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SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#1: Nov 18th 2014 at 10:27:15 AM

Greetings,

people might have noticed several things (e.g posts and work titles) malfunctioning recently. We've just done a sever overhaul that has broken several things over the wiki. Examples include post number errors, php pages not working, wonky custom titles and the like.

Please report issues here so that the admin can keep track of them.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
MeerkatMario I like turtles :D from Peach's Castle Since: Jul, 2014 Relationship Status: Barbecuing
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#2: Nov 18th 2014 at 12:17:28 PM

Why are you doing the server change?

Sometimes I don't realize there is already an article and end up making a duplicate of it.
Irene Since: Aug, 2012
#3: Nov 18th 2014 at 12:39:06 PM

It temporarily tried to make me log back in for no reason whatsoever. I went back and could click on it if I was still logged in, however, so I wasn't actually logged out. It was a glitch.

I'm sometimes forced into a login screen when I go to a Conversations(specific forum) or when I want to add a post, it acts like I'm not logged in.

That's all I got for glitches.

edited 18th Nov '14 12:49:45 PM by Irene

TotemicHero No longer a forum herald from the next level Since: Dec, 2009
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#4: Nov 18th 2014 at 1:02:20 PM

On occasion, when I click on the "all forums" button, it displays just the top menu and the searches, with none of the subforums visible. Refreshing the page has fixed it each time it happened, but it's kind of annoying.

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MousaThe14 Writer, Artist, Ignored from Northern Virginia Since: Jan, 2011 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
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#5: Nov 18th 2014 at 1:07:26 PM

Uh, hi, I was told to come here for my "liveblog" problem?

I tried putting in an entry and it wouldn't appear. Then I tried several times and now I have a liveblog that says I have 6 entries but only one post available for reading. Also, it won't appear in the table of contents. And if there is any way to recover the page I tried to submit, I would greatly appreciate it. That was my only copy. I normally make a Word document for one but there was an outage here and my copy is lost.

Though I'm not sure when you guys switched servers but this issue occurred about two days ago for me.

edited 18th Nov '14 1:07:59 PM by MousaThe14

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BestOf FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC! from Finland Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: Falling within your bell curve
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#6: Nov 18th 2014 at 1:16:57 PM

Why are you doing the server change?

Basically we're doing a series of major updates to the site in the near future, and currently our servers can just about handle the site as it is. We'll get better functionality from better servers.

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Deadbeatloser22 from Disappeared by Space Magic (Great Old One) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
#7: Nov 18th 2014 at 1:25:41 PM

Yeah, I keep getting dumped to the Log In page.

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Trip Since: Mar, 2012
#8: Nov 18th 2014 at 1:31:40 PM

Sometimes the "couldn't match login information" glitch happens when I try to post (shown here)

And then there was silence
SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#9: Nov 18th 2014 at 1:32:57 PM

Same for me.

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#10: Nov 18th 2014 at 1:52:24 PM

Same here. Also got it when sending a PM, but that seems mostly okay now.

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#11: Nov 18th 2014 at 2:16:44 PM

I seem to have problems with note markup — can't open 'em.

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Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#12: Nov 18th 2014 at 2:34:03 PM

I've had the forum pages turn up blank (no forum links) and the issue of matching login stuff. Nothing that wasn't solved with a refreshed page though.

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Discar Since: Jun, 2009
#13: Nov 18th 2014 at 2:39:41 PM

Marq FJA contacted me to report that he got logged out in the middle of flipping through the forums, and hasn't been able to log back in. As if his password got corrupted. It's probably related to this somehow.

CorvusAtrox from the Dueling Arena Since: Jun, 2014 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
#14: Nov 18th 2014 at 2:40:09 PM

I've gotten the 'sorry could not match your login information' when switching between different pages at times.

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BestOf FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC! from Finland Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: Falling within your bell curve
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#15: Nov 18th 2014 at 2:41:17 PM

[up][up]It is almost certainly related to this.

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SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#16: Nov 18th 2014 at 2:42:41 PM

Discar, how is he contacting you?

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Discar Since: Jun, 2009
#17: Nov 18th 2014 at 2:46:28 PM

We exchanged e-mails a while back.

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#18: Nov 18th 2014 at 2:51:52 PM

I don't know if it's actually related to the server switch, but I've been seeing a lot of links to pages with custom titles not working correctly (S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is just Stalker or STALKER depending on the age of the example, pages with numbers in the titles like "Three DO Interactive Multiplayer", etc).

Also, for some reason all pages named "Twilight" - the disambiguation page, the novels and resulting films, and the comic - label themselves as "Twilight: Los Angeles" despite us not having a page for that movie.

And, of course, "can't match login information" trying to prevent me posting this.

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#19: Nov 18th 2014 at 2:53:47 PM

Yes, custom titles have been wonky everywhere. I've been trying to fix them as I come across them. You can ask for fixes by the custom title tool - it still works as of now.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Discar Since: Jun, 2009
#20: Nov 18th 2014 at 3:02:27 PM

Now a problem from me—I tried to send someone a reply about a PM I sent them about This Troper, and it said it couldn't match my login information. I'm still logged in everywhere else (as you can see), it's just the PM system seems to think I'm not.

CorvusAtrox from the Dueling Arena Since: Jun, 2014 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
#21: Nov 18th 2014 at 3:03:32 PM

Oh, and my watchlist seems to not display whether there are new posts at times.

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SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#22: Nov 18th 2014 at 3:04:28 PM

Login issues and watchlist ones are being reported in moderator chat too. The fix for the former is to reload the page(s) in question.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Beed28 Since: Dec, 2011
#23: Nov 18th 2014 at 3:13:53 PM

I'm now being randomly logged out. It's just happened twice.

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#24: Nov 18th 2014 at 3:14:28 PM

Yes, happening to me as well.

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#25: Nov 18th 2014 at 3:16:14 PM

I've been getting the "not logged in" error message. I'm also finding that occasionally a YKTTW will just give a "No YKTTW with that ID was found" error (although refreshing's fixed it every time so far).

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