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Post by s. goblin » Wed May 31, 2023 3:07 am

Ashenai wrote:yep same

no idea what's going on, but I'm almost certain it's just some client-side form-filling snafu, I don't think it's a problem
are you using some kind of password manager or password autofill thing? do you have weird extensions?

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Post by Ashenai » Wed May 31, 2023 3:07 am

no extensions on mobile, but I do let firefox remember my password and autofill it, yes

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Re: Board Stuff

Post by Blissful » Wed May 31, 2023 1:55 pm

thank you for your work fixing the forums everybody
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Post by mindwarped » Wed May 31, 2023 3:45 pm

observations:
  • for me the session seems to last a couple of hours at most (on mobile Chrome + Android)
  • my desktop session (Chrome on both Win and Mac) seems to last for months
  • I logged in with mobile Firefox yesterday and that session is still active now. this is different from Chrome
  • I saw the same autofilled-password-in-plaintext-on-the-login-button behavior in Firefox that Ashenai did
  • Having "Remember Me" checked by default makes a universe of difference. thanks, rylinks
it really seems like it gets into a "bad state" (since it appears to happen on different mobile browsers, some of the time, but for a long time when it happens). I did try clearing my cookies/local storage last time with no luck, though, so I'm not sure what state that could be.

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Post by s. goblin » Wed May 31, 2023 10:28 pm

and that's the tea

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Re: Board Stuff

Post by mindwarped » Fri Jun 02, 2023 5:39 am

it's good again. it was only bad for a few days.

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Re: Board Stuff

Post by s. goblin » Fri Jun 02, 2023 12:59 pm

i'm still signed in on chrome. how is everyone else doing

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Post by Ashenai » Fri Jun 02, 2023 10:40 pm

a little sleepy

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Re: Board Stuff

Post by mindwarped » Fri Jun 02, 2023 11:00 pm

still signed in on mobile chrome and on mobile firefox. what a wild ride

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Post by Ashenai » Tue Jun 13, 2023 12:03 pm

I haven't been logged out at all recently, good job boardwranglers

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Post by Blissful » Tue Jun 13, 2023 1:31 pm

gjoardwranglers
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Post by Khaos » Tue Jun 13, 2023 2:53 pm

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Post by Khaos » Tue Jun 13, 2023 2:53 pm

board update: still works

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Post by s. goblin » Tue Jun 13, 2023 11:54 pm

good good

we should probably just block all the scraping bots. i have no idea why im playing wack a mole with them. we really didnt get many, or any, but lately.

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Post by Skeletor » Tue Jun 20, 2023 12:46 am

in case one of you guys need some relief maintaining a similar feather here
wow, [you]. that all sounds terrible. i hope it gets better for you

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Post by Rylinks » Tue Jun 20, 2023 12:51 am

thanks skeletor, sent an equity + cash offer

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Post by Ashenai » Tue Jun 20, 2023 2:31 am

The getting logged out thing is happening again

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Post by s. goblin » Tue Jun 20, 2023 2:41 am

damn that guy works fast

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Post by Blissful » Tue Jun 20, 2023 2:02 pm

s. goblin wrote: Tue Jun 20, 2023 2:41 am damn that guy works fast
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Post by s. goblin » Wed Jun 21, 2023 11:24 am

Ashenai wrote:The getting logged out thing is happening again
do you stay logged in on other things? like you must right? other forums maybe? stuff that isn't apps

i wonder how we solve this

like i can make another forum, and then we can have you sign into that, and then see if you just stay signed in. then we'll know it's us for sure

edit but it's not like it could be a broken script or anything ... i think. like somehow javascript would be signing you out? maybe? i'm gonna have to hook up phone stuff so i can see the cookie

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Re: Board Stuff

Post by Ashenai » Wed Jun 21, 2023 4:36 pm

if it's just me idc, it's really not a problem

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Post by Crunchums » Sat Aug 19, 2023 8:21 pm

word filter request: irregardless -> irirregardless
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Post by s. goblin » Wed Jan 17, 2024 6:45 am

ok so, our hosting provider like, uh, i would assume, most hosting providers has multiple tiers of service. performance tiers! think like, basic better best. we've been on the basic plan the entire time we've been here on account of, uh, it being the cheapest, and i actually don't know how much / how many resources we need? not a lot, right? we're not hosting youtube here

but that's fine because the control panel keeps us / me up to speed on our performance. not exactly the least biased person to be doing so, but for most of if not all of the time we've been here we've been in the green. entirely in the green. for like years!

anyway, this is all being brought up for a reason, obviously. i don't know if anyone has noticed or anything, but the board is mostly in the orange / red now despite less activity. maybe this makes sense though because the board or at least the database is much, much larger now, and maybe that whole thing is being served to, uh, everyone? is that how it works ?f or as tech saavy as i can be, i'm not really a server person.

so, anyway, again, while i did say cheapest earlier, it is actually still i think a little expensive and so the idea of dropping like an extra six to ten dollars a month for a much better plan, we're on tier one they are suggesting tier four, is kind of a, uh, you know.\ and i don't mean to be conspiratorial or anything, but, uh, if their business is selling more expensive higher tiered plans, then...

so, again, if things suddenly stop working we do have a discord that is entirely free and where a handful of people exclusively post content and talk to each other, but things will not stop working forever. people may not even notice things not working if things go well, but things never go well

edit - maybe that's like a self fulfilling prophecy

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Post by s. goblin » Wed Jan 17, 2024 6:52 am

maybe it is actually something on our end, though. like trackers hammering our site? an unoptimized database? like just jumping over to another host to then have the same problem would be kind of funny. it's mostly the you should upgrade thing that has me a bit suspicious on our current provider, and also that you know, like the site is loading poorly. maybe they're responsible for the cookie thing too

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Post by Ashenai » Wed Jan 17, 2024 7:20 am

I rarely have issues with the board. When I do I yell about them on the discord because yelling is funny. But based on my experiences, I see no reason to do anything. Maybe other people have seen more frequent outages? I dunno.

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Post by s. goblin » Wed Jan 17, 2024 7:33 am

Ashenai wrote:I rarely have issues with the board. When I do I yell about them on the discord because yelling is funny. But based on my experiences, I see no reason to do anything. Maybe other people have seen more frequent outages? I dunno.
it's pretty rough, man

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Re: Board Stuff

Post by Ashenai » Wed Jan 17, 2024 7:55 am

Hm. Maybe the logs can tell you/us what's happening and why? You have logs, right?

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Post by Hyphen-ated » Wed Jan 17, 2024 8:15 am

s. goblin wrote: Wed Jan 17, 2024 6:45 amthe database is much, much larger now, and maybe that whole thing is being served to, uh, everyone? is that how it works ?
no, the whole database isn't being constantly served to everyone. the board software will query the database to find the information it needs, like "what are all the posts on page 420 of this particular thread" and such things. as the database grows those queries can start taking longer and longer until it becomes a problem; this problem will happen much sooner if the database has a poorly designed schema or it's not tuned correctly or whatever

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Post by s. goblin » Wed Jan 17, 2024 10:26 am

Ashenai wrote:Hm. Maybe the logs can tell you/us what's happening and why? You have logs, right?
i don't ... think so

edit - actually, yes

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Re: Board Stuff

Post by Ashenai » Wed Jan 17, 2024 10:32 am

well post 'em somewhere, I'm sure one of us can figure out what's going on!

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