Captain Ewok

Has anyone seen these messages recently?

Sorry, you sent something on a Friday. We can close your account if that's what you want?  There is a link in your user settings as well.

I disabled a filter that may have been causing this.  Let me know :).

How common has this been across VJ?  Trying to understand if a few people or many?

Your IP address is an identifier assigned to your computer or mobile device by your internet service provider (ISP) or cell phone company. Your IP address can change when your ISP or cell phone company assigns you a new address. When that happens, your location looks like it is changing. This is a common occurrence and is nothing to worry about.

Btw, this is our standard 403 access forbidden message.  Do you happen to know what page you were trying to access when you got this?

Do you have this issue anymore?

On 12/4/2023 at 5:22 AM, Ontarkie said:

Every time I have my adblock running I cannot use the multi quote option. As soon as I turn on the adblock the multi quote down on the bottom right pops right back up. 

 

Also my cursor disappears every single time on VJ and only on VJ. I have to randomly click around and hope it will pop back up on my chat box so I can use my arrow keys to move around my flashing (|) so I know where I am. THis has been going on for months and at first I thought is was just my computer, if it was then it would be the same thing everywhere I go. 

 

 

 

 

let me know!

What URL?

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Hi all.  Hopefully things are fixed now.  I've restored a 3 year search index to the site and unread pages seem to load in 5 seconds or so.  Let me know!  Thanks and sorry for the issues today!!

Let me know.  As a temp measure I’m limiting the internal search engine to 6 months.

May not stick... but I'll get it fixed if not :).

Sorry for any downtime.  Having to debug.  Should be more stable but still working on root cause.

I made a few minor (temp) fixes to help for some users.  The root issue appears there still however.  I've escalated a trouble ticket for more help.

Ok, just saw that too.  Looking into it.  May restart our server.

Yes.   We are aware and looking into it.  Sorry for the inconvenience!

Not entirely sure here on the issue.  I will try and reset a few things.  We did not make any updates that should have caused this.

Not entirely sure here on the issue.  I will try and reset a few things.  We did not make any updates that should have caused this.

I'm rebuilding the site search index.  It may take a while but will hopefully fix this.

So odd.  I'll see what is going on.

Yes, would like to know more as well.  Is this embassy specific or rolling out wider?

Yeah, nothing critical -- but we are well aware and working to mitigate future slow downs. 

Sorry everyone!  We made some recent updates that inadvertently slowed things down a bit -- however we are optimizing things to get us back to normal.  Thanks for the patience :)!

14 hours ago, AndiB said:

Hi sorry, I kinda made this and then life + work got crazy and I didn't have enough time to properly reply.
I may be addressing some things that are now 'closed' so feel free to ignore but

- For a lot of us we don't want to just leave because we know VJ is a great resource and many people benefit a tonne from this website and it would be a shame to just leave without at least trying to discuss things. Sure if it's a deadend, no one is forced to stay here.

- I get the 'I'm out' now, I never took part on forums where people felt they had to announce they were disengaging. I think generally it's assumed people come and go, only person I feel that really needs to announce they're done is OP but each to their own. The 'I'm out' def feels a bit abrupt and when it's used by many and usually coupled with a lot of questions then 'Im out!' it feels more like storming out than disengaging politely.

- I'm glad to see some mod changes. One thing I think gives a bad vibe, confusion and maybe stirs drama is posts being removed, esp constantly without any notice it's happened. We had a lot of confusion and bad vibes when a bunch of messages were being removed on the processing thread and no mod contacted anyone or even put a message saying x topic/thread was not allowed and posts would be removed until they realised people wouldn't stop unil told. So we were just confused. I think mod action should be transparent. Especially if possible to put more clearly what context caused a message to be removed. 

- I agree maybe if it's possible to separate immigration and off topic searches maybe the issue that was discussed can be avoided and can also in general help people find relevant posts more easily. There are def numerous trans members, I know a few myself. Maybe they're just lurking, maybe they don't feel comfortable posting or maybe they just haven't had a question related to their gender.

- I haven't had time to find examples, if I get a longer period to sit with this I will! I find 'rudeness' tends to mostly be picked up when someone says something 'wrong' and everyone jumps on it. Most people asking a question are completely new to the process. They're going to say things wrong, there's going to be english translation issues etc etc. You are in no way required to correct them or engage but if you do it'd just be nice if it was with more grace and patience. I had zero idea how strict CBP was on using 'wife' etc so jumping on people like they're idiots for the mistake is a bit much. I think that's generally the issue...the vibe is 'you're an idiot' instead of welcoming. Not always, maybe not even mostly but there's def occurrences of make a mistake and you get a pile on for it.

To end a long post, in the brief moments I've had to glance into threads, things seem to have chilled out and I am not seeing a lot of what caused me to start this thread to begin with so I'm thankful that this was taken seriously ❤️

 

Def taken to heart and not just for a fleeting moment :).  More updates to announce in the very near future.  

Hi there!

Firstly -- GREAT suggestions!  Would having a search option to show only reviews with content (not rating only) as the default help?