Exetools Server options changes?

[JMI]

Hello fellow problem viewers:

I had similar problems as reported by nullz, but did not get any virus warning which he reported. After several days with the board freezing on me whenever I attempted to access threads in the Software Forum, and only there, I asked my fellow admin from the Woodmann Forum, dELTA, to take a look at the issue from a fresh perspecitve, because something was screwing up my efforts to even see the problem with either IE and Opera.

When he took a look at the Software Forum, he noticed something which didn't show on my browser, which was that there were "special" characters showing in several of the threads. He was also getting a notice on every page that he needed to download a language pack.

Putting two and two together, he concluded that these "special" characters might be screwing up the Thread Preview feature in some way. I was not seeing the "special" characters, because I've installed the Chinese language pack so I can look at the Chinese Area with a translator. I got tired of all the square boxes in place of the Chinese characters.

The Thread Preview is the feature which causes a box to open when you mouse over the Thread Titles and gives you a "preview" of the text of the thread. The default on the vBulletin installation is 300 characters, and for some reason, it was choking on the "special" characters, which seem to be related to those using Chinese language enabled machines. We've had a substantial increase in new members posting from China since the registration was opened and there appears to be something which are added when they type English that was causeing the "Preview" to fail and it was blocking the refreshing of the pages in the Software Forum, but, at least for me, not anywhere else.

Yesterday, I turned the Thread Preview function "off" in the vBulletin Options and that seemed to "cure" the problem. I haven't had the time to try some number of characters less than the default 300 yet, but will later, as time permits. At least for me, with it set a "0" I no longer have problems on that Forum. I will keep watching the issue and post on the vBulletin Forum and see if they can provide a solution to the issue.

Regards,

[Jay]

Hi JMI,
Don't know if its of any help just thought I would mention my problems with Software release section seem to be specific to the ArmPE thread. I can view threads before and after it no problem.

http://www.exetools.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4955

[JMI]

Thanks for the info. As soon as I can, I spend some time trying to get to the bottom of the problem. Have some work to finish first.

Regards,

[JMI]

Well Jay was certainly correct that the ARM Protector Thread:

http://www.exetools.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4955

had some significant problem. I remember reading it before, but no matter what I tried yesterday, I couldn't get it to open or if it did, it only opened part of or the whole first post and none of the others and then froze the forum for me. I finally had to move it out of the Software Forum from the AdminCP to be able to look at it. When I could actually see it, there was nothing obviously wrong with it, but, as a precaution, I deleted it anyway.

I had previously edited a couple of other threads in that Forum to remove the "special" characters I mentioned. If anyone has continuing problems with this issue, please post here or sent me a PM.

Regards,

[bunion]

The trouble im having is similar i get a warning saying "failed to connect to server" or something like that when ever i try to reach software section..sometimes i manage to get in then after a few post readings itll happen again and i get the cannot connect default page

paul333

Great job u do JMI helpin us poor souls:P