[Only topic] Posts timing out

www.igdid.com/forum

Members are timing out after just a few minutes when typing posts.  Help?

Hello,
Does this topic fit the description of the problem your users are experiencing? https://help.forumotion.com/t139018-your-request-timed-out if so Buttercup offered explaination as to why it happens. If it is not that, may you provide a screenshot and more information on your issue?

-Brandon

Yes, both on computer and mobiles.

Yes what? Does the topic I gave you match your issue?

I really am having member upset about this problem.  It is the same as the problem mentioned above, but that topic is locked - please let me know what I can do or what is going on so that I can tell members.  Please - thank you.

www.igdid.com/forum

Hello,

Unfornautelly there is nothing that can be done about this issue really... it is a forumotion side problem, as Buttercup explained, so there is nothing that can be done. The problem is usually corrected and whatever message was typed will usually still be there by hitting refresh or the back button on the browser, then it simply needs to be re posted by hitting send. I am sorry, I know it is annoying (my forum gets this problem as well occasionally). It seems to be a problem that happens at random on certain days, it was pretty bad yesterday, but it seems fine today. When this happens tell him to refresh and hit the back button on his browser and re send the post.

Sorry I couldn't be of more help, I genuinely am, I know how annoying it is, it was myself and 1 other member who really pushed to get an answer for this... so I know how you and your member(s) feel.

-Brandon

It could either be a server problem, or too much activity on the user end. Do you have a heavy amount of JavaScript installed on your forum which sends requests to the server ? Just to test, I'd recommend disabling JS management for a moment to see if it's the cause.

If not that, then it's most likely a server-side probleme.

I am also now experiencing this issue. A large number of my members are experiencing timing out problems when they try to post (losing the entire content of their posts too). 

www.Canadaquaria.ca

I have had them try different browsers (Internet explorer, firefox, chrome), had them clear their cache and cookies, and flush their DNS too. It has not solved the issue. 

They are also not experiencing any issues with internet connectivity.

I in fact just experienced it trying to post here just now....

It seems to be a problem that happens at random on certain days, it was pretty bad yesterday, but it seems fine today. When this happens tell him to refresh and hit the back button on his browser and re send the post.
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emma

Hello dear members,

Time out requests issues are not a "real" bug. This message is due to our anti-flood system. When the systems is detecting a massive flood attack, the system blocks it in order to protect our databases, and your forums...! 

Indeed, in order to protect your forums, Forumotion (via its DataCenter) filters only legitimate traffic. 

We can understand it is annoying for you but this technique is very effective to protect your forum. However, we are currently working with our Datacenter to improve those "adverse effects".


Thanks in advance for your understanding


Regards 

I also had the problem on the 13th of April but did not know what it was... Now I got the explanation.
Thank you!
Have a nice day!

Yeah, this issue only started today and it's virtually happening to every member. And you guys can't say that this is "normal" as our site has been around for 4+ years and we never experienced this issue. We've had 100's of visitors at a time when our site was FAR more active than it is now, so it's definitely a new issue or at the very least this "adverse effect" has become far worse in the past 24 hours. 

Sigh...I really think you guys need to look into this because it's definitely a widespread problem this time, not just hit and miss like it usually is. 

Hello dear all,
This problem appeared last night I think it is caused from servers problem before yesterday.

I've had this problem about 8 times today   On the support forum  and even lost 2 posts I tried to post it come up with the post timed out but it was only about 1 minuets worth of typing and then I posted it and then it come up with that I also had it on my forum today. it's been really bugging me to help other members and get this and loose all the work I typed out 

again when posting this comment.
UK GMT : 14:00:45

Date : 2015-06-06

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Buttercup wrote:Hello dear members,

Time out requests issues are not a "real" bug. This message is due to our anti-flood system. When the systems is detecting a massive flood attack, the system blocks it in order to protect our databases, and your forums...! 

Indeed, in order to protect your forums, Forumotion (via its DataCenter) filters only legitimate traffic. 

We can understand it is annoying for you but this technique is very effective to protect your forum. However, we are currently working with our Datacenter to improve those "adverse effects".


Thanks in advance for your understanding


Regards 

As explained here guys, its not a problem with the server, just an issue with the anti flood system over protecting. This system is important in keeping spammers out. So Forumotion does want to simply disable it, they are trying to figure out how to improve the system to do away with this problem without impeding the original purpose of the thing.

I for one understand it is annoying, but now that explaination as to why it happens has beeen given, I am willing to put up with it until they resolve this. I understand the annoyance though.

Thank you for the explanations given as to the reason for the timing out of posts. 

I personally noticed it once to twice that I remember yesterday, but more so today. A member of our forum mentioned today the same thing was happening, which of course made me realise it was not just solely happening to me. Hence the reason I came here to see if anyone else had been experiencing this.

Now I understand more about this issue, thank all of you. Dear <3

APE wrote:I've had this problem about 8 times today   On the support forum  and even lost 2 posts I tried to post it come up with the post timed out but it was only about 1 minuets worth of typing and then I posted it and then it come up with that I also had it on my forum today. it's been really bugging me to help other members and get this and loose all the work I typed out 

again when posting this comment.
UK GMT : 14:00:45

Date : 2015-06-06

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Considering my website reviews games and writes articles this issue is more than a little annoying as most features and articles take from 10 minutes to as long as an hour and a half to write up so it can be infuriatingly frustrating wasting that much time just to lose all of our text that we wrote. And no the messages aren't being saved if you refresh or back out when this happens everything you wrote is lost.

Hello,

Just out of curiousity.. Don't you guys type the articles out in a word document first? As to ensure all the typos and stuff are out? If its an article I would do that, or atleast post a little bit of it, edit it with more, save it, repeat, that why I can either copy paste it, or if it does do it I know I have atleast some of it saved, so I don't have to re write the whole thing.


Again this was just out of my pure curiousity, feel free not to answer this if you dont want to.

Also I apologize for going off topic a bit there.

-Brandon

Also another issue with a long post is that if it takes a very long time to type it out, it could be that member is considered inactive by the forum's security system.

Hello

The problem should be solved right now. Our technicians worked on it this weekend. We really apologize for the trouble. Thanks for your understanding

Best regards

Buttercup

Our forum has been with you for 8 years.  The time-out problem is only occurring lately. so maybe it's something that has been added lately?

lightfootfan wrote:Our forum has been with you for 8 years.  The time-out problem is only occurring lately. so maybe it's something that has been added lately?

So you are still having the time out issue, because Buttercup said that it should be solved?

No.  I missed Buttercup's last post.  I was responding to previous posts in the subject.  No problems today.  Thank you so very much!  And sorry for the confusion.

No problem. Thanks for your patience.
Regards
Buttercup

It happened to me about a half hour ago.

This has been happening on my forum over the last few days with different people.

Either posting replies to threads or sending PMs they are getting error messages that say 'your session has time out' and losing everything they have written, happens when they hit the send button.

My forum is www.kitchenwitchhearth.com

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Buttercup

It happened to me this morning