Recent Forum Issues - August 2021

[TheArkive]

I just noticed this on discord:

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Not sure if this is still an issue.

[joedf]

They can email me joedf at ahkscript org!

[TheArkive]

Ah ok, I'll pass that along if i see it again.

EDIT: Just wasn't sure if this was another email related issue.

[joedf]

@TheArkive Thanks!
I guess I could ask @RUNIE; Could you add a notice or message/announcement somewhere for people who are unable to active or create a forum account? They can either email me or post as guest here: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5008

[TheArkive]

@joedf
That looks like some info that can go into the #faq channel on discord. I can't place that there but i can forward the message on ModMail.

[runie]

@TheArkive Thanks!
I guess I could ask @RUNIE; Could you add a notice or message/announcement somewhere for people who are unable to active or create a forum account? They can either email me or post as guest here: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5008

Adding it to our faq channel will do nothing, as people won't read that before asking (a small percentage does but it's not gonna be noticable)

On a related note -- can forum moderators activate user accounts or can only admins do that?

[gregster]

On a related note -- can forum moderators activate user accounts or can only admins do that?

As a moderator you should be able to. I can log in to (a user-related subset of) the Administration Control Panel (link at the top of the page, next to the Moderator Control Panel).
Click on an inactive user (or search for one) > then see Basic Tools > Quick Tools.

There, I see the option to activate an account... I haven't done that yet, but I have done two or three other actions for users so far.

[JoeWinograd]

Just started getting the problem in the screenshots below when trying to visit the version files for V1 and V2:
https://autohotkey.com/download/1.1/version.txt
https://autohotkey.com/download/2.0/version.txt

In Chrome:

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In Firefox:

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This apparently is also causing my daily Check-for-New-V1 and Check-for-New-V2 scripts to fail. Regards, Joe

[gregster]

Probably related: this expired certificate issue for the acrhived forums: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=95148
(same certificate, it seems)

[anaglypta]

The problem may be due to incorrect redirect rules in the .htaccess file.
See this link for more info: viewtopic.php?p=422904#p422904

@JoeWinograd: Adding 'www.' to your URLs worked for me as a quick fix.

[tank]

this is totally fucked up. certificates are at a domain, server level not path. it makes no sense why some paths are affected while others are not

[joedf]

@RUNIE No worries, whatever helps. Thanks! and yes as @gregster mentioned, mods should be able to activate accounts as well. If not, anyone should let me know, and I can look into it.
@JoeWinograd @gregster @anaglypta Thanks for reporting/sharing info on this.

[joedf]

@tank It is a bit to me as well, but I remember reading somewhere that subdomains are considered different domains for cert, unless you get a "wildcard" *.domain.com or more encompassing certificate...

[anaglypta]

Just FYI, the certificate issue may be a red herring. The certificate may be fine.

IIRC, one time when I was fixing redirect rules in my website's .htaccess file, RewriteCond/RewriteRule etc, I did it incorrectly.
When I typed URLs into the address bar, it went into an infinite loop, constantly redirecting the URL, it would quickly give up and show a certificate error.

[JoeWinograd]

Adding 'www.' to your URLs worked for me as a quick fix.

Thanks very much for that tip! Worked here, too, for both the V1 and V2 files. Regards, Joe

[runie]

@RUNIE No worries, whatever helps. Thanks! and yes as @gregster mentioned, mods should be able to activate accounts as well. If not, anyone should let me know, and I can look into it.
@JoeWinograd @gregster @anaglypta Thanks for reporting/sharing info on this.

fwiw, we did end up adding a small message to #faq, while it likely won't help, adding it isn't harmful either.

[swagfag]

forums are kinda unusable ngl. leave a tab unattended for 10 secs, the next time u try doing something with it u get a timeout error a bunch of times. and when it does work, everythings dog slow

[TheArkive]

I have been experiencing this lately as well, within the last 24 hrs or so.

EDIT: Actually more like the last 6 hrs.

[flyingDman]

Same thing here. Slow as molasses ...

[jballi]

Super slow. Usually times out before completing a response.