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Post by BB Warrior on Dec 2, 2011 10:34:10 GMT
Hi all,
I don't know if this is just a coincidence.... or if I have a problem with my computer.... but ever since we had the lovely Christmas lights and sprinkling snow falling, my computer seems very slow when accessing the Forum.... ::)
I haven't got a problem with any other website I use.... is it just me, or are any other people experiencing the same? I use Firefox as my default browser. ;)
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2011 11:10:16 GMT
I received a message yesterday evening saying "ProBoards is switching to a Brand New Server".
Leading up to that I'd had problems logging on (lasted about 30 minutes).
I was obliged to re-boot, ever since that it has worked fine.
Let us know if you keep experiencing difficulties.
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Post by barbelman on Dec 2, 2011 11:30:39 GMT
I had a day of pages being slow to load and timing out but when I reloaded the page all was well. Presumably during the server changeover? Initially the lights and snow APPEARED to slow things down but I think this was connected with the above..
Anyway now we have snow and fairy lights, it must be Christmas.... ;D ;D
Tony
PS oh I've lost my snow now!
PPS It's back again now.... :D
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Post by Chris_Sav on Dec 2, 2011 11:49:10 GMT
Tony PS oh I've lost my snow now! PPS It's back again now.... :D Been playing all morning ;D ;D so snow may be intermittent, same with the lights, been building new strings of them frame by frame. Intention is to see if I can load a window border. There is a slight processor overhead on the snow, I noticed a couple of speed changes as well. The overhead is tunable via snow density and resolution. If anyone has problems now Proboards has settled down let me know and I'll cut down the amount of snow (I must be omnipotent!!). Sav |
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Post by Chris_Sav on Dec 2, 2011 11:53:28 GMT
I received a message yesterday evening saying " ProBoards is switching to a Brand New Server". . Tommo, could you let me know how and when you received the notice please? I was not aware. Sav |
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Post by barbelman on Dec 2, 2011 11:58:05 GMT
Tony PS oh I've lost my snow now! PPS It's back again now.... :D Been playing all morning ;D ;D so snow may be intermittent, same with the lights, been building new strings of them frame by frame. Intention is to see if I can load a window border. There is a slight processor overhead on the snow, I noticed a couple of speed changes as well. The overhead is tunable via snow density and resolution. If anyone has problems now Proboards has settled down let me know and I'll cut down the amount of snow (I must be omnipotent!!). Sav I don't know - you give people a bit of power...... ;D Can we have some sunshine please?? It's freezing by my computer! Tony |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2011 12:17:15 GMT
I received a message yesterday evening saying " ProBoards is switching to a Brand New Server". . Tommo, could you let me know how and when you received the notice please? I was not aware. Sav I reckon it was around 8pm and it was a little message that flashed up and just caught my eye before it vanished. Before that I had been having problems which I associated with Firefox (message to close Firefox already running, but it just wouldn't close ..... and as I had tried everything else, I resorted to removing the battery from my laptop!) |
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Post by Chris_Sav on Dec 2, 2011 12:35:04 GMT
Cheers Tommo, you would have thought forum owners would have been informed!
Finished playing with the lights after several hours of trying to get it right!! Also turned the smow frame and lights display rates down a but just in case, makes it a little stuttery. Snow is only on the home pages, but the lights are global.
Same as last year the board will be advert free over Xmas
Sav
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Post by BB Warrior on Dec 2, 2011 12:47:34 GMT
I received a message yesterday evening saying " ProBoards is switching to a Brand New Server". Leading up to that I'd had problems logging on (lasted about 30 minutes). I think that I saw a similar message to that, although it must have been earlier in the evening (about 6.30pm) as I went out shortly after that.... earlier in the afternoon I had also had problems logging on and the "Bear Message" had come up a few times on Proboards then.... :-/ I am not having problems logging on now.... but it is definitely slower when the snow is falling on my computer.... :'( PS. The lights look very pretty.... Colleen says it's only 23 sleeps now.... :o ::) :-[ ;D ;D |
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Post by Richard Stowe R.I.P. on Dec 2, 2011 20:04:58 GMT
??? Evening all. I have just logged on to the Bar billiard site and got the following message, "proboards.com is not responding due to a long - running script". This happens every time I come onto the site it just locks up. Fortunately there is a box to the right of the message that says Stop script when I click on this after about five seconds the site works, but locks up every time I change the page back to the home page with the same message appearing. I am using Internet Explorer 9.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2011 20:34:31 GMT
Sounds a bit like my recent "Browser Problem", Richard. (Check the thread which can be found under Help and Support).
You have a little program running elsewhere which is interfering with your log-in.
You could try going to 'Settings' on your Control Panel and clear out your cookies and 'website visited history' and see if that makes any difference. Good luck !
tommo
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Post by Chris_Sav on Dec 2, 2011 20:51:21 GMT
Needs Windoze 7 for Internet Exploder 9 and the only thing I have that on is my rarely used laptop. It will take some time to update for me to compare.
There a lot of different scripts running on the forum but the snow is the only recent change to the home page. Do you see the snow when you've got on the home page?
I've dropped the snow density and cpu load down to way below what we used last year, how is it now?
Sav
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Post by Chris_Sav on Dec 2, 2011 21:49:03 GMT
I can recreate the problem, but it's not the snow as there ain't none at present!
Happens in IE8 and IE9
Some posts under support about IE problems will look further.
Sav
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Post by iang on Dec 2, 2011 22:45:08 GMT
??? Evening all. I have just logged on to the Bar billiard site and got the following message, "proboards.com is not responding due to a long - running script". This happens every time I come onto the site it just locks up. Fortunately there is a box to the right of the message that says Stop script when I click on this after about five seconds the site works, but locks up every time I change the page back to the home page with the same message appearing. I am using Internet Explorer 9. I ahd the same message tonight. |
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Post by Chris_Sav on Dec 2, 2011 22:54:11 GMT
Believe I have found the problem after taking out one piece of coade at a time.
There was a mistake in the flag counter call section.
IE users please let me know if all is OK now
Sav
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Post by Sparky on Dec 2, 2011 22:55:46 GMT
If it helps I didn't log-in until about 5pm and haven't had any problems or seen any messages.
Windoze 7
Firefox 8.0 using NoScripts add-on as usual (which usually picks up strange things in scripts)
haven't changed any settings on Laptop at all for a long time.
Snow on front page works fine and twinklers and Santas look OK too.
ps Snow stopped now but was working.
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Post by Chris_Sav on Dec 2, 2011 23:23:22 GMT
Just started snowing again ;D , put a newer version of the snow code on which will disable it on mobiles etc that would struggle with it.
I've now finished troubleshooting, so repeat call for updates from those who were having problems in non Firefox browsers.
Interesting that the problem did not show in FF as it was an obvious coding mistake when I finally spotted it. Everything seems to work far more smoothly in Firefox
Sav
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Post by BFG on Dec 3, 2011 0:07:53 GMT
Just started snowing again ;D , put a newer version of the snow code on which will disable it on mobiles etc that would struggle with it. I've now finished troubleshooting, so repeat call for updates from those who were having problems in non Firefox browsers. Interesting that the problem did not show in FF as it was an obvious coding mistake when I finally spotted it. Everything seems to work far more smoothly in Firefox Sav Actually managed to kill my internet explorer as the forum is one of my opening tabs would not allow me to switch tabs No harm done sure my 17 attemps attempps to reinstall 32 bit did some good!!! ;) |
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Post by BFG on Dec 3, 2011 0:10:41 GMT
Believe I have found the problem after taking out one piece of coade at a time. There was a mistake in the flag counter call section. IE users please let me know if all is OK now Sav Yup i have now just managed to access my internet explorer chrome can now go back in the backseat |
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Post by Richard Stowe R.I.P. on Dec 3, 2011 0:31:57 GMT
:) All's ok now. thought I'd give you a hour or so to sort it out before I came back on to try it, but after six bottles of Shepherd Neame 1698 I might not make much sense, but then again there are those that think I make more sense after a skin full of real ale.
I suppose this is what you get for trying to build the ultimate machine, I hate windoze at the best of times, but I find with my set up windows 7 it fires up in about 50 seconds from start and shuts down in 20 seconds, my computer with XP on takes over 3 minutes to fire up and 1 and a half to shut down. Any way I know it's early but just in case I forget ( I've forgotten already ) ah I know what it was may I wish you all a merry Christmas and a brilliant new year.
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Post by Chris_Sav on Dec 3, 2011 8:42:57 GMT
Thanks for the feedback.
Sav
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Post by BB Warrior on Dec 3, 2011 8:56:35 GMT
Just started snowing again ;D , put a newer version of the snow code on which will disable it on mobiles etc that would struggle with it. I've now finished troubleshooting, so repeat call for updates from those who were having problems in non Firefox browsers. Interesting that the problem did not show in FF as it was an obvious coding mistake when I finally spotted it. Everything seems to work far more smoothly in Firefox Sav Access is much faster today.... well done for sorting it out Sav. 8-) |
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Post by Chris_Sav on Dec 3, 2011 9:16:18 GMT
Cheers Dave,
Some of the completed work on the border images may come in useful early next year as I'd like to give the forum appearance a revamp and a more professional look.
Sav
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Post by Colemanator on Dec 3, 2011 9:40:19 GMT
I had the same problems Sav, with a message about a long running script, if it was no better today, then i was going to call you up, but appears to have corrected.
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Post by iang on Dec 3, 2011 10:31:30 GMT
Believe I have found the problem after taking out one piece of coade at a time. There was a mistake in the flag counter call section. IE users please let me know if all is OK now Sav Hi Sav. I shut down after posting last night. Have just logged on & it went straight in without a problem. |
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Post by Chris_Sav on Dec 3, 2011 10:34:34 GMT
Thanks Ian,
Elements of each script have start statements to begin them and stop statements to end them. I had accidentally overwritten and deleted a stop statement. Firefox is intelligent enough to realise this and carry on, Internet Exploder is not. Hence the never ending script messages in IE.
So simple when you spot it!
Sav
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Post by iang on Dec 3, 2011 10:46:47 GMT
Looks great now very festive I love it when you move you pointer the snow changes direction.
doesnt take much.
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Post by bigtj on Dec 3, 2011 18:13:51 GMT
Looking good, did have some problems last evening, okay now, but I am intrernet explorer. Love the lights and snow very festive Bah Humbug
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Post by Chris_Sav on Dec 18, 2011 9:30:31 GMT
I have lightened the CPU load further from the Christmas decs on the forum as I am finding Firefox still very sensitive to this board, whether or not on the snow page (home page only). I've made the lights flash more slowly and snow has almost stopped!
The CPU load under Firefox is still much higher than the same page under Internet Exploder on my PC. Sometimes the page does not respond to the mousewheel for example under Firefox because Firefox is gobbling loads of CPU on my PC.
Anyone else still having problems?
I'm switching to Exploder as my browser of choice (never thought I'd say that!)
Sav
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