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JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
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#1: Feb 27th 2011 at 10:57:17 AM

For some reason, tvtropes is loading uber slow for me. All the forums look like this, and they're taking forever to load. The main wiki is more readable, but no images but ads are loading for some reason. I've checked all the settings in firefox and have no idea what the problem is; this isn't a problem on any other sites, and I've checked with a few other tropers and no one seems to be having any problems. I also checked on IE and had the same problems.

Anybody have any idea what's going on?

edited 27th Feb '11 11:02:00 AM by JapaneseTeeth

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blackcat Since: Apr, 2009
#2: Feb 27th 2011 at 11:05:25 AM

Would cleaning your cache help?

I dunno but that seems to be the wiki equivalent of "take two aspirin".

JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing
#3: Feb 27th 2011 at 11:27:46 AM

Cleared the cache, still not loading correctly. I tried installing Google Chrome and not importing any of firefox's settings, but it didn't load correctly there either.

Is there a way to manually clear firefox's cache?

edited 27th Feb '11 11:34:47 AM by JapaneseTeeth

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Deboss I see the Awesomeness. from Awesomeville Texas Since: Aug, 2009
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#5: Feb 27th 2011 at 12:02:19 PM

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I'm having the problem too.

It's a problem with the servers I believe.

edited 27th Feb '11 12:04:48 PM by Deboss

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YamiiDenryuu Since: Jan, 2010
#6: Feb 27th 2011 at 12:03:21 PM

The forums were fine for me mere seconds ago, but then started acting up as soon as I tried to load this thread. Dear lord, it's contagious.

JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing
#7: Feb 27th 2011 at 12:13:28 PM

While it sucks that other guys are having issues, I'm kinda glad that the problem isn't on my end.

At least if it's just a server issue it means that Fast Eddie should have it unborked in relatively short order.

edited 27th Feb '11 12:26:42 PM by JapaneseTeeth

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FastEddie Since: Apr, 2004
#8: Feb 27th 2011 at 12:25:59 PM

Some parts of the Internet are being blocked from accessing the static server. I also happen to be in one of the blocked parts. The hosting company also had a general network problem that put everything they host out of reach. That's fixed, but they are still chasing other issues.

Nothing we can do but swear and pace back and forth until they find the problem.

edited 27th Feb '11 12:56:22 PM by FastEddie

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JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
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#9: Feb 27th 2011 at 12:33:46 PM

Good to know. Thanks for the update.

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TestYourMight Stealth Bomber from Not Winnipeg Either Since: Nov, 2010
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#11: Feb 27th 2011 at 1:10:52 PM

I'm having a similar problem. None of the forum images are loading.

If it is an Internet Counterattack, then let's do a countercounterattack!

EDIT: Gah! Now it's even worse! What the hell is happening?

edited 27th Feb '11 1:24:28 PM by TestYourMight

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#12: Feb 27th 2011 at 1:27:41 PM

Me too! It took me five minutes for this page to load. The forums look like plaintext and they're loading really, really slow, but I can see avatars, last I checked. I'm having problems with the rest of the wiki, too.

Some images (namely images in Main; the character pictures for Darker than Black are there) and pretty much all icons (expect Image Pickin') are not loading for me, but by God, the ads have to be there!

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KrisMahai Hm? Since: Jan, 2013
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#13: Feb 27th 2011 at 1:33:19 PM

^^ If you'll notice, Eddie explains it about three posts up from yours.

^ That's because the ads are hosted by Google, not the static server.

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chihuahua0 Since: Jul, 2010
#14: Feb 27th 2011 at 1:34:35 PM

Does anyone know why is this happening?

EDIT: Never mind. It's from a higher-up perspective? When is TV Tropes going to get its own server?

edited 27th Feb '11 1:37:45 PM by chihuahua0

KillerClowns Since: Jan, 2001
#15: Feb 27th 2011 at 1:35:21 PM

Internet Counterattack? Unlikely; it's probably just some random server problem. Hell, if it is an Internet Counterattack, the best solution is to let the techies deal with it and treat it like the technical problem it is, rather than feed any trolls.

EDIT: Ninja'd and corrected by Kris Mahai. It truly is just random server trouble, as said above by Fast Eddie.

edited 27th Feb '11 1:38:50 PM by KillerClowns

JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
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#16: Feb 27th 2011 at 1:36:11 PM

See Fast Eddie's above post. Apparently there are some issues with the host that are blocking random people from accessing the static server, where most (all?) of the images are hosted. We're waiting for the hosting company to figure out what the problem is.

EDIT: I doubt it's any sort of attack; somebody probably made a typo in some coding somewhere or something. At least tvtropes isn't down completely.

edited 27th Feb '11 1:40:43 PM by JapaneseTeeth

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#17: Feb 27th 2011 at 1:40:55 PM

Same here. Gotta love service provider issues, eh?

Ah well. They're probably having just as much fun finding the problem as we are dealing with it...

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SalFishFin Since: Jan, 2001
#18: Feb 27th 2011 at 1:48:03 PM

Forum and watchlist are bad for me.

RocketDude Since: May, 2009
#19: Feb 27th 2011 at 1:50:49 PM

The images are all trying to come back for me. I think things are getting better.

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#20: Feb 27th 2011 at 2:03:50 PM

I'm having the same problems. It's also occurring on Deviant Art.

JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing
#21: Feb 27th 2011 at 2:04:14 PM

^^Trying to? What exactly does that mean?

edited 27th Feb '11 2:06:59 PM by JapaneseTeeth

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Catfish42 Bloody Fossil from world´s favourite country. Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
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#22: Feb 27th 2011 at 2:16:46 PM

I'm getting this too. Some avatars are displayed (only very few though, about two or three on this page, I guess those are still in the browser cache.), but that's it, everything else is just text that looks oddly formatted.

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Jordan Azor Ahai from Westeros Since: Jan, 2001
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#23: Feb 27th 2011 at 2:19:34 PM

I can see advertisements, but no other images, and the formatting is weird.

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RichReeders Official Muffin Watcher from Watching this muffin. Since: Feb, 2011
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#24: Feb 27th 2011 at 2:25:29 PM

Shit, I thought I'd done that somehow.

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dontcallmewave Brony? Moi? surely you jest! from My home Since: Nov, 2013
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#25: Feb 27th 2011 at 2:34:00 PM

Anyone have any idea when this will be fixed?

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