Nereid wrote:However, if you see spam, or a rule violation, please send me, or makc or bystander (the mods) a private message.
Once bugs, problems, etc have been resolved, the posts reporting them will be moved to the Resolved problems, bugs etc thread.
Just to let you know, this is a discussion forum. We are not directly associated with APOD at NASA. This particular topic is primarily for posting problems with the BBS and forum. However, there are some very technically minded posters in this forum and maybe one of them can help.rainman wrote:The problem I'm having is that the RSS feed stopped working for me about a week ago, I just get the message 'Live bookmark failed to load'. I have searched the forums for this, but could not find anything. I am using Firefox 3.0.7, but since my other RSS feeds are still working normally, I doubt that the problem is on my side.
Oops...that would explain why I couldn't find similar reports here.bystander wrote: Just to let you know, this is a discussion forum. We are not directly associated with APOD at NASA. This particular topic is primarily for posting problems with the BBS and forum. However, there are some very technically minded posters in this forum and maybe one of them can help.
Thanks for the welcome and the quick reply!bystander wrote: Good Luck and Welcome to the Asterisk*
IIRC, there's a phpBB feature (or maybe a plugin) that limits the posting rate for a given user or IP. Just what's needed to stop this kind of robot spamming (or rather, to slow it down so it's less of a nuisance until a moderator can ban the account).BMAONE23 wrote:Webdoctorgeorge 900+ spam posts and still posting
I don't see what is dangerous about the 'reset', ambiguous, probably. 'Save' seems intuitive to me. But all of that is phpBB code, and not the intellectual property of the Asterisk*. Perhaps you could redirect your concerns to them.robotwisdom wrote:The 'reset' button on the site-registration form is dangerously ambiguous-- I expected it to give me a more readable captcha. (I've never seen a submission form with that sort of reset before.) Some clarification of how to get a better captcha is needed.
'Save' vs 'Submit' is also unexpected. You might place 'Save' last since it's the unexpected one, or call it 'Save for later'.
Although, this site is not officially associated with APOD, APOD seems to be working fine. You might try different software. I can't make any recommendations, (I haven't tried it), but google sites has an apod wallpaper widget. You can probably find others using a web search.Sandra Land wrote:A while ago I used http://nightskylive.net/software/apod/ to install (I thought) the APOD pic as automatically changing background. It worked to some extent - every few days I'd get a new pic. But now it seems stuck on picture of the moon shining through the clouds. I reinstalled, but the picture seems permanent. Is there a problem with the site?
Yes, I deleted the cookies and reset them. It's been happening for a few days only. I did get a burst of topic notifications this morning, including those for some posts made yesterday. Looking at the headers, they seem to have been hung in the mtu.edu servers for a while, so that problem may have nothing to do with the board.geckzilla wrote:How long has this been happening? Have you tried deleting the board cookies yet? There's a link in the footer for deleting them. It's weird that you would have a cookie problem since nothing has been changed in the board settings. Maybe it's just a fluke or maybe it's something else. Let me know if deleting the cookies fixes anything.
And still a problem. I just found myself logged out in the middle of composing a message. I was logged in and allowed to write a response, but when I submitted it I needed to log in again. Very annoying, very odd. I haven't made any changes on my system lately that should matter (and the problem shows up on two computers). No browser updates, no add-on updates or additions, no changes to my firewall. I don't have any malware issues. Also, I'm not seeing this on a couple of other phpBB sites I frequent.geckzilla wrote:Getting logged out randomly is something that should be looked into further. You didn't install any addons to Firefox recently did you? The only other thing I can think of is maybe some kind of malware, though that seems unlikely... It might also have something to do with the board or it could have something to do with MTU, though I don't know what exactly. I'm not familiar with what kind of problems can be caused by, say, someone changing your firewall. Hopefully it stops on its own. I know random logouts are extremely frustrating.
Seriously, though, I haven't noticed it and I often stay connected for long periods even when I'm not active. I've had it happen at BAUT, but that's not phpBB. I'm using 3.5.6, and have been for at least a few days (I seem to recall the last update wasn't long ago). That appears to be the latest. Are the logs showing that I'm using something different?geckzilla wrote:Chris, I noticed you are 0.0.1 version behind my own version of Firefox. Try hitting Help > Check for Updates... and let's eliminate that variable, though I doubt it has anything to do with it.
I use a cookie handling tool (which hasn't changed for a long time). It protects cookies that I don't want to delete, and I fairly regularly clear out the unprotected cookies. That includes the ones for this forum, and after that I do have to log in again. But that's quite different from the random logouts I'm encountering. I have tried clearing out cookies, history, and the cache. I'm pretty sure that I've rebooted since the problem started. But the thing is, I've seen this on two machines- one with XP, the other with W7, so I don't think it's anything to do with my computers. One thing I'll try testing is if Wildblue (my ISP) is creating problems. They utilize a server-side proxy to reduce latency issues (a problem with satellite connections), and I have no control over any changes that they might make. I can stop using it for a while, however, and see if it makes this particular problem disappear.And have you tried doing Tools > Clear Recent History with Cookies and Active Logins selected with time range set to Everything? I also hate to ask this since it's like a 15 year old catch-all for computer glitches for dummies, but when was the last time you rebooted?
Yeah, problems like this are hard. Sooner or later I expect it will simply fix itself, or we'll suddenly realize what variable has changed. In the meantime, it's just an annoyance, not a major hardship. Firefox does a good job remembering my login info, so it's normally just an extra click when the problem occurs.This is completely baffling, especially with no one else being able to reproduce the problem. If we can reproduce it, we can fix it. Otherwise we're just shooting in the dark.
