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Can't upload a mod to the FE Downloads section.
Erik replied to Southside Bucky's topic in Site Support / Bug Reports / Suggestions
It depends on your browser and it's security settings how it handles pages that have a long wait time. Here's what happens: 1. You click submit. 2. Your browser starts the submit process expecting a reply. 3. Because you're uploading a file which could take 10 minutes or 30 minutes depending on size and your connection speed the reply doesn't come right away. 4. Your browser not getting the reply thinks the connection dropped and gives you the connection error page. The important part is what's happening between step 3 and 4. If the browser is designed correctly it will understand that the submit process is still happening and the fact that no page is displaying is not an error at all but design. FireFox handles this well. Internet Explorer tries to do things their own way. That's all I can really say on the matter. Try using a different browser like FireFox and your problems will go away. -
Anyone still using IE6? I thought that was dead years ago after M$ couldn't patch it fast enough. Use FireFox or upgrade your browser to IE7.
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The front page is still a work in progress. Good suggestion though, thank you.
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File getting added in a pm
Erik replied to sitting_duck's topic in Site Support / Bug Reports / Suggestions
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File getting added in a pm
Erik replied to sitting_duck's topic in Site Support / Bug Reports / Suggestions
The little box is the same as clicking on the member name. It's just easier to start new conversation by using the MESSENGER Feature or going to the member's profile you want to start a conversation with and click the link as described above. The little image is a duplicate for browser compatibility but it links you to the same place as the link in the member's display name. At least that's what it looks like to me. E -
File getting added in a pm
Erik replied to sitting_duck's topic in Site Support / Bug Reports / Suggestions
If you would ... Go here: Manage Attachments See if that file appears on your list of attached files. Since it just appeared it *should* be near the top of the list, but look through the list if it's not at the top. Let me know if you find it. If you do then mystery solved ... somehow it was accidentally attached maybe by clicking the attachment button instead of the post button. I know I've done it a couple times myself when I stop reading and click because it's the next button right under the text editor. Brings to mind maybe somehow changing that button color. Anyway .... if you do find it then you can delete it, or edit your PM to remove it. Thanks. -
File getting added in a pm
Erik replied to sitting_duck's topic in Site Support / Bug Reports / Suggestions
"ADD" me to the discussion so I can look at it. Thanks. -
New Forum Software - Error Reports
Erik replied to Erik's topic in Site Support / Bug Reports / Suggestions
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Actually ... Our new search engine is powered by Sphinx which is an incredible indexing agent. After the transition to the new boards I forgot a small config edit which left Sphinx in a state of "well what next". I rebuilt the database permissions and re-indexed sphinx. I heard a sigh of relief I swear! The search engine is up and running as it was intended to be. There's a post in the bug section about this. Give it a go and let me know what you think and that it's working for you. Thanks. E
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SEARCH function on this forum
Erik replied to variellone's topic in Site Support / Bug Reports / Suggestions
This was almost an orgasmic fix for the poor machine ... I swear I heard it moan and sigh. Database rebuilt and re-indexed. Sphinx re-indexed. Feature should be available to all users now as originally intended. You guys must have thought I was nutz telling you how great the new search tool is. wow ... I absolutely feel dumb as a rock. Well it's working, report back and let me know. --RESOLVED-- E -
Well like Fates said it's normal but it's like a drink with an umbrella .... just not right. Fates was correct that the aggregate post count on the left is a total count of post eligible counting versus actual forum posts. During the transition the posts counts are not rebuilt that's a manual tool that can be run if necessary. I didn't run the post count rebuild tool because it has been known in the past to change member's post count dramatically if posts are being counted from forums that are no longer here, or from other features no longer here. I didn't want to start chaos and have Dave wondering why his post count was averagely normal. LOL E --RESOLVED--
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I can honestly say this isn't a resource issue on our end. To make things faster for display purposes I can cache the pages to php instead of mysql but since there isn't an issue with mysql, it's load, or traffic volume then it stands to reason that's not a solid fix. The other possibility is encode the site to gzip pages which makes the total transfer smaller from our side of things but causes issues with some people not being able to view the boards if their connection upstream doesn't handle compression. Either way these are minor changes in the grade scale of things. The new code base is much leaner and cleaner and for all intensive purposes much faster. Personally I have zero page load issues. So I can better understand what may be affecting your connection can I ask the two that are having problems to do a couple things. 1. Report your browser and version you're running. 2. Your operating system you're running. 3. Ping the site and report back with either a screen shot or copy paste of the results. START > RUN > Type CMD > Press [ENTER] > Black command window opens and at the prompt type: ping combatace.com -n 40 --> to copy paste from the command window right click anywhere on the top file bar and you should get a drop down > Select Edit >> Mark - You can now highlight the text you want to copy. When you've highlighted all the text you want to copy press [ENTER] and that will copy it to your clipboard. You can then right click in a forum response and use the paste option or use [CTRL]+ V. Thanks.
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All skins? Go to the bottom of any page. In the lower left is a skin selection tool. Choose another skin like IP BOARD and try the feature again. If you wouldn't mind report back. You can then change your skin back or to whatever skin you wish to use. Thanks.
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First houses now SF add ons for the super rich
Erik replied to MigBuster's topic in Site Support / Bug Reports / Suggestions
Thanks for that however this is something I put together for them and if it's not working then it is no reflection on them. I will look into this tonight and I sincerely apologize. I assure you it's something just not working with the code base that I'll get cleared up. E -
Good food for thought. Thank you. As soon as we're clear of the debris field I've levied on the site we'll give the idea more thought. E
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Sitting Duck ... Looks like everything is working as it should. The link to renew or upgrade won't be available (read: show on that page) until 7 days prior to the expiration date. So you should see it on or after September 2nd, 2009. So you're in the right place and everything appears as it's working correctly. You can also check on the main forum page on the right side there's a block there that has all your subscription details. Uncleal ... Sorry about that. In developing the new site I actually created a duplicate running on it's own database and code base. I imagine that both of them are firing off emails or something to that affect. I'll be removing that site soon enough so this won't happen again. Sorry for the confusion. E
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Forum suggestions!
Erik replied to 76.IAP-Blackbird's topic in Site Support / Bug Reports / Suggestions
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We're proud to release a new skin set for use at CombatACE.com. SemperFi our newest skin is available for use by locating the skin chooser on the bottom left of the forum pages (next to the orange RSS button), then selecting from the drop down menu CombatACE Semper Fi. We hope you all enjoy. S!
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During the night we had a new user decide to use our PM system to ultimately PM about 2,000 users on our system. If you received this PM titled "Hello" with a link inside. Please delete this PM and don't click the link inside which solicits needing help. I personally have not received this PM so I'm unsure about the link but I can only suspect that it's at best suspicious if not malware driven. Again, please just delete this PM. Thank you and sorry for the confusion and inconvenience. Erik
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