FORUM ISSUES: Report Upgraded Issues in this thread

[Shaggy Hiker]

I seem to have given a lot of reps today, which just showed another oddity: When I give a rep, I get a message saying that I can't rep the same person twice for a given post. Perhaps my clicking the button comes with a stutter, but I really don't think so. I even got that message followed immediately by the message about "thanks for giving a rep...etc."

[szlamany]

Seems that the links in the emails following "This thread is located at" do not actually go to the NEWPOST of the thread.

[Edgemeal]

Main page at the bottom it says,...
Most users ever online was 5,617, Today at 03:12 AM.

Is that for real or due to the upgrade?

[techgnome]

Seems that the links in the emails following "This thread is located at" do not actually go to the NEWPOST of the thread.

I think that's related to the similar issue of "go to last post" from the threads listings... of which the chief suspect is the in-progress indexing... guess only time will tell.

-tg

[Nightwalker83]

It was showing "Database Error" for the last half hour when I try to access this page !

I think then it would be acceptable to just email Brad.

[Edgemeal]

Not sure if this was mentioned but if you click on a link that targets a single post the whole page that the post is on loads instead of just the single post now.

I guess its not that big of deal for a programmers forum since 99% of the content is text, but this would totally suck for forums where people post a lot of images in threads.

It would be nice if you could get View Single Post working again, its faster and uses less bandwidth.

Edit:
Example, Forum running vBulletin v3.8.7
View single post (some C++ code).
http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost...2&postcount=39

For now I'll just change my "Number of Posts to Show Per Page" from 60 to 10 or 20 I guess?

[jcis]

I've already installed ieSpell but the new Spell Check Button is still not working (the last button at right in the Quick Reply Toolbar). Anyway the spell check can still be lauched like in any other page on any site when using ieSpell by doing a simple right click anywhere, it also takes selected text, "Check Spelling" and "ieSpell Options" are present in the right click menu, it's just the new button in the message toolbar that's not working, it's doing nothing, at least in my case.

I'm using IE8 under Windows XP

[Niya]

The performance of the forums has improved a lot today, almost like normal. I still can't find the members list though and searching seems to only bring up empty results. I assume the latter is because of incomplete indexes.

Also, anybody have any idea if and when they are going to fix the code/highlight tags ?

[Niya]

ooo I just discovered, you can rep in chit-chat now.

[Shaggy Hiker]

THAT has to go away promptly. Many bad things would come of repping for insanity.

[Niya]

Oh the horror

[gep13]

Hello,

The url for the memberlist is this:

http://www.vbforums.com/memberlist.php

However, when you try to access it, you get the warning:

Sorry! The administrator has disabled the list of members.

Is there a reason why this was done?

Gary

[Doogle]

I note that the "last edited by etc" text does not appear after editing a Post.

EDIT: Belay that....... It does appear if you put a Reason for Editing in.

[Niya]

I note that the "last edited by etc" text does not appear after editing a Post.

EDIT: Belay that....... It does appear if you put a Reason for Editing in.

If you edit a post multiple times within a minute it doesnt show the 'last edited' text unless you put a reason. That was always normal behaviour.

[dday9]

Yep, I've edited my post like 4-5 times before teh update and it would never show the "last edited by" because I would do all of them in like a minute.

Edit - A good example is of this edit because I noticed a typo.

[stanav]

Performance is horrible again today compared to yesterday. Each and every page I visit takes at least 15 seconds to load.

[.paul.]

Performance is horrible again today compared to yesterday. Each and every page I visit takes at least 15 seconds to load.

i agree.

[akhileshbc]

@All Admins: Have you blocked the "rate this post" option in Chit-Chat forum ? That should be done fast!

[dday9]

Something I noticed in this thread. The op still only has 1 post, even though he/she posted the origional thread and then responded. Is that normal?

[Shaggy Hiker]

Performance appears to have improved from earlier this morning.

[nbrege]

Performance appears to have improved from earlier this morning.

Definitely not for me. Performance is so bad that the site is basically useless. Have to wait 30-60 seconds for the site to respond to any clicks. 4 days of this is ridiculous ... maybe they should have beta tested before rolling out...

[Niya]

Id argue that this is the beta test. Its userbase, the beta testers

[dday9]

Performance for me is still very slow, however, from what I understand they did beta test on a few forums that had very low traffic for a while before updating the whole site.

[JuggaloBrotha]

http://www.vbforums.com/group.php results in a database error page showing.

Also, I don't see a link in the navigation menu at the top to view the forum's member list so I manually navigated to http://www.vbforums.com/memberlist.php which displays a "Sorry! The administrator has disabled the list of members." message.

[brad jones]

Everyone -
The developers will be cranking through this thread again tonight and working to hammer on some of the issues.

Also, the speed issue is noted. I forwarded a number of posts and messages to the techies to emphasize the speed issue. They are working to understand what is slowing things down so that we can fix it for the long term. They have some additional plans that might also help speed that things up that they will apply after they do direct forum fixes.

Id argue that this is the beta test. Its userbase, the beta testers

As to Niya's comments -- I blieve that companies today say they are "Agile." We are just being agile!

In seriousness, we've migrated quite a few forums prior to this one. Most were smaller except for Codeguru. This forum, however, is one of the biggest as far as database size and such. As such, it is going to push things beyond what the other forums have.

Changes are happening. It will get better. This was a really big internal change to the forum.

Brad!

[nbrege]

Thanks for the update Brad. Cant wait until all the bugs are worked out & we can have our beloved forum back again!

[Niya]

I've rummaged through the first page and filtered out all the actually issues from the general conversation if this helps:-

All the code boxes used to be legible but the format of them has changed to being one line tall with a scroll bar...effectively making it impossible for me to get any perspective of what I'm looking at.

VB codes ( HIGHLIGHT ) blocks are become vary small
please make it like previous
for better visualization of the problem please visit this page where you can see cade block window is fixed for about 1Cm standard height

I miss that we don't get the navigation path towards the end of the page. You could read the last post and then you didn't have to scroll all the way back up to go back to the forum; the forum navigation tool bar was just there. eg. at the top we see VBForums->Community -> Forum Feedback -> FORUM ISSUES: Report Upgraded Issues in this thread. This was also present towards the end of the page.

OK, things that aren't working for me (in no particular order and nothing of a major concern):
A couple times I've used the Quick Reply... I get prompted if I want to Leave the Page or Stay on the page.... and then it seems to hang.
While typing in a reply when I hit the far right side, the quick reply, rather than breaking on a word and wrapping, as I would expect.... broke it in the middle of a word. It posted OK, but caused confusion on my part.

The text look
ed like this. it
was unexpect
ed.

There was a third item.... only now I've forgotten it. I see broken images all over the place, but I suspect that will be corrected in due time.

Oh, the third item... it used to be that when I hit the tab button from the quick reply window, it would go to the "submit" button for the quick reply... it no longer does. Once I'm in the quick reply, the tab doesn't do anything. USed to be nice to type in the reply, hit tab, then space and it would post.

-tg

Couple issues, code tags do word wrapping which makes code blocks with long lines of code look unruly. Its difficult to read. Highlight tags have a tiny code box which I'm sure is some kind of error. I'm also getting server errors trying to access certain pages(even when trying to make this post, it timed out). When typing in a reply, the box no longer wraps a word to the next line when it passes the right side, I can learn to live with this though.

I'm willing to give this a shot but to be perfectly honest, I wish they never upgraded. The forums were fine before. On the plus side, I'm glad they didn't add that annoying side panel you see at CodeGuru so all is not lost. There are obviously kinks in this upgrade(like the highlight issue I mentioned above) so I'm gonna take a week off from here to give the guys a chance to fix all the little issues with the forums. These little annoyances make this upgrade unusable to me. Its really aching to wonder if clicking the next link would return some kind of 'server error' and any one who knows me here knows how much I love highlight tags

I'll check in on this thread from time to time to see how the admins are coming along with dealing with the issues. Cya in week guys

Minor irritant: The "Quick Links" menu option comes and goes... the "Quick Links" menu doesn't show up when I view New Posts (which is what I use more often than not) ... but Mark Forum Read is always there, which doesn't make sense if I'm viewing a search result.... ????


-tg

Another vb.net programming forum I'm apart of upgraded to vbulletin v4x about a year ago and they had all kinds of issues with the CODE and HIGHLIGHT tags right after the upgrade. They did eventually fixed them but they also installed a different tagging thing called XCODE. You can use [XCODE=vb][/XCODE] to denote vb.net syntax and all that, it displays much nicer than the [HIGHLIGHT=vb][/HIGHLIGHT] does.
xcode:
Attachment 89977

highlight:

Private Sub MySub
    Dim X As Integer = 0
End Sub

Which brings me to a bug I just found, in FF 10 on Win7 x64 I click the attach file and select an image file on my computer and when I click the Upload file button it does nothing, it just sits there and I can't find any other way to upload a file to attach to a post.

Edit:
I was able to attach the image using the Image button on the quick post box, the attachments window off the advanced editor still does nothing.

Something I noticed today is this:
Attachment 89983

Something small, prob just a sizing issue.

[Niya]

Issues from page 2:-

Sorting in the member's list page returns a server error.

This is probably already on the list to eventually be addressed, but the "Mark Thread Resolved" on the thread tools menu is missing.

The trend I'm noticing is that newer threads tend to be more responsive than ones that existed prior to the conversion... it wouldn't surprise me to to discover that the indexing process is what's interfering with things.

-tg

i did notice all or most of these issues throughout the day, but most seem to be getting better now. 1 thing i did notice is there's no code/vbcode buttons in the quick reply window...

Yes it did. I was about to post the same thing that .Paul just posted, but now I can just add another request to get those back. I almost never used anything OTHER than the quick reply window since it had all I needed. It had the code buttons, the quote button (which is still there), and a few others. The only thing I ever needed to Go Advanced for was the smileys, and I don't use many of those.

[Niya]

The performance issue is universal and well known by now so I didn't bother to quote anyone talking about it.

[gep13]

Thanks for doing the summary niya, much appreciated!

Gary

[brad jones]

Originally Posted by KJJohnson_05
All the code boxes used to be legible but the format of them has changed to being one line tall with a scroll bar...effectively making it impossible for me to get any perspective of what I'm looking at.
Originally Posted by make me rain
VB codes ( HIGHLIGHT ) blocks are become vary small
please make it like previous
for better visualization of the problem please visit this page where you can see cade block window is fixed for about 1Cm standard height

I was told these items were fixed.

[brad jones]

Database error -

This was an issue with a side table. I've been told this was fixed. If you still get a database error, plesae let me know what you were doing and report it.

Thanks!

[brad jones]

I was told that the mark thread resolved option which was missing is also resolved.

[Edgemeal]

I was told that the mark thread resolved option which was missing is also resolved.

Yeah!!! It Works!

[.paul.]

new problem.
the "rate this post" icons have disappeared on my posts.
they were working properly 2 hours ago.

[RobDog888]

I see the rate this post icons. they are changed in this version to a "sunburst" icon.

[.paul.]

I see the rate this post icons. they are changed in this version to a "sunburst" icon.

yeah they are visible on everyone else's posts, but not on mine, so i can't check my points

[RobDog888]

By vB forum software they are not shown on your own posts now.

[.paul.]

they were earlier today (+ in the previous VBulletin forum software)...
i preferred that.

[dday9]

new problem.
the "rate this post" icons have disappeared on my posts.
they were working properly 2 hours ago.

I just noticed that too. It seems as though the only way we can check our rep points in throught the user cp. Or I think it's called settings now. But it's a bummer.