out and clear all cookies and cache, and then log back in?
Please let me know. Thanks.
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I'm still not able to use the site. I've cleared caches, tried multiple browsers etc etc.. Here's a screenshot below of when I try accessing mrmoneymustache.com:
In the attached image it looks like you're going to an IP address instead of a DNS name. Was that on purpose or did a web server somewhere rewrite it to an IP?
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Spork asked a great question: are you going directly to www.mrmoneymustache.com and being redirected to the IP address?
Or are you going directly to the IP address?
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And some of my posts aren't showing, and the category pages always look like I haven't viewed any of them before.
Is this still affecting you? It seems to be working for me.
Did you try to log out and clear all cookies and cache, and then log back in?
Please let me know. Thanks.
All the issues are still occurring. Its weird - when I went into the category and clicked on this thread it was as if there were no posts in quite awhile including the ones I posted above - but if I click on the "last post" icon then they are all there.
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When I go to the domain name, I see the domain name only, no IP address. Things are working perfectly on my end: both the forum and the blog. Thanks for your hard work!
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I've been fine at work and at home today... so since it was supposed to be fixed. Thanks for the quick response time. I'm definitely getting addicted to this forum haha.
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I have to manually refresh the forum page and each individual forum in order to see updated threads. This happens at multiple computers at home and work.
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All the issues are still occurring. Its weird - when I went into the category and clicked on this thread it was as if there were no posts in quite awhile including the ones I posted above - but if I click on the "last post" icon then they are all there.
What about if you go to https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/ (https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/) and the hold Shift + click refresh in your browser? If you click around, do you still have the same issues?
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I have to manually refresh the forum page and each individual forum in order to see updated threads. This happens at multiple computers at home and work.
I'll ask you the same questions:
What about if you go to https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/ and the hold Shift + click refresh in your browser? If you click around, do you still have the same issues?
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I have to manually refresh the forum page and each individual forum in order to see updated threads. This happens at multiple computers at home and work.
I'll ask you the same questions:
What about if you go to https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/ and the hold Shift + click refresh in your browser? If you click around, do you still have the same issues?
That does not ix the problem. I was supposed to hold shift and click refresh, right? No dice.
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The blog and forum are still a hot mess for me on the work computer. I have to empty the cache and delete cookies to see anything new at all, 100% of the time. Also, I don't stay logged in. Fix it please!
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The blog and forum are still a hot mess for me on the work computer. I have to empty the cache and delete cookies to see anything new at all, 100% of the time. Also, I don't stay logged in. Fix it please!
Some of it may be beyond his ability to fix (might be on your end/with your ISP/their DNS host/etc.), and only time will fix it, or something on your end.
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Seeing as how it worked fine before this switch, that's not really a good answer. I suppose it would do me good to not have access to MMM at work, but really, there is an expectation for a site to simply work, if you want visitors. And this site - not working, for me, at work.
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Another Reader.. I HOPE you're joking with this:
It should not be the responsibility of the readers to clean up the mess. Transitions should be seamless, especially when orchestrated by a bunch of professional software engineers. You don't have corporations instructing their customers to update their DNS. If Bank of America changes their on-line banking page, do they tell you to go to some server to update your DNS?
Because otherwise you'd be telling a generous volunteer that he is not doing a good enough job at fixing my forum for you, which costs nothing to use ... and yet somehow owes something to you? It's like you came into my house, sat down at the dinner table, then started yelling at my wife because you don't like the food.
This blog is a hobby, not a corporation. I am honored that it has grown to be big enough that it is now hard to manage.. and humbled that readers have stepped in to help out. But it is a monumentally complex bit of technology we are running on here, when scaled to this size.. so you can expect plenty more bumps in the future. I look at it as a great learning opportunity.
So let's get back to business.
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Seeing as how it worked fine before this switch, that's not really a good answer.
I understand that, but if you understand how stuff has to propagate on the Internet, you'll see the changes may just not have "reached" your computer yet. (A simplified explanation, but essentially correct.)
There may not necessarily be a solution besides to wait, there could literally be nothing for him to do to fix it, because it already is fixed, you just aren't seeing it yet.
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Ayup, I had the other issue as well that did update and change back here and at home. But the work computer isn't just looking odd, I can't use it here. I'll wait and see how it goes I guess. Not knocking volunteers, just giving feedback. :) KG has fallen off the ship!
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I've been seeing some symptoms that no one has mentioned yet, so I'll describe them in case it's a different problem.
I type in "mrmoneymustache.com/forum" in the address bar in chrome. After about 30 seconds, it comes up with "page not found", but the address bar now says "http://mrmoneymustache.com:8080/forum/". I change 8080 to 80 and hit enter, and it works.
Probably just another DNS propagation issue, but I'm not familiar enough with it to know for sure.
It's interesting in this thread to see how many people take the Internet for granted. Things don't "just work" without a lot of work and a bit of luck. And yes, even major corporations sometimes have glitches like this, despite having dozens or hundreds of paid IT people instead of a couple retirees and a volunteer.
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I've been seeing some symptoms that no one has mentioned yet, so I'll describe them in case it's a different problem.
I type in "mrmoneymustache.com/forum" in the address bar in chrome. After about 30 seconds, it comes up with "page not found", but the address bar now says "http://mrmoneymustache.com:8080/forum/". I change 8080 to 80 and hit enter, and it works.
Probably just another DNS propagation issue, but I'm not familiar enough with it to know for sure.
It's interesting in this thread to see how many people take the Internet for granted. Things don't "just work" without a lot of work and a bit of luck. And yes, even major corporations sometimes have glitches like this, despite having dozens or hundreds of paid IT people instead of a couple retirees and a volunteer.
side observation: that's not DNS. DNS is only name-> IP mapping. It's like a phone book for the internet. mrmoneymoustache.com and mrmoneymoustache.com:8080 are the same name. (Not involved here... Just a geek that's done his share of DNS for > 20 years.)
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I've been seeing some symptoms that no one has mentioned yet, so I'll describe them in case it's a different problem.
I type in "mrmoneymustache.com/forum" in the address bar in chrome. After about 30 seconds, it comes up with "page not found", but the address bar now says "http://mrmoneymustache.com:8080/forum/". I change 8080 to 80 and hit enter, and it works.
Probably just another DNS propagation issue, but I'm not familiar enough with it to know for sure.
It's interesting in this thread to see how many people take the Internet for granted. Things don't "just work" without a lot of work and a bit of luck. And yes, even major corporations sometimes have glitches like this, despite having dozens or hundreds of paid IT people instead of a couple retirees and a volunteer.
You need another '/' after '/forum' so you should type in 'mrmoneymustache.com/forum/'
One of my bookmarks had it without the '/' and didn't work after the migration but works fine with the ending '/'. Hope that helps :)
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Because otherwise you'd be telling a generous volunteer that he is not doing a good enough job at fixing my forum for you, which costs nothing to use ... and yet somehow owes something to you? It's like you came into my house, sat down at the dinner table, then started yelling at my wife because you don't like the food.
I'll just say "Thanks for the site, the food is delicious."
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I'm still not able to use the site. I've cleared caches, tried multiple browsers etc etc.. Here's a screenshot below of when I try accessing mrmoneymustache.com:
In the attached image it looks like you're going to an IP address instead of a DNS name. Was that on purpose or did a web server somewhere rewrite it to an IP?
Spork asked a great question: are you going directly to www.mrmoneymustache.com and being redirected to the IP address?
Or are you going directly to the IP address?
I'm going to mrmoneymustache.com and being redirected to the IP address. I'm also having the same problem as TLV - when I go to mrmoneymustache.com/forum it comes up with mrmoneymustache.com:8080/forum/. Things are working fine on my home computer, just not on my network at work.
I appreciate the complexities of getting issues ironed out and so cheers Kevin for giving up your time to help make this site even more awesome!
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I'm going to mrmoneymustache.com and being redirected to the IP address. I'm also having the same problem as TLV - when I go to mrmoneymustache.com/forum it comes up with mrmoneymustache.com:8080/forum/. Things are working fine on my home computer, just not on my network at work.
I appreciate the complexities of getting issues ironed out and so cheers Kevin for giving up your time to help make this site even more awesome!
If you are being redirected to an IP, that is certainly a case of your DNS provider (most likely your ISP) being slow to update DNS for the site.
Let me ask you this: does the forum also have the IP in the address bar, or does it say mmm.com/forum/ ?
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All the issues are still occurring. Its weird - when I went into the category and clicked on this thread it was as if there were no posts in quite awhile including the ones I posted above - but if I click on the "last post" icon then they are all there.
What about if you go to https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/ (https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/) and the hold Shift + click refresh in your browser? If you click around, do you still have the same issues?
Tried it but didn't work.
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@kworthington
I kept a browser on another computer with the old "forvever" cookie (before the site was moved). The symptom that this browser is showing is that when you first go to the forum, it shows the date and time as it should be. However, when I look at "show new replies to your posts" or "show unread posts since last visit" the date on the forum jumps back 2-3 days to when the cookie was last updated. At least I think the problem is the cookie.
Another related symptom that may help you troubleshoot is if it is one of these problematic comptuers, if you hit logout, a session error occurs and it actually refuses to log you out. If you try again, it logs you out, but after logging in you end up with the old date and time (in my case March 25th, 2013, 11:24am) (note is it now March 27th, 2013, 12:07:13pm as of this writing).
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@kworthington
I kept a browser on another computer with the old "forvever" cookie (before the site was moved). The symptom that this browser is showing is that when you first go to the forum, it shows the date and time as it should be. However, when I look at "show new replies to your posts" or "show unread posts since last visit" the date on the forum jumps back 2-3 days to when the cookie was last updated. At least I think the problem is the cookie.
Another related symptom that may help you troubleshoot is if it is one of these problematic comptuers, if you hit logout, a session error occurs and it actually refuses to log you out. If you try again, it logs you out, but after logging in you end up with the old date and time (in my case March 25th, 2013, 11:24am) (note is it now March 27th, 2013, 12:07:13pm as of this writing).
I think that clearing all cookies and cache is not a bad idea for anyone, at least post-migration to the new server.
Can you please attach a screenshot here the next time you see the session error? Also, which browser? And Mac/PC?
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Given all the mention and discussion regarding DNS caching being partially responsible for many people's continued technical problems, I thought it might be of use to post a link to an article to help clarify what's going on for some of you less knowledgeable and how to potentially force an update on your system if needed and available.
How to Flush DNS (http://www.tech-faq.com/how-to-flush-dns.html)
Good article, but visit with your adblocker running. :)
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That gets local DNS.... but depending on the TTL of the original record it can still be cached at the recursive DNS server. Unless you are geeky enough to be running your own DNS server (hi) you won't be able to flush that.
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True, but it's worth tossing in just to eliminate the additional failure point. Plus, the article's educational in helping others understand why the DNS changes could break things.
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I have had terrible performance with OpenDNS in the past and Google's are a decent backup solution: 8.8.8.8.
Pretty easy to remember.
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Things seem to be working better. Noticed a more subtle problem.
The show unread posts link doesn't seem to update properly, but the built-in browser refresh does. I saw someone else reported that.
What I just noticed is that the unread posts page will show new entries to a thread I've already read. I'll open that thread to read the new entries and they won't be there. Unless I then use the built-in browser refresh button...
Maybe some of the caching settings need to be reviewed? (I haven't changed my browser, so it shouldn't be my settings...)
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I think that clearing all cookies and cache is not a bad idea for anyone, at least post-migration to the new server.
Can you please attach a screenshot here the next time you see the session error? Also, which browser? And Mac/PC?
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.
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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.
Much appreciated. Thanks.
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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.)
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!!
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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.
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I have not been getting email notifications for private messages.
I confirmed my settings are to always receive email for PMs.
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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.
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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.
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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)
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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.
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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.
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Received another PM today, no email notification.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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PM email notifications are now working again. Thank you for your patience.
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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.
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We made some changes on the server side. Can you please report if this is still the same or fixed?
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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?
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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.
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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.
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It's working much better for me!
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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.
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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.
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Hi there - I still have to control F5 (hard refresh) home computer and work computer...I.E. and Chrome...cleared cache, history etc...
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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=
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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=
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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?
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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.
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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 )
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
This should be fixed now. Thanks for reporting it. (You may have to log out to get the changes, then log back in.)
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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.
This should be fixed now. Thanks for reporting it. (You may have to log out to get the changes, then log back in.)
Thanks - I will do that and let you know if I see anything again.
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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.
This should be fixed now. Thanks for reporting it. (You may have to log out to get the changes, then log back in.)
Thanks - I will do that and let you know if I see anything again.
So I'm not sure if it seems to be 100% fixed. I signed out and logged back in. The search for unread posts is still not refreshing properly, neither is threads with new posts.
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So I'm not sure if it seems to be 100% fixed. I signed out and logged back in. The search for unread posts is still not refreshing properly, neither is threads with new posts.
I'm going to give it some time to see if we can shake out the issues, before making more modifications. Baby steps...
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I also still have to refresh. Every page, every time. Blog, comments, forum, subforum, thread. Every time. Just at work though. Home on the Mac and the iPhone is fine.
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I also still have to refresh. Every page, every time. Blog, comments, forum, subforum, thread. Every time. Just at work though. Home on the Mac and the iPhone is fine.
What browser and operating system at work? (Internet Explorer on Windows seems to have this problem for most people.)
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Yep, it's IE on Windows.
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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.
Thanks. Though it would be even better if you could do something so that it would not delete the post text if you forget to fill in a field like that. That seems like a major bug to me: if there's an error, you should be able to go back and correct it with minimal effort (e.g. just check the box), not have to start over from scratch.
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Thanks. Though it would be even better if you could do something so that it would not delete the post text if you forget to fill in a field like that. That seems like a major bug to me: if there's an error, you should be able to go back and correct it with minimal effort (e.g. just check the box), not have to start over from scratch.
We experienced other problems with the plugin that required the checkbox, so it's not coming back.
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So I'm not sure if it seems to be 100% fixed. I signed out and logged back in. The search for unread posts is still not refreshing properly, neither is threads with new posts.
I'm going to give it some time to see if we can shake out the issues, before making more modifications. Baby steps...
It's definitely not 100% fixed. In fact, I don't think it's fixed at all. Windows user with Internet Explorer.
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It's definitely not 100% fixed. In fact, I don't think it's fixed at all. Windows user with Internet Explorer.
I made another change on the server. Can you tell me if the problems are still persisting, whether on IE on Windows or otherwise? Thanks.
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Hi there - still having to ctrl f5 for forums and main page in order to refresh...both chrome latest and I.e. latest...
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Hi there - still having to ctrl f5 for forums and main page in order to refresh...both chrome latest and I.e. latest...
Did you log out of the forum and clear cache in each browser and then log back in? That may be needed...
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I did that last week...but just did it again...will wait for a bit to try simple refresh...vs hard refresh...
Thanks for all your work on MMM!!!
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I did that last week...but just did it again...will wait for a bit to try simple refresh...vs hard refresh...
Thanks for all your work on MMM!!!
Please reply or PM me the result - whether it works now, or is still not working properly. Thanks.
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I still have to refresh every page, and the main forum page doesn't load for me at all. Blank page. I can type the sub forum headers in the bar and get around ( ask-a-mustachian)
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It's definitely not 100% fixed. In fact, I don't think it's fixed at all. Windows user with Internet Explorer.
I made another change on the server. Can you tell me if the problems are still persisting, whether on IE on Windows or otherwise? Thanks.
So I just pm'd you telling you I thought it was fixed, but after searching around it does not appear to be fixed. not in the unread posts, threads with new posts, or even private messages either.
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So I just pm'd you telling you I thought it was fixed, but after searching around it does not appear to be fixed. not in the unread posts, threads with new posts, or even private messages either.
I made another change, can you please log out, clear cache, and log in again? Then let me know if you still need to refresh constantly. Thank you for helping to debug this.
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I have the same system and same problem as kulshangirl. Refresh from the actual page is the only way I can see any new posts.
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So I just pm'd you telling you I thought it was fixed, but after searching around it does not appear to be fixed. not in the unread posts, threads with new posts, or even private messages either.
I made another change, can you please log out, clear cache, and log in again? Then let me know if you still need to refresh constantly. Thank you for helping to debug this.
Same situation still.
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Not fixed, but I have the main forum page back. Yay!
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Thanks Kevin for working on this, and thanks to everyone helping him troubleshoot it!
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Is anyone else having issues with this forum in the last couple of days? The server is often unavailable.
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There has been more traffic to the site than usual, which is causing the outages. I am working behind the scenes to fix this situation. Thanks for your patience and for reporting this.
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There has been more traffic to the site than usual, which is causing the outages. I am working behind the scenes to fix this situation. Thanks for your patience and for reporting this.
Thank YOU for all the work that goes into maintaining this forum for us to use! Sure, it may be a bit annoying to have to re-login or refresh the page when you get an error, but given the hundreds of error-free hours I have had on this forum, I'd say things are pretty excellent. Kudos!
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There has been more traffic to the site than usual, which is causing the outages. I am working behind the scenes to fix this situation. Thanks for your patience and for reporting this.
Thank you for all your hard work. :)
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Thanks for the kind words!
If anyone wants to report problems, you can also PM me. Thanks.
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I've been getting "server too busy," random 404 errors and time out/server taking too long to respond type of errors pretty frequently this week, and couldn't get on this morning at all (404 error).
It started happening somewhat late last year, but it's happening about every other visit now (and I come here daily just about).
Thinking it may be the increased popularity of the site, and wasn't sure there was something anyone can do (other than get larger/faster servers - which I know this site is more of a labor of love than profit, so understand ya'll are trying to fix as fast as you can - and thanks!).
Posted in the off topic and just got directed over to this thread so feel free to delete that one:
https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/off-topic/mmm-site-experiencing-growing-pains/?topicseen
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I actually moved the site to a larger server (twice the previous capacity) about 2 weeks ago. Still have some tuning to do to smooth things out. Thanks!
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I actually moved the site to a larger server (twice the previous capacity) about 2 weeks ago. Still have some tuning to do to smooth things out. Thanks!
Awesome. :D
The troubleshooting phase is so much fun isn't it?
Thanks so much for all you do - I know it can be crazy sometimes, but there's lots of us out here that appreciate it.
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It's part of the fun! Thanks for the kind words and appreciation.
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Let me preface this as "Oh my god, this is the most insignificant bug ever". ...but just thought I'd mention it. The favicon seems to have disappeared in the last server juggle.
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I just spent two days or so with Cox telling me that they were unable to find the MMM website at all. It's back to normal today, but I couldn't get through at all over the past few days (I even tried Googling and going that way rather than using my bookmark).
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I just spent two days or so with Cox telling me that they were unable to find the MMM website at all. It's back to normal today, but I couldn't get through at all over the past few days (I even tried Googling and going that way rather than using my bookmark).
The site had some problems with DNS over the weekend (the system that translates IP addresses to domain names) but everything is back to normal now...
Kevin
(MMM Systems Admin)
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Thanks for your work in getting the site back up. : D
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I couldn't access the site for two days, I want a refund.
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I couldn't access the site for two days, I want a refund.
I demand double my money back!
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Site has still been out off and on this evening... just now able to get on since about 6pm. :(
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Site has still been out off and on this evening... just now able to get on since about 6pm. :(
At this point I believe it's all fixed, it just takes awhile for DNS changes to propagate through the Internet, so you may still see intermittent issues. If it's still happening in a few days, please post and let us know.
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I just spent two days or so with Cox telling me that they were unable to find the MMM website at all. It's back to normal today, but I couldn't get through at all over the past few days (I even tried Googling and going that way rather than using my bookmark).
The site had some problems with DNS over the weekend (the system that translates IP addresses to domain names) but everything is back to normal now...
Kevin
(MMM Systems Admin)
Gotcha.
Thanks for all of your work! I was more worried along the lines of "oh god, did MMM get tired of us and just close up shop". Not that I ever jump to conclusions or anything.
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I just spent two days or so with Cox telling me that they were unable to find the MMM website at all. It's back to normal today, but I couldn't get through at all over the past few days (I even tried Googling and going that way rather than using my bookmark).
The site had some problems with DNS over the weekend (the system that translates IP addresses to domain names) but everything is back to normal now...
Kevin
(MMM Systems Admin)
powerdns is still having issues. Of their 4 dns servers, I can only reach 1 of them. That means lots of folks will still have issues. I have access to a very large number of very large recursive dns servers. Only a small percentage of them are currently resolving mmm.com site. (In fact, I had to do a bit of hacking to even post this.
$ dig @46.165.192.30 powerdns.net. soa
; <<>> DiG 9.8.1-P1 <<>> @46.165.192.30 powerdns.net. soa
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
$ dig @85.17.204.117 powerdns.net. soa
; <<>> DiG 9.8.1-P1 <<>> @85.17.204.117 powerdns.net. soa
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 64535
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;powerdns.net. IN SOA
;; ANSWER SECTION:
powerdns.net. 3600 IN SOA dns-eu1.powerdns.net. hostmaster.powerdns.net. 2012011106 3600 3600 604800 3600
;; Query time: 146 msec
;; SERVER: 85.17.204.117#53(85.17.204.117)
;; WHEN: Tue Apr 15 08:58:11 2014
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 85
$ dig @108.59.1.230 powerdns.net. soa
; <<>> DiG 9.8.1-P1 <<>> @108.59.1.230 powerdns.net. soa
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
$ dig @95.211.40.20 powerdns.net. soa
; <<>> DiG 9.8.1-P1 <<>> @95.211.40.20 powerdns.net. soa
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
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powerdns is still having issues. Of their 4 dns servers, I can only reach 1 of them. That means lots of folks will still have issues. I have access to a very large number of very large recursive dns servers. Only a small percentage of them are currently resolving mmm.com site. (In fact, I had to do a bit of hacking to even post this.
Mr. MM and I have discussed alternate DNS hosting and will be making the switch soon. There's always stuff happening behind the scenes. :)
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I couldn't access the site for two days, I want a refund.
You got it! :) $0.00 has been credited to your account.
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I couldn't access the site for two days, I want a refund.
I demand double my money back!
You got it too! :) 2 X $0.00 has been credited to your account.
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powerdns is still having issues. Of their 4 dns servers, I can only reach 1 of them. That means lots of folks will still have issues. I have access to a very large number of very large recursive dns servers. Only a small percentage of them are currently resolving mmm.com site. (In fact, I had to do a bit of hacking to even post this.
Mr. MM and I have discussed alternate DNS hosting and will be making the switch soon. There's always stuff happening behind the scenes. :)
I figured you knew... that was "just in case you didn't."
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I figured you knew... that was "just in case you didn't."
I always appreciate reporting. I think it's great that there are such passionate users who want to help, so thanks!
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I couldn't access the site for two days, I want a refund.
You got it! :) $0.00 has been credited to your account.
I tried to check my account to see if you refund had been processed, but I couldn't even access it!
And I really needed the money.... :(
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I couldn't access the site for two days, I want a refund.
You got it! :) $0.00 has been credited to your account.
I tried to check my account to see if you refund had been processed, but I couldn't even access it!
And I really needed the money.... :(
I got my $0 refund this morning! And I didn't even request it! You guys are awesome.
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yikes I couldn't get on the last 4 hours this morning or last night using / trying 2 different browsers. (google chrome and Explorer).
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yikes I couldn't get on the last 4 hours this morning or last night using / trying 2 different browsers. (google chrome and Explorer).
(guessing based on my experience). It's not the browser. It's DNS. The place that is hosting the dns seems to have 75% of it's DNS servers not answering. (I don't know if they're under attack or if they're having other issues.) In other words: you have a 25% chance of resolving the MMM domain. Once resolved, your browser may cache it for a long time (yippee!).
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yikes I couldn't get on the last 4 hours this morning or last night using / trying 2 different browsers. (google chrome and Explorer).
(guessing based on my experience). It's not the browser. It's DNS. The place that is hosting the dns seems to have 75% of it's DNS servers not answering. (I don't know if they're under attack or if they're having other issues.) In other words: you have a 25% chance of resolving the MMM domain. Once resolved, your browser may cache it for a long time (yippee!).
your correct because it always sent me to a different site that started with DNS now that you say that. In my case no matter which way i tried to get in it sent me to Time warner
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Pro tip: If DNS is acting funky and not resolving, you can visit this forum using the IP: http://198.199.66.251/forum/ (http://198.199.66.251/forum/)
You may have to log in again when using the above link, but it works just the same. If you remove the /forum/ part you can see the main site, however, links will not work correctly since they have mrmoneymustache.com hard coded in. You *could* right-click and copy the link and substitute the IP for mmm.com.
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Pro tip: If DNS is acting funky and not resolving, you can visit this forum using the IP: http://198.199.66.251/forum/ (http://198.199.66.251/forum/)
Bookmarked!
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Pro tip: If DNS is acting funky and not resolving, you can visit this forum using the IP: http://198.199.66.251/forum/ (http://198.199.66.251/forum/)
You may have to log in again when using the above link, but it works just the same. If you remove the /forum/ part you can see the main site, however, links will not work correctly since they have mrmoneymustache.com hard coded in. You *could* right-click and copy the link and substitute the IP for mmm.com.
Ha, I was JUST about to post this, as it's what I had to do just now.
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Pro tip: If DNS is acting funky and not resolving, you can visit this forum using the IP: http://198.199.66.251/forum/ (http://198.199.66.251/forum/)
You may have to log in again when using the above link, but it works just the same. If you remove the /forum/ part you can see the main site, however, links will not work correctly since they have mrmoneymustache.com hard coded in. You *could* right-click and copy the link and substitute the IP for mmm.com.
awesome! thanks!!
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Pro tip: If DNS is acting funky and not resolving, you can visit this forum using the IP: http://198.199.66.251/forum/ (http://198.199.66.251/forum/)
You may have to log in again when using the above link, but it works just the same. If you remove the /forum/ part you can see the main site, however, links will not work correctly since they have mrmoneymustache.com hard coded in. You *could* right-click and copy the link and substitute the IP for mmm.com.
Here's an interesting thing.
I've been at home all week (Spring Break), but I just came into work (school) today. I had saved this IP into Evernote this morning in case I ever needed it.
Yup, it's down at work. So I use the IP. No problem for most of the site.
Yet certain sections of the forums when visiting by IP are blocked by the work internet filter. Which are NOT blocked when visiting the domain. But other sections are not. Usually a whole site is blocked or not. Very odd.
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I haven't had access for pretty much two days solid
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I haven't had access for pretty much two days solid
Yup, PowerDNS - MMM's DNS provider has had issues staying up. They had several outages and are still not 100% back up. We will be switching DNS providers shortly. I am working with Mr. and Mrs. MM behind the scenes right now.
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Hey, I saw one request for a "like" system and have often desired it as well (to cut down on the +1 posts). Just a suggestion for future consideration, especially if the forum will be going down anyways -- a quick search revealed at least one SMF plugin: http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=3708
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DNS resolves on my phone but not on laptop. Interesting
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Pro tip: If DNS is acting funky and not resolving, you can visit this forum using the IP: http://198.199.66.251/forum/ (http://198.199.66.251/forum/)
You may have to log in again when using the above link, but it works just the same. If you remove the /forum/ part you can see the main site, however, links will not work correctly since they have mrmoneymustache.com hard coded in. You *could* right-click and copy the link and substitute the IP for mmm.com.
Dumb question for any of the forum members before we have the next DNS server outage-- is there a way for a user to search for the IP address?
In other words, if someone had not read this post and didn't know the IP address of the forum, would there be a way to figure it out from our browser cache or a Google search? Yeah, I know, I guess a better name would be "manual DNS search"...
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Pro tip: If DNS is acting funky and not resolving, you can visit this forum using the IP: http://198.199.66.251/forum/ (http://198.199.66.251/forum/)
You may have to log in again when using the above link, but it works just the same. If you remove the /forum/ part you can see the main site, however, links will not work correctly since they have mrmoneymustache.com hard coded in. You *could* right-click and copy the link and substitute the IP for mmm.com.
Dumb question for any of the forum members before we have the next DNS server outage-- is there a way for a user to search for the IP address?
In other words, if someone had not read this post and didn't know the IP address of the forum, would there be a way to figure it out from our browser cache or a Google search? Yeah, I know, I guess a better name would be "manual DNS search"...
You can try any of the web dns lookup tools (use google to find a bunch) -- one of them might have the correct IP in its cache.
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Pro tip: If DNS is acting funky and not resolving, you can visit this forum using the IP: http://198.199.66.251/forum/ (http://198.199.66.251/forum/)
You may have to log in again when using the above link, but it works just the same. If you remove the /forum/ part you can see the main site, however, links will not work correctly since they have mrmoneymustache.com hard coded in. You *could* right-click and copy the link and substitute the IP for mmm.com.
Dumb question for any of the forum members before we have the next DNS server outage-- is there a way for a user to search for the IP address?
In other words, if someone had not read this post and didn't know the IP address of the forum, would there be a way to figure it out from our browser cache or a Google search? Yeah, I know, I guess a better name would be "manual DNS search"...
You can try any of the web dns lookup tools (use google to find a bunch) -- one of them might have the correct IP in its cache.
Thanks. This might come in handy with a few other sites, too.
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This is a good site to use to find out a site's IP address, I have MMM entered: http://viewdns.info/propagation/?domain=mrmoneymustache.com (http://viewdns.info/propagation/?domain=mrmoneymustache.com)
Also, I am happy to report that we have switched DNS providers and that site stability and availability will be better as a result.
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I say we get rid of the domain altogether so we can have a secret forum only accessible by IP.
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Pro tip: If DNS is acting funky and not resolving, you can visit this forum using the IP: http://198.199.66.251/forum/ (http://198.199.66.251/forum/)
You may have to log in again when using the above link, but it works just the same. If you remove the /forum/ part you can see the main site, however, links will not work correctly since they have mrmoneymustache.com hard coded in. You *could* right-click and copy the link and substitute the IP for mmm.com.
Dumb question for any of the forum members before we have the next DNS server outage-- is there a way for a user to search for the IP address?
In other words, if someone had not read this post and didn't know the IP address of the forum, would there be a way to figure it out from our browser cache or a Google search? Yeah, I know, I guess a better name would be "manual DNS search"...
You can try any of the web dns lookup tools (use google to find a bunch) -- one of them might have the correct IP in its cache.
Thanks. This might come in handy with a few other sites, too.
The general bad news is: the interwebs are absolutely dependent on dns. (I.e. DNS *is* the way to search for an IP.) But, yeah, it's heavily cached. The more servers you can query, the more possibility of getting a hit.
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Pro tip: If DNS is acting funky and not resolving, you can visit this forum using the IP: http://198.199.66.251/forum/ (http://198.199.66.251/forum/)
You may have to log in again when using the above link, but it works just the same. If you remove the /forum/ part you can see the main site, however, links will not work correctly since they have mrmoneymustache.com hard coded in. You *could* right-click and copy the link and substitute the IP for mmm.com.
Dumb question for any of the forum members before we have the next DNS server outage-- is there a way for a user to search for the IP address?
In other words, if someone had not read this post and didn't know the IP address of the forum, would there be a way to figure it out from our browser cache or a Google search? Yeah, I know, I guess a better name would be "manual DNS search"...
You can try any of the web dns lookup tools (use google to find a bunch) -- one of them might have the correct IP in its cache.
Thanks. This might come in handy with a few other sites, too.
The general bad news is: the interwebs are absolutely dependent on dns. (I.e. DNS *is* the way to search for an IP.) But, yeah, it's heavily cached. The more servers you can query, the more possibility of getting a hit.
On most computing platforms, you can also make your own local DNS entry in a hosts file. I leave the details as an exercise to the reader.
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That assumes that servers and IP addresses do not change, which is not always the case.
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I'm getting an error saying:
You are not allowed to access this section
When I try to download the attachment on this post:
http://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/ask-a-mustachian/question-on-savings-rate-calculation-(math-question!)/msg270615/#msg270615
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That assumes that servers and IP addresses do not change, which is not always the case.
Yes, it's a temporary fix and you'll know the IP changed when it stops working
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Yes, it's a temporary fix and you'll know the IP changed when it stops working
Agreed, I just wanted to make that clear. The IP address changed today, for what it is worth, because we migrated to a bigger and better server.
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we migrated to a bigger and better server.
That sounds expensive and non-mustachian :-p
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That sounds expensive and non-mustachian :-p
You'd be surprised! I'll let MMM explain if he care to. I have not been authorized (nor have I even asked) to disclose the terms of the hosting for this site. :)
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That sounds expensive and non-mustachian :-p
You'd be surprised! I'll let MMM explain if he care to. I have not been authorized (nor have I even asked) to disclose the terms of the hosting for this site. :)
We don't care about the money, we just want to drool over the before/after hardware/bandwidth specs...
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That sounds expensive and non-mustachian :-p
You'd be surprised! I'll let MMM explain if he care to. I have not been authorized (nor have I even asked) to disclose the terms of the hosting for this site. :)
WHERE'S MY LIKE BUTTON? Just kidding, thanks for keeping this site going!
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That sounds expensive and non-mustachian :-p
You'd be surprised! I'll let MMM explain if he care to. I have not been authorized (nor have I even asked) to disclose the terms of the hosting for this site. :)
We don't care about the money, we just want to drool over the before/after hardware/bandwidth specs...
Yeah, how many mega-RAMS do we have now?
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We don't care about the money, we just want to drool over the before/after hardware/bandwidth specs...
I'll leave that to MMM to disclose. I'm not going to steal his thunder. :)
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Yeah, how many mega-RAMS do we have now?
I think that has to be my new favorite forum post. Mega-Rams!
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MMM was trying to mine bitcoins with the old server, that was the problem.
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Reposted (with edits) from a thread I started in Ask a Mustachian:
The past two weeks or more, this website has refused to load for me intermittently. I think sometimes it's been due to normal maintenance (as it's always during the wee hours, America-time), but it seemed weird that suddenly the site was non-functioning *every* night.
Today I'm getting this message for the first time: "The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an invalid or unsupported form of compression. Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem." This is only for the main website, not the forums.
Now, I'm in Australia on a laptop, so maybe it's just me, but my internet connection is tops, plus it's worked every night for the past year+ I've been reading MMM, so I'm a bit confused. It couldn't have anything to do with that company who threatened to sue MMM... right?
Any thoughts?
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It has nothing to do with that BA, other than very slightly in a good way (that publicity gave more traffic to MMM, leading to a higher load on the servers).
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Not something y'all can fix on your end, I think, but Gmail has started flagging notifications on threads as spam for me.
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Not something y'all can fix on your end, I think, but Gmail has started flagging notifications on threads as spam for me.
Make sure you flag them as not spam, it actually helps gmail's filters for everyone.
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Not something y'all can fix on your end, I think, but Gmail has started flagging notifications on threads as spam for me.
Gmail's spam filter misfires when it sees words like "Notification" used many times, or when it sees a lot of traffic coming from the same e-mail address.
My Gmail account is always flagging notifications from Linkedin, but I laughed the hardest when it flagged an AdSense notification.
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I suspect you already know this... but in case you didn't (and posting publicly so hopefully you don't get multiple reports of it).
"Show new replies to your posts" sends me back to the main www.mmm.com page.
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I suspect you already know this... but in case you didn't (and posting publicly so hopefully you don't get multiple reports of it).
"Show new replies to your posts" sends me back to the main www.mmm.com page.
I can't seem to make this happen now. If it was happening around an hour ago, then that was me. Sorry about that. However, I have tried it on two browsers now and it seems to be working.
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I am finding access seems to go down during the morning (Australian time) - is the web site going down at specific times each day? It was down about an hour ago.
I understand that as our day is your night, if the site needs to go down, it is probably better to have the interruption during our day - would just be nice to know if it is regularly scheduled, so I can avoid that time.
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I suspect you already know this... but in case you didn't (and posting publicly so hopefully you don't get multiple reports of it).
"Show new replies to your posts" sends me back to the main www.mmm.com page.
I can't seem to make this happen now. If it was happening around an hour ago, then that was me. Sorry about that. However, I have tried it on two browsers now and it seems to be working.
Nope, you're absolutely correct. It's me. Something in the new layout is clashing with one of my browser plugins and I get a "page not found" redirect back to the top level. Running it with no plugins makes it work fine. I'll slink away and sort out my own damn problems. ;)