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Title: Can not edit my topics
Post by: Grim Fandango on Tue, 02 September 2014, 17:23:17: When I go to edit my mouse guide here : http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=56240.0
I get an internal server error.

It is also not displayed correctly. Part of it is displayed differently from the rest, and part of it is cut off (see the1onewolf's image below)
Title: Re: Can not edit my topics
Post by: rowdy on Tue, 02 September 2014, 17:50:46: Just the text is around 18KB.

Apparently GH has a limit of 20K per post.

With the formatting, you might have reached that limit.
Title: Re: Can not edit my topics
Post by: Novus on Wed, 03 September 2014, 00:17:32: Also this weird shift
(http://i.imgur.com/ZTluVLB.png) (http://i.imgur.com/nGpSrgt.png)
Title: Re: Can not edit my topics
Post by: Grim Fandango on Wed, 03 September 2014, 00:36:33: Quote from: the1onewolf on Wed, 03 September 2014, 00:17:32
Also this weird shift
Show Image
(http://i.imgur.com/ZTluVLB.png)

Show Image
(http://i.imgur.com/nGpSrgt.png)

Yes, this too. Thanks for pointing it out. I was wondering if it was just me. Can it be fixed?
Title: Re: Can not edit my topics
Post by: Grim Fandango on Wed, 03 September 2014, 01:08:35: Quote from: rowdy on Tue, 02 September 2014, 17:50:46
Just the text is around 18KB.

Apparently GH has a limit of 20K per post.

With the formatting, you might have reached that limit.

But everything was fine before. I did not change anything, and suddenly it stopped working as it always has.
Title: Re: Can not edit my topics
Post by: Sent on Wed, 03 September 2014, 01:17:51: I'm having trouble even loading that thread. It either shows up black like wolf posted or I see the first two posts and that's it.
Title: Re: Can not edit my topics
Post by: Grim Fandango on Wed, 03 September 2014, 01:23:07: Quote from: Sent on Wed, 03 September 2014, 01:17:51
I'm having trouble even loading that thread. It either shows up black like wolf posted or I see the first two posts and that's it.

:(
Title: Re: Can not edit my topics
Post by: Novus on Wed, 03 September 2014, 01:26:33: It might be a forum issue.
When I was attaching those pictures I got a gateway error which forced me to use imgur.

I saw another thread which also had a similar problem when I was browsing.
Title: Re: Can not edit my topics
Post by: jorgenslee on Wed, 03 September 2014, 01:26:46: Same here, that post is broken. When I check the source it was not completely loaded. It usually happens if there is something wrong in the code or server side.
Title: Re: Can not edit my topics
Post by: Grim Fandango on Wed, 03 September 2014, 01:31:20: I will just wait, and hopefully it will resolve itself.

Forum seems a bit wonky at the moment. I also noticed my post count not updating for example.

Thanks for the info guys.
Title: Re: Can not edit my topics
Post by: Novus on Wed, 03 September 2014, 01:31:56: Quote from: Grim Fandango on Wed, 03 September 2014, 01:31:20
I will just wait, and hopefully it will resolve itself.

Forum seems a bit wonky at the moment. I also noticed my post count not updating for example.

Thanks for the info guys.

Race you to the 1k star.
Title: Re: Can not edit my topics
Post by: Grim Fandango on Wed, 03 September 2014, 01:42:06: Haha, I would have already been there if the forum worked normally. I was close to 1k and aware of it, that is the reason I noticed. ;D
Title: Re: Can not edit my topics
Post by: rowdy on Wed, 03 September 2014, 01:43:12: I've had a couple of odd problems recently, plus lots of gateway timeouts (although they have stopped for the past day or so).
Title: Re: Can not edit my topics
Post by: Novus on Wed, 03 September 2014, 01:44:29: Tapatalk was causing so many problems the past few days and now ironically it's working better than using geekhack on my pc.
Title: Re: Can not edit my topics
Post by: Grim Fandango on Wed, 03 September 2014, 01:44:44: It is a little demotivating that there is really no one we can turn to for such issues. You just kind of have to wait and hope for the best.
Title: Re: Can not edit my topics
Post by: Grim Fandango on Wed, 03 September 2014, 01:46:28: I indeed found another topic page that (at least for me) seems to have similar issues.

http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=44539.330

You can see it when you scroll down
Title: Re: Can not edit my topics
Post by: rowdy on Wed, 03 September 2014, 01:47:01: Quote from: the1onewolf on Wed, 03 September 2014, 01:31:56
Quote from: Grim Fandango on Wed, 03 September 2014, 01:31:20
I will just wait, and hopefully it will resolve itself.

Forum seems a bit wonky at the moment. I also noticed my post count not updating for example.

Thanks for the info guys.

Race you to the 1k star.

You lost :(
Title: Re: Can not edit my topics
Post by: Novus on Wed, 03 September 2014, 01:47:46: Quote from: rowdy on Wed, 03 September 2014, 01:47:01
Quote from: the1onewolf on Wed, 03 September 2014, 01:31:56
Quote from: Grim Fandango on Wed, 03 September 2014, 01:31:20
I will just wait, and hopefully it will resolve itself.

Forum seems a bit wonky at the moment. I also noticed my post count not updating for example.

Thanks for the info guys.

Race you to the 1k star.

You lost :(

Yea I did :/
Title: Re: Can not edit my topics
Post by: rowdy on Wed, 03 September 2014, 01:49:55: Quote from: the1onewolf on Wed, 03 September 2014, 01:47:46
Quote from: rowdy on Wed, 03 September 2014, 01:47:01
Quote from: the1onewolf on Wed, 03 September 2014, 01:31:56
Quote from: Grim Fandango on Wed, 03 September 2014, 01:31:20
I will just wait, and hopefully it will resolve itself.

Forum seems a bit wonky at the moment. I also noticed my post count not updating for example.

Thanks for the info guys.

Race you to the 1k star.

You lost :(

Yea I did :/

But you have reached it now!
Title: Re: Can not edit my topics
Post by: Grim Fandango on Wed, 03 September 2014, 16:08:57: Beat you by a hair ;D

Though unfortunately, the problem with the topic is still not solved. Damn, I am kind of bummed out by it. The forum should work and we should be able to edit our topics.
Title: Re: Can not edit my topics
Post by: SpAmRaY on Thu, 04 September 2014, 13:39:16: I have a feeling it has to do with character limits and/or database issues....but I'm completely guessing.
Title: Re: Can not edit my topics
Post by: MJ45 on Thu, 04 September 2014, 13:56:28: You can try "Idly Complaining" :p
http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=40501.msg1459693#msg1459693
This Forum needs site maintenance tweeking I think?
Title: Re: Can not edit my topics
Post by: Grim Fandango on Thu, 04 September 2014, 15:54:21: This is still not resolved... I can't update it, and people can not view it normally. What the hell.
Title: Re: Can not edit my topics
Post by: CPTBadAss on Thu, 04 September 2014, 16:02:45: Quote from: Grim Fandango on Wed, 03 September 2014, 01:44:44
It is a little demotivating that there is really no one we can turn to for such issues. You just kind of have to wait and hope for the best.

mkawa and rkinze are the forum admins. I believe samwisekoi and perhaps matt3o are as well but I'm not sure. For sure mkawa and rkinze can fix something like this. PMing them or getting someone to contact them by other means is the best way to get a hold of them (PM me for more details).

Quote from: Grim Fandango on Wed, 03 September 2014, 01:31:20
I also noticed my post count not updating for example.

Posts don't count in every subforum. Off Topic and Classifieds posts don't count.

Quote from: MJ45 on Thu, 04 September 2014, 13:56:28
You can try "Idly Complaining"

I said this and I'll say it again. Report your posts or this post to get visibility to the admin/mods. PM a mod that you like. Or contact mkawa. These are all more productive ways of trying to fix your issues rather than complaining in a post and hoping that someone on the team will see it.

FWIW, I've PMed mkawa and another mod about this issue just now.
Title: Re: Can not edit my topics
Post by: osi on Thu, 04 September 2014, 16:11:47: A good tip from trizkut was to set the viewable posts back to default in the profile settings
Title: Re: Can not edit my topics
Post by: Grim Fandango on Thu, 04 September 2014, 16:40:47: Thanks for the feedback and information all. Especially you CPT. We will wait and see what happens. Just to be clear, I was just expressing my confusion about the situation. And I understand it could be a part of larger forum issues that are not resolved overnight.
Title: Re: Can not edit my topics
Post by: mkawa on Thu, 04 September 2014, 18:05:47: we're having some server issues. grumble grumble is the only thing i can really say about it at the moment.
Title: Re: Can not edit my topics
Post by: rowdy on Thu, 04 September 2014, 18:17:01: FWIW pictures are loading better for me in at least one thread now.

Thank you for your dedication mkawa :)
Title: Re: Can not edit my topics
Post by: mkawa on Sat, 06 September 2014, 18:03:11: it turns out that out of disk space situations look exactly like a ddos. facepalm. imav is to thank for finding and fixing this one
Title: Re: Can not edit my topics
Post by: Grim Fandango on Sat, 06 September 2014, 18:32:41: Sorry to hear about that Mkawa. I thought it was in isolated problem at first. Only later did I start to understand there was some larger problem (when I saw some other things going wrong).

Hope you guys were able to resolve it without too much problems. Though "Grumble grumble" did not sound good. Great to see people are on top of it.
Title: Re: Can not edit my topics
Post by: rowdy on Sun, 07 September 2014, 01:41:52: Quote from: mkawa on Sat, 06 September 2014, 18:03:11
it turns out that out of disk space situations look exactly like a ddos. facepalm. imav is to thank for finding and fixing this one

Thanks for resolving this :)

It is good to hear that iMav is still involved in GH!
Title: Re: Can not edit my topics
Post by: MJ45 on Sun, 07 September 2014, 07:07:14: Quote from: mkawa on Thu, 04 September 2014, 18:05:47
we're having some server issues. grumble grumble is the only thing i can really say about it at the moment.

Thanks for getting the site back to normal operation you Guys did the hard part. Its real easy to complain about it (myself included), Good Work!