General Chat

Dear Genes/Bright solid or whoever,

Can you please do something about the continual error messages obtained when surfing from thread to thread.........
this fault has been commented on for several months now, and as many of us are long serving members we deserve better....

Bob 206719

Hi Bob, very well said, I agree completely. I emailed them a few weeks ago about this problem but their reply was 'we have accessed threads without any problems'..........not very helpful was it.
Jean xx :-S :-S

reply to me was ....."we cant replicate the problem"

I haven't had any problems with that happening,Bob.( I haven't spoken to you before.)

My beef is with trying to add details to,or to edit, the new tree.It's impossible.I add the details,then lose them all . It's very frustrating, and just makes me furious! I have reported the problem to the Support team,and they tell me that they're "working on it",but I don't believe that as it never gets fixed.The annoying problems still continue. I have been a member here for 7 years,and I do agree with you,the long-serving members do deserve to be treated better.I don't know why they removed the old tree,it worked far better than the new version does,and didn't have the same problems that this one has.

Margot.

....."we cant replicate the problem" = it isn't happening to us so we aren't interested.

Invite them round for tea Bob and show them.

Yeah Bob......

And invite us too.

Lets avum!!! :-|

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I get these error messages frequently on two of the games threads that Bob also uses. And it is very irritating!

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hope for all your sakes it isn't just me - but since this thread started I haven't had a single error message - perhaps GR do read our comments after all!

I have never had any of these thread error messages on a variety of machines, operating systems and such. OTOH I have usually been using a fast internet connection. OTOH phone 3G access is useless.

The primary reason for these errors are time delays caused by assorted referreals to Google tracking and advertising. Ditch that stuff and you'll sail along smoothly.
There is nothing that GRU/BS can do about it.

If you are using firefox install (a) AdBlocker and (b) NoScript

I too am fed up with all the error messages. I often give up using the site in sheer frustration.

Rollo, there is nothing worse when people have problems than somebody 'bragging' how they never ever have the problem because their system is perfect. I have Firefox, with Adblock etc etc, I don't have a problem on any other site but Genes but I do have the error message consistently on here.

I am supposed to be getting ,according to aol, 3Mbits/sec.and testing speed seems to ok this, but

in practice downloading from email gets me sometimes as low as 15 Kb/s aol say there is nothing wrong with their system.........Rollo how do we ditch this extra stuff?

its IS strange because in my case,the board most affected is the quizzes board, all the others seem to be sensible in loading speed

The GRU web server is Microsoft IIS (Internet Information Server). IIS is primarily targeted at corporation intranets rather than the great www for the unwashed et al.Servers for that are usually based on Apache/Linux.

(IIS is also much used for beginner sites where the end user wants to publish to the web from Windows. This 2nd use has mostly been overtaken by blogs and social networks.)

One of the big problems with IIS is that it is difficult to tune for both slow and fast connections. Corporate networks can easily set speeds etc the way they want, public servers not so.

One way around the problem is for the server to have plenty of latitude. That tends to cost money and worse opens up the many security holes of IIS. Thus BS have decided to timeout slow connections ( which gives the error ) whether caused by the end user or ad servers. On other sites using Apache you won't hit these problems even if your 'puter is full of adware and toolbars.

Easiest fix is a fast connection, 10Mb or better.

I have noticed that in several years people moaning about assorted timeout type errors rarely say what kind of connection and speed they are using or even basic machine config such as OS, cpu, memory. Without that information BS.GRU can do little and other members can only guess.

I dont have many problems with errors...odd one every now and again. I dont know why? IE9 and never messed about with cookies ect...(not that I know what they are)

I must say when ever I see Rollos posts explaining anything to do with computers, it goes right over my head :-D

Just give us back the "Old Tree".................sorted!!!

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Oh and it also happens when I am on my IPad so not Firefox but Safari.

Yes Ann, but Rollo also has GRUBS :-S :-S

I just think what someone else said - let's all discuss it together with a cuppa (and lots of cake) :-D

Wend .......talking about Discus

Did i ever tell you about the time i..........

Oh no, i can't. It's not something i like to talk about.

;-) :-D