Give me CB back already!

[orbin]

Waaagh!

 

[IainC]

We aren't going to be reopening the servers or the forums tonight. We'll have more info and, hopefully an ETA tomorrow.

I don't have any more details at the moment I'm afraid.

 

[Faeldawn]

We aren't going to be reopening the servers or the forums tonight. We'll have more info and, hopefully an ETA tomorrow.

I don't have any more details at the moment I'm afraid.

Change the message on the site then maybe?

 

[orbin]

We aren't going to be reopening the servers or the forums tonight. We'll have more info and, hopefully an ETA tomorrow.

I don't have any more details at the moment I'm afraid.

Thx for the answer!

 

[Anar]

Ta for the news,

 

[Spookie]

We aren't going to be reopening the servers or the forums tonight. We'll have more info and, hopefully an ETA tomorrow.

I don't have any more details at the moment I'm afraid.

Bionic hamster didn't arrive then?

 

[Xandax]

Change the message on the site then maybe?

No no - GOA rarely changes such things. People must just know to check various forums for the real "soon" messages and not use the official messages.

 

[Amelyn]

Well tbh guys, did anyone actually think the site was to reopen the 13th??

 

[mafti]

@IainC, i don't mind the forums and/or servers are still down, but why give only a post here and not update the infamous image on the site.
i agree, i would be handier to have text instead of a complete image, because now someone with knowledge of MSpaint has to update the image.
getting sarcastic, yes, but 1minute of changing the text isn't too much to ask.. it would be faster than reading all the spam youi probably get

 

[DaanLand]

there is probably ALOT of stuff to fix, update, patch, so its pretty much a no brainer that it was gona be longer than they hoped for.

besides going blind, im nearly finished going thru redtube and youporn

 

[Xandax]

Well tbh guys, did anyone actually think the site was to reopen the 13th??

No ... just "soon".

 

[Amelyn]

There pops war-europe up again!

 

[Xandax]

There pops war-europe up again!

Not for me.
The site doesn't work for me anymore. It just displays a part of the site, and the rest is ..... gone.

Can't navigate it, can't log in, can't do anything.......

 

[Mehuge]

One thing I noticed with flash and IE is that it seems ctrl-F5 *isnt* enough to to cause content to be re-downloaded, presumably because flash downloads its own content. Deleting temporary internet files was the only way to ensure new copies of flash content is downloaded (incase some were only part downloaded previously).

It could also be a MTU Path Discovery issue, if somewhere between you and the site is blocking ICMP unreachables. That can cause content to only part download. Lowering your MTU setting would resolve that issue. The website is blocking ICMP replys so it wouldnt supprise me if it was blocking all ICMP.

*edit* lol, just as I type this, it starts replying to pings, so guess they still working on it.
*edit* and its stopped responding to pings again

 

[Xandax]

One thing I noticed with flash and IE is that it seems ctrl-F5 *isnt* enough to to cause content to be re-downloaded, presumably because flash downloads its own content. Deleting temporary internet files was the only way to ensure new copies of flash content is downloaded (incase some were only part downloaded previously).

It could also be a MTU Path Discovery issue, if somewhere between you and the site is blocking ICMP unreachables. That can cause content to only part download. Lowering your MTU setting would resolve that issue.

Nothing worked for me.
Different browsers which never accessed the site also still showed it broken and incomplete.
All the things which normally can get troublesome sites to update didn't work for me in 3 different browsers.

 

[Xanthian]

The main site is kinda borked.
Half of it doesn't display.

Beta forums are totally inaccessible too.

Server migrations are a royal pain in the ass, just give them some time

 

[Mehuge]

Nothing worked for me.
Different browsers which never accessed the site also still showed it broken and incomplete.
All the things which normally can get troublesome sites to update didn't work for me in 3 different browsers.

MTU issues would affect all browsers, although I would expect it to affect some other websites also.

You could try installing Fiddler 2 and opening the site in IE after starting fiddler2 and then look at the details fiddler reports.

Request Count: 64
Bytes Sent: 40,886
Bytes Received: 1,726,812

ACTUAL PERFORMANCE
--------------
Requests started at: 11:19:18:1546
Responses completed at: 11:21:34:5966
Total Sequence time: 00:02:16.4420000
DNS Lookup time: 547ms
TCP/IP Connect time: 30,605ms

RESPONSE CODES
--------------
HTTP/200: 64

RESPONSE BYTES (by Content-Type)
--------------
text/javascript: 6,846
application/x-javascript: 33,740
text/xml: 112,858
?: 1,174
application/x-shockwave-flash: 1,499,284
image/jpeg: 49,659
~headers: 16,709
text/html: 3,824
image/gif: 35
text/css: 2,683

I notice that IE downloads just the heading, then it thinks the page is Done, the rest of the content being downloaded by flash. If your seeing just the heading maybe its an issue with flash downloading the content, perhaps your virus scanner/firewall is being over protective.

 

[Dangart]

beta forums went up for a few hours earlier today, now they're down again, servers are also down.

 

[Downanael]

Nothing worked for me.
Different browsers which never accessed the site also still showed it broken and incomplete.
All the things which normally can get troublesome sites to update didn't work for me in 3 different browsers.

Flash! this is why we hate you.

Wish some official would give us reason why they so stuck with flash thought.

 

[Xandax]

MTU issues would affect all browsers, although I would expect it to affect some other websites also.

You could try installing Fiddler 2 and opening the site in IE after starting fiddler2 and then look at the details fiddler reports.



I notice that IE downloads just the heading, then it thinks the page is Done, the rest of the content being downloaded by flash. If your seeing just the heading maybe its an issue with flash downloading the content, perhaps your virus scanner/firewall is being over protective.

I've run both HTTP Watch and looked at the files which get downloaded (after clearing the temp.files it is easy to see) and none of it looks like issues on "my side" which I of course know it is.
However it is the Flash which causes problems. I don't have Flash problems normally, I didn't prior to the migration - now I have in 3 different browsers (all running flash 9) and only on this site.

 

[Ctuchik]

@IainC, i don't mind the forums and/or servers are still down, but why give only a post here and not update the infamous image on the site.

he's already asked for it to be updated. but whoever that MADE that image is to lazy to actually do it.