RMweb - Change of hosting, missing images - April 2022

[martin_wynne]

2 hours ago, MrWolf said:

Same here. If I click "Layout topics" either at the top of a thread screen or directly from the menu, all I get is "Cannot complete this request". It doesn't matter if I use a different browser, log out or use a browser that someone else is having no problems with or use a totally different device.

I can read the topics I follow, plus any topics linked therein.

This has been ongoing since the crash.

 

Any difference if you click this?

 

 https://85a.uk/templot/companion/info.php?ref=1234

 

Martin.

[john new]

On 09/06/2022 at 15:53, john new said:

I have also noted what @PhilJ W reported so can confirm it does occur. On the subject of notifications sometimes the blob on the bell at the screen top is green, sometimes it is red, but I haven't checked to see if that differs by type, for example  a reaction to a post as opposed to being quoted. (Edit: or differs between my phone/i-pad and the laptop).

Noticed I had a red one today (i-pad) it was a comment in a followed thread; therefore I think the green one’s are probably reactions to your own posts and re-quotes with the red one’s being new posts in followed threads.

[Colin_McLeod]

15 minutes ago, martin_wynne said:

 

Any difference if you click this?

 

 https://85a.uk/templot/companion/info.php?ref=1234

 

Martin.

 

Sorry but I get this on android.

 

[MrWolf]

35 minutes ago, Colin_McLeod said:

 

Sorry but I get this on android.

 

 

That's the same thing I have been getting and the same result when I tried your link. Thanks for trying though @martin_wynne

[Nick C]

Yep, I get the same error there too. Thanks @martin_wynne

[D-A-T]

On 12/06/2022 at 20:21, AY Mod said:

 

Yes it does so I find that a quite offending comment to make; you have no idea how much time and effort has been expended at this end. I'm here on a Sunday evening helping some users with queries but, when I read posts like that, I question whether it's any good for me anymore.

I rarely post, being more a consumer of these Forums than a contributor, but could I make a few points.

 

In the main this is a free Forum. Warners can spend as much or as little time and/or money on it as they see fit from a business point of view. They could have said forget the past photos etc and start afresh from now with the new server. But no they are trying to repair the damage for the good of all, us the consumer/contributor and them the business.

 

This Forum is, in my opinion, very well moderated, being consistent in its rules and application. @AY Mod takes a lot on compared to other Forums I use. These are mainly sailing Forums. I don’t hear of any suspensions or bans on here. On YBW.com it got to such a state that lifetime bans were handed out, subjects were declared out of bounds and a team of moderators was required. As far as I’m aware @AY Mod responds, maybe a little snappily, but he doesn’t suspend or ban. Be grateful for that.
 

Finally I think @AY Mod should consider some downtime from RMWeb if only for his own sanity. No matter how much someone may love their job, want to please the contributors on a Forum and fulfil the job obligations we all need sometime away. If only to please our loved ones. In this case it’s only model railways it’s not life and death.

 

All this was said as constructive comment and was in no way meant to offend. If it has in any way then I most humbly apologise. 

Edited June 14, 2022 by D-A-T
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[PhilJ W]

6 hours ago, john new said:

Noticed I had a red one today (i-pad) it was a comment in a followed thread; therefore I think the green one’s are probably reactions to your own posts and re-quotes with the red one’s being new posts in followed threads.

Whatever the colours indicate is irrelevant if it means that you can't read them. Some appear in white and I think some may have been in yellow. Not too troubled about it as its only a minor niggle and Andy will sort it out when the more important stuff is sorted.

[Porfuera]

I hope someone can help me with this... There has been some mention of using the Wayback Machine to retrieve photos that are currently unavailable due to the recent change of hosting. I have been trying to use the Wayback Machine for this but I've been failing miserably!

 

I should state here that the photos I'm trying to find aren't mine - they were posted by @Nile on June 6, 2019 and were posted to a thread "Peco O Gauge Set Track" - sorry if you're not interested in that but hopefully this might help anyone that is looking to restore their own photos or files from the Wayback Machine.

 

I can get to the first page of the "Peco O Gauge Set Track" thread here:

 

https://web.archive.org/web/20170512140639/http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/75748-peco-o-gauge-set-track/

 

Once I have arrived at the first page I've tried navigating using the "Next" button or by trying to select specific page numbers but all I get is the following "not archived" response:
 

Looking at other threads in the same archive/snapshot, the url for subsequent pages should have "page-2", "page-3", "page-4" etc appended to the end of the url, but trying this instead of using the navigation buttons still gives me the same "not archived" response.

 

I know that the date/timestamp of "20170512140639" is earlier than the posting date that I'm interested in but this is the only archive of this thread that I've been able to find so far and in any case the thread was started in 2013 and there should be several more pages prior to 2017, even though 2017 is a couple of years before the post I'm interested in.

 

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong or is it simply that the Wayback Machine does not archive everything? If the latter then surely it won't be much use if people are trying to retrieve their files...?

 

Note to moderators: if you feel that I've put this request in the wrong place then please feel free to move it.

 

Thanks to anyone that has managed to read this far!

 

Cheers,

 

Neil.

[Miss Prism]

Neil - the Wayback machine doesn't archive many RMweb pages. If you're after images, the best way is to message the poster. Fortunately in your case, the member is still around.

 

[Porfuera]

1 minute ago, Miss Prism said:

Neil - the Wayback machine doesn't archive many RMweb pages. If you're after images, the best way is to message the poster. Fortunately in your case, the member is still around.

 

 

OK - many thanks! I guess I got the wrong idea about the Wayback Machine - I'll try asking @Nile and see whether he still has them.

 

Cheers!

[PhilJ W]

Something strange is happening. On a couple of threads I've clicked on 'first unread' and its taken me to the first post instead of the first unread. Both the threads where it happened are in the UK prototype questions topic. 

[AY Mod]

21 minutes ago, PhilJ W said:

Something strange is happening. On a couple of threads I've clicked on 'first unread' and its taken me to the first post instead of the first unread. Both the threads where it happened are in the UK prototype questions topic. 

 

That'll be because I was testing a possible solution for those who couldn't access that subforum (which didn't work) so after a couple of moves it's probably thrown a wobbly. Click on the time of post and work backwards.

[PhilJ W]

18 minutes ago, AY Mod said:

 

That'll be because I was testing a possible solution for those who couldn't access that subforum (which didn't work) so after a couple of moves it's probably thrown a wobbly. Click on the time of post and work backwards.

Thats what I did, at first I thought it was me with my ten thumbs.😄

[Pak75]

Hi

Apologies if this has already been covered elsewhere but rmweb site appears to be configured for mobile platforms only since change of host? ..? I cannot access site properly with pc running Windows 10. I get a basic page with giant avatar letters. IPad and phone are fine.

Any help appreciated - thanks 

Edited June 20, 2022 by Pak75
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[AY Mod]

3 hours ago, Pak75 said:

Hi

Apologies if this has already been covered elsewhere but rmweb site appears to be configured for mobile platforms only since change of host? ..? I cannot access site properly with pc running Windows 10. I get a basic page with giant avatar letters. IPad and phone are fine.

Any help appreciated - thanks 

 

Try a cookie and history clearout. The site shouldn't just be limited to the mobile version.

[jamie92208]

2 minutes ago, AY Mod said:

 

Try a cookie and history clearout. The site shouldn't just be limited to the mobile version.

My laptop, running Windows 10 works fine.

 

Jamie

[PhilJ W]

2 hours ago, jamie92208 said:

My laptop, running Windows 10 works fine.

 

Jamie

So does mine.

[Gwiwer]

Desktop Mac runs the full version as usual. The only issue is the ongoing delay in emojis being selected and posted but they work normally on the iPhone. 

[ejstubbs]

Looks fine to me using Edge, Firefox and Chrome on Windows 10, and Safari, Chrome and Firefox under MacOS Mojave.

[melmerby]

11 hours ago, Pak75 said:

Hi

Apologies if this has already been covered elsewhere but rmweb site appears to be configured for mobile platforms only since change of host? ..? I cannot access site properly with pc running Windows 10. I get a basic page with giant avatar letters. IPad and phone are fine.

Any help appreciated - thanks 

Fine on Android Tablet, Android Phone, Win 10 Desktop, Win 10 Laptop & Win 11 Desktop, tried on various browsers but usually Firefox.

[Siberian Snooper]

No problems here on win 10 laptop or Android tablet, using Firefox.

 

 

[Harlequin]

I hope this thread isn't going to become an endless list of "it works for me" messages...!

 

Pak75 obviously has some local issue, otherwise there would be hundreds more reports like his.

 

[Pak75]

Thanks all the replies.

Magically, i can now access site in Windows 10 without having done anything to browser...

[MarkSG]

9 hours ago, Pak75 said:

Thanks all the replies.

Magically, i can now access site in Windows 10 without having done anything to browser...

That sounds very much like a cookie or cache timeout, then. 

 

Issues like this caused by local storage will, usually, resolve themselves eventually when the locally stored data expires and is overwritten by fresh data from the server. So one solution is, often, just to wait a few days. But if you want to speed it up, then doing a forced refresh of the page (pressing Ctrl-F5 on a PC) is often all it takes. If that doesn't solve it, then logging off and on again is the next step, and if it still isn't working then going into your browser's settings and manually clearing cookies and cache data for the site is the next. 

[PhilJ W]

Something rather strange is happening. When I open a thread it appears OK but when I want to return to content the return button doesn't seem to work and I have to hold the cursor over the return arrow then click on content. This only seems to happen when I open a forums thread, in all other instances the return button works as normal.