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  • Dave Lozier
    Amherst, WI
    Posts: 935
    #2271109

    As I posted Anchor Marine in Delano can do the repair. If you want the best in the business then call Georges Boat Repair in East Bethel.

    What he said. After I got out of the military back in 89 I worked for a few different companies that produced fiberglass products. We’d also do repairs for locals here and there, usually boats. The damage in your picture can definitely be fixed. Just pick a shop with the experience needed.

    Dave Lozier
    Amherst, WI
    Posts: 935
    #2268341

    Seems fine on iPhone x but not sure what version I am on.

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    Dave Lozier
    Amherst, WI
    Posts: 935
    #2268339

    Never mind – I found the topic. It’s fine on firefox/android. I do have an iphone I can test from. It’s been a while since I turned it on so probably needs updating. (will check before and after updating)

    Dave Lozier
    Amherst, WI
    Posts: 935
    #2268338

    Which post is this happening on? I can add some style rules to help. On apple phones/tablets all browses are powered by safari under the hood.

    Dave Lozier
    Amherst, WI
    Posts: 935
    #2265564

    Never to late for a good joke! lol

    A while back (years?) an idea crossed my mind on the night before April 1st. I thought about adding some code that would randomly popup a window saying “You are about to tickle ????”, pulling a random member name out of the topic being viewed. The “Cancel” button wouldn’t actually dismiss the popup and you would be presented with a “You just tickled ????!”. The recipient would get a notification that they have been tickled by them. After laughing to myself for a bit imagining the awkward looks of concern and embarrassment the ticklers would have I let the idea pass. I didn’t want to be the cause of any workplace (or dock) shootings. lol

    Dave Lozier
    Amherst, WI
    Posts: 935
    #2257595

    I have never understood the need for passwords on these sites.

    Spammers and scammers. We have various hurdles in place that helps keep their numbers low that do make it in. Needing an account to post is one of the hurdles.

    Dave Lozier
    Amherst, WI
    Posts: 935
    #2257576

    I’m glad it worked! I hadn’t actually tested it. The functionality was previously handled by woocommerce but that’s not installed now.

    Dave Lozier
    Amherst, WI
    Posts: 935
    #2257519

    Under the settings tab on your profile there should be an option to change your password. I replied to your email with a link to that page as well.

    Dave Lozier
    Amherst, WI
    Posts: 935
    #2253536

    We are actively blocking VPNs that have been used by spammers or bots. If your VPN uses a blocked host for an exit node then you will also not be able to access this site via that node.

    Dave Lozier
    Amherst, WI
    Posts: 935
    #2253305

    I used your IP associated with your post. You are using Charter. There is no firewall rule blocking that ISP. We do block ASN’s of known hosting providers which spammers use. We’d have to be under attack before I’d consider blocking an entire ISP.

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    Dave Lozier
    Amherst, WI
    Posts: 935
    #2251284

    Thanks Dave – this seems more like an application firewall issue. The file you attached was taken at 6:02, just before you posted. I found an event logged with your IP address so I’m pretty sure it was your upload attempt.

    I have changed some thresholds for the rules to hopefully allow you to change your profile image. Please try again and let me know if it works.

    Thanks!

    Dave Lozier
    Amherst, WI
    Posts: 935
    #2250813

    The next time it happens would you take a screenshot and attach it here. I’ll try using a non admin test account and see if I can replicate the issue that way. Thanks!

    Dave Lozier
    Amherst, WI
    Posts: 935
    #2250291

    This is working for me, both uploading and using my webcam. Is this working for anyone else?

    Dave Lozier
    Amherst, WI
    Posts: 935
    #2249840

    Although we did cache the data queried for the recent topics widget it could still cause traffic pileups during refresh. The new database table I am using to track active topics could probably be used to show recent topics too, without the performance impact.

    When I’m under the hood this weekend I’ll see what I can do.

    Dave Lozier
    Amherst, WI
    Posts: 935
    #2249838

    I had to disable most of the activity tracking that gets dumped into the buddypress activity table. A lot of other forum actions would get bogged down otherwise. There’s also 11 indices on that table. I feel like it is over optimized and possibly confusing the database server on which index to use. (depending on the query)

    But that’s just me speculating. )

    Dave Lozier
    Amherst, WI
    Posts: 935
    #2249836

    Your timeout was probably caused by the nightly cron task that clears out deleted posts and does other maintenance tasks for the forum. The type of tables being used in the database are locked up at the row level when operations are taking place so that helps overall it can still cause issues if your post needs data from one of the locked rows.

    It’s good to hear things are running better though! )

    Dave Lozier
    Amherst, WI
    Posts: 935
    #2249691

    I’ll have a look at this over the weekend. (maybe sooner)

    Dave Lozier
    Amherst, WI
    Posts: 935
    #2249062

    These guys charged their nissan ariya with a generator near the north pole. (no garage, sub zero temps)
    https://www.thenissannext.com/en/PoletoPole.html

    My understanding is that the car’s battery and drive train was left stock to prove their point that an ariya can deal with the cold. Mileage may very for other makes/models though. lol

    Dave Lozier
    Amherst, WI
    Posts: 935
    #2248030

    Knocking on wood here. lol

    Actually there was a few seconds of downtime late saturday night but that was caused by me so no mystery there. D

    Dave Lozier
    Amherst, WI
    Posts: 935
    #2246802

    It’s possible that you’re running into some locked rows in the database. There are some long running cron jobs that started around 9 this morning. Things still seem fast though and I haven’t gotten any timeout notifications.

    The DB server load is up and there’s a lot more slow queries being ran. I’m going to just let the tasks play out for now.

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    Dave Lozier
    Amherst, WI
    Posts: 935
    #2246636

    Document Expired

    This document is no longer available.

    The requested document is not available in Firefox’s cache.

    As a security precaution, Firefox does not automatically re-request sensitive documents.
    Click Try Again to re-request the document from the website.

    the above message I get when using the back button to go to the topic list. Some days it is fine today not so

    That’s a browser issue but I’m not sure how you’d be running into that. Expired document warnings are usually related to pages that have been requested with the POST method (eg. submitting form data). I have never seen this error here when using the back button to back out of pages while browsing. (also using firefox)

    Anyone else?

    Dave Lozier
    Amherst, WI
    Posts: 935
    #2246357

    That may have contributed some but I don’t think it’s that much overall. I’ve gotten timeout notifications at 3 and 4 in the morning. I doubt there were many logged in here during hose times. Traffic for the last 3 days has been higher than the previous 4 so that’s also a good sign.

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    Dave Lozier
    Amherst, WI
    Posts: 935
    #2246343

    Resource utilization has dropped these past few days and monitoring hasn’t reported any more timeouts. I think we’re good to go for a while. )

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    Dave Lozier
    Amherst, WI
    Posts: 935
    #2246205

    It’s good to hear that things are running better now. I had to remove some stuff to fix the issues more quickly. Hopefully the changes wont be missed to much. The time out incidents started happening more frequently in the last 30 days.

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    Dave Lozier
    Amherst, WI
    Posts: 935
    #2245946

    I haven’t gotten any notifications about the site timing out this weekend. I think the changes are helping. Adding a new topic or reply seems to go quicker too.

    We’ll see how Monday goes. Hopefully better than the recent ones. )

    Dave Lozier
    Amherst, WI
    Posts: 935
    #2245895

    I’ve replaced the “Today’s Topics” widget with “Active Topics”. The data is pulled from a dedicated database table that is updated when new topics or replies are made. This eliminates one of most impactful database queries I have seen in New Relic.

    More to come. )

    Dave Lozier
    Amherst, WI
    Posts: 935
    #2245793

    I’ve made the ACID compliance of the database more laxed to help speed up new post inserts. I’m not sure how much help this is though. The trade off is if things crash we could lose up to 60 seconds of data.

    Changing to a new theme will take more than a weekend. I forget just how much custom code is in the current one.

    Dave Lozier
    Amherst, WI
    Posts: 935
    #2245766

    We’re already short-circuiting the native wordpress search and sending queries to google when the search box is used.

    Right now the slow queries I am seeing are related simply getting topics ordered by recent activity. bbPress is doing this by joining the posts table with the posts meta table and sorting on a meta key/value. Other forum software would typically store the recent activity timestamp with the topic so that no table join is needed.

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