Recent content by Ibrahim

Good news, everyone. I found the issue. Funny how solving the OLD issue drove up the activity and this issue turned into the "activity table" growing so large because people can use the forum again. BUT I modified that so it shouldn't lock when it fills up like that. If it does, I have a...

Thank you! Ok, that's what I'm tracking down. Looks like a forum-level error rather than sever-resources, so that's good in some ways. I'll track this down and try to find out why it's happening and eliminate/reduce it (or explain it if it's something different than a bug)

Can you grab a screenshot of this next time, too? I'm glad it's returning to normal without me having to go in and restart the server, but it shouldn't be failing in the first place. We've been dealing with a LOT of bot traffic that seems to ignore the protocols in place so I have to develop...

Hello All! I know we solved a lot of the slow loading and speed issues earlier, but I've noted a few threads as well as some PMs coming in to me letting me know about continued issues. I haven't experienced it myself, so these reports to me are helpful in checking logs (and lately, making me...

So I checked our web server logs around that time and didn’t find any server errors or slowdowns at that moment. The traffic there was mostly automated crawlers fetching old URLs and getting 404s. I think maybe this time it was a network hiccup rather than a site issue. I'm going to see about...

Okay. I'll check the logs, did it happen at a particular time of day? Or is it intermittent?

Yup. Unfortunately they'll just go on to another set of IPs. So that's why I'm hopeful the new setup will trigger properly and ban them when they misbehave. (Really, I have no problem with search engines browsing the site as long as they don't lock up all the resources for themselves.)

So what happened was we were cruising just fine after the fixes I put in months ago, but then a couple of days ago a bot hit us (and Tractorbynet) pretty hard. Several automatic web-crawlers were using 100 connections up individually. And this happened about a dozen times. So while the server...

We did have a bunch of IPs that took up a lot of connections all at once. But I'm working on getting it so it blocks that from happening before it reaches the overload stage.

Looking at things. Thanks for mentioning it!

It might be possible to get something that other users could mark a thread as "Answered" after a post has been up X days and maybe if enough users agree it gets marked as "answered." I'll look into it.

It "associates" it in that the quote is in the message. But there is no actual link to your message in this message. That way people can reply to multiple messages in one reply, but it's not threaded replies. What about the "Undo" button? Does that get it back to blank for you? I was able to...

I'm not being sarcastic, I'm trying to understand what you mean by "associated reply" because posts are made to the thread in chronological order, the first post up top and the newest post at the bottom. Replying to a post "in the middle" so to speak will quote that post in your reply, but your...

Why not just delete the quoted text? The reply box is always at the bottom of all the post pages so you could add to the post. When you click the "Reply" next to the "Like" it's just quoting the message you click reply on and bringing you to the bottom of the page. If you don't want it...

The previous limit was 1 megabyte which is really low. I agree we all probably got used to uploading too big files all over, but slightly higher resolution going forward won't be too bad thing. If it does actually seem detrimental let me know and we can maybe put it lower to 4 megs maybe to help...