Database Error and slow forum

[gentlemand]

My view is a cross between the wap2 one and the main one with most of the images and colouration dead but with normal ish formatting.

It's no longer slow for me. It is definitely a bit buggered.

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[theymos]

Your browsers are caching old 50x errors returned by site assets. You can fix it with a hard refresh, or by using a different browser temporarily, or by clearing your cache, or by waiting up to 4 hours. At this point there's nothing I can do on my end to fix it for you, since it's in your browser. (Errors shouldn't be marked cachable, though: something for me to look into.)

[sujonali1819]

Firstly, when I faced the error I thought that theymos trying to make people fool again like April fool. And I still hoping that theymos will make surprised again us.

Anyway, page loading time fixed well but imoji,photos loading did not fixed yet to me.

[TalkStar]

There is lot more issues i am seeing from my end. In some profile showing PM and Email option above trust area. I don't know that is any modification works going on or not. I think icon images also not loading in many section. Hopefully theymos will take a look to solve these things as soon as possible.

[rhomelmabini]

Your browsers are caching old 50x errors returned by site assets. You can fix it with a hard refresh, or by using a different browser temporarily, or by clearing your cache, or by waiting up to 4 hours. At this point there's nothing I can do on my end to fix it for you, since it's in your browser. (Errors shouldn't be marked cachable, though: something for me to look into.)

Seems the latter is the best option and to be honest when I wake up as I'm about to sleep I guess this will be over as I can't see my beautiful shiny coins under my username.

[dkbit98]

This is how my menu looks.
Note that I did clean my browser history.

PS
I would appreciate some option for alternative dark skin, greyish or dark grey.

EDIT:
ctrl+f5 did the trick
thanks @DaMut

[Bttzed03]

Everything looks normal on my end now except the shortcut for bb codes and emojis aren't available. Is it just me?

[DaMut]

Everything looks normal on my end now except the shortcut for bb codes and emojis aren't available. Is it just me?

have you tried click CTRL+F5 before? I have tried it and a few things have changed to normal such as a coin below your rank and else.
try it, it might help you.
keep spamming CTRL+F5, everything will be back to normal.

[uray]

Everything looks normal on my end now except the shortcut for bb codes and emojis aren't available. Is it just me?

There is a bit of a issue with the font size other than that everything is normal for me now and that includes bb codes and emojis.

[hosseinimr93]

Everything is fine on my android phone. But the forum on windows looks like this on both Chrome and also Firefox:

I deleted cache data on chrome. But it wasn't helpful.
Anyone knows what should I do?

Edit: Solved
I used CTRL+F5 several times. It finally worked.

[th3nolo]

Neither CTRL+Shift+R or CTRL+F5 fixes it for me, and I don't want to keep performing hard reloads and possibly increasing the strain (even if it's a negligible effect). It's not a huge deal, just looks pretty ugly.

CTRL+SHIFT+R worked well for me, Does anyone know what happened?

Why did the forum have a database error?

[SaShiRaJaVu]

Why did the forum have a database error?

I am still having issues with the images as it is not loading,  the reason is quoted below from what theymos said.

A hardware issue was degrading performance. The downtime ~6 hours ago may have been due to this alone, or a DDoS attack may have pushed it over the edge; I'm not sure. (I see some unusual traffic in the logs, but it doesn't look that extreme, and it may have been a side-effect of the slowness.) I think that I fixed the performance issue now, at least.

[Murat]

This is how my menu looks.
Note that I did clean my browser history.

No need to clear browser data. just clear -

Cookies and other site data

Cached images & files

if this still not work Use this link for a hard refresh - https://www.getfilecloud.com/blog/2015/03/tech-tip-how-to-do-hard-refresh-in-browsers/

[suchmoon]

Why did the forum have a database error?

A hardware issue was degrading performance. The downtime ~6 hours ago may have been due to this alone, or a DDoS attack may have pushed it over the edge; I'm not sure. (I see some unusual traffic in the logs, but it doesn't look that extreme, and it may have been a side-effect of the slowness.) I think that I fixed the performance issue now, at least.

[LoyceV]

I was having this problem for last 1 hour or so. Anyways i have found a solution to this.  
Press CTRL + F5 and the page will load normally.

What sorcery is this? I never expected a "maintenance error" to disappear after a hard refresh. Refresh your cache - When hitting F5 just isn't enough! explained it a bit, and theymos' post completed the explanation.
I never knew this is possible.

[TryNinja]

I was having this problem for last 1 hour or so. Anyways i have found a solution to this.  
Press CTRL + F5 and the page will load normally.

What sorcery is this? I never expected a "maintenance error" to disappear after a hard refresh. Refresh your cache - When hitting F5 just isn't enough! explained it a bit, and theymos' post completed the explanation.
I never knew this is possible.

Can't it be that our browser was caching the "down for maintenance" page? I just got into my PC and the Watchlist page is working (first time I visited it today), but in my phone I still get the same error. So the problem is now in the client.

And I don't know how to clean the browser's cache on Safari.

[sujonali1819]

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 I just got into my PC and the Watchlist page is working (first time I visited it today), but in my phone I still get the same error.

Same to me. Last ≈2 hours I have used my Laptop. But did not face any problems. All are fine as like as normal. But now I am using my mobile phone with chrome browser. Facing some problem like this.

[hosseinimr93]

And I don't know how to clean the browser's cache on Safari.

Here is the guide to delete the cache on Safari.

Same to me. Last ≈2 hours I have used my Laptop. But did not face any problems. All are fine as like as normal. But now I am using my mobile phone with chrome browser. Facing some problem like this.

Click on more button at top right of the page.
Then click on setting.
Go to privacy and then Clear browsing data. You can clear data at any time range.
(I am not sure it is helpful. But hope it works)

[wwzsocki]

Still, from time to time when I try to load new page I see something like this:



Maybe this is important for the Admin to know that this is still happening occasionally.

But is enough to refresh using F5, CTRL+Shift+R or CTRL+F5 to got the website loaded properly.

Thanks for all the answers and info provided in this thread.

[coupable]

I had the same loading issue with pictures and smileys. Am using my phone, i just cleaned the cash of my chrome browser and it works fine from my end.
Everything is normally loading.