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Re: Recent Forum Issues - August 2021

Posted: 30 Sep 2021, 06:58
by TheArkive
I just noticed this on discord:
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Not sure if this is still an issue.

Re: Recent Forum Issues - August 2021

Posted: 30 Sep 2021, 08:47
by joedf
They can email me joedf at ahkscript org!

Re: Recent Forum Issues - August 2021

Posted: 30 Sep 2021, 09:04
by 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.

Re: Recent Forum Issues - August 2021

Posted: 30 Sep 2021, 09:58
by 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

Re: Recent Forum Issues - August 2021

Posted: 30 Sep 2021, 10:00
by 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.

Re: Recent Forum Issues - August 2021

Posted: 30 Sep 2021, 10:25
by runie
joedf wrote:
30 Sep 2021, 09:58
@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?

Re: Recent Forum Issues - August 2021

Posted: 30 Sep 2021, 10:32
by gregster
RUNIE wrote:
30 Sep 2021, 10:25
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.

Re: Recent Forum Issues - August 2021

Posted: 30 Sep 2021, 11:51
by 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

Re: Recent Forum Issues - August 2021

Posted: 30 Sep 2021, 11:55
by gregster
Probably related: this expired certificate issue for the acrhived forums: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=95148
(same certificate, it seems)

Re: Recent Forum Issues - August 2021

Posted: 30 Sep 2021, 12:04
by 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.

Re: Recent Forum Issues - August 2021

Posted: 30 Sep 2021, 12:25
by 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

Re: Recent Forum Issues - August 2021

Posted: 30 Sep 2021, 12:27
by 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. :+1:
@JoeWinograd @gregster @anaglypta Thanks for reporting/sharing info on this.

Re: Recent Forum Issues - August 2021

Posted: 30 Sep 2021, 12:29
by 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... :think:

Re: Recent Forum Issues - August 2021

Posted: 30 Sep 2021, 12:37
by 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.

Re: Recent Forum Issues - August 2021

Posted: 30 Sep 2021, 19:48
by JoeWinograd
anaglypta wrote: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

Re: Recent Forum Issues - August 2021

Posted: 02 Oct 2021, 07:22
by runie
joedf wrote:
30 Sep 2021, 12:27
@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. :+1:
@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.

Re: Recent Forum Issues - August 2021

Posted: 02 Oct 2021, 08:52
by 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

Re: Recent Forum Issues - August 2021

Posted: 02 Oct 2021, 09:14
by TheArkive
I have been experiencing this lately as well, within the last 24 hrs or so.

EDIT: Actually more like the last 6 hrs.

Re: Recent Forum Issues - August 2021

Posted: 02 Oct 2021, 11:04
by flyingDman
Same thing here. Slow as molasses ...

Re: Recent Forum Issues - August 2021

Posted: 02 Oct 2021, 12:32
by jballi
Super slow. Usually times out before completing a response.