Forum Update - March

maman

redux said:

Yesterday afternoon, evening, and now starting again today, clicking on any forum section I get a nearly blank white page which says

Something has gone wrong.

We've run into a problem and are unable to handle this request right now.
Please check back in a little while.

This happens in two different browsers.

I can see the main forum index, and get back to recently looked at individual threads by looking in browser history, but this makes it impossible to explore to sections not looked at for a while.

Same here on my phone but OK on the desktop. It's the old mushroom principle... fed a load of BS and kept in the dark. 

mwarby

I’ve seen that on both mobile and desktop

Pyxis

redux said:

Yesterday afternoon, evening, and now starting again today, clicking on any forum section I get a nearly blank white page which says

Something has gone wrong.

We've run into a problem and are unable to handle this request right now.
Please check back in a little while.

This happens in two different browsers.

I can see the main forum index, and get back to recently looked at individual threads by looking in browser history, but this makes it impossible to explore to sections not looked at for a while.

Intermittently ok (like now), but it came back several times yesterday and was like it any time I looked between 9 and 1030 pm

I think it might be when they are adjusting things to do with the site.

[Deleted User]

I think it might be when they are adjusting things to do with the site.

Me too, things are appearing and vanishing on the competition boards when it goes off and on. There are features they said they'd work on for us compers so might be doing that 

MollyR

And I for one do appreciate the fact that they are doing all this behind the scenes, rather than turning the forum off for a time while they introduce changes (as I myself have had to do in the past when updating a forum).  And I'd rather have them working on the adjustments than posting about what they've done, when we'll find out what the changes are anyway.  I'm happy to put up with the occasional glitch when some particular improvement doesn't work first time and has to be re-visited.

J_B

MollyR said:

And I for one do appreciate the fact that they are doing all this behind the scenes, rather than turning the forum off for a time while they introduce changes (as I myself have had to do in the past when updating a forum).  And I'd rather have them working on the adjustments than posting about what they've done, when we'll find out what the changes are anyway.  I'm happy to put up with the occasional glitch when some particular improvement doesn't work first time and has to be re-visited.

Or ... do you think it ought to have worked properly when it was rolled out?

maman

J_B said:

MollyR said:

And I for one do appreciate the fact that they are doing all this behind the scenes, rather than turning the forum off for a time while they introduce changes (as I myself have had to do in the past when updating a forum).  And I'd rather have them working on the adjustments than posting about what they've done, when we'll find out what the changes are anyway.  I'm happy to put up with the occasional glitch when some particular improvement doesn't work first time and has to be re-visited.

Or ... do you think it ought to have worked properly when it was rolled out?

It certainly should haven't been rolled out when it was. These aren't a few teething problems. And I think, having caused the problems they should be up front about it and tell us what's going on. The techie mse people who are working hard, I'm sure, to fix it aren't the same 'public facing' ones that start threads and then disappear to start another (and never respond). 

john539

How abut changing the font so it is clearer & more readable, it does not stand out enough ?

mgdavid

it's fine on PC - do you mean on a phone or a tablet?