Forum malfunction

[Angliru]

Curious about the problem with threads that show more pages than are actually there. Was just in the Andy Schleck Thread and it indicated pages 253 & 254, but if you tried to advance to those pages it would leave at what is actual last page. Strange. Same problem occurred last week or 2 weeks ago.

 

[krebs303]

Yeah happened to me a couple of days ago then again in the liggett thread in the clinic just now

 

[Ferminal]

Is #2508 the last post you see?

 

[Afrank]

I've been noticing this in a few other threads the past couple weeks as well.

Is #2508 the last post you see?

That's the last post I see.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Yeah also reactions from the peloton a few days ago

 

[ElChingon]

Pssstt...

Busted Thread

Guess you could merge if it doesn't break the forum.

Addendum: Really sounds like the database supporting the forum is bursting its britches, time for an upgrade of some sorts, DB or hardware, possibly jettisoning some of the old threads or archiving them in some form or another.

 

[Ferminal]

It's probably the nuking they do to delete someone's account.

 

[ElChingon]

Maybe those solar flares are interfering as well

 

[Ferminal]

Not hi-tech enough for that.

 

[mewmewmew13]

Yeah happened to me a couple of days ago then again in the liggett thread in the clinic just now

Yes, I thought it might be my iPad...
It shows more pages but won't go there....


Edit: not sure if you could merge with busted thread as it is happening with several threads and may not be related to certain ones...then you'd be reporting very thread busted after awhile.

Btw 'busted' yanks my chain as it is shaky grammar and a pet peeve of mine...rather it would be 'broken'

 

[del1962]

Is it my browser or are the forums behaving strange tonight, threads with 3 pages showing as 2 etc.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Hello

I noticed this a few weeks ago: on my phone I sometimes get a completely blank page with just cn logo and 3 or 4 ads. Sometimes it doesn't happen and on some days I have it every time I load a page, sometimes I have to refresh a page 5-6 times because each time I do not see a forum. Does anyone recognize this problem?

 

[Granville57]

Search gone bad

The search function doesn't seem to be working correctly.

It doesn't seem to be accessing posts or threads more recently than 2012.

To further test it, I entered "Armstrong" into the search. But still the most recent items were from 2012. I have a sneaking suspicion that his name has come up, at least once or twice, since 2012.

Something seems to have gone astray with the database.



I'll leave the conspiracy notions to others...

 

[Eshnar]

The search function doesn't seem to be working correctly.

It doesn't seem to be accessing posts or threads more recently than 2012.

To further test it, I entered "Armstrong" into the search. But still the most recent items were from 2012. I have a sneaking suspicion that his name has come up, at least once or twice, since 2012.

Something seems to have gone astray with the database.



I'll leave the conspiracy notions to others...

my guess is that the search function doesn't collect more than 500 threads.
Try any other keyword, it works

edit: actually everything works to me.

 

[Granville57]

my guess is that the search function doesn't collect more than 500 threads.
Try any other keyword, it works

edit: actually everything works to me.

Thanks for the response.

Odd though, it only works for the regular "simple" search, not the Advanced Search, which is what I always use.

On some terms (very common ones) I did get a Database Error message when using the advanced search. It still won't recall anything more recent than 2012.


Perhaps the programmers had just assumed the world would end by then anyway?

 

[Netserk]

Advanced search works like a charm for me

 

[Granville57]

Advanced search works like a charm for me

Odd. When I search for "Boonen" the first link that it provides is this:
http://forum.cyclingnews.com/showthread.php?p=837103&highlight=boonen#post837103

Which, again, is from 2012.

 

[Netserk]

Odd. When I search for "Boonen" the first link that it provides is this:
http://forum.cyclingnews.com/showthread.php?p=837103&highlight=boonen#post837103

Which, again, is from 2012.

This is what I get: http://i.snag.gy/CeEYS.jpg

Maybe CN just doesn't like you? :O

 

[Granville57]

Maybe CN just doesn't like you?

Then I refuse to accept if nominated to be a mod!


(Or maybe I've just taken one too many swipes at Benson?)

 

[Granville57]

I was searching for one of RR's posts. When I simply put "Race Radio" into the search window (after trying countless other more specific terms) I get this:

Database error
The CyclingNews Forum database has encountered a problem.

 

[Netserk]

I was searching for one of RR's posts. When I simply put "Race Radio" into the search window (after trying countless other more specific terms) I get this:

Surely you wrote Race Radio under 'Search by User Name' and not 'Search by Keyword'?

Maybe I can find what you are looking for. What is it?

edit: Just did a search, and RR didn't quote you a single time in 2012 #random

edit2: BTW I realized one of the special powers modship gives you only after no longer being a mod. Back then I could search numerous times. Now there have to be 20 seconds between each search. Outrageous!

 

[Granville57]

Surely you wrote Race Radio under 'Search by User Name' and not 'Search by Keyword'?

Nope. Think about it, wouldn't there be numerous posts about the subject of "race radios" in numerous threads? But still I get the database error window.

Normally, if you enter someone's user name into the keyword window, you will get a list of posts both by that user and by other users who have quoted them. I've done this countless times to track down old posts (much to Zam's amazement )


And yes, the 20 second wait time is maddening.