Forum Issues

[George K]

@klaus weird.

I disabled all my Safari extensions, still wouldn't load.

Here's a screenshot of 4 browsers. From left to right: Safari, Edge, Firefox, and Brave.

[Klaus]

That's strange. I can't reproduce the problem here.

I believe sometimes there is a timeout issue - when the Twitter embed script doesn't load quickly enough, the page is rendered without the embedding.

Do others have the same problem? Does the problem still occur when you use a mobile network?

(by the way, I haven't upgraded NodeBB yet - so nothing should have changed)

[Klaus]

If you open this link, does a bunch of JavaScript code appear?

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

[George K]

@klaus

[Axtremus]

Not reproducible here either.
@George-K try the usual cleanse like clear all cache and restart your browser application and see if that helps..

[jon-nyc]

@george-k said in Forum Issues:

Is the Twitter embed broken, or is it me?

You've always been broken, George. Even when the embed was working for you.

[George K]

@axtremus said in Forum Issues:

try the usual cleanse like clear all cache and restart your browser application and see if that helps..

Did that. No joy.

The interesting thing is that it's occurring on 4 different browsers, including Brave, which I've never used.

[George K]

Well, this is interesting. I was connected via a VPN, and when I disabled it, the Twitter embed worked.

How's that?

[Mik]

I just posted this so I could get down to the latest posts.

[Mik]

@george-k said in Forum Issues:

Well, this is interesting. I was connected via a VPN, and when I disabled it, the Twitter embed worked.

How's that?

I got rid of PIA when it expired. It was aptly named.

[Klaus]

OK, we are now on the latest version of NodeBB.

I'm not sure whether anything directly visible to users has changed.

Let me know if something doesn't work anymore.

[George K]

@klaus said in Forum Issues:

Let me know if something doesn't work anymore.

I don't work anymore. I retired in 2016.

[Klaus]

I've updated the forum and we are now on NodeBB 1.17.2. Let me know if you experience any (new) problems.

[Klaus]

I'm going to update to the latest NodeBB version. If everything goes well, it should only require a minute of downtime or so.

[Mik]

Thanks, Klaus.

[Copper]

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[mark]

For some unknown reason my MacBook Pro running the latest version of MacOS cannot post the to the forum as a new topic or a reply.

I always receive an error but with no detailed information about the error.

I know this is not something that has to do with the forum at all.

It's just reinforces my opinion that Apple sucks. lol

[mark]

running slow.

[Axtremus]

@mark said in Forum Issues:

running slow.

Yes, though I suspect it's not specific to our particular server, but general between us in the USA and that server farm in Germany. I get slow response even when I access the server control panel that is presumably hosted in the same server farm but separately from our nodeBB server. "Ping" suggests a 2.5% packet drop rate, not too too bad, but ideally I would like to see < 1%.

What else I have noticed lately is that it gets slow when loading media files uploaded by users. Loading nodeBB/TNCR pages are fine but when the pages have embedded media files, that's when things slow down.

Can't say I find a pattern to this. I tried matching it against backup schedule but there does not seem to be much of a match there. :man-shrugging:

[Klaus]

Can't reproduce. Forum looks snappy.

Just for the heck of it, I'm going to "turn it off and turn it on". Maybe that'll help.