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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The shoulders are broad and I'm here for the collective and well deserved brickbats rather than anyone having a go at the forum mods.

Rob

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BOAC

I think the problem might be due to your HD

Daz

21:30

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Happened twice on the Draper home made super puter,you folks with ordinary store bought weedy puters must be going through hell.
:rolleyes:

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...and here was I thinking I was being messed with because I'd mentioned my post count. :rolleyes:

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The whole site is rapidly descending into chaos.

All we need is for Alice to appear, with a white rabbit and some strange little bottles...

SD

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Shamelessly nicked from Foxy Loxy.

Oh my...

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It's finally happened!

SD

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...otos/Alice.jpg - well, someone had to. To hell with little furry things.............wait a minute..............

My goodness me! Is that the time? I must fly....................

And another...
 

....cracker. I found in an address book that swmbo installed for her Christmas card list (yes it's that time of year again) an opening message which says "there is a file missing. reinstall it" Not even so much as a please or thankyou, now WTH is one supposed to do with that gem?? Who thought that was a useful instruction??

The Ancient Mariner

The tech gurus are apparently all away eating turkey. The last man out set the clock to "add or subtract a random number of hours".

I posted at 9:54 on 25 November (it's now 10:17) and the post appeared half way up the thread, timed some time yesterday.

HOW LONG????
 

Umm, confused !!

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If it is any help, my experience in Dunnunda Forum is that first post is being pushed down the sequence of posts by subsequent posts, that appar to be in order?


Cancel that theory. I posted at 2330 local (post shows 1520 local), after Mike-Bracknell. :suspect:

Except that you may recall Rob, the fault was booked well over a year ago? :{

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Tisfa (Time Stamp Fairy) just knocked me about 8 posts back and onto another page on Rotorheads and on this very thread she knocked me back 6 posts as this was meant to be post #24!!

Brilliant!

Posts appearing out of sequence
 

Don't know if this has been picked up by your tech gurus, but have noticed on a couple of threads these last few days that posts are arriving on the thread out of order & not chronologically. Posted one myself, noticed it on another thread, & saw someone else querying it on a 3rd thread.

See:
http://www.pprune.org/computer-inter...amp-fairy.html

This is what you get when you power a forum with neutrinos.

Screwy posting order
 

Somebody needs to fix whatever's happening that causes an original post to be shown as post #2, then a response to it becomes post #1, and a post that is submitted fifth in line becomes posts #3, etc. etc.

Look at "Channel 5 documentary" as an example.

Think those rabbits have got mixamapostis...

ive just posted a reply to a thread at 23:00 and it shows as 14:50 this afternoon.

wierd

I've noticed that when a post goes adrift it always seems to go around minus 8 hrs adrift.

Showing US time?