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Community => News and Announcements => Topic started by: Sauron on April 02, 2011, 11:05:20 pm

Title: Work on server and web
Post by: Sauron on April 02, 2011, 11:05:20 pm
In the next days (from April 3 to April 7) we will do some maintenance on website and servers.
A short downtime or maintenance mode may be expected.

After this we expect the website to increase in speed, apart from some other new things we may announce later on.
Title: Re: Work on server and web
Post by: Nathan on April 02, 2011, 11:06:56 pm
Wonderful. I noticed a lag increase recently but this will probably fix it and make things better.
Title: Re: Work on server and web
Post by: [NP]Monte Montague on April 02, 2011, 11:07:45 pm
oh ok, nice.

BTW, hi.
Title: Re: Work on server and web
Post by: Norrage on April 02, 2011, 11:07:52 pm
Lets hope so :)
Title: Re: Work on server and web
Post by: Webster on April 02, 2011, 11:09:03 pm
Nice to hear, hopefully it will be for our own good, as I have been experiencing some lag recently.  :)
Title: Re: Work on server and web
Post by: Caltson on April 02, 2011, 11:09:59 pm
Alrighty, but please (I'm begging you  :lol: ) keep the server up tomorrow at 11.00 AM (CET) until 12.00 CET, The finals of a big event will commence, would be a shame if the server would be down at that time.

Other than that, good to see improvement coming!
Title: Re: Work on server and web
Post by: JayCalian on April 02, 2011, 11:14:14 pm
Good to hear:)! Can't access the forums because of lag sometimes.
Title: Re: Work on server and web
Post by: Dorg on April 02, 2011, 11:14:50 pm
Good to hear, Mr.Eye in the sky! :cool:
Title: Re: Work on server and web
Post by: SugarD on April 02, 2011, 11:18:45 pm
Awesome to hear Sauron, and glad to see you're alive and well, in whatever sense a god can be hahaha!

Keep up the awesome work man!
Title: Re: Work on server and web
Post by: Fabio on April 03, 2011, 12:00:36 am
Sounds good, hopefully the website and the forum will be a bit faster.
Title: Re: Work on server and web
Post by: ~Legend~ on April 03, 2011, 01:41:16 am
Great.
Increased speed would be perfect.
Title: Re: Work on server and web
Post by: SavioR88 on April 03, 2011, 02:04:04 am
How about get off that sky for once and role play with us.... ? :/
Title: Re: Work on server and web
Post by: CharlieKasper on April 03, 2011, 05:56:03 am
How about get off that sky for once and role play with us.... ? :/
lol



Yeah i also experience a lot of lag shit nowadays at forums. Take too much of time to load up..
Title: Re: Work on server and web
Post by: Louis_Keyl on April 03, 2011, 07:21:13 am
How about get off that sky for once and role play with us.... ? :/

He already does, he is our god :D



Good to hear my dear Eye in the Sky, good luck!
Title: Re: Work on server and web
Post by: JDC on April 03, 2011, 08:26:58 am
Just a trivia for you guys. Sauron is more a webhoster than a gamer, so if you see him ingame it would be a miracle. :razz:
Title: Re: Work on server and web
Post by: SugarD on April 03, 2011, 08:30:31 am
Just a trivia for you guys. Sauron is more a webhoster than a gamer, so if you see him ingame it would be a miracle. :razz:
Ya...it's been years since I've seen him come play with us, and that was back when MTA:VC was the only server in Argo!
Title: Re: Work on server and web
Post by: Pancher on April 03, 2011, 08:43:01 am
Good news!
Title: Re: Work on server and web
Post by: Witchking on April 03, 2011, 09:11:44 am
yes Good to Hear.
Title: Re: Work on server and web
Post by: RuCa on April 03, 2011, 10:20:00 am
Nice to hear
Title: Re: Work on server and web
Post by: Wake on April 03, 2011, 11:38:23 am
Great news  :D
Title: Re: Work on server and web
Post by: Shejken on April 03, 2011, 11:41:50 am
Hopefully connection problems will be fix'd
Title: Re: Work on server and web
Post by: Devin on April 03, 2011, 11:54:11 am
So will this fix the forums crashing once in a while too?
Title: Re: Work on server and web
Post by: newguy on April 03, 2011, 12:43:42 pm
Prayers from Worshippers of Sauron has caused this,i'm telling you.
Title: Re: Work on server and web
Post by: KhornateMonkey on April 03, 2011, 12:50:16 pm
Thanks for the information, Sauron
Title: Re: Work on server and web
Post by: Murt on April 04, 2011, 10:07:51 am
Good to hear that you guys are working to make the websites better.  ;)
Title: Re: Work on server and web
Post by: Fabio on April 04, 2011, 12:46:53 pm
Forum feels a lot faster.
Title: Re: Work on server and web
Post by: Sweeper on April 05, 2011, 07:18:58 pm
Forum ranks changed?
Title: Re: Work on server and web
Post by: Void on April 05, 2011, 10:33:02 pm
Forum ranks changed?

I think not, mate.
You have 13 days totally logged in and your rank should be regular. No worries.
Title: Re: Work on server and web
Post by: Sweeper on April 06, 2011, 06:04:19 pm
I think not, mate.
You have 13 days totally logged in and your rank should be regular. No worries.

Well, it's not about my rank. I don't actually care if I'm a stranger. I see members as veteran/hero, and before the downtime of the forum they were regular.
Title: Re: Work on server and web
Post by: Murdock on April 06, 2011, 06:38:59 pm
nothing change except those ads you added.
Title: Re: Work on server and web
Post by: Aimzz on April 06, 2011, 06:40:54 pm
Is it me or is the main banner oversized?
And did the theme change colour from blue to white?
Title: Re: Work on server and web
Post by: Traser on April 06, 2011, 06:52:17 pm
Is it me or is the main banner oversized?
And did the theme change colour from blue to white?

Banner is not the good size at the moment, Coloursceme is still the same, And look at the bottom (of the messages, last message of the topic (page))
There is a footer added, Random pictures and ads.
Title: Re: Work on server and web
Post by: Gimli on April 06, 2011, 06:52:55 pm
Is it me or is the main banner oversized?
And did the theme change colour from blue to white?

Seems to be a problem with Chrome (and Safari,as they both use the same base)
Title: Re: Work on server and web
Post by: dtlove on April 06, 2011, 07:08:47 pm
I've just used the dev function in chrome, at the moment, the code for the banner is as followed:

Code: [Select]
<img src="/forum/header/rotator.php" width="100%" height="100%" alt="Argonath RPG Forums">
For some reason this makes most users using Safari and Chrome have an oversized banner, it does however show the correct size when the code is set out as followed:

Quote
<img src="/forum/header/rotator.php" width="100%" height="auto" alt="Argonath RPG Forums">
Title: Re: Work on server and web
Post by: Janar on April 06, 2011, 07:15:52 pm
I've just used the dev function in chrome, at the moment, the code for the banner is as followed:

Code: [Select]
<img src="/forum/header/rotator.php" width="100%" height="100%" alt="Argonath RPG Forums">
For some reason this makes most users using Safari and Chrome have an oversized banner, it does however show the correct size when the code is set out as followed:

How to change it? Never mind, found it. Right click on the height="100%" and change it to auto.
Title: Re: Work on server and web
Post by: Gimli on April 06, 2011, 07:36:20 pm
Or just delete it.. but it's only a temporary thing for testing..
Title: Re: Work on server and web
Post by: SugarD on April 06, 2011, 10:08:03 pm
Seems to be a problem with Chrome (and Safari,as they both use the same base)
Not a Chrome issue, because I've been using it this entire time and it works fine. Gandalf is still trying to fix some bugs.
Title: Re: Work on server and web
Post by: Gandalf on April 06, 2011, 10:40:27 pm
Not a Chrome issue, because I've been using it this entire time and it works fine. Gandalf is still trying to fix some bugs.
Regarding the header, do you see it normal or does it coever the screen like some people reported ?

And yes, that does seem to be a browser related issue. So do report it as a bug to the browser makers. :D
Title: Re: Work on server and web
Post by: SugarD on April 06, 2011, 10:50:08 pm
Regarding the header, do you see it normal or does it coever the screen like some people reported ?

And yes, that does seem to be a browser related issue. So do report it as a bug to the browser makers. :D
It's a CSS/PHP issue within the forum software. Something in the original design was forcing the banner's area to that size, and the CSS was merely telling the image to fill in that space 100%. I think that plant image that was showing up in the rotator was the one forcing the size. The reason for my belief behind this is that I have a custom header on one of my forums that has the same issue, and my fix was to have a transparent image in a certain place to keep the sizing correct.

Edit: And just as I say it, the big man fixes it! Way to go Gandy! ;)
Title: Re: Work on server and web
Post by: Mikro on April 06, 2011, 10:53:28 pm
It's a CSS/PHP issue within the forum software. Something in the original design was forcing the banner's area to that size, and the CSS was merely telling the image to fill in that space 100%. I think that plant image that was showing up in the rotator was the one forcing the size. The reason for my belief behind this is that I have a custom header on one of my forums that has the same issue, and my fix was to have a transparent image in a certain place to keep the sizing correct.

Edit: And just as I say it, the big man fixes it! Way to go Gandy! ;)

Indeed, it scales the image over the full width it got. So the bigger you make the browser, the bigger the image will be. In width aswell in height. With the resolution of 1920 x 1080 I got, it is quite a big (in height) header.  :D
Title: Re: Work on server and web
Post by: Gandalf on April 07, 2011, 12:09:09 am
It's a CSS/PHP issue within the forum software. Something in the original design was forcing the banner's area to that size, and the CSS was merely telling the image to fill in that space 100%. I think that plant image that was showing up in the rotator was the one forcing the size. The reason for my belief behind this is that I have a custom header on one of my forums that has the same issue, and my fix was to have a transparent image in a certain place to keep the sizing correct.

Edit: And just as I say it, the big man fixes it! Way to go Gandy! ;)
Which means that your browser did not handle the THML properly, as the height was seen as a global parameter instead of linked to the table in which the header is located.
Howver a fix for users of a useless browser applied.  :lol:
Title: Re: Work on server and web
Post by: Jimmy_Bowling on April 07, 2011, 01:25:05 am
Which means that your browser did not handle the THML properly, as the height was seen as a global parameter instead of linked to the table in which the header is located.
Howver a fix for users of a useless browser applied.  :lol:
 


+1 Firefox Pawns
Title: Re: Work on server and web
Post by: SugarD on April 07, 2011, 02:51:54 am
Which means that your browser did not handle the THML properly, as the height was seen as a global parameter instead of linked to the table in which the header is located.
Howver a fix for users of a useless browser applied.  :lol:
Not necessarily. That would be the forum's template that would need to take the blame in this case, because it was not resizing based on the browser's size, but was instead displaying a static, overly large sized banner.
Title: Re: Work on server and web
Post by: Aragorn on April 07, 2011, 07:39:39 am
Not necessarily. That would be the forum's template that would need to take the blame in this case, because it was not resizing based on the browser's size, but was instead displaying a static, overly large sized banner.
Forum template had no changes... And users with Firefox had no problems...
Title: Re: Work on server and web
Post by: SugarD on April 07, 2011, 07:47:33 am
Forum template had no changes... And users with Firefox had no problems...
Gandalf made some template changes trying to clean up the ads, which resulted in the mod bugging the forum for a bit until he was able to fix it. I think in the process of that, something else got messed up as well. He told me in an attempt to fix it previously that he even copied over a fresh copy of the theme to combat the bug, so I'm thinking that the custom banner system was changed sometime after the theme was created, so the new changes weren't added when the theme was reinstalled.
Title: Re: Work on server and web
Post by: Aragorn on April 07, 2011, 07:58:47 am
Gandalf made some template changes trying to clean up the ads, which resulted in the mod bugging the forum for a bit until he was able to fix it. I think in the process of that, something else got messed up as well. He told me in an attempt to fix it previously that he even copied over a fresh copy of the theme to combat the bug, so I'm thinking that the custom banner system was changed sometime after the theme was created, so the new changes weren't added when the theme was reinstalled.

That has nothing to do with the forum table...
As well as the problem is only for Google Chrome users...
Title: Re: Work on server and web
Post by: [Rstar]Paul on April 07, 2011, 08:02:05 am
I'm using Chrome, the Banner had been a bigger size, yes. But now it's back to normal.
Title: Re: Work on server and web
Post by: SugarD on April 07, 2011, 08:02:19 am
That has nothing to do with the forum table...
As well as the problem is only for Google Chrome users...
Well what I'm thinking happened is the changes were made when the new, custom banner was added sometime after the original theme was made way back when, so when Gandalf reinstalled that theme to conquer the forum bug the other day, any changes made to the theme after it was originally made would've been lost, meaning even a fix for certain browsers.
Title: Re: Work on server and web
Post by: Aragorn on April 07, 2011, 08:21:38 am
I'm using Chrome, the Banner had been a bigger size, yes. But now it's back to normal.
Yes because we did one change statement which Chrome did not handle... All other browsers had no problems...
Title: Re: Work on server and web
Post by: Aragorn on April 07, 2011, 08:23:06 am
Well what I'm thinking happened is the changes were made when the new, custom banner was added sometime after the original theme was made way back when, so when Gandalf reinstalled that theme to conquer the forum bug the other day, any changes made to the theme after it was originally made would've been lost, meaning even a fix for certain browsers.
Once again, header was bugged only for Chrome users...
Title: Re: Work on server and web
Post by: Que on April 07, 2011, 08:23:52 am
Yes because we did one change statement which Chrome did not handle... All other browsers had no problems...
It's working fine now.  :)
Title: Re: Work on server and web
Post by: SugarD on April 07, 2011, 08:24:34 am
Once again, header was bugged only for Chrome users...
I know, I'm not saying it isn't specific to a certain browser, I'm just saying I believe the bug is being caused by a previous fix being accidentally removed as a result of the forum fix, but things are all good now. :)
Title: Re: Work on server and web
Post by: saberman on April 14, 2011, 12:21:34 pm
Forum is great, although you guys need to fix the lag on the server.
Title: Re: Work on server and web
Post by: TheRock on April 14, 2011, 10:18:39 pm
Banner still bigger than it used to be here with Mozilla Firefox 4!
Title: Re: Work on server and web
Post by: Roman on April 14, 2011, 11:02:47 pm
Forum is great, although you guys need to fix the lag on the server.

Move to Europe or buy a better internet :)
Title: Re: Work on server and web
Post by: Ryan C. on April 14, 2011, 11:06:29 pm
Banner does seam bigger then it was before
Title: Re: Work on server and web
Post by: Nexxt on April 14, 2011, 11:06:56 pm
I live in Europe and I lag aswell.
Title: Re: Work on server and web
Post by: TheRock on April 14, 2011, 11:13:09 pm
I lag as hell... and I am in Europe.
Title: Re: Work on server and web
Post by: Exclusive. on April 14, 2011, 11:25:12 pm
Me to, I live in The Netherlands. It's just a couple 100KMs from the server thingy, and I got a good internet connection. Got around 60 ping most of the time.

Title: Re: Work on server and web
Post by: SugarD on April 15, 2011, 03:10:49 am
Banner does seam bigger then it was before
I thought the same, even after they fixed it. It's the same way in IE too. I thought it was just me, though.
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