The website is acting a little funky the last couple of days.

I am finding long gaps between comments and the Preview/Send tabs just moved in an earlier post.

TJ,

It's not just you, there does seem to be an issue.

We're looking into it now, and I suspect it may be something within the hosting service server.

Thanks for calling this to our attention.

Regards

TJ,

Thanks for the heads up. I hadn't experienced the same things (although obviously NYCelt, and possibly others, have noticed it. The best way for this board to handle technical problems is for me to stay out of it, because it's definitely not a strength. Fortunately, it is a strength of administrators like gyso, NYCelt and Pete.

I do know that we've had technical glitches before, and I'm sure we'll have them again. NYCelt's reassurance of looking into it is good enough for me. Maybe you'd be kind enough to let us know if and when you notice that the situation has been rectified.

Sam

pete wrote:One more thing, if not everyone is experiencing the same thing, it can be the servers in between this forum & a particular area. Very much like certain highways in the country bogged down with traffic, or a maintenance issue, and others flowing smoothly.

This can also be happening for some internet providers, but not others, as they all get here by different paths.

Server traffic & problems can be isolated to specific areas in the country. Hopefully, it will clear up soon.


Pete

I haven't noticed anything out of the ordinary lately except when people use the Quote option. The window-in-a-window doesn't look like it did.

I am using the Quote now to see how the results look.

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Actually, while in the Preview mode, the Send and Preview buttons did jump around a bit. At first, they were way down at the bottom and when I found them, they vanished. They were then found back up where they belong.

I repeated the Preview and it did it again. I hovered my mouse over the buttons and they disappeared, only to be found back at the top.

Ditto.

Odd.

Seems a bit askew with me also. This reply box is shifted left from where it was and even GYSO avitar doesn't appear on the right side of his post.
Plus I too have the large gaps at the end of some posts but not all.
Probably that damn oil spills fault.

Anyway for what it's worth.

beat

Almost seems as if the margins have screwed up. When I first saw my above post it appeared normal but withing acouple seconds it went to about half the screen for some reason.

beat

pete wrote:Hello All,

So far, everything checks out on my end, and I cannot reproduce the problem. So, there may be something going on with the servers, that is specific to certain operating systems, Windows/Mac. It does happen this way with web sites sometimes.

If you can, hang in a bit and hopefully it will clear up soon. If not, we will get to the bottom of it.

Pete

The avatars do not line up at the right. The second post (NY's) is where it starts. TJ's initial post is full width.

It is like we are playing "Find the Send button" in the Preview page.

gyso

gyso wrote:

I haven't noticed anything out of the ordinary lately except when people use the Quote option. The window-in-a-window doesn't look like it did.

I am using the Quote now to see how the results look.

yes, the quote function definitely seems like it's not working right. Much harder to read without the shaded box.

pete,

The box to type a reply in is now above the last post in each thread.
The Preview/Send buttons are still at the bottom.

The problem is not fixed yet. Preview still acts funky.

I have disabled the Quote button for now.

Forumotion suggests replying by copy & paste and use the "at" symbol before the other user's name. This is actually a typical way to address the one that your post is to, at least on some of the other boards I've seen.

For instance:

@pete,

It it is all related, and once one thing is fixed, it should all be back to normal. The quotes should line up as before (I hope).

Forumotion says it affects IE, but not Firefox or Chrome. They didn't mention anything to do with PC's vs Macs.

gyso

This thread seems to be the only one with a margin issue the rest seem fine!

All,

The issue that caused us to turn off the Quotes option still hasn't been fixed by Forumotion. It may cause problems while previewing a message. It may also affect the Quick Reply box.

There is a thread for the problem over in the Help forum (only available for admin guys). I am checking in every so often to see if they fixed the issue. So far, no.

This bug doesn't cause the same problems equally across the board. I reported above that Forumotion says it affects IE, but not Firefox or Chrome. The post on the Help thread indicates now that that isn't true.

For now, we wait. When I notice it has been fixed, I will turn on the Quotes option and we can go on as before.

gyso

All,

The script error problem is supposed to be fixed. I activated the Quotes button and tried it myself. All is in the green!!!

Please report any further issues on this thread with the Quotes, Quick Reply or any other things that the scripts have been messing with.

Feel free to report that things seem to be back to normal as well.

Thanks for your patience,

gyso

And thanks to both gyso and NYCelt for working so hard to solve this issue.

Sam