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6 February 2018
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Sorry all. I am working on this, but it’s always two steps forward, one step back. Things might be broken for a while but I’m doing my best to fix it all.

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6 February 2018
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^Joe’s Fixing A Hole where Blue Meanies get in.

I’m sure at time he feels like it is a Sea Of Holes . He gets one fixed, and another one opens up with a problem sticking out of it.

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6 February 2018
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Whatever @Joe is doing,it seems to be working. The pages are loading a lot quicker than earlier. Thanks for the email reply @Joe. I replied to your reply a-hard-days-night-george-9

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6 February 2018
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Glad to be able to help a bit. Most of the site is loading much quicker now, but the forum is still a little slow. I’ll keep trying to speed things up but it’ll have to wait till tomorrow now.

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7 February 2018
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Some of the forum looked like this:
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7 February 2018
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It might do intermittently. I’m combining style sheets to see if I can speed the forum up, but sometimes it breaks the layout. I think I’ve cracked it now though. If it still looks odd please refresh your browser. If that doesn’t fix it I’m probably still working on it.

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8 February 2018
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At the top of the page,where it says (in my case) “Welcome back Father McKenzie, please log in to post”,it didn’t say Father McKenzie this time,it was another user’s name. I clicked on the log in screen just to check, and it had my username and password there,so I logged in as normal,but when I logged out again, it said the same as before I logged in (ie another user’s name ahdn_paul_01.)

Just a heads up,in case the same thing happens to others a-hard-days-night-george-10

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8 February 2018
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OK, that’s interesting. Thanks for letting me know. It’s not a disaster or a security risk, but it’s not ideal either.

What’s happening is that the forum gets cached for non-logged-in users. That speeds up loading for casual readers who are just browsing. When someone first visits a page, that rendering goes into the cache to be served up for future visitors, and it gets purged after a while.

The problem you saw is that someone with an account, but who wasn’t logged in, had got there first. The page they saw was then served up to you and others, more quickly than it would have been if it had been generated on the fly.

Probably the easiest thing is for me to try to remove that “Welcome back” message, though I’m not sure if that’s possible. I’ll look into it.

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8 February 2018
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No problem @Joe. I assumed it was a glitch because of the work you’re doing on the site. If another user’s password had appeared,I’d have been a lot more worried,but thankfully it was mine.

 

I posted on a thread, and when I clicked on Submit reply,it came up with Do you want to do that,I clicked yes, and it urged me to sign up to the site. I just refreshed the page instead a-hard-days-night-george-9

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8 February 2018
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I’ve found it’s kicked me out a couple of times too. Sorry. I’m still debugging some stuff so it might be related to that, and hopefully it’ll stop once I finish testing different settings permutations.

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8 February 2018
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Have only found one page that will allow me to log in…

https://www.beatlesbible.com/f…..n/page-26/

Everywhere else I’ve tried, the log in button does nothing. This is affecting many as Ahhh Girl, The Hole Got Fixed, Starr Shine? and Necko have all reported the same problem on Starr Shine?’s back-up.

For anyone unfamiliar with the back-up, it can be found here.

Should you wish to post there, you can do so as a guest if you don’t want to register.

Couldn’t get the add reply to work on this page (don’t know if it’s across the forum). Was only able to make this post using quote and then deleting the quote.

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8 February 2018
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Ron Nasty said
Everywhere else I’ve tried, the log in button does nothing. This is affecting many as Ahhh Girl, The Hole Got Fixed, Starr Shine? and Necko have all reported the same problem on Starr Shine?’s back-up.

You are mistaken.  I have never had this problem.

I'm Necko.  I'm like Ringo except I wear necklaces.

I'm also ewe2 on weekends.

Most likely to post things that make you go hmm... 2015, 2016, 2017. 

8 February 2018
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Really sorry everyone. I think I’ve fixed the login issue, but I might need a bit more time to sort out Add Reply not working.

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Necko said

Ron Nasty said
Everywhere else I’ve tried, the log in button does nothing. This is affecting many as Ahhh Girl, The Hole Got Fixed, Starr Shine? and Necko have all reported the same problem on Starr Shine?’s back-up.

You are mistaken.  I have never had this problem.  

Yeah, sorry, you were page crashing…

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8 February 2018
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Add reply is back, for now at least.

I know I’m being a real pain with this experimentation, but it’s for the greater good, honest. Combining scripts makes the whole site load much faster, but it also broke a lot of functionality in this forum. I need to work out precisely which script doesn’t like being added, which I’ll do tomorrow morning. I normally make site changes in the UK morning because most (US) users are offline.

But mea culpa, I didn’t know there were so many issues today. I’ve had my head down breaking and fixing things, and didn’t check emails etc. Because Father McKenzie was able to post here I thought it was just a quiet day, not realising so many others were locked out.

Also, the autofill on mentions doesn’t seem to be working properly. Sigh.

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8 February 2018
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Not a problem, @Joe. We know you’re just doing your best to make the whole thing run smoother, something we’ll all appreciate.

‘Twas a bit frustrating, realising you were probably unaware of some of the problems because a few people were managing to log in, and Father Mac got a few posts through.

Just check your emails if the forum goes very quiet while you’re working on it tomorrow. a-hard-days-night-george-10

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8 February 2018
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I’m back in. Yes!

My reply box is tiny and strange. Just adding it in case it helps you figure out what’s going on, Joe. And for posterity’s sake.

I was welcomed back as Father McKenzie once during the down time.

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In case you haven’t seen this yet, Joe.

The adding attachment area is acting up. I just kept clicking around in the black box until I hit upon the right area to add and upload.

(**You might be a hardcore Beatles Bibler if…you can add attachments even in the dark. LOL.)

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8 February 2018
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Hmm, my reply box looks weird too. As do my attachments.

(This post was mostly a test)

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Mine is absolutely perfect with no issues, the pages are super speedy.

Was unable to use the forum for almost a day but worth it for what I now have.

 

Feel free Joe to put your feet up and leave everything alone. apple01heart

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