Hi Lori  Lots of us have been locked out today. 

I kept getting this message....
Oops! Internet Explorer could not find talk.gagajoyjoy.com

Phew! Finally got a post reply box up!

I've been having problems last night and today Lori... Sticky pages and unable to post a reply or topic for over 12 hours now! 

Mac OS X  10.4.11
Safari 4.1

We were ALL locked out for awhile last night, so I couldn't warn you.  We had a maintenance event that was supposed to last about 15 minutes.  Unfortunately, we encountered a power issue, and service was resumed just before 4am our time.

Sorry about that!  Is it better now?

That's just before noon here in the UK

So far it seems to be OK

All better now. Thanks Lori  

Yay!

Hey, just a heads-up:  I'm actually going on holiday (YAY!!!) for a week, so I won't be paying any attention to Gaga until Monday, August 2nd.  (Please behave. )

Dave and Rosemary will still be around, though.  But, I think I'm the only one looking at this particular topic, so if something goes haywire, start a new topic in the Community News and Announcements Section, OK?

Happy holiday Lori. Have wonderful time!  

Have a good holiday Lori

Thanks, liverbird and Scotty!  I'm gonna relax until I melt into a big puddle on the floor....

Brian tells me that he's subscribed to this thread, so it's OK to post here if you have trouble.  Brian can FIX stuff, unlike me, who can do more than report it.  So, consider this an upgrade.

Lori, you probably wont see this until you get back, but I hope you have a great holiday and come back fully refreshed with your scythe freshly sharpened

Is it just me or is the forum really sticky today? Pages are taking ages to load and trying to post is a nightmare. Whirling cogs again.

I'm having trouble at times too, but it's dificult to tell how much is down to this place and how much is due to Mr Fluffy Thing downloading a lot of stuff as we have a rubbish bandwidth here.

Hi all,

Are you still having issues?  It looks like we had two load spikes on Saturday that may have caused slowness, but outside of that, there shouldn't have been any issues.  I don't see any record of load/speed issues around the time that your posts were made...

Brian

In that case it's probably just 'him indoors' downloading. But overall, it's been better today.

Phew! Managed to get in again and post!

I've had a bad time loading too Brian. Started in the middle of last week and has got steadily worse. Yesterday, Sunday, it was impossible. Today I've managed to view a bit but eventually get chucked out again.

Like Fluffy, it may be down to broadband issues, but other sites are loading way better than here at the moment.

ello Brian 

I'm not having any problems...   I just smelled a new Gaga person..   & a male one too!   Thought I would say hello!

So... (in Joey from Friends voice)..   "how you doing?"

Sorry Ducks! 

I can only reply using IE.  I usually use Mozilla.

Since C4 migrated to this site, everyone's gone from the science threads!


Where is everybody?

I also use Mozilla Firefox and I haven't had any problems.

I only looked at the science threads from time to time, but I know that muf uses this forum - you could try sending him a PM as he may know. At present mosts FMs seem to be BB orientated, but thins may change once that's over.

It would be easier to see where the beginning of non-sticky threads were if the stickies were a different background colour (2 shades of gray would match nicely with the Cornsilk) or something.

And it would be nice if there were more threads per page.

Agreed Baby Bunny. It`s so busy wih BB, the threads are slipping off the page very quickly. The first page is obviously what you look at but I`ve/we`ve missed lots of threads because the page so short.
Brian, if you could do anything about this it would appreciated. Thankyou. x

Apologies if I`m sounding like a moan but last night on here was a bit of nightmare.
Error reports..whirling cogs..double posts.
It seems to happen more when the forum is busy Brian.

It's a flipping nightmare now.  Constantly been kicked off.  When you do get on, it's hit and miss as to whether you can get a box to open or it's taking an age to post 

part of the BB experience is to chat while the programme is on, but a lot of these problems occur during this time frame (9pm - 11pm UK time).  It defeats the object of a BB forum.  I can't even get the graemlins to work properly!


I'll get my coat ------------------->

It's doing my head in, god what a nightmare tonight

Kicked off loads of times today. I`m getting fed up with this now.

Just to let you know that I have just sent a substantial PM/dialog to Brian setting out in detail the various server connections/posting problems we have been having.

We kicked the servers in the rear end  a while ago. It's already noticeably better for me. How about you all?

Much better now Lori.

Welcome back! Did you have a good holiday?

Welcome back Lori. I hope you had a great holiday and come back fully refreshed. I've just sent you a PM/dialog with a copy of what I sent to Brian earlier today.

Tried to post here about probs last night, but .. ooohhh those cogs and infernal server errors got me again
Seems to be working now though

Thanks, Ducky and El Loro:  I had a lovely holiday.

Glad to hear it's gotten a bit better.

Tried to post in the Big Brother discussion thread at 10 pm when I logged on and got this message:-

The form from which you have submitted your request is invalid. The form may be invalid for one of the following reasons:
- You recently signed in or out of the site.
- The form wasn't located on a valid page.


Please click here to continue.

After I refreshed the page everything has been working OK,

Edit: Except that I'm getting an error trying to post this.

Lori, I've sent you a dialog with an urgent request re my thread on the UK emergency appeal for the victims of the Pakistan floods.

I can't seem to post videos from You Tube on either FF or Chrome....this is a recent development....Is there something I've suddenly started to do wrong?

Kaytee, I've been posting clips from Youtube today without any problems - I also use Firefox.

So that people can help you, is the problem at the Youtube site where you can't copy the webpage address, or is it on this forum?

If it is at the forum end, what happens when you try to paste the address in the File/URL box. Does the address appear or not?

Then if the address appears, press the tab key and the front screen of the clip should appear in the big box below. Does this happen?

Then if the picture does appear and you click Insert you should return to the Your Reply screen. You should see a large box where the clip will appear, but at least for me, this always appears empty apart from a circle with an f sign in the middle. Does this happen?

Assuming all this happens, then what happens when you Submit Reply?

I've set this out as a series of questions so that your answers can give a guide as to what may be casuing the problem. Kaytee, please note that although I have posted these questions in some detail, I am not one of the forum's admin people - some people confuse El Loro with Lori

Hi El Loro

I always get the yellow box with the f in it, but then when I do the insert and reply...I don't get the video, just the web address transposed in the forum reply box. This didn't happen before, but it's been doing it for a while now. I have no explanation for it myself, I'm not doing anything  differently....but I do get a load of cogs and then if it does post, the web address appears instead of the video.

It would seem that it's when I reach the forum it goes gaga.....thank you for your reply El Loro....I know you're not Lori

Kaytee, I've just posted this clip showing the football highlights from last night. To assist the people in Seattle work out what is going on, try posting a clip by itslef. But before submitting the reply click on the Toggle WYSIWYG and look at the resulting screen. For the above clip I got this:-

<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="425" height="350" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/HpgkXNOkSCw" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/HpgkXNOkSCw"></embed></object>

Although your details will be different being for a different clip, they should be of a similar structure. But I would guess that yours will be different. Copy the text you see, then ome back to the ordinary Post Reply screen, clear the screen of the orange box, then make a message saying what you have tried to do but also paste the resulti of your copying into your reply.