Forum Bugs

[trancemac]

I keep getting this:

There have been no posts in the last 1000 days in this forum.

I opened a support ticked because of the slow network then I got the "kind" remark that I should look at the news section. Well I had but I got the message that nothing was posted. And why are all the forums closed to people who are not registered? Why can't people who do not register not read any posts. What is there to hide?

This is what I got on my support ticked and they closed it before I could send a response:

Hello,

As per the recent announcements in the news and updates section of our forum we are currently the victim of a ddos attack. Please do check through our forums for the latest updates on what's happening.

http://forums.jaguarpc.com/showthrea...&threadid=9081

We are working with our upstream providers to try and control/fend off the incoming flood. We apologize for any incovenience. We hope to have the problem totally resolved in a few hours. Please do keep checking through the news and updates section of our forums for changes.

Thank you,
Regards,
Susy.

HELLO I DID LOOK AT YOUR FORUM. SO FIX IT. SO THAT I CAN READ YOUR POSTS.


This after all the problems I had:
Not upgrading to a newer PHP version. Forum outage over 4 months.
Billing monthly when I had paid for a full year. 3 Months
Losing my domain name because they lost the account information. 2 Months
I my self had to pay $75 to get it back.
Last week over 7 hours maintenance outage.
Today doss attacks.

What more should I suspect.

[lookout]

I've seen this happen when using the forums also. You think you're logged in when actually you're not, and therefore can't see all the forum posts (like those under support). Try logging out and back in, even if it says you're logged in. You should probably clear your cookies as well. I've found that some cookie eating software can produce this kind of odd forum behavior.

[Vin DSL]

Originally posted by lookout
...Try logging out and back in, even if it says you're logged in...

^^^ What he said!^^^

[Vin DSL]

Originally posted by Vin DSL
^^^ What he said!^^^

The persistence on these cookies are often set at infinity. So, if they change something in the proggie, you're still using the old cookie, blah, blah, blah. Ran into this when ugrading to PHP-Nuke 6.5 recently. I actually had to manually clear the old cookie to get rid of it --- logging in and out didn't do squat...

[CeleronXL]

Internet Explorer has, in my experience, always had terrible cookie handling. I can't even log out of my forum with IE, it just decides it wants to store the cookie forever. Try Mozilla. It's a far faster page rendering browser than IE and handles cookies better by far. Only downside I've ever encountered is that it doesn't have WYSIWYG capabilities.

[trancemac]

Or they could make all post readable for ALL PEOPLE that would clear up a lot of problems. Why should I register to read something????

I'm using Mac OSX and OS9 with IE,Netscape,Omniweb,Safari.
Problems in ALL browsers in OSX have not tested in OS9.