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Post by Goonfella on Oct 31, 2011 18:18:53 GMT
Seems to be fixed now.
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Post by barbieq25 on Oct 31, 2011 20:48:34 GMT
Yes, hurray!
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Post by lancemcknight on Oct 31, 2011 21:55:18 GMT
Yep, just checked the support board thread. It's all sorted. Man! They are good.
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Post by lancemcknight on Nov 6, 2011 15:51:13 GMT
Just thought I would use this thread to ask a question. Peter asked an interesting question in his gallery, and didn't want to hijack his thread. He said something about making a thread for Steampunk style, and it lit a light blub in my head.
How would everyone feel if I created some sub-boards within the Gallerium for different art style for us to post our work in and get critique? Fire away your thoughts.
I think it would be great so we can keep our galleries free and more focused on specific art style.
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Post by barbieq25 on Nov 6, 2011 20:45:54 GMT
Tell me a bit more Lance. If we have style specific galleries, would be still be posting the images in our own gallery? I am sort of thinking yes but not having comments or critiques in both places yes?
Just re-read your post - ah, yes, agreed.
So in each category we could get specific help. I am thinking lots of WIPS.
I think it is a great idea Lance!
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Post by delpart on Nov 18, 2011 22:36:55 GMT
Okay, I'm struggling to make the normal bbcode method of setting to control thumbs. Now I can imagine I may need to create some thumbs but then it bloats out what they are linking to.
Yes, I realize photobucket and similar can do this automagically, but they limit image sizes and some of what I want to work with loses detail when resized.
Not sure if this is a proboards limitation in the implementation of BBcode or what. So far my research has me scratching my head some on what I'm either doing wrong or where this is breaking.Okay, logic prevails, add height and it scales like a champ. example: Fun part of this is I dont actually feel silly about it. Just rarely see examples where auto scaling didn't work with just a width declaration. Curious, but workable. And I can avoid making thumbs I think. Have to test page load times.
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Post by delpart on Nov 19, 2011 0:25:14 GMT
For some reason I cant modify and include the code in the above post without it breaking. Probably has to do with that tag being shown as text ... Examlpe of img tag embedded in url just in case someone wants a refernce for it. Using tinyurl to shorten:
[url=http://tinyurl.com/6vprpb3][img width=150 height=94 src="http://tinyurl.com/6vprpb3"][/url]
Output:
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Post by Sargon III on Nov 19, 2011 7:35:07 GMT
I think this method of resizing is hogging my data of my cell plan, because I am actually downloading the full file size? Or I am wrong?
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Post by delpart on Nov 19, 2011 10:16:33 GMT
Yeah, I just ran it through. It is grabbing the whole image. Which means if someone hit my gallery concept as I was thinking (and I was afraid that was the case) then it could mean way too much info.
The above example is 1.05 megabytes. A set of 40 images, etc of that size would be a problem for sure.
Back to the drawing board to see about making thumbs and linking those instead.
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Post by Leif on Dec 11, 2011 16:13:36 GMT
Is it just me, or is this forum very unstable?
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Post by lancemcknight on Dec 11, 2011 16:31:24 GMT
What do you mean?
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Post by Leif on Dec 11, 2011 16:44:39 GMT
I get time out when posting and IE can't display the page.
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Post by lancemcknight on Dec 11, 2011 19:41:30 GMT
I'm having no issue here. Might be your ISP is having trouble for some reason.
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Post by TheBad1 on Dec 11, 2011 20:17:03 GMT
It gets pretty laggy at times here. Others sites are ok but Fans seems to be a lot slower at times
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Post by barbieq25 on Dec 11, 2011 20:39:58 GMT
Yesterday afternoon I could not get on at all. I think every day this week I have had this problem with Fans but as Welshy says, other sites are fine.
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Post by Goonfella on Dec 11, 2011 21:07:13 GMT
No problem here either Barbie. Maybe Lance is right and it`s your ISP.
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Post by barbieq25 on Dec 12, 2011 6:22:01 GMT
One would expect all sites to be glitchy then, surely not just one?
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Post by Goonfella on Dec 12, 2011 6:49:31 GMT
I`ve just read Leif `s comment further up about his problem posting. I have experienced this problem as well occasionally though if it does happen I just go back later. I think it happens because the servers are too busy.
I`ve not had any problems recently though.
Barbie if other websites load OK it must be this place then. Sounds like a similar problem to the one I had, and still have, with dA.
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Post by Sargon III on Dec 12, 2011 8:16:37 GMT
I have never had a problem with this forum, only yesterday happened for the first time for about 3-4 hours, and I mentioned that on the main board when I was replying to a question, I was able to open just one page, but couldn't navigate through other pages by clicking on the links, that was really weird.
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Post by TheBad1 on Dec 12, 2011 9:21:03 GMT
Fans is the most unstable place I visit. Lost count of the number of times I've replied to posts and it's been lost because of server problems
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Post by delpart on Dec 12, 2011 10:14:11 GMT
Sadly free usually means there is some trade offs. Shouldn't be so, but that's the rub as it were.
I've had enough frustrations that I check, double check, and use practices of cloud computing that seem second nature but I can understand the frustration for sure. Having to save your work in notepad etc is sort of contrary to the idea of these sorts of services.
I've also not done much due diligence to see where Pro-Boards hosts their servers (self host, cloud rental, etc) and all that. I sort of do stuff like that for a living, but I dread digging every time I look into something. Takes away the fun factor. There are a ton of factors including geographical location that will play into problems being encountered here. Sadly the Internet does have some drawbacks when you are crossing oceans to connect to various parts of it. Even in this day and age. Bah, I'm rambling.
On a more humorous note, the English language can be fun. Multiple instances of people referring to this place being unstable. Made me sort of smile because I thought of a bunch of crazy artists and wondered if there wasn't a double entendre at work here. ;D
*modify: Out of curiosity, there really doesn't seem to be a lot of free/low rent alternatives for something like this. At least none that offer the flexibility etc. The nice thing about the free factor is it is likely to stay forever more or less. vBulliten can be nicer but depending on the hosting situation it means staying on top of the patches etc to keep it running. And of course a place to stick it. I'm capable of such but the hassle is the potential of it getting moved in the near future should I move my domains around ... Just thinking out loud.
The main theme seems to be geographical and service provider related. Including the host's here.
There is also a slight potential of "other issues" on the backend with how they manage this mess and even a slight chance of related holiday related traffic increases with how where they may be sharing a connection. A slight timeout here in the US might be mitigated, but a longer connection may drop retries if the routing is off etc.
Uhg, I need sleep. Enough rambling on the "what ifs" since I'm having to throw darts at why some but not all people are having issues. Especially with the added flavor of knowing this service is flaky in multiple respects to begin with.
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Post by Leif on Dec 12, 2011 17:37:14 GMT
Usually this forum is fine. And everything looks OK now. It was just yesterday that i had lots of problems.
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