Chat system bugs

[Horn]

Does it run on Java? I upgraded to 1.6~1 and the chat no longer works.

 

[Wolverabid]

According to the Chieftain:

It is a custom program, custom built with PHP/MySQL/AJAX/JavaScript.

So indeed, patching your browser might have caused a bug.

My standard advice for all users experiencing browser conflicts: install and try Netscape Navigator One can't have too many backup browers installed (IMO).

~ Thread moved to Bug Report Forum.

 

[Ralle]

Not Java. Java != JavaScript.
Shouldn't change anything.
What browser are you using? And what does it say?

 

[Pyritie]

I don't think it's him, as since around 6-7 PM-ish (GMT +1), the chatroom doesn't work for me either. And I didn't patch my browser...

 

[donut3.5]

Not working for me either.. (Firefox user)
And it just disconnects me immediately (green light never flashes, no people are in chat, etc.)
--donut3.5--

 

[MySpaceBarBroke]

It's definitely screwed up with me, too. I'm using IE atm. The connection thing is just a vertical rectangle not flashing, and no one is inside.

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

I have no problems with the chat, I use IE7.

 

[brad.dude03]

IE6 and chat is doing just fine

 

[Wolverabid]

Well, whatever bug has crawled out from the woodwork, I'm experiencing it too.

I am unable to access the chat room using either of my two machines or four web browsers. When entering, I see the chat frames and environment: no nicklist or messages are visible; the activity button does not flash.

 

[HeretoDLstuff]

IE6 and chat is doing just fine

For me, jut becaus its working, dosnt mean its "Just fine".....I join and im auto diss connected, but after going to the forms and entering chat again a few times it works, and sometimes it work at the start ok too.

But thats for me, idk about you.

 

[Mechanical Man]

Not working.

 

[HeretoDLstuff]

Not working.

Did you try going back to the forms and then re-entering about 5 times?

 

[Horn]

Guess my patching was just coincidence

 

[Horn]

my life is over

 

[brad.dude03]

/slash.

I can't get on chat.

*cries in a corner*

 

[donut3.5]

WORLD ENDING!
NOOOO!!
Say, something else was up with the forums earlier today, now the chat?
Something is awry.
--donut3.5--

 

[HeretoDLstuff]

WORLD ENDING!
NOOOO!!
Say, something else was up with the forums earlier today, now the chat?
Something is awry.
--donut3.5--

I mustah Missed it, what was wrong with the forums?

And im sure if ya'all tried hard enough you could get in chat (Now it took me 13 trys! ) or get on msn to talk to whoever you want if you are that desperate.

 

[Wolverabid]

Whatever it WAS, it seems to have been addressed.

(At least for the time being) the chat room is now accessible again. yaddayaddayadda...

 

[donut3.5]

Still no go for me...

What browser are you using wolvy?
--donut3.5--

 

[Horn]

Borked.

 

[MySpaceBarBroke]

still doesn't work for me =(

 

[brad.dude03]

Chat is officially alive and kicking on IE6.

Viva La Revolucion!

 

[Sansui]

Aww not working for me on ie6 or firefox...

 

[MySpaceBarBroke]

Aww not working for me on ie6 or firefox...

Ditto.

 

[Wolverabid]

Something screwy is still going on. Access was again denied to me for an hour or so. Since I got back in, I can't see the entire nick list. Users present in the chat seem "invisible" and I only see them when they post messages. I saw Sansui post a message, but I never saw him on the list. That bug has cropped up in the past from time to time.

Since it's now about 5:20 AM in Denmark, I'm betting that we will just have to deal with the intermittent bugs until our webmaster is up, about and able.

 

[Dr Super Good]

I am getting a access demied error on chat at 06:13 (AM) GMT.
I think its somthing screwy with the server's firewall, maybe an update or some option change since it is denying connection for the chatroom, and I have checked over all my options for firewall and anti virus.

 

[donut3.5]

It is back up for me.
Hooray!
--donut3.5--

 

[Dr Super Good]

Still down for me, 07:00 (AM) GMT.

 

[Wolverabid]

I discovered that if accessing the chat room using the vBulletin navigation bar link, I can get in. When selecting the Darky-style chat link from the topmost menu, the chat shows errors.

Try it that way guys!

 

[HappyTauren]

OMFG It worx no sen>C<e 0.o

 

[Horn]

I discovered that if accessing the chat room using the vBulletin navigation bar link, I can get in. When selecting the Darky-style chat link from the topmost menu, the chat shows errors.

Try it that way guys!

Win

 

[Pyritie]

Yep, that way works for me now. Dunno why the top link doesn't work.

 

[Wolverabid]

Bug Exterminated

... until our webmaster is up, about and able.

As I suspected, it took him about two seconds to squash the bug, once he spotted it:

Chat Now!

Chat Now!

[self="http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/reputation.php?p=294692"]Any takers here?

REP DUMP!

REP DUMP!!

REP DUMP!!!

[/self]

 

[Pyritie]

Now don't make me get Ephy over here to talk to you about rep whores, Wolverabid.

 

[Ralle]

It is because I decided that our url is http://www.hiveworkshop.com. I just forgot to add the www to the links. But I did that now.

 

[brad.dude03]

Such a simple thing caused a three page long thread

 

[Horn]

Such a simple thing caused a three page long thread

Almost 4!

 

[HappyTauren]

it writes 2 for me cause i choose to be able to see 20 posts per page

 

[SuPa-]

chat's not working for me now, and when I try to go to the site with www.hiveworkshop.com it doesn't work unless I take out the "www."
same with the forum button which links to a "www." I can still acces the forums if I take out the "www." but not with chat. It goes to it but no one's there and the green doesn't flash
whenever I try it with "www." it goes to the "server not found" thing

 

[Wolverabid]

It's back up now Supa-.

Here in the States the chat is virtually lag-free. Cats in England and Denmark are putting out chat across the Atlantic with no trouble.

 

[Lich_King Wrath]

I have small problems with chat,sometimes disconnecting...I'm using Firefox.

 

[Wolverabid]

Sometimes everyone experiences small problems staying connected to the chat.

Since the chat room is hosted on our server, its response is tied to it. The server automagically restarts itself when performance drops below a certain level and the chat room will be unresponsive when that happens.

 

[HappyTauren]

I have small problems with chat,sometimes disconnecting...I'm using Firefox.

It is probably your ISP/Connection (c'mon we all know how internet sux in serbia (and in montenegro to))

 

[Eleandor]

you really don't need a good connection to use chat. The problem has been mentioned by wolverabid and your connection hardly matters. Everybody disconnects sometimes, you too HT.

 

[HappyTauren]

you really don't need a good connection to use chat. The problem has been mentioned by wolverabid and your connection hardly matters. Everybody disconnects sometimes, you too HT.

NO!! I CAN't DISCONNECT! I am too epic for so to happen.
bleh

I was just thinking that he uses dialup, because he lives in montenegro, though I am not sure.

 

[Dr00d]

I've found a lil' bug...

when ever you have ") >) or <) written, the ) turns into the wink smilie. It bugs the crap outta me.

Hmm, I guess I get why thier called bugs now. o.0

 

[Hakeem]

No, they are called bugs because historically bugs would get stuck in the transistors and they would need to be debugged.

Also smilies should only be parsed when surrounded by whitespace.

 

[Dr00d]

...

They srill bug me. XP

 

[Pyritie]

Same thing but if you do ( instead of ) then you get the crying smily.

 

[Wolverabid]

Ralle is slowly exterminating all the bugs in the new chat room:

http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/chat.php?channel=1

") 
>) 
<)

Those sequences may now be typed without producing the "wink"

That emoticon is now displayed with the keyboard shortcut:

;-)

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[off-topic]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_bug

The invention of the term is often erroneously attributed to Grace Hopper, who publicized the cause of a malfunction in an early electromechanical computer.

In 1946, when Hopper was released from active duty, she joined the Harvard Faculty at the Computation Laboratory where she continued her work on the Mark II and Mark III. Operators traced an error in the Mark II to a moth trapped in a relay, coining the term bug. This bug was carefully removed and taped to the log book September 9th 1945. Stemming from the first bug, today we call errors or glitch's [sic] in a program a bug.