ASF Site Performance

[Logique]

Joe fyi,
just in the last couple of days, my usual proprietary Chromium-based browser has been refusing entry to ASF. It's delivering a malware warning, see copied image under.
I have needed to switch to the standard Chrome browser to use ASF.

 

[Joe Blow]

Joe fyi,
just in the last couple of days, my usual proprietary Chromium-based browser has been refusing entry to ASF. It's delivering a malware warning, see copied image under.
I have needed to switch to the standard Chrome browser to use ASF.
View attachment 91333

Hi Logique, I just ran a check on that URL with Sucuri and I'm not getting any report of malware. I also tried accessing the exact same URL with Chrome and didn't get any warnings, so I can only assume that it's a false positive. Very strange.

Has anyone else been having any similar issues?

 

[SirRumpole]

Has anyone else been having any similar issues?

No, from a Firefox user.

 

[BoNeZ]

When I sign in and click on the "NEW POSTS" button I usually have several pages and am told it's showing results 1 to 20 of n but sometimes I get a blank page with no threads.

The reason is the threads I've chosen to ignore are still counted and just not displayed. If the first twenty plus threads are ones I'm ignoring I get a screen with no threads at all.

If I click to "show Ignored Content" I get a full page of threads but it's ones I want to ignore.

Is this a bug or the forum software working as designed?

Se below. I'm being shown results 1 to 20 of 152 but it's actually displaying nothing.

 

[Joe Blow]

When I sign in and click on the "NEW POSTS" button I usually have several pages and am told it's showing results 1 to 20 of n but sometimes I get a blank page with no threads.

The reason is the threads I've chosen to ignore are still counted and just not displayed. If the first twenty plus threads are ones I'm ignoring I get a screen with no threads at all.

If I click to "show Ignored Content" I get a full page of threads but it's ones I want to ignore.

Is this a bug or the forum software working as designed?

Se below. I'm being shown results 1 to 20 of 152 but it's actually displaying nothing.

Hi tmstu, this sounds like it may be a bug with the plugin that handles that feature. I'm not sure. It's the first time I've come across it but it may have something to do with the number of threads that you're ignoring.

Let's do a little troubleshooting. Click on "New Posts" again and then immediately click on the "Recent Posts and Threads" text link that you will see on the far right, as illustrated below.

Does that give you a list of threads?

 

[BoNeZ]

Joe,

I don't always start with a page with no threads. When I first sign in and check on "New Posts" I sometimes start with 20 threads on the first page but as I read them the ones I ignore move up and I will see 19 threads then 18, then 17... and eventually none.

To answer your troubleshooting question

When I click on "New Posts" I currently only get one thread displayed on page 1



When I click on "Recent Posts and Threads" as suggested I get 20 posts on the first page which I've either viewed (so they are no longer new) or ignored.

 

[Joe Blow]

Hi tmstu, the "New Posts" button gives you a list of threads that contain new posts that you have not read, while the "Recent Posts" link gives you a list of all recent threads whether or not you have read them. When using "Recent Posts", threads containing posts you haven't read will have their titles in bold, while threads you have read up until the most recent post will be unbolded.

It seems likely (based on your screenshots and posts) that the issue you are experiencing is because you tend to read through most threads with new posts each visit. Your description of "New Posts" displaying fewer threads as you read them is consistent with this. If you have a lot of threads on ignore this would tend to exacerbate the situation. If this is the case, I suggest using the "Recent Posts" link to see all recent threads that have been updated with new posts rather than "New Posts".

ASF will be upgrading to a new version of this software later this year which I think deals with the "New Posts" and "Recent Posts" feature much better than the version we currently use.

Please let me know if you have any further questions, would like further clarification, or if there is anything else I can do to assist.

 

[noirua]

Every company is claiming their latest web browser is the fastest one yet. So, which one really is the fastest? I took them to the test bench -- and here's what I found.
What's really the fastest Windows 10 web browser today?
https://www.zdnet.com/article/whats-really-the-fastest-windows-10-web-browser-today/

 

[PZ99]

Any issues with the site? I couldn't access it for about 2 hours today. (Firefox or Chrome)

 

[Joe Blow]

Any issues with the site? I couldn't access it for about 2 hours today. (Firefox or Chrome)

I didn't notice any down time. Did anyone else?

 

[Zaxon]

Any issues with the site? I couldn't access it for about 2 hours today. (Firefox or Chrome)

No problems here. And I'd soon notice if there wasn't 150 new dividend imputation credits messages posted per hour.

 

[PZ99]

Must be my computer then. It wouldn't load from about 6pm to around 8:30pm (Sydney)

At one point I had "XML Parsing Error: unexpected parser state" on Firefox and a "too long response" on Chrome.

No issues with any other sites at the time.

 

[Joe Blow]

Must be my computer then. It wouldn't load from about 6pm to around 8:30pm (Sydney)

At one point I had "XML Parsing Error: unexpected parser state" on Firefox and a "too long response" on Chrome.

No issues with any other sites at the time.

Sounds like it might have been a temporary ISP routing issue. I happens every now and again to me with TPG.

 

[Joe Blow]

My apologies if the ASF website has been a little slow for the last hour or so. There is some maintenance happening on the server at the moment and it appears to be having an impact on performance.

It should be all over in about ten minutes.

 

[Joe Blow]

OK, everything is back to normal now.

 

[sptrawler]

I thought it was my computer. lol

 

[PZ99]

I thought it was the Russians.

 

[Joe Blow]

I thought it was the Russians.

 

[noirua]

Hi Joe, I tried to post a reply to 'Miner' on the OEX thread. This message keeps coming up:
Please enter a message with at least 3 characters.
The number of characters in the reply was 231.

 

[Joe Blow]

Hi Joe, I tried to post a reply to 'Miner' on the OEX thread. This message keeps coming up:
Please enter a message with at least 3 characters.
The number of characters in the reply was 231.

My best guess is because you are probably replying to Miner's post within the quote tags of his post. It occasionally happens.

The minimum length of a post is 3 characters. If your reply is 231 characters then it should be accepted. The only reason for it not to be accepted is if the software is not recognising your post as being 231 characters of a reply to Miner's post.

I recommend that you clear your post reply box of any previous drafts and reply to Miner's post again, ensuring that your reply commences after the end of the quote tags in his post.

I hope that helps.