You're using Courier New?

Having said that, most of the sigs here have been cut short for some time. I'm not certain as to why but it's more prevalent lately. Perhaps a sticky would be in order?

Hey, I'm trying to read this thread, but I cannot advance past page 308, no matter what, even if I post: http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...05822&page=308

Can anyone help?

Please? This is really annoying me.

*BUMP* For help please...

I use Safari for OSX (all latest versions) and it does this. I loaded up Firefox just now and where Safari only let me go to thread 308 and not advance to 309, Firefox let me go to 309, but now it's stuck there - no link will allow me to advance to page 310.

Sloooooooooooooow
 

The Forum has been so slow for me this last week it is unusable. I check in periodically to see if it has improved, but no luck. It is the same at home and at work and on my laptop. Only thing I can think off in common is that they all get internet through Shaw.

Any advice? I miss my BF fix.

We're still having issues in Western Canada? OK, thanks, will pass it along to the appropriate people.

Try setting your default display to the maximum of 30 posts/page. That seems to fix this issue in most cases.

I'm trying to post in the WTB and it won't let me saying I may not have permission. What do I need to be able to post? Thanks in advance.

Bikingfool, starting the Marketplace threads (For Sale, WTB) are restricted to premium members, and you can get this here:

http://www.bikeforums.net/payments.php

nope. i just tried that and with each different option i can advance in the thread a little further, but it still at some point begins rolling back.... literally. like the url goes from 319, 318 317 316 315 314 and so forth until it gets, well, done. please help.

Perhaps there are a lot of soft deleted posts in these longer threads. They will still contribute to the page count still.

doubt it. we're talking about a thread with a thousand posts and i can't get past 350.

Link me to one of these threads so I can see what you are talking about exactly, then. Thanks in advance....

these threads both give me trouble:

http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...21710&page=213

http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...05822&page=260

thanks!

Yep. All but unusable.

OK, on the first link, I can access to the last post, #2131 on page 71. We may need to just close that thread and restart a new one due to it's size. It loads very slowly for me as well, and I have a 15 meg/sec pipeline to the net. It isn't that large, though, in post numbers, but it does have a lot of images in it.

well, it's not my thread to close and start a new one of... so that's not an option. and the image heaviness isn't the culprit... any other ideas or help?

I'll need to do some research, I guess. I do know part of the issue is centered around a forum setting prioritizing faster loading threads to keep the database stable until our next update is finished. BF has grown exponentially and VB isn't really designed or coded for a forum this size. We're supposed to migrate to a faster and larger server group in the near future, and add in some additional software features to stabilize the DB, lke better memcache, etc, but i don't know exactly what that progress is as of yet.

Ok. I'm getting a few annoying problems that may be related. They've happened before, but I've never documented them.

The first thing is that occasionally when I post to a new thread, it doesn't recognize that I've read the thread. Obviously it's impossible to have not read a 1 page thread that you're the last post of, but I've had a few instances of it in the last couple days. It will show new posts, even including my own post as new. I can go back and read, but it doesn't do any good. Even after other people have posted, the thread will still remain as a new post for me no matter how long passes or what I do. Here is a screenshot of that problem currently in my control panel.

http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/p...ger/temp-3.jpg

Another problem is that threads that I haven't actually read will get marked read, and then I'll lose track of them. For example, if I click on my control panel and start from the bottom of subscribed threads, but then I take too long reading on them before I go back to the control panel, my control panel will have wiped out all my new threads and I'll only have really recent stuff, not everything that was there just a few minutes ago that I still haven't read. The only solution I've found is to go to "List Subscriptions" and then just start clicking on last pages of threads and looking for the last thing I read, and then go from there.

A third problem is kind of the opposite of the last one, it will tell me I haven't read things that I have. This sometimes happens when I close the browser and come back, it will list a bunch of new posts that I've actually already seen.


Thanks for any help. I'm running Firefox 3.0.11 on Windows XP. I also run IE (dunno version) on Windows XP at work, and have similar problems there.

As Tom mentioned above, vBulletin has a hard time when forums get this big. While there have been really drastic improvements in scalability, it's not perfect. You're above problems are due to this scalability issue.

In a perfect world, every time you view a thread it would mark in the database that you've read it. Then, when you load a forum, it knows without doubt which ones you've read and which ones you haven't. On smaller forums, this is not too taxing of a task and that's how it functions.

When the board gets bigger, this becomes harder and harder to do. Instead, there are different options to determine which ones you've read and which you haven't. While none of them are perfect, they're more efficient for the system, and with a forum this large the most accurate options aren't possible.

The scaling problems in this particular site are two fold... not only does it have a lot of posts, but the rate at which new posts are added is very high as well. This complicates the issues. vBulletin is very dedicated in solving these problems and I'm confident that things will improve before they get worse. These are simply new hurdles; 10 years ago, there weren't forums with 10M+ posts.

Still, more than a month later, almost impossible to navigate site with invisible links. Any news on this intractable issue?

RSS subforum feed broken?
 

I have followed the 50+ forum in Bloglines for years. It stopped working a couple of weeks ago and continues to show a feed error message when I delete it and re-subscribe. The full forums feed works in Bloglines. Any suggestions? Changes made recently? The last post that Bloglines can see in 50+ is dated: Sat, Jul 11 2009 6:24 AM

Is there any way to make the unsubscribe feature a little more stupid friendly? I occasionally hit it by accident and it immediately removes the thread or forum. If I'm not paying attention, I don't know what thread I unsubscribed to. It would be nice if there was a "do you really want to remove unsubscribe" or something.