There is something I noticed a while ago, just remembered it now:
Youtube normally doesn't require Flash and some browsers have it pre-installed anyway (Chrome). But for some reason, embedded Youtube videos in submission texts tell you that you miss a plugin if you browse that site on a browser like Firefox without having Flash installed. Embedded videos in posts don't have this problem, only submission texts, which seems really strange. Did anyone else notice this or is it just specific to a PC I'm using?
Wiki pages are using the Flash player instead of the HTML5 player (which extends to submissions, I assume). Right clicking the embedded YouTube player reveals this.
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andypanther wrote:
Ok, thanks for explaining this! I'm just a notorious flash-hater ^^
As am I. I'll get to it soon.
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I don't really know if this counts as a bug, but if the description of the movies in the Featured Movie part of the front page is too short, you have no way of actually getting to the movie page (usually reached by clicking on "Read More").
I can't get to the movie page :(
Warning: Might glitch to creditsI will finish this ACE soon as possible
(or will I?)
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The front page is static because of the traffic from SGDQ. Same thing that happened earlier in the year during AGDQ (which is why the static page is from around that time).
TASvideos Admin and acting Senior Judge 💙 Currently unable to dedicate a lot of time to the site, taking care of family.
Now infrequently posting on BlueskywarmCabin wrote:
You shouldn't need a degree in computer science to get into this hobby.
The front page is static because of the traffic from SGDQ. Same thing that happened earlier in the year during AGDQ (which is why the static page is from around that time).
Thank goodness, I though at one point that I was back in time and I just had a single publication... I was scared shitless for a while.
Like others in this thread,
when I visited
http://tasvideos.org/
and saw the broken page, I got confused.
I understand the need to
protect the front page from lots of
traffic, but I have a few questions:
1) Why not put a comment explaining
that the main front page is currently
disabled and link to somewhere
explaining in more detail?
2) Why did you use an old snapshot
showing being from the end of 2014?
If you had a recent snapshot,
then at least people would see newer
movies.
3) Are pages cached? If the issue was
server load, and serving a static page
works, that suggests that you could
have just put caching in front of
the normal page and have been able
to continue serving.
4) Is there another page to see the
most recently accepted movies?
5) When are you going to restore
the main page to serving normally again?
Just generally, it would be helpful to
be more clear about what's going on,
instead of making it look like the
front page is broken.
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The main page has already been un-static for a few days now (since a few hours after SGDQ ended), and the static version had been updated a few days into SGDQ (well before the TAS block). I suppose you don't see this because of your browser caching. Try reloading the front page with Shift+F5.
Clicking "More..." at the movie list on the front page brings you to this page with all new publications and some other updates.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
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<Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits
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Ah, you're right. I just had a cached version.
Thanks for pointing that out. I should
have noticed, since that's a common
problem.
As another recommendation for next time,
you probably shouldn't set the cache
time as large. For this page,
a day would be appropriate,
so the browser will start fetching the
page again not too long after it
has been returned to being dynamic.
Like others in this thread,
when I visited
http://tasvideos.org/
and saw the broken page, I got confused.
I understand the need to
protect the front page from lots of
traffic, but I have a few questions:
1) Why not put a comment explaining
that the main front page is currently
disabled and link to somewhere
explaining in more detail?
2) Why did you use an old snapshot
showing being from the end of 2014?
If you had a recent snapshot,
then at least people would see newer
movies.
3) Are pages cached? If the issue was
server load, and serving a static page
works, that suggests that you could
have just put caching in front of
the normal page and have been able
to continue serving.
4) Is there another page to see the
most recently accepted movies?
5) When are you going to restore
the main page to serving normally again?
Just generally, it would be helpful to
be more clear about what's going on,
instead of making it look like the
front page is broken.
1) Oversight
2) This was corrected while the event was ongoing.
3) Pages are cached (I don't know the exact internals), but when you're logged in you get an uncached version (except during the event you wouldn't for the front page because that one was just a static HTML document)
4) http://tasvideos.org/NewMovies.html and http://tasvideos.org/NewVaultMovies.html
5) Answered
True, this event things went kind of chaotically. Key persons weren't available when they should have been and general planning has been meh to ech, let's hope we can do better next time...
All syllogisms have three parts, therefore this is not a syllogism.
Fixed.
This may happen again over time, I suspect that some site code somewhere doesn't update the topic count in the subforum correctly when moving around submission topic, but should be good for now.
(For the record, the site database thought there were 64 threads, instead of the 9 there were at the time, which was causing the empty second page issue)
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
<dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects.
<Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits
<adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
I'm having problems with some private messages in my inbox. At first the messages are Ok, but after sometime when I try openning them again I have the message below and can never see it again.
Could not update private message read status for user
DEBUG MODE
SQL Error : 1690 BIGINT UNSIGNED value is out of range in '(`nesvideos_forum`.`users`.`user_unread_privmsg` - 1)'
UPDATE users SET user_unread_privmsg = user_unread_privmsg - 1 WHERE user_id = 4113
Line : 384
File : privmsg.php
Backtrace:
includes/functions.php[743]: ErrorPrintBacktrace()
privmsg.php[384]: message_die(202, {string(53)}, string(0) ""
, 384, {string(45)}, {string(91)})
As of yesterday, forum notifications have been going to spam in Gmail. The reason given is that the e-mail does not follow Gmail's guidelines for bulk senders. It doesn't look like the e-mails themselves changed, so I'm guessing Google's standards changed, unless they accidentally got too touchy.
Learn More leads to this: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/81126?hl=en#authentication
EDIT: this has continued to happen since I posted this, so it's an actual issue.
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It had no formmating, only displayed the first two postes before saying
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 150994944 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 8208 bytes) in /home/tasvideos/public_html/inc/smallcache.php on line 81
Only happened on the Stars and moons only version of the page
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I tried to edit my page via my phone (android) but couldn't do it. First, the website's menu links have been unresponsive. I needed to tap on things 5 times before it loaded the next page.. Not sure if that's a problem specific to my phone or to mobile phones in general. The log-in form did not show the password field, even though I have js enabled. So I had to find the actual login page to log in. And when editing, I was unable to select the word I wanted to replace.
At least I can make posts like this one from phone..
