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Anyone Else Have This Technical Problem With These Forums?

TarotRedhandTarotRedhand Member Posts: 1,481
in General Discussions NWN:EE
This is happening on at least two different Chromium based browsers (Opera and Firefox). When using/viewing these forums I get the outer background images but no middle section which is just black. This does not happen all the time. Instead, it is seemingly at random as to when it occurs. I can go for a number of pages before it happens. While re-loading the page works, it can take up to 4 or more re-loads to get it to do so. Looking at the re-loading indicator, what appears to happen is that not all of the information is being sent until eventually it is.

Thanks.

TR
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  • jasteyjastey Member Posts: 2,780
    I needed to reload this thread 3 times, so yes. (Mozilla Firefox).
  • jasteyjastey Member Posts: 2,780
    And I might add, it's extremely annoying.
  • YigorYigor Member Posts: 805
    Yes, a serious problem. 👈
  • ProlericProleric Member Posts: 1,316
    With Chrome on PC or Android, usually the whole page is black until refreshed once or twice.

    Happening all the time in recent days.
  • StummvonBordwehrStummvonBordwehr Member, Mobile Tester Posts: 1,385
    Same with safari on iPhone.
  • TarotRedhandTarotRedhand Member Posts: 1,481
    Since I originally posted on here, it has now progressed to the whole screen being black until I cast raise dead (aka reload several times).

    TR
  • ZaxaresZaxares Member Posts: 1,330
    Was having similar issues here. Now that problem is gone, but there's a new unusual bug where the navigation columns are showing up on the right side of the screen, and I am unable to scroll to the very top of the screen (to see the banner and such). This is on Windows 11 Desktop.
  • gorgonzolagorgonzola Member Posts: 3,864
    Afaik Firefox is not Chromium based. Anyway I am having the same issue on Brave on Android phone, Brave uses the Chromium engine but, as the problem happens also with Firefox, I doubt that is browser's engine related.
  • Allanon81Allanon81 Member Posts: 342
    Yes, I have to refresh every now and then. This is a recent problem.
  • TarotRedhandTarotRedhand Member Posts: 1,481
    edited December 2023
    I wonder if this is related to the sign in problem I get every so often where the sign in dialogue hangs and I have to close my browser and try again? It seems like this site is not sometimes sending all the information it is supposed to.

    TR
  • TarotRedhandTarotRedhand Member Posts: 1,481
    New effect requiring a reload. Going into a thread I found that I couldn't scroll up the thread from the current post. In effect the post above the latest message was cut off. a reload fixed it.

    TR
  • ber5nie5ber5nie5 Member Posts: 429
    Zaxares wrote: »
    Was having similar issues here. Now that problem is gone, but there's a new unusual bug where the navigation columns are showing up on the right side of the screen, and I am unable to scroll to the very top of the screen (to see the banner and such). This is on Windows 11 Desktop.

    Just had the same thing happen today for the first time. :/
  • TarotRedhandTarotRedhand Member Posts: 1,481
    ditto

    TR
  • QuilistanQuilistan Member Posts: 186
    copy that ditto and paste it here.....


    New thing for my end:
    I can't scroll to the top of this thread.
  • AerakarAerakar Member Posts: 1,049
    edited December 2023
    This just started for me in Chrome this week, but the left hand columns sometimes appear on the right. Other times the top of the page is cut off. Reloading solves it, usually once. And it is random for sure, but about every 3rd page opening. This is a new HP Spectre notebook computer I am using since this week and using Windows 11.
  • ber5nie5ber5nie5 Member Posts: 429
    I'm also using Windows 11 and a computer that I've had for about 3 years with no previous problems. So it's definitely some sort of website problem I'm thinking.
  • ForSeriousForSerious Member Posts: 466
    edited December 2023
    Little nit-pick on reality.
    "Firefox is not based on Chromium. In fact, we're one of the last major browsers that isn't. Firefox runs on our Quantum browser engine built specifically for Firefox"

    Anyway, me too. Sometimes it wouldn't let me scroll up to the top of the page. Other times it won't load the page. I have not bothered to see if there's a console error or anything yet.
  • MelkiorMelkior Member Posts: 204
    It's been happening to me for at least a week. FF here too.
  • AerakarAerakar Member Posts: 1,049
    @JuliusBorisov making sure you are aware of this.
  • JuliusBorisovJuliusBorisov Member, Administrator, Moderator, Developer Posts: 22,754
    Thanks for all the feedback, everyone. We've been observing the same behavior.

    The current version of the Vanilla forums the site uses is old. We've been trying to get a more modern version running over. Hopefully, it'll succeed.
  • ProlericProleric Member Posts: 1,316
    This morning, the site is responding "Page Not Found" unless the page is refreshed - sometimes several refreshes are necessary.
  • jasteyjastey Member Posts: 2,780
    This happened to me right after reading the comment!^^
  • ForSeriousForSerious Member Posts: 466
    That could be server initialization time. It's not uncommon to save a buck by basically turning servers off until someone tries to visit the site. The tradeoff being users may have to wait a few minutes if there hasn't been enough traffic to keep the server on.
    But that should not be the case if you were able to load the page with new information minutes ago.
  • ber5nie5ber5nie5 Member Posts: 429
    It's been happening occasionally for awhile now. :/
  • Prince_RaymondPrince_Raymond Member Posts: 438
    Proleric wrote: »
    This morning, the site is responding "Page Not Found" unless the page is refreshed - sometimes several refreshes are necessary.

    Had this exact thing happen to me when I clicked to view the latest "Ask Beamdog" comment under the "Notifications" button. Microsoft Edge on a Windows 10 laptop.
    @Proleric Refreshing the page worked for me. Thank you.
  • TarotRedhandTarotRedhand Member Posts: 1,481
    Now getting a page not found error when trying to enter the NwN section.

    TR
  • Allanon81Allanon81 Member Posts: 342
    Yep, page not found. Had to reload three times to get this page to show up.
  • ber5nie5ber5nie5 Member Posts: 429
    Allanon81 wrote: »
    Yep, page not found. Had to reload three times to get this page to show up.

    That sucks. :/ I usually only have to refresh the page once.
  • TarotRedhandTarotRedhand Member Posts: 1,481
    edited February 6
    Alas, after a fairly long period the white screen/reload problem has returned. Takes upto 5 reloads to get a page to display.

    TR
  • ProlericProleric Member Posts: 1,316
    Me too
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