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Title: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: HeroHog on August 12, 2017, 01:21:08 PM
The Green Bar of Nothing is still here and today, If I post, the page doesn't display on Post. The post addition is made but the page that SHOULD be a reload of the page I posted to results in a blank page. Same thing happens when I hit the "Mark All Forums Read" button. :P
Title: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: Ben on August 12, 2017, 01:48:13 PM
Linux.

 =D


I actually get a blank page after hitting "post" as well. Just started this morning.
Title: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: Hawkmoon on August 12, 2017, 04:58:33 PM
Windows 7 with Firefox. It got me, too.
Title: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: Hawkmoon on August 12, 2017, 04:59:04 PM
Windows 7 with Firefox. It got me, too.
Title: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: HeroHog on August 12, 2017, 05:30:37 PM
Glad to know it's not just me...
Title: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: Scout26 on August 12, 2017, 05:41:40 PM
I'm on my Android phone.  No issues.
Title: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: HeroHog on August 12, 2017, 05:51:56 PM
Test from Taptastic on my iPhone...
Title: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: HeroHog on August 12, 2017, 05:54:04 PM
Test from Taptastic on my iPhone...
Worked fine. Strange. It doesn't work on My notebook on Chrome, I.E. 11 and MS Edge.
Title: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: Viking on August 12, 2017, 07:08:21 PM
Anyone else not seeing any profile pics? ???
Title: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: Ben on August 12, 2017, 07:42:48 PM
Anyone else not seeing any profile pics? ???

Huh. You're right. Many profile pics gone.
Title: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: Scout26 on August 12, 2017, 11:22:27 PM
Yep, I only see Hawkmoon's and HeroHog's. 

RevDisk must be out on another date watching Russian Ballet or some such...
Title: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: Hawkmoon on August 12, 2017, 11:39:23 PM
Yep, I only see Hawkmoon's and HeroHog's. 


Well, I find that very interesting, because I don't see mine. I also don't see several others ... but not all are missing.
Title: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: Ben on August 12, 2017, 11:41:30 PM
Well, I find that very interesting, because I don't see mine. I also don't see several others ... but not all are missing.

I see yours. Did you link to the image, or was it small enough that you just uploaded it to APS?
Title: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: Hawkmoon on August 13, 2017, 01:33:05 AM
I see yours. Did you link to the image, or was it small enough that you just uploaded it to APS?

It was a link to some site, and that was triggering some virus warnings a few weeks ago. When that happened, I changed it to an APS attachment.

And I just checked my profile -- my avatar image is GONE! I tried to reattach it, and nothing happened.
Title: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: Scout26 on August 13, 2017, 01:44:24 AM
Yep, mine's gone also.  It's not on my profile page anymore either...
Title: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: Hawkmoon on August 13, 2017, 12:21:47 PM
Yep, mine's gone also.  It's not on my profile page anymore either...

And yet I still see yours. I see Ben's, and Hero Hog's. I don't see Viking's. Or mine.
Title: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: Ben on August 13, 2017, 12:31:18 PM
And yet I still see yours. I see Ben's, and Hero Hog's. I don't see Viking's. Or mine.

Strange and stranger.

I can't see mine.  I saw Hawkmoon's yesterday, but can't see it today.
Title: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: Hawkmoon on August 13, 2017, 12:51:57 PM
(https://armedpolitesociety.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fs2.quickmeme.com%2Fimg%2F1e%2F1e9494df0b206c608e42ca07e6746e16691b2ccc7e573c32234ee5bb427d7803.jpg&hash=2d2d1f313e37a4f20cbc5142eada1a9ae795dda1)
Title: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: BlueStarLizzard on August 13, 2017, 01:21:18 PM
Okay, every time I reply to a thread, I get a white page of nothing instead of going back to the thread? (using chrome)
Title: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: Hawkmoon on August 13, 2017, 01:58:59 PM
Okay, every time I reply to a thread, I get a white page of nothing instead of going back to the thread? (using chrome)

That's what we've been talking about. Welcome to the club.
Title: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: HeroHog on August 13, 2017, 02:53:55 PM
230rn can't do anything this morning. On the phone with him now.
Title: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: HeroHog on August 13, 2017, 02:55:13 PM
230rn requested that a mod/admin log him out so he can attempt to log back in.
Title: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: 230RN on August 13, 2017, 09:18:51 PM
Let's see if that worked
Title: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: 230RN on August 13, 2017, 09:21:58 PM
Yay!   You're a real Hero, HeroHog !  Merci !

Now I'm wondering how many others are out there who can't get in and can't say anything about it to get the problem corrected.

Everything worked normally except I could not give any input to the board, such as posting, PMing, replying, or anything.

I'd get a message that my session had timed out, log out and log back in to correct the problem, but I couldn't even log out.

Thanks, admins, mods, as well.

Terry, 230RN
Title: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: HeroHog on August 13, 2017, 09:26:02 PM
Yay!   You're a real Hero, HeroHog !  Merci !

Now I'm wondering how many others are out there who can't get in and can't say anything about it to get the problem corrected.

Terry, 230RN

I answered the phone and posted a message, Yay, I'm a hero!  ;/

Glad ya are back for whatever reason that came about bud.
Title: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: HeroHog on August 13, 2017, 09:28:39 PM
LOL! Brand new machine, 1st time on this site ever, Submit my last post and... I get the Blank Screen of Nothing! (BSoN) The Green Bar of Nothing (GBoN) is still a thing as well.
Title: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: 230RN on August 13, 2017, 09:33:53 PM
Me too, found it actually had posted anyhow.  Found it's better to preview, select all, then unselect all (or make some minor change), then "Post."

Going back into my forum settings and see if I've still got "return to topic." selected to see if that's the problem.

bluestarlizzard also had this problem:

Okay, every time I reply to a thread, I get a white page of nothing instead of going back to the thread? (using chrome)



Title: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: 230RN on August 13, 2017, 09:39:03 PM
Yep.  It's in "Look and Layout Preferences."

____________________
 Return to topics after posting by default.
----------------------------------

Is still checked, so..... ???
Title: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: Hawkmoon on August 13, 2017, 11:03:35 PM
Somebody fixed something, because my avatar is back, Viking's avatar is back, and posting seems to be working normally again.

I'm tellin' yuz ... it's aliens.
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Correction - the avatars are back, but posting is still messed up.
Title: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: Scout26 on August 14, 2017, 12:03:29 AM
Only avatars I see in this thread are 230RN's and Herohog's.  Every one else's. including mine, gone....


Is Rev back from his Russian Symphony date yet ?? Or did the NSA pick him up before they started pulling this prank.


Title: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: HeroHog on August 14, 2017, 12:29:18 AM
I can see the avatars.
Title: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: HeroHog on August 14, 2017, 12:30:05 AM
Still get the BSoN on post though.
Title: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: 230RN on August 14, 2017, 12:37:32 AM

As mentioned, I wonder how many APSers got stuck with not being able to do anything because their Logout button didn't work.
Title: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: 230RN on August 14, 2017, 06:40:48 AM
Still get the BSoN on post though.

I think hitting the back button twice showed me my post. Or some combination of that and reload or something.  This was after a "Modify" operation, though.  I'll have to play with it.  IE 11.  Maybe it was the eye of newt or the wing of bat I keep handy.

Title: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: K Frame on August 14, 2017, 07:38:13 AM
I had the problem where I'd try to open the page and all it would do would be return a white screen.

I finally tried typing in the entire name -- http://www.blah, and that worked.

My links were only bringing up the short name, no http or www prefixes.
Title: Re: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: makattak on August 14, 2017, 08:32:18 AM
I had the problem where I'd try to open the page and all it would do would be return a white screen.

I finally tried typing in the entire name -- http://www.blah, and that worked.

My links were only bringing up the short name, no http or www prefixes.

I seem to be having the same issues.  Can't logout even.

Tapatalk still works,  though.
Title: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: zxcvbob on August 14, 2017, 09:35:28 AM
Okay, every time I reply to a thread, I get a white page of nothing instead of going back to the thread? (using chrome)

Sam Ting.
Title: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: Ben on August 14, 2017, 10:07:24 AM
Avatars have returned, white page of posting still there for me.

This is the url for the blank page I got when posting this reply. I think this is a different redirect than you would normally get.

http://www.armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?action=post2;start=25;board=1

When I click on the above url, I get:

Your session timed out while posting. Please try to re-submit your message.
No subject was filled in.
The message body was left empty.
Title: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: Hawkmoon on August 14, 2017, 12:14:01 PM
^^^ Ditto
Title: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: AJ Dual on August 14, 2017, 12:42:21 PM
Just got my first BSoN... am I in the cool kids club now?
Title: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: Perd Hapley on August 14, 2017, 07:29:35 PM
Test.
Title: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: BlueStarLizzard on August 14, 2017, 07:46:19 PM
The white page of posting seems to come and go with me.

*and it happened on this post.

** and it happens when you go back to edit as well.
Title: Re:
Post by: Marnoot on August 14, 2017, 07:52:13 PM
I can't see any portion of the site on a browser, just a blank white page, the source just shows that porn site advertising code that got injected some time back. I can only see any portion of the forum  via tapatalk.

Sent from my SM-G950U1 using Tapatalk
Title: Re:
Post by: Ben on August 14, 2017, 07:59:29 PM
I can't see any portion of the site on a browser, just a blank white page, the source just shows that porn site advertising code that got injected some time back. I can only see any portion of the forum  via tapatalk.

Sent from my SM-G950U1 using Tapatalk

That's strange. I see everything fine on my desktop browser and on my phone browser (not tapatalk). These are weird Gremlins.
Title: Re:
Post by: K Frame on August 14, 2017, 09:04:26 PM
If you get a white page make sure your address has the www prefix.

Type it in by hand.

Sent from my SCH-I545 using Tapatalk
Title: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: MechAg94 on August 14, 2017, 09:08:23 PM
I have just been getting the white screen after posting.  

Add that I am using Firefox. 
Title: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: RoadKingLarry on August 14, 2017, 09:13:52 PM
I'm seeing the same thing after a post.

MS Edge.

(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2833/33505808824_e39399fc53_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/T3N2D3)thats what she said (https://flic.kr/p/T3N2D3) by lmmiers (https://www.flickr.com/photos/19769480@N08/), on Flickr
Title: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: Perd Hapley on August 14, 2017, 11:36:57 PM
You all better fix this NOW, or give me my money back.  :mad:
Title: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: Marnoot on August 15, 2017, 12:06:41 AM
Ah yes, adding the WWW takes care of it in the browser.


Given that the site has been hacked on one or more occasion has any attempt been made to do a clean wipe of the SMF files, just retaining the database, in order to get rid of malignantly modified files? Or are there malignant entries in the database too? (It's been a long time since I've played around with an SMF install) I seem to recall someone upgrading or doing something else with the files in the past year or two.


The following is present in the source of every page on the site:


Code: [Select]

<code 4282><div style="display:none"><a href="http://www.porndukes.com/" title="porno resim">porno resim</a>,<a href="http://www.internetporngod.com/" title="sex resim">sex resim</a>,<a href="http://www.gaypornpcpost.com/" title="türbanlı porno resimleri">türbanlı porno resimleri</a>,<a href="http://www.nr1porn.com/" title="sex videoları izle">sex videoları izle</a>,<a href="http://www.pornadorn.com/" title="sikiş resimleri">sikiş resimleri</a>,</div><!--website themes 4282--></code 4282><code 4281><div style="display:none"><a href="http://www.34e.info/" title="ataşehir escort">ataşehir escort</a>,<a href="http://www.alperi.net/" title="pendik escort">pendik escort</a>,<a href="http://www.istanbulunlaleleri.com/" title="şişli escort">şişli escort</a>,<a href="http://www.istanbulpert.com/" title="kurtköy escort">kurtköy escort</a>,<a href="http://www.vizyonerankara.com/" title="ankara escort">ankara escort</a>,<a href="http://www.tapsankara.com/" title="ankara escort">ankara escort</a>,<a href="http://www.beylikduzualsat.com/" title="avcılar escort">avcılar escort</a>,<a href="http://www.trvit.com/" title="istanbul travesti">istanbul travesti</a>,<a href="http://www.istanbullook.com/" title="maltepe escort">maltepe escort</a>,<a href="http://www.ankaradenizi.com/" title="escort ankara">escort ankara</a>,<a href="http://www.ankarapunk.com/" title="ankara escort">ankara escort</a>,<a href="http://ankaraekrani.com/" title="ankara escort">ankara escort</a>,<a href="http://antalyagzlescort.com/" title="antalya escort">antalya escort</a>,<a href="http://www.ankaraceviz.com/" title="ankara escort">ankara escort</a>,<a href="http://www.cinevideo20.com/" title="türk porno">türk porno</a>,</div><!--website themes 4281--></code 4281><code 4280><div style="display:none"><a href="http://www.niceyetkiliservisi.com" title="Nice servis">Nice servis</a>,<a href="http://www.nicebariyer.net" title="nice bariyer">nice bariyer</a>,<a href="http://www.mantarbariyer.gen.tr" title="mantar bariyer">mantar bariyer</a>,<a href="http://www.yonepoksi.com" title="epoksi zemin kaplama">epoksi zemin kaplama</a>,<a href="http://www.winnerkoltuk.com" title="köşe koltuk">köşe koltuk</a>,<a href="http://www.yuklemerampasi.gen.tr" title="yükleme rampası">yükleme rampası</a>,<a href="https://www.bft-turkiye.com.tr" title="bft ">bft </a>,<a href="http://www.bahcekapisimotoru.gen.tr/" title="bahçe kapısı motoru">bahçe kapısı motoru</a>,<a href="http://www.niceturkiye.gen.tr" title="nice türkiye">nice türkiye</a>,<a href="http://www.niceturkey.gen.tr" title="nice türkiye">nice türkiye</a>,<a href="http://www.efsaweb.com" title="efsa web">efsa web</a>,<a href="http://www.niceturkiye.com.tr" title="nice türkiye">nice türkiye</a>,<a href="http://www.yenikepenk.com" title="kepenk servisi">kepenk servisi</a>,<a href="http://www.zoryapi.com.tr" title="Dış cephe mantolama">Dış cephe mantolama</a>,<a href="http://www.pergolaturkiye.net" title="pergola">pergola</a>,</div><!--website themes 4280--></code 4280><code 4797><div style="display:none"><a href="http://www.kazimolmez.com" title="Kadınhanı Web Tasarımı">Kadınhanı Web Tasarımı</a>,</div><!--website themes 4797--></code 4797><code 5338><div style="display:none"><a href="http://www.esenyurtescortve.com" title="esenyurt escort">esenyurt escort</a>,<a href="http://www.beylikduzuescortve.com" title="beylikdüzü escort">beylikdüzü escort</a>,<a href="http://www.besiktasescortve.com" title="beşiktaş escort">beşiktaş escort</a>,<a href="http://www.wnpacific.com" title="atakoy escort">atakoy escort</a>,<a href="http://escort.bayan.bz/" title="escort istanbul">escort istanbul</a>,<a href="http://www.mariasballroom.com" title="istanbul escort">istanbul escort</a>,<a href="http://www.cezayirihale.com/" title="istanbul escort">istanbul escort</a>,<a href="http://www.merterfirmalarim.com/" title="istanbul escort">istanbul escort</a>,<a href="http://coskuntascilik.com/" title="sirinevler escort">sirinevler escort</a>,</div><!--website themes 5338--></code 5338><!--website themes-->
Title: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: zxcvbob on August 15, 2017, 12:31:48 AM
Ah yes, adding the WWW takes care of it in the browser.


Given that the site has been hacked on one or more occasion has any attempt been made to do a clean wipe of the SMF files, just retaining the database, in order to get rid of malignantly modified files? Or are there malignant entries in the database too? (It's been a long time since I've played around with an SMF install) I seem to recall someone upgrading or doing something else with the files in the past year or two.


The following is present in the source of every page on the site:


Code: [Select]

<code 4282><div style="display:none"><a href="http://www.porndukes.com/" title="porno resim">porno resim</a>,<a href="http://www.internetporngod.com/" title="sex resim">sex resim</a>,<a href="http://www.gaypornpcpost.com/" title="türbanlı porno resimleri">türbanlı porno resimleri</a>,<a href="http://www.nr1porn.com/" title="sex videoları izle">sex videoları izle</a>,<a href="http://www.pornadorn.com/" title="sikiş resimleri">sikiş resimleri</a>,</div><!--website themes 4282--></code 4282><code 4281><div style="display:none"><a href="http://www.34e.info/" title="ataşehir escort">ataşehir escort</a>,<a href="http://www.alperi.net/" title="pendik escort">pendik escort</a>,<a href="http://www.istanbulunlaleleri.com/" title="şişli escort">şişli escort</a>,<a href="http://www.istanbulpert.com/" title="kurtköy escort">kurtköy escort</a>,<a href="http://www.vizyonerankara.com/" title="ankara escort">ankara escort</a>,<a href="http://www.tapsankara.com/" title="ankara escort">ankara escort</a>,<a href="http://www.beylikduzualsat.com/" title="avcılar escort">avcılar escort</a>,<a href="http://www.trvit.com/" title="istanbul travesti">istanbul travesti</a>,<a href="http://www.istanbullook.com/" title="maltepe escort">maltepe escort</a>,<a href="http://www.ankaradenizi.com/" title="escort ankara">escort ankara</a>,<a href="http://www.ankarapunk.com/" title="ankara escort">ankara escort</a>,<a href="http://ankaraekrani.com/" title="ankara escort">ankara escort</a>,<a href="http://antalyagzlescort.com/" title="antalya escort">antalya escort</a>,<a href="http://www.ankaraceviz.com/" title="ankara escort">ankara escort</a>,<a href="http://www.cinevideo20.com/" title="türk porno">türk porno</a>,</div><!--website themes 4281--></code 4281><code 4280><div style="display:none"><a href="http://www.niceyetkiliservisi.com" title="Nice servis">Nice servis</a>,<a href="http://www.nicebariyer.net" title="nice bariyer">nice bariyer</a>,<a href="http://www.mantarbariyer.gen.tr" title="mantar bariyer">mantar bariyer</a>,<a href="http://www.yonepoksi.com" title="epoksi zemin kaplama">epoksi zemin kaplama</a>,<a href="http://www.winnerkoltuk.com" title="köşe koltuk">köşe koltuk</a>,<a href="http://www.yuklemerampasi.gen.tr" title="yükleme rampası">yükleme rampası</a>,<a href="https://www.bft-turkiye.com.tr" title="bft ">bft </a>,<a href="http://www.bahcekapisimotoru.gen.tr/" title="bahçe kapısı motoru">bahçe kapısı motoru</a>,<a href="http://www.niceturkiye.gen.tr" title="nice türkiye">nice türkiye</a>,<a href="http://www.niceturkey.gen.tr" title="nice türkiye">nice türkiye</a>,<a href="http://www.efsaweb.com" title="efsa web">efsa web</a>,<a href="http://www.niceturkiye.com.tr" title="nice türkiye">nice türkiye</a>,<a href="http://www.yenikepenk.com" title="kepenk servisi">kepenk servisi</a>,<a href="http://www.zoryapi.com.tr" title="Dış cephe mantolama">Dış cephe mantolama</a>,<a href="http://www.pergolaturkiye.net" title="pergola">pergola</a>,</div><!--website themes 4280--></code 4280><code 4797><div style="display:none"><a href="http://www.kazimolmez.com" title="Kadınhanı Web Tasarımı">Kadınhanı Web Tasarımı</a>,</div><!--website themes 4797--></code 4797><code 5338><div style="display:none"><a href="http://www.esenyurtescortve.com" title="esenyurt escort">esenyurt escort</a>,<a href="http://www.beylikduzuescortve.com" title="beylikdüzü escort">beylikdüzü escort</a>,<a href="http://www.besiktasescortve.com" title="beşiktaş escort">beşiktaş escort</a>,<a href="http://www.wnpacific.com" title="atakoy escort">atakoy escort</a>,<a href="http://escort.bayan.bz/" title="escort istanbul">escort istanbul</a>,<a href="http://www.mariasballroom.com" title="istanbul escort">istanbul escort</a>,<a href="http://www.cezayirihale.com/" title="istanbul escort">istanbul escort</a>,<a href="http://www.merterfirmalarim.com/" title="istanbul escort">istanbul escort</a>,<a href="http://coskuntascilik.com/" title="sirinevler escort">sirinevler escort</a>,</div><!--website themes 5338--></code 5338><!--website themes-->

Are you sure that's not on your end?  I'm looking at the source for this page, and I see a <code 4282> but none of that other stuff...

Nevermind.  I see it now after expanding all the twisties.
Title: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: Frank Castle on August 15, 2017, 12:37:23 AM
The Russian hacked APS

Title: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: cordex on August 15, 2017, 01:18:45 AM
It looks to me like the inserted links have gotten worse.  Whereas before we had one string of sites hidden in the header, now there are five.

The same junk is present in GunRightsMedia.com (which is apparently nearly dead).  Not on every site hosted on the same server, however.

Doesn't look like Parallels has been updated in a good long while either.
Title: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: K Frame on August 15, 2017, 07:17:21 AM
How difficult/time consuming is it to flush the crap out of the header?

Given how long this has been a problem this time it's as if we need Al Gore to reinvent the internet all over again and start from scratch or something.
Title: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: RocketMan on August 15, 2017, 07:20:36 AM
How many admins do we have that can handle this sort of thing?  Hopefully more than one, in case somebody gets hit by a truck or something.  It would be a shame and all, but there should be someone else that can cull the pron site stuff from the headers and send it to fistful.  We shouldn't have all of our eggs in one basket, so to speak.
Title: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: Scout26 on August 15, 2017, 07:27:41 AM
We have more than one, and they have been alerted.
Title: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: RoadKingLarry on August 15, 2017, 07:35:27 AM
You all better fix this NOW, or give me my monkey back.  :mad:

(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/395/32465264195_7fd9e02a93_m.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/RsQXYp) (https://flic.kr/p/RsQXYp) (https://www.flickr.com/photos/19769480@N08/)
Title: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: 230RN on August 15, 2017, 08:16:56 AM
"...can cull the pron site stuff from the headers and send it to fistful."

I don't see any pron site stuff in the header.

ETA just went over to GRM, too, no pron site stuff there for me, either.

Another browser-dependent problem?  Me, again = IE11

I do have many of the other problems cited.
Title: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: 230RN on August 15, 2017, 08:31:10 AM
Test.  Unchecking return to thread after posting.

No change.  Rechecking that item.

No change.  Still get the blank screen of nothing
Title: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: Viking on August 15, 2017, 09:55:19 AM
Testing posting from phone.

Edit to add: white screen.
All avatars are visible now OTOH. Will check on tablet later.
Title: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: cordex on August 15, 2017, 09:59:04 AM
I don't see any pron site stuff in the header.
It's hidden.  Try viewing the source.

The idea is to create a bunch of links to domains for sale or porn/escort sites to make search engines value the domain more.  In order to get people to ignore it on their website they hide it using a CSS trick that renders it invisible.

The problem is, that junk is appended to the responses to asynchronous Javascript calls (when the browser asks for just a little bit of properly formatted data using Javascript instead of reloading the entire page).  In that case the additional code can screw up the request.  That is causing a number of the issues.
Title: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: Ben on August 15, 2017, 10:08:11 AM
From what I recall Rev saying. part of this is the older version of the forum software we're using that created problems when he tried to update to the current version, and part is that Geovario gets hit by these porn jackwagons (hence GRM being hit as well).

I know nothing about forum software, but I'm curious how hard it might be to switch to different software? Is there any that lets you just click a button to migrate a site from one software to another (to not create work for the person already doing it for free)?

I also recall Rev saying that server space to handle a forum is pretty cheap. If getting off Geovario would help, I'll volunteer to pay for a three year domain subscription and three years of server space if physically migrating would help us.
Title: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: RoadKingLarry on August 15, 2017, 10:15:40 AM
I'd be willing to kick in some scratch as well
Title: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: Marnoot on August 15, 2017, 11:37:10 AM
Converters exist to migrate SMF to phpBB, etc. Though I don't know that SMF is the problem so much as the ancient version we're using. I don't know what hitches the version upgrade had, though.


I'm a developer not an ops guy, but given file/DB read access I'd be willing to put some time into doing a test-run on an AWS EC2 server of upgrading the SMF version, and/or migrating to alternate forum software. If successful at one or both, we could decide where to go from there with the actual site.
Title: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: HeroHog on August 15, 2017, 01:43:59 PM
I am offering my expertise with web/forum admin.
Title: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: Ben on August 15, 2017, 01:57:04 PM
Thank you guys.

We'll need to wait for Rev or Nick to check in as they have "the keys to the house" as it were, and likely more info on what's going on.

I should have also mentioned in my previous post that we'd need to clear any major changes with Oleg since he's the owner. I doubt he'd have any problems with something like a forum software switch, but something like going to another domain/server would definitely need his approval. He may have reasons for staying with Geovario given his other sites are there.
Title: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: Hawkmoon on August 15, 2017, 06:00:34 PM
I just had to log in again -- although I hadn't logged off. And I'm back to not seeing many of the avatars (but still seeing others).

Maybe I just need to have my eyes checked ... It can't be the booze, I gave that up years ago.
Title: Re: The Green Bar of Nothing an other issues
Post by: Ben on August 15, 2017, 06:03:31 PM
I just had to log in again -- although I hadn't logged off. And I'm back to not seeing many of the avatars (but still seeing others).

Maybe I just need to have my eyes checked ... It can't be the booze, I gave that up years ago.

I also had to just log back in and the forum is in the default font and color scheme for me, but there is also a notice about "repair settings" at the top of the page, so it could be one of the guys is poking around and resetting stuff.