What does it mean?
 

I've had 2 expired tokens today, and been slung out - required to sign in again, 3 times.

AND the time stamp fairy is playing up as this should be post 3.

PPrune-land time has certainly gone tits up again. Bets on where /when this one appears? Posted 1348Z

What does it mean?
 

Wrote a contribution to a thread, hit send and got

"your token has expired go back and reload"

Que? I do hate these messages that are unintelligible. Not only that - why?

The Ancient Mariner

Search function also crook?

What you've got there is a classic example of techies writing software on the straight assumption that the audience in it's entirety are also techies. A friend of mine had a website written for his business - the audience are surveyors & solicitors. The techs wrote it (at the time) optimised for Firefox because they believed it was the better browser.

My friend who knew his market well pointed out that most of his clients in the office world would just go with IE that would already be on their desktops. A row ensued & ultimately, the techies had to be got rid as these particular guys just wouldn't accept that anyone could be 'so stupid' as to actually want to use Internet exploder. Tunnel. Vision.

Its a classic example of too much info.

It would be better if it just said

"Failed, go back and reload"

And that, sir, is why one writes functional specifications. :cool:

We had a freelancer come in and do some work on some web ordering systems over the summer. The alarm bells should have rung when he argued that "everyone has an email address". We ended up having to rewrite the whole system when he delivered it to us because of stupid assumptions based on tunnel vision. :ugh:

The problem with just having a simple messages is you end up with them being meaningless for troubleshooting. Better to have a simple message with an explanatory technical one as a second paragraph.

Otherwise you end up with "my Internet is broken" being all the information you can garner.

I use a number of large vB forums, all of which are fine.

However one large sites there's quite a lot of config required to optimise the database back end.

I appreciate that due to the US holiday things can't be looked at until Monday, but will that then reset the threads and time stamp issues so that posts will appear in the correct chronological order that they were posted?

Like has been commented above (below or wherever in relation to this post ends up) the threads are becoming hard to follow as things stand.

Time stamp fairy
 

It's getting to the stage where the time stamp fairy's totally screwing up threads, we're getting answers posted before the question, (I know we're good but not quite that good. :E) and the thread gets so jumbled up it becomes unreadable as it no longer makes any sense :ugh:

posted at 1122 UTC

Reminds me of this brilliant comment from Dave Barry, on preparation for a colonoscopy :

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Our apologies to all for the problems,

I'm afraid that due to the US holiday weekend we can't get an appointment with the repair men until Monday 1500Z.

Rob

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- I guess that will be Tuesday 1100 then?:)

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Any idea if this is related? I get it when trying to start a thread on another forum (but can obviously post here!)

A couple of other forums I use have recently ditched VBulletin software.

A clue perhaps?

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Certainly since the last major version update the problems have increased tremendously with database errors, time stamp errors, extra page numbers added to threads and running slow, also the errors are occurring more frequently

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Reminds me of a never-ending discussion I once saw which went "A vs B ? A is obviously better". "No it's certainly not". "Oh it definitely is"".

Now where was that ? ........

In this day and age for such companies not to have technical cover 24/7 is pretty amazing. A shame, as the mods will bear the brunt of the displeasure and for the users days of frustration :hmm:



SHJ

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