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Weird Forum Issue

Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 3:24 am
by Lighthawk
Something someone did to the wireless at work is screwing with the forum for me. Every now and then I get a proper layout, but mostly the forum layout and color scheme is totally out of whack.

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Anyone know what's causing this and if I can do anything about it?

Re: Weird Forum Issue

Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 3:29 am
by stitch626
I get that every once in a while. Can't remember the reason it happens.

Re: Weird Forum Issue

Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 4:05 am
by Deepcrush
Same, I get that from time to time. But it normally goes away after a bit.

Re: Weird Forum Issue

Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 4:11 am
by Lighthawk
At work that's the state of things for me 99% of the time. And that other 1% only happens on the main page. And before anyone asks, yeah I check at home with my laptop, works fine there.

Re: Weird Forum Issue

Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 4:25 am
by Lt. Staplic
happenns to me sometimes when the internet here is being slow/unresponsive, I've always just seen it as the connection timing out before the browser can interpret and display all the formatting for the web page so you just get a generic base-line layout with the links, images and text.

Re: Weird Forum Issue

Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 8:29 am
by Reliant121
I get it when I'm on the older school computers that run some god forsaken version of IE from the dark ages (They don't even have tabs, its that old). Otherwise, never really experienced the problem.

Re: Weird Forum Issue

Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 11:53 am
by Nickswitz
probably IE6 which was terrible, but regardless, the page not fully loading means that its only getting some of the information, as Sonic said, its probably timing out, which I'm not sure exactly how to change the time out function on any of the browsers.

Re: Weird Forum Issue

Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 8:19 pm
by Mark
A different browser downloaded to a USB drive may solve your problem. I had to do that for a while.

Re: Weird Forum Issue

Posted: Sun May 01, 2011 2:30 am
by Mikey
Near as I can tell, though Lord knows I'm not an expert, that stems from the pages loading incompletely.

Re: Weird Forum Issue

Posted: Sun May 01, 2011 9:28 pm
by LaughingCheese
Happens to me as well occasionally (home computer), though it hasn't happened for a while thankfully.

Re: Weird Forum Issue

Posted: Mon May 02, 2011 12:39 am
by Lighthawk
Well that sounds like a general consensus on the problem. Anyone know a solution?

Re: Weird Forum Issue

Posted: Mon May 02, 2011 12:57 am
by Lt. Staplic
Faster internet connection. it's all about the amount of info that can be brought in read and displayed.

Re: Weird Forum Issue

Posted: Mon May 02, 2011 1:09 am
by Nickswitz
Either faster internet or faster computer, or remove proxy settings, theres a lot of things that can cause it to render slowly, in this case I assume it's probably a proxy server that's slowing it to the point that the visual aspects aren't being displayed at all.

Re: Weird Forum Issue

Posted: Mon May 02, 2011 4:24 am
by Mikey
:?

"Proxy" is what I sign to authorize my mutual shares to vote in accord with the majority of an incorporated company's directors.

Re: Weird Forum Issue

Posted: Mon May 02, 2011 4:35 am
by Captain Picard's Hair
Mikey wrote::?

"Proxy" is what I sign to authorize my mutual shares to vote in accord with the majority of an incorporated company's directors.
The word is roughly the same in computers, except it refers to a server rather than person. A proxy server is an intermediate server through which information is routed, in this context between a PC and the internet. A computer may connect to the internet through a proxy for security, or to anonymize its IP address or for other reasons.