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gavin		Posted : Sunday, 24 November 2013 1:37:07 AM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Administrators, Registered Joined: 20/02/2010(UTC) Posts: 1,326 Location: Christchurch Thanks: 736 times Was thanked: 535 time(s) in 287 post(s)		I've just upgraded the forums to the latest version. Please let me know if you experience any problems! There's some new anti-spam settings, so I've turned some of these on to see if they help. Bit late now as wasn't as straight forward as hoped. Will have a play when time allows to see what new options are now available. Cheers, Gavin
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Mudwiggle		Posted : Sunday, 24 November 2013 3:55:35 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Registered, Moderators Joined: 22/10/2013(UTC) Posts: 742 Thanks: 182 times Was thanked: 683 time(s) in 317 post(s)		Getting a lot of these angry shouty messages when trying to load the forums (Running Firefox).... Server Error in '/' Application. Configuration Error Description: An error occurred during the processing of a configuration file required to service this request. Please review the specific error details below and modify your configuration file appropriately. Parser Error Message: Thread was being aborted. Source Error: Line 155: <providers> Line 156: <clear /> Line 157: <add connectionStringName="yafnet" applicationName="YetAnotherForum" name="YafMembershipProvider" requiresUniqueEmail="true" useSalt="true" type="YAF.Providers.Membership.YafMembershipProvider" /> Line 158: </providers> Line 159: </membership> Source File: D:\Inetpub\ftproot\MW\paydirt\www.paydirt.co.nz\web.config Line: 157 Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:4.0.30319; ASP.NET Version:4.0.30319.1016

gavin		Posted : Sunday, 24 November 2013 4:26:40 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Administrators, Registered Joined: 20/02/2010(UTC) Posts: 1,326 Location: Christchurch Thanks: 736 times Was thanked: 535 time(s) in 287 post(s)		Sorry about that, seems to be a more pronounced issue with the upgrade :( This intermittent issue was there before, but with the upgrade it's now become a lot more regular. They've made the code available so I'm actively looking in to it and trying different things that might resolve it. Bit of a hard one to resolve as it's some combination of things that includes server settings / version and amount of traffic I guess. So I'm not actually able to re-create the issue on my own laptop. Have to keep having stabs in the dark at things that might resolve it then pushing them live to see if it goes away.
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DrunkBrother		Posted : Monday, 25 November 2013 6:21:02 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Registered, Moderators Joined: 27/11/2011(UTC) Posts: 911 Location: Auckland Thanks: 21 times Was thanked: 206 time(s) in 161 post(s)		Gavin, Could you change parameter for Scaling inserted images please, New upgrade has very low scaling and doesnt allow to expand image Example: Sourse: http://3.bp.blogspot.com...EQgpbi_TGU/s640/NZ+2.GIF
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Metal Kiwi		Posted : Monday, 25 November 2013 7:29:51 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Registered Joined: 19/06/2011(UTC) Posts: 1,210 Location: Auckland Thanks: 498 times Was thanked: 484 time(s) in 322 post(s)		Good news on the upgrade however I am getting lots of error messages when I try to get in to the site. Also slow to load a page quite often. Chris.
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gavin		Posted : Tuesday, 26 November 2013 12:13:05 AM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Administrators, Registered Joined: 20/02/2010(UTC) Posts: 1,326 Location: Christchurch Thanks: 736 times Was thanked: 535 time(s) in 287 post(s)		Originally Posted by: DrunkBrother Gavin, Could you change parameter for Scaling inserted images please, New upgrade has very low scaling and doesnt allow to expand image Done ;)
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gavin		Posted : Tuesday, 26 November 2013 12:17:31 AM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Administrators, Registered Joined: 20/02/2010(UTC) Posts: 1,326 Location: Christchurch Thanks: 736 times Was thanked: 535 time(s) in 287 post(s)		Originally Posted by: Metal Kiwi Good news on the upgrade however I am getting lots of error messages when I try to get in to the site. Also slow to load a page quite often. Chris. Yes, this is really annoying me at the moment. Just spent the night trying to fix but only getting frustrated. I'm got a day off on Wed so I'll have another go then. Failing any progress I may have to roll back to the old version which is a painful process in itself. Apparently it's a known issue with the forum software, but one you don't learn about until you encounter it yourself :( http://forum.yetanotherforum.net/yaf_postst15524_Stumped-by-intermittent-issue-with-YafMembershipProvider.aspx Being a software developer myself I'm looking in to the code base to see if I can figure it out. Apologies to all about any frustration experienced - I share your pain!
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oroplata		Posted : Tuesday, 26 November 2013 12:44:51 AM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Registered, Moderators Joined: 16/06/2011(UTC) Posts: 1,040 Location: Christchurch Thanks: 23 times Was thanked: 211 time(s) in 152 post(s)		If it was PERL, I'd help out but it's asp.net so you're on your own, buddy!
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andy		Posted : Tuesday, 26 November 2013 1:42:30 AM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Registered Joined: 13/12/2012(UTC) Posts: 471 Location: ngongotaha rotorua Thanks: 70 times Was thanked: 88 time(s) in 72 post(s)		forum working sweet for me!
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mickey		Posted : Tuesday, 26 November 2013 6:02:47 AM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Medals: Groups: Registered Joined: 9/07/2013(UTC) Posts: 135 Location: waitakere Thanks: 528 times Was thanked: 180 time(s) in 79 post(s)		upgraded forum working well here. there were some 'time-outs' and error messages yesterday, but it was only happening when using previously stored bookmarks, and not when navigating from within the site. best of luck with the code wrestling Gavin.
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gavin		Posted : Tuesday, 26 November 2013 7:51:03 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Administrators, Registered Joined: 20/02/2010(UTC) Posts: 1,326 Location: Christchurch Thanks: 736 times Was thanked: 535 time(s) in 287 post(s)		I think it's mainly happening when there's a few logged-in users browsing the forums, i.e. prob worse after work hours. I've been provided with a potential fix to try so I'll make that live later tonight to see if it nips the issue in the bud. Fingers crossed!
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gavin		Posted : Tuesday, 26 November 2013 11:00:06 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Administrators, Registered Joined: 20/02/2010(UTC) Posts: 1,326 Location: Christchurch Thanks: 736 times Was thanked: 535 time(s) in 287 post(s)		We're now running a nice shiny new "YAF 2.1.0 BETA 20131031" version of the forum - trying out a fix very kindly provided by the creator of the software. Fingers crossed it will resolve all the issues caused by lots of logged in members hitting the site at the same time. Sorry to those of you that were online before I pushed the update out tonight, the site had just gone down again anyway so figured then was as good a time as any to push the update through!
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FossickFester		Posted : Tuesday, 26 November 2013 11:06:02 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Registered Joined: 14/09/2013(UTC) Posts: 174 Location: Tasman Thanks: 63 times Was thanked: 35 time(s) in 31 post(s)		This sites coming along well Gavin, hats off to ya man. No frickin spammers! ;)

gavin		Posted : Tuesday, 26 November 2013 11:16:08 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Administrators, Registered Joined: 20/02/2010(UTC) Posts: 1,326 Location: Christchurch Thanks: 736 times Was thanked: 535 time(s) in 287 post(s)		Originally Posted by: FossickFester This sites coming along well Gavin, hats off to ya man. No frickin spammers! ;) It's either the site's been down so much that they couldn't register :P Or the nice new anti-spam functionality available in the new version are working nicely. Caught a few new registered spammers myself before they got a chance to post though, so they'll still be a few slipping through. But looks like the new functionality might be helping :)
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