Post by Shinigami Kyra on Jun 11, 2012 11:55:48 GMT -5
Situation: Site loads to off-site ad/does not load correctly
Status: ** Problem Solved**
Status: ** Problem Solved**
As some of you may know, earlier this morning the board was having trouble for a majority of its members. Sometimes, the site would simply load slow (really, REALLY slow), and other times, just as it would seem as though it would finish loading, it would automatically redirect you to this extremely long link [wrightly.info?]. This problem was not just our own, but several owners of proboard forums. After going through several pages of proboards' main forum, I found a spot where I could finally 'log in' to the site without that stupid ad showing up and redirecting me. I found wrightly.info right in the first line of code for the headers page and removed it.
The problem lies with the actual line of code. While I'm uncertain of what this code actually WAS, Proboards announced that a third-party host, which supplies various forms of coding for proboards, went offline. As such, since apparently it was a popular code or had several other codes itself, other boards were also having problems.
I believe this was simply the issue explained by those forums; we had a line of code that was produced by/held by a third-party hose and not proboards itself, and since it went offline/shut down, the code just... fucked shit up, basically. I'm no HMTL student what-so-ever; all's I know is copy and past and a few of the basics, so I can't really explain what/why/how it all happened.
What I can tell you, fortunately, is that I removed the line of code and the problem seems to be solved. I can't really see what the code originally did, as I have no original page to compare this new page to. However, as stated, I don't see much of a visual difference, and with the code gone (didn't bother copy/pasting to replace whenever that third party host comes back), I don't think it'll be giving us a problem anymore.