witchywoman Posted August 12, 2009 Share Posted August 12, 2009 Am I the only one having trouble getting here? I put in the address and it sits forever until it times out. Is it just me or is everyone having this issue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olga Posted August 12, 2009 Share Posted August 12, 2009 I haven't spoken to any of the admins, but I think the board was down for a couple of hours. I tried to come here around 11:30 AM (Eastern time) and couldn't get it to work for an hour or so. I imagine VE or someone will be posting about what was going on. olga Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~nestling~ Posted August 12, 2009 Share Posted August 12, 2009 It was down from 10amish to about half an hour ago for me - it's now nearly 8pm! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
witchywoman Posted August 12, 2009 Author Share Posted August 12, 2009 Ok, thanks. I was just wondering if it was just me, maybe my computer, or something else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Littlewing Posted August 12, 2009 Share Posted August 12, 2009 I've not been able to get on all day either (UK time). I was beginning to think it was just my internet connection at home...but it obviously wasn't Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nalgas Posted August 12, 2009 Share Posted August 12, 2009 I think the board was down for a couple of hours. More like several hours out of every day since the upgrade. Until that gets sorted out, if people can't connect, it's probably because there's nothing there to connect to at the moment. It's being kind of cranky/flaky, but VE has the Invision people looking into it, so hopefully something will come out of that soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swamp56 Posted August 12, 2009 Share Posted August 12, 2009 Lol, this is why I don't trust PHP software that's built by other people rather than by myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nalgas Posted August 12, 2009 Share Posted August 12, 2009 I don't trust PHP software that's built by other people rather than by myself. Fixed that for you. I've done stuff with PHP, and it works just fine (for the most part), and it's relatively easy to write stuff with, but the kind of crap you can get away with in it just makes me feel dirty whenever I use it. Heh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olga Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 Someone (I think it was Patheral, but I could be wrong) suggested checking with this site when you want to know if CB is down: http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/# You just type in crazyboards.org and it tells you whether or not it's down. I like it because then I know it's down for everyone and I go do something else for a while. I've got it bookmarked and I've been using it every day. Nalgas, thanks for the info. olga Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
water Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 Someone (I think it was Patheral, but I could be wrong) suggested checking with this site when you want to know if CB is down: http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/# You just type in crazyboards.org and it tells you whether or not it's down. Thank you Olga!! I just returned from a long vacation without internet (among other things) and I of course thought it was just my computer having 'fugly' problems. On another note, I cannot get to my profile at all. If I click on it the window just hangs. Am I the only one having this particular issue? I think I 'broke' it when I tried to upload a new About Me photo but who knows. Water Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olga Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 Water, I just clicked on your avatar and after a long delay I got a message: "Fatal Error!" Wow, you really messed things up! Just kidding, dahlink. Write a message on the board that deals with technical problems. Here's a link: http://www.crazyboards.org/forums/index.php/forum/54-technology-sucks-luddites-unite/ You can also go to your name in the upper right-hand corner, and click on "My Profile" or "My Settings" and see if either of those links will take you to your profile. olga Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nalgas Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 On another note, I cannot get to my profile at all. If I click on it the window just hangs. Am I the only one having this particular issue? I think I 'broke' it when I tried to upload a new About Me photo but who knows. Something broke, but I'm not entirely sure why. I edited out some of the crap that the board seemed to have dumped into the text in your profile, and you can now view the page again, so you can go change it to whatever you were trying to do. It's a little screwy at the moment, but at least it doesn't explode when you click on it. There's really no excuse whatsoever for the board software to have died parsing that kind of stuff, but I looked at the actual code, and it appears to have been written by a lolcat, so I'm not all that surprised that it failed (lol)catastrophically. If that's typical of IPB as a whole (I'm afraid to look), no wonder the entire site has been barely holding together for the past week... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swamp56 Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 I don't trust PHP software that's built by other people rather than by myself. Fixed that for you. I've done stuff with PHP, and it works just fine (for the most part), and it's relatively easy to write stuff with, but the kind of crap you can get away with in it just makes me feel dirty whenever I use it. Heh. Lol, I'm an expert with PHP and I create scripts for clients and whatnot. PHP is a very stable language, but some people just plain suck at it. I usually surprise people with my organization (I have VERY strict ways of writing code that usually ends up in a file that is under specific directories and stuff, so my coding is really easy to read). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velvet Elvis Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 There's been a memory problem with the last few versions of the software. Searches that take too much time make php cause apache to to eat all available RAM and swap until things are dead. All that has to be done to get things going again is restart apache and check the database for errors. It's just that I've been sick lately and may not notice for a while when the boards go down. Hopefully the word is now out to enough people to call me when this happens that it should be less of a problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nalgas Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 Lol, I'm an expert with PHP and I create scripts for clients and whatnot. PHP is a very stable language, but some people just plain suck at it. I usually surprise people with my organization (I have VERY strict ways of writing code that usually ends up in a file that is under specific directories and stuff, so my coding is really easy to read). Yes, I'm sure you have superhuman powers and have never had anything go wrong with it, but that doesn't change that the allowable syntax and structure of it feel like someone took C and removed all the sanity checks from it. It's like a programming language that forgot to take its meds or something. It shouldn't be so trivially easy to do things so tragically wrong unless you're using a language designed as a joke. Lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swamp56 Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 Lol, I'm an expert with PHP and I create scripts for clients and whatnot. PHP is a very stable language, but some people just plain suck at it. I usually surprise people with my organization (I have VERY strict ways of writing code that usually ends up in a file that is under specific directories and stuff, so my coding is really easy to read). Yes, I'm sure you have superhuman powers and have never had anything go wrong with it, but that doesn't change that the allowable syntax and structure of it feel like someone took C and removed all the sanity checks from it. It's like a programming language that forgot to take its meds or something. It shouldn't be so trivially easy to do things so tragically wrong unless you're using a language designed as a joke. Lol. Lol, I've done my share of accidental infinite loops and PLENTY of syntax errors xD . The issue with PHP is that you can just do something like: <?php for (; { echo "I'm spamming you<br />"; } ?>[/php] And it will execute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
water Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 you can go change it to whatever you were trying to do. Thank you Nalgas!!! If I only knew now what I was trying to do..... VE - I hope you are feeling better. Wish I could help with the syntax insanity and apache gorging on RAM. Good luck guys!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nalgas Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 Lol, I've done my share of accidental infinite loops and PLENTY of syntax errors xD . The issue with PHP is that you can just do something like: <?php for (; { echo "I'm spamming you<br />"; } ?>[/php] And it will execute. If you think that's "the" issue with PHP, you either haven't used PHP much or you haven't used anything else much. That's an intentional feature of just about every language ever, even fairly useless ones like BASIC. You can't really avoid it and still have your language be Turing-complete anyway, which tends to limit the language's usability a good deal. Perhaps you should look into PHP's long and glorious history of fun things like magic quotes or crazy stuff like this. If you're less lazy than I am, you can find lists of all sorts of crap like that all over the Internets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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