I'm in the process of making all of the behind-the-scenes changes to implement a switch to https:// for all of ADT. It's a lot of work. I'm hoping to have it wrapped up this week and launched this weekend. This will result in a change in the way we handle cookies at ADT. Your old cookies won't be valid when we make the switch. That means you will be logged out and need to login again after we make the switch. If you don't remember your password you can request to reset it on the forgot your password page. The password reset requires you have access to the email account associated with your forum profile. view/change your email address here if you are logged in. If you no longer have access to that email account now would be a good time to update it. Edited by - Drew Black on Jan 8 2017
BTW, I'll likely need to take the site offline for 1 to 3 hours early in the morning to make the changes. We'll put a placeholder page up in the mean time when it happens.
Also, if your account uses an @yahoo.com address you won't be able to retrieve your password. They reject all emails from us and have done so for a few months regardless of your spam whitelist settings there.
I made the switch this morning. Still wrapping up a few minor things. All pages on ADT should now show the lock/secure icon in your browser. If you don't see the secure icon on a page could you post a link to the page here in this topic so I can investigate it? Thanks
^^ That would be my case but then again I had no problem accessing the site today, didn't know about this problem I'm going to change my email I guess I just found out that my last meassage from ADT was in June 27 Edited by - LCF on 1/8/2017 11:19:14 AM
Experiencing some problems following the switch that may require your attention: Issue #1 (Error received after failed attempt to access uploader) Issue #2 (Under images tab, showing mixed messages regarding login status) Thanks.
Hi Drew. I've noticed that if you try to edit a post with a pic in it, something funny happens. Normally if go in to a post where someone has posted a pic, I see the typical ADT image code, [ img = ******** ] (without the spaces). But now I see < src and then a bunch of other stuff. I think it's the code for posting images in reviews. And if I try to edit the post, that line of code just plain disappears. I've accidentally deleted a few people's images that way (always managed to get them back by going into my cache, fortunately). Now, I'm not sure if they put it in with that code in the first place, or they put it in with the typical ADT forum code, and the site somehow switched it. So, not sure what's up with that, but I suspect it's related to the switch to HTTPS because of the timing. Another member noticed this too, so it's not just me.
This should be fixed. Also, the long pause while uploading images should be fixed too. The old Avast server virus scanning engine we were using stopped working and was causing some uploads to timeout.
Hi Drew, same problem is still happening. For example, I want to edit the opening post in this thread to add a new spelling to the girl's name, but when I do it then click "preview", it shows no pictures.
Updating the database again. Seems to be picking up all the posts now. The sample that you linked to is working now. It's going to take a while to get to all of them. I'm updating in batches of 10,000 posts.
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Posted - Jan 28 2017 : 11:05AM
I made some posts overnight (i.e. early hours of Saturday 2016-01-28), and when I logged-in around 10 AM, or so, some of these posts -- and posts from others I was seeing -- were gone. Just not there. Not edited or moderated, just gone Were you working on the site overnight? Is this a known issue? I hate to ask, but is it possible that some of my posts are being scrubbed from the site without a trace deliberately?
I installed a new compression module this morning. And made a few teaks to conditional cache validation support. Can you post links to the thread(s) where you think your posts are missing? We haven't been scrubbing anything.
I've been noticing some of this stuff too this morning. If you go to pg 7 in the Kendra Sunderland thread for example, it won't let you scroll to the bottom, and if you click on the "link" button on any of the posts, nothing happens. I've tried reloading several times and I can never get to the bottom of the page. The furthest down I ever get in a post by epistimonas made Jan 28 2017 : 5:09AM. That may be the last post on the page, but I don't know since it's not the "bottom" of the page in the sense that you don't get down to the menu to switch pages, or reply, etc. that usually appears at the bottom of the page after the last post. edit: same thing's happening in the AJ Applegate thread. I can get down to the last post but not as far as the reply button. This is what I see at the bottom: Notice you can't click on any pages past 62, and you can't go any lower than this, so you can't get to the reply button. Edited by - killbillvol69 on 1/28/2017 12:58:10 PM
Which browser are you using? I am away at the moment but can try to reproduce this later tonight. I am not seeing these problems from Chrome on my phone.
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Posted - Jan 28 2017 : 5:26PM
Yes, Firefox 51.0.1 for me, as well. FWIW, I logoff from ADT every time I complete a visit. I also delete all cookies, all Flash cookies (aka Local Shared Objects), empty the browser cache, etc. -- again, every time. I do this multiple times every day, after every session on the Internet (i.e. not just after visiting ADT). And, to be clear, these are all new problems manifesting over the last few days.
I made the changes this morning around 10am eastern time. Not over the past few days. So if the problem started before that it isn't related to today's changes
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Posted - Jan 28 2017 : 7:28PM
My missing post issue -- the missing posts as I described it -- started today, exactly as I said it did. My problem didn't start "before" today. HOWEVER, there have been other minor glitches manifesting recently that come and go. (Others have been mentioning some of them here.) For example, I'm on the site working normally, and then all of a sudden I can't navigate anywhere (something about "authentication failed," or some such, when I click to go somewhere). The only work-a-round that I've found is to login again -- and remember, when this happens you can't even log out first. So, I close all the windows, clear my cookies and cache, etc. and login again. Usually, when I login again, everything works normally. Although, there have been a few times when the site was just plain not responding. FYI, my missing post example I posted here for you, still is not visible to me, even though you say you can see it. I distinctly remember posting it directly after Smiler Grogan's post. I'd give you a link, but -- as has been mentioned here already -- when you click on the "Link" option visible in every forum post nothing happens. (my post should be immediately the next post after this, and it is not there)
Are you saying the post in the image is the last thing you see in the topic or are you saying that you don't see your post in the topic but subsequent posts are visible? i.e yours happens to be missing I just made a change in the code changing the way the in-memory page buffer is flushed out to the browser. This fixed the problem that killbill mentioned above. That page fully renders now.
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Posted - Jan 28 2017 : 7:40PM
^ Now, all of a sudden, it's there -- and it wasn't 15-minutes ago (or even just before I posted my previous post). Predictions for the next four years FWIW, it reappeared after I used Search to find the phrase "Presidential Medal of Freedom" and clicked on the link that Search returned. Odd, very odd. I will try returning to the post periodically and let you know if it acts-up again.
You might be able to see it but can you please answer this question: you couldn't see your post or you couldn't see anything beyond the Smiler Grogan post? i.e. no page footer, etc. These are two very different things. Saying you can't see your posts and accusing us of scrubbing your posts implies that only your post was missing. And BTW, you can see your post (and beyond?) because of the buffer flushing change I made. It seems that Firefox 51 has a bug and doesn't like Brotli compression sent in chunks over HTTPS. It wants the whole page.
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Posted - Jan 28 2017 : 7:45PM
Well, mystery solved I didn't see it... You just did something... Then the post reappeared. And, yes, the entire page now fully renders -- which it was not doing (i.e. the page ended at Smiler's post, and my post and the two following it were not visible).
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Posted - Jan 28 2017 : 7:58PM
I didn't accuse you of anything; I asked (as multiple posts of mine were "missing" in different places). Also, I've already answered this, but I didn't see my post or whatever came after it (which, of course, since I never saw it didn't even know it existed). And, seriously, I believe my original post on this matter was quite clear and respectful. I'm sorry if a later post confused the issue. Thanks for fixing the problem. BTW, should this fix be working site wide? Or, will these be case-by-case issues as discovered? Also, the "Link" option in posts is now working again for me.
New interesting issue: now, sometimes when you post, when it brings you back to the thread you can't see your post. You have to click refresh again before you can see your post at the bottom. Also, unrelated to today's problems, for the past while in all the pic-heavy threads, I basically never get all the pics to load. Like the various AVN/AEE threads in star-crossed right now. I get maybe 80% of the pics to load. Not always the same 80% though... Others are discussing that problem here: Captain Jack at AEE 2017 Edited by - killbillvol69 on 1/29/2017 1:17:34 AM
The image loading issue should be fixed. I'm going to see what I can do about the last-modified cache problem in Firefox. It's not a problem in Chrome. Firefox is ignoring the must-revalidate directive coming from the server and displaying the previous version from your local cached copy.
I've implemented a caching software program on the whole site over the past 2 days. Seems to be working well. You should see faster page load times and better handling of images throughout the site.
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Posted - Feb 2 2017 : 1:14AM
I'm not sure if the issues I'm currently experiencing are related to this change, but to repeat what I posted in the 2nd Gen of the Next deactivated member? Thread:I've been experiencing this problem for the past three days now, where I have to log in twice.
We had an extended outage today related to the new software. The file cache was growing beyond its limits and never getting cleaned out. We were getting close to running out of disk space. It took about 20 mins for the server to manually delete close to 2 million files. I'll have to keep an eye on it.
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Posted - Feb 2 2017 : 6:33PM
I continue to experience this "double login" issue on both my laptop (Firefox) and iPad (Safari).