I have been working on the forums today to try and get the forums to load faster, not to stop responding (SMF error page) and so on.
So far I have updated the version of the forum to to the most newest "stable" release.
I have been working on the structure of the site to stop all errors from being made, very time consuming I should add. So far so good on the errors. Right now the only errors that are coming up is for "Guests". So if you come to the site and have to sign in, your "ip" will make an error happen, you can check this by looking at your IP in your profile (if you have permission set to do so), just click on the IP and that will open another page, check that page for errors and there should be a "Guest" next to that error statement and NOT your forum name. The good news is that I do know where the error is being made, it is on the front page, the bad news is I have to track it down, but I do believe it is a permission problem. But again with good news, this error should have nothing to do with the stability of the site.
We were having 100s of pages of errors a day and now I am sure we are down to 10s of pages a day, again all made by Guests of the forum, not by anyone with a sign in name that "is signed in".
With all said, if we get slow downs again or error pages when coming to the site, I am 99.9% sure it has nothing to do with the forum program, but more then likely the Host and or Server.
That's it for now.
Oh...
So why post this info? This site belongs to all of you and I feel any work that gets done here is everyone's business. After all, if you come here and things aren't working correctly, I am sure you want to know why. And it goes without saying, if you think it is all "bla bla", you don't have to read it
but the info is here for you.
If you have anything to add, please post them.
(I am not sure if this is in the right place for this thread, kind of News, but again problems/fixes could be placed here as well, maybe it should be a sticky somewhere)
EDIT... The shout box is now able to be seen by Guests, but not posted in, this will stop non members from spamming and maybe doing other "bad stuff", but still see the "fun" going on in the box (this was a fix for Bone, he wanted non members to see the box, but not post in it). I set it back the way it was for a member here, no biggie one way or the other.
