Post by: Foxeye on March 09, 2009, 12:28:48 AM
Thanks! :D
Post by: Obi-Rak Kaeliri on March 10, 2009, 12:03:16 AM
* general slowness, which we are trying to remedy
* image hotlink prevention is currently disabled
* image embedding on elfquest.com is currently not working
* some more polishing of the visual presentation is needed
Post by: Foxeye on March 10, 2009, 12:30:33 AM
*afraid*
Post by: Nevaratoiel on March 10, 2009, 11:47:28 AM
Post by: Foxeye on March 10, 2009, 11:55:06 AM
Post by: Foxeye on March 10, 2009, 12:00:41 PM
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What does the error "This site has temporarily exceeded its connection limit." mean?
This error means there are too many simultaneous non-cacheable requests in progress for your site. This is an extremely rare condition, but the causes, in order of decreasing likelihood, are:
1. For sites like CMS or blog sites that generate content dynamically, a spammer or email address harvester attempts to hit all or a large number of the site's pages at once. Our system will throw up this error to dissuade the spammer and stop them from dragging the whole server down. In this case, the message will typically only appear for a few seconds to a couple of minutes; as soon as they start getting errors, they move on.
2. This message can also occur if requests for your site content hang or take an inordinately long time to complete. In such cases, they can backlog to the point where the server feels that allowing more of them to build up would just cause a death spiral. (I.e. more requests taking longer causing more requests to take even longer, wash-rinse-repeat until nothing happens at all).
3. Under exceptionally rare circumstances, this message can indicate that the server that hosts your site is having severe problems. Such conditions are automatically detected and we are notified, so they tend not to persist for very long.
4. If your site has several hundred simultaneous visitors for sustained periods of time, it's remotely possible to hit this limit even if your connections complete very quickly. In this case, and only in this case, we will raise the limit, because this limit provides your site with important protection against all the other cases. (Please be aware that while almost everyone starts out thinking this is the reason that applies to their situation, the cause almost inevitably turns out to be something else.)
(A good rule of thumb is that each possible explanation above is about ten times less likely than the one above it, so the top one is 90% likely and the bottom one is about 0.09% likely.)
So, according to them, 90% chance is that we were actually the target of a spammer/harvester. Already. ;D
Hrm, well, that would be flattering. I suspect #2 though, with a lot of people setting up their albums. Once people have their backlog uploaded the rush will hopefully die down.
Post by: Kitt on March 10, 2009, 12:52:01 PM
Post by: Obi-Rak Kaeliri on March 10, 2009, 01:00:32 PM
Post by: Foxeye on March 10, 2009, 01:32:47 PM
Post by: Foxeye on March 10, 2009, 08:15:09 PM
Fixed now!
Post by: Kitt on March 11, 2009, 06:56:46 AM
Post by: Obi-Rak Kaeliri on March 11, 2009, 12:52:14 PM
Post by: Sweetwater on March 12, 2009, 12:32:59 PM
1. I can't upload anymore art, it like freezes and doesn't continue! its weird... help?
2. this is just a little tweak thing that doesn't hurt anybody... but it says i uploaded two of my pictures in October...? and its March...
Post by: Obi-Rak Kaeliri on March 12, 2009, 01:09:23 PM
For item #1, we'll do some poking around...
Post by: Sweetwater on March 13, 2009, 10:37:26 AM
I sorta like the idea of keeping it the way it is! so that people can see how much someone has improved over time! :)
#1 its working now... i dunno what went wrong... its probably just my blasted computer!
Post by: Flowerstar on March 14, 2009, 12:27:02 AM
The one at the top does, though, and when I'm in a subforum or the gallery the one of the left works, too.
Also, is it normal that when posting in the forum you get taken back to the forum instead of to your post? I find that slightly confusing :-[.
Post by: Foxeye on March 14, 2009, 01:29:52 AM
When I am on the forum's main page, the Gallery link on the right does not work ???.
The one at the top does, though, and when I'm in a subforum or the gallery the one of the left works, too.
Hmmm...which browser are you using? I don't experience this problem (I'm guessing you meant left, not right...though if the gallery link is on the right, that would *definitely* be a problem!).
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Also, is it normal that when posting in the forum you get taken back to the forum instead of to your post? I find that slightly confusing :-[.
You can change this with a setting :)
Profile -> Look and Layout Preferences -> "Return to topics after posting by default."
Check that box.
Post by: Flowerstar on March 14, 2009, 01:50:37 PM
Firefox, version 2.0.0.20
And thanks :).
Edit: It's working now though I didn't change anything ???. Ah well ::) ...
Post by: Foxeye on March 14, 2009, 11:15:11 PM
Fixed! :D
Post by: Flowerstar on March 15, 2009, 02:48:02 PM
Edit: Nope, that doesn't work either. Seems it only works when a folder is created.
Post by: Foxeye on March 15, 2009, 03:21:58 PM
Don't suppose any other users could confirm whether it works or not for them?
Post by: Flowerstar on March 15, 2009, 03:46:58 PM
:-[ :-[ :-[
Post by: Foxeye on March 15, 2009, 03:56:46 PM
Post by: Flowerstar on March 19, 2009, 10:33:21 PM
Err ... Or there actually is a mature content pic between Sganaa's Norse Gods Group and her Illo for Undecided because I get the same message when clicking 'previous' on the latter and 'next' on the former. In that case the error would be that the gallery did not accept my change to the 'View mature content' setting ???.
I hope that was not too confusing ^^'.
Edit: Okay, found out via the 'Unseen' feature that it is indeed the latter case ... Yup, the box is checked in my profile and everything.
Post by: Foxeye on March 19, 2009, 11:04:58 PM
In the meantime, there is another reason why you wouldn't be able to see mature content...if you hadn't entered your birthday into your forum profile.
Post by: Flowerstar on March 19, 2009, 11:08:44 PM
Post by: Foxeye on March 19, 2009, 11:18:24 PM
I fixed the problem where mature items were showing up under "unseen". Still trying to reproduce the other problem...
Post by: Afke on May 01, 2009, 06:05:36 AM
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Plus I'm not sure if it's just me, but the pwetty background disappears from the lay-out if I browse too much through the site. When I go back to the main gallery page or the main forum page, it's back again.
Post by: Foxeye on May 01, 2009, 08:35:29 AM
I got this error when I tried uploading a picture to the gallery today.
That's not good. Did you get it more than once? If so, does it still occur? I uploaded a file just now with no problems, but it may be something admin's don't see. I'll try it in a bit with "bob".
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Plus I'm not sure if it's just me, but the pwetty background disappears from the lay-out if I browse too much through the site. When I go back to the main gallery page or the main forum page, it's back again.
That's intentional. :) I make it go away when you are reading a thread or looking at a picture, so that you won't have to scroll down so much (and so that it won't distract you from the important content).
Post by: Afke on May 01, 2009, 11:35:13 AM
That's not good. Did you get it more than once? If so, does it still occur? I uploaded a file just now with no problems, but it may be something admin's don't see. I'll try it in a bit with "bob".
I tried 3 times, but got the same. And I gave it another try just now, but got the error again.
There's not some file size limit that might cause this?
[Edit] I tried a different picture and that one did get uploaded. I tried the first one again but that one still won't. ???
Post by: Foxeye on May 01, 2009, 11:54:29 AM
The "alias" and "vhost" bit makes me wonder if it's something to do with our webhost doing a bit. This is something for Irianta to troubleshoot, though unfortunately he's stuck in meetings right now.
Looks like you did finally manage to upload something. Did you try something different (browser, filesize, etc)?
Post by: Obi-Rak Kaeliri on May 02, 2009, 12:27:34 AM
Post by: Afke on May 02, 2009, 07:47:01 AM
Looks like you did finally manage to upload something. Did you try something different (browser, filesize, etc)?
I had 2 pictures I wanted to upload, and after finding out the 1st just wouldn't, I tried the 2nd and that one went up without a problem. So I still have another picture waiting to go online.
1st was 151 kb and the 2nd 80 kb. Both are JPG, 1st is almost a year old now. I don't see what other differences there might be between them..?