DS Forums loading slowly?

Is it just me, or is DS forums taking an abnormal amount of time to load?

Edited by AustinHiggs - 23 Jul 2010 at 7:56am

@ender - I have that same problem pretty frequently on these boards (the little icon indicating a new post doesn't show up). I've found the best way to deal with this is to click 'active topics' in the upper tight corner and then adjust the time scale to when you last visited the boards.

Originally posted by AustinHiggs Is it just me, or is DS forums taking an abnormal amount of time to load?

Yeah been happening to me too the last two days AustinHiggs.

In the early hours of the morning the site starts crawling to a slow and eventually just stops responding altogether. For me itt went down at around 6AM or 7AM EST this morning.

Yeah, its working now, but it was either showing a white screen, or super slow loading. It took me 5 min to make this topic because the textbox couldnt load :P

Woah, beaten by alex by 1 min :X

Edited by AustinHiggs - 23 Jul 2010 at 7:43pm

The forum seems to be having problems again. Over the last few days it keeps having frequent bouts of being completely unresponsive or close to it. Takes like 10 minutes just to manage to post anything.

Yeah, the last few days have been pretty terrible

just adding that yest his is true for me too.. in different locations

and the black boxing is SO annoying!

its hard to tell, everything is cookied now because im all caught up, but i think i figured something out about the blackboxing... im not sure how to explain it but i think it has something to do with transparency, when your past in big pictures you can see some of that grunge bluesh from the background shows up

Im not sure about the black box, because it never happens to me. I dont really make long responses to many things, and usually use quick reply.

What browser are you guys using?

Chrome here.

ps: no black box writing this

Firefox for me.

Just click in a reply box and hold down enter for 2-3 seconds, you'll see the black box pop up once it scrolls down far enough.

Also I don't think the bullet points and numbered list format buttons are working yet. Lemme test real quick.

• Bullet point 1
  
• Bullet point 2
  
• Bullet point 3

1. Numbered point 1
2. Numbered point 2
3. Numbered point 3

EDIT: That is an affirmative Papa Gator, they still aren't working yet.


Edited by Dragoonseal - 09 Aug 2010 at 3:36pm

While we're complaining about forum issues, I suspect it's a low priority fix but entering a post on the iPhone is wonky.  If you insert a hard return (a new paragraph) the text starts overlying the space below the message box (the 'Enable BBcodes to format post', 'show signature' and 'e-mail notify me of replies' areas), making it impossible to see what you type (if a message of mine is full of typos, chances are I wrote it on my iPhone).  I don't know if this is an issue in full Safari (I don't use it) or just mobile Safari.

I think I have this figured out. The background image is most likely still wrapping the text box. Just look here:

I synced up Ender's post to the background image, it fits like a glove. I also took a screenshot of a blank text box, and fitted as many of those as I could to the bottom of Ender's post, to replicate typing on a system.



Here's a closeup if you don't believe how I synced it up...


Alright, that's out of the way. Now, I want you to notice that by the fifth box, it starts getting cutoff. Wanna test it? (i'd post it, but i dont wanna make the post too long as is) First, hit reply on any topic. Now, hit enter until the cursor reaches the end of the text box. Not as in hold it till you see black, until you reach the end of it when the scroll bar is right about to kick in. Now, press Ctrl+A to select all of that room, and now paste it. That'll replace the current one with the one you copied, so it shouldn't hit scroll bar just yet. Now, that box is technically right below Ender's post in my pic. Paste it again (now you're on the third box down in my pic). And again (fourth box). And AGAIN (fifth box). IF you did it somewhat right, it should look like this:

Doesn't that look familiar, compare how much white is at the top with where the fifth box gets cutoff in my pic.

I tried getting the black box in IE, FF, safari, pivot, and chrome, but chrome is the only one that doesnt do it...

Chrome ftw anyways :)

Here's the black text box that I'm getting, and it's really annoying. I get it on Internet Explorer 8 and FireFox latest version.

i know html and css and php and stuff... its fine for me in chrome :)

but since your working on the forums would it be possible to make the container for everything something like 75% for monitors larger than what its set at now (using javascript of course) because its kinda annoying since many of us have a 1080p monitor and theres a lot of space on the sides while images we post we have to scroll over to see within the container.