Constant Disconnects in Forums
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Good Day,
Curiously for a website I am constantly getting "Looks like your connection to J-Novel Club Forums was lost, please wait while we try to reconnect." messages while browsing the forums. Why does a forums site even need to maintain a constant connection? When it can simply load the links requested when they are clicked.
I suspect there might of been assumptions in the design of the forums close geographic position IE only people from the USA. So it does not understand when pings and requests are routed internationally and so have longer latency.
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Actually, the forum software maintains a connection to let you know of someone posts something to a topic WHILE you are doing other things, so... Giving that up gives up that feature.
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It's not a geography thing. I'm in the US and a few dozen milliseconds from their data center, and I've been getting that constantly the last few days as well.
I'm also getting a lot of red boxes that say "Oops. Looks like something went wrong." when trying to open forum topics. If I just leave it open, the red box will eventually disappear after 10 or 15 seconds, and the topic will actually load.
As for features provided, new comments in a topic and edits to existing comments automatically get added while you're reading if you leave the topic open. And the notification bell lights up immediately if someone likes one of your comments or replies to you.
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And just now I got a 502 error from Cloudflare trying to load a forum topic.
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I agree that these notifications have been getting more frequent lately.
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Add me to the list. I get these everytime I log in to the forum at least once and lately multiple times a session.
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Yes, I just got the "Looks like..." message 4 times in a row within 3 minutes
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@pcj said in Constant Disconnects in Forums:
And just now I got a 502 error from Cloudflare trying to load a forum topic.
I got this earlier as well. Seems like an issue with the server the forums are running on or something.
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I have been getting the connection error issue constantly for the last week or two as well as frequently getting the 502 error from cloudflare several times and forum pages have been loading very slowly and for some reason partway through reading a forum it automatically tries to refresh and brings me back to where I started. It has been extremely annoying trying to do anything on the forums lately.
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It's been reported on the discord channel that a fix for some of the connection issues people have been seeing has been deployed as of about 2 hours ago, so please report if you're still seeing these issues.
