I get no threads a lot of the time I look at this forum. Maybe I'm being throttled for looking at the forum too much.

Rule one of reporting problems on web pages

if you don't include URLs, noone will be able to f***ing ever f***ing help you

ok forget it then

not my broken website

last edited by thermite at 14:06:57 29/Jun/09

feel bad thread of the year

Have you rebooted your computer? :)

I went back to the forum from this thread and couldn't see any threads. AAAAARRRRGGGGGHHHHH! SAVE ME JEBUS!!!!

Have you rebooted your computer?

No, you have to reboot it three times. Everyone knows that.

http://www.jonco48.com/blog/tech_20support.jpeg

HI GUYS I'VE GOT A PROBLEM ONLY I CAN SEE..

CAN YOU SEE IT ALSO???

I CAN SEE IT RIGHT NOW...

HALP ME

Surely you know we're happy to help you fix it, its just that it's not possible to help anyone fix anything with such a vague description - we have a server connected to zillions of other complicated devices by strung-out pieces of copper with some insulating plastic wrapped around them, occasionally interspersed by pieces of shiny transparent glass tubes through which photos shoot - this is before it even gets to the hugely complicated slab of metal and plastic and silicon and gold and aluminium and lead before all those zeros and ones are translated into something that can shoot out of your screen into your eyeballs.

Not even counting user error, which is by far the most common sort of error, there's about forfty billion things that can go wrong, and without at least some direction to look in, I have no idea what to tell you.

I'm not abusing you, I'm just expressing frustration that it's 2009 and people still type "It doesn't work" into a computer and expect meaningful results to come out of the other end. It's like being back in 2006 or something.

oh fuk its boxhead

die f*****.

1. Take screenshot

2. Upload and link screenshot in "HALP!" thread

3. ???

4. Profit

dude struggled with hl2

what can you expect

yeah screenshot would've been the go.

Surely you know we're happy to help you fix it, its just that it's not possible to help anyone fix anything with such a vague description - we have a server connected to zillions of other complicated devices by strung-out pieces of copper with some insulating plastic wrapped around them, occasionally interspersed by pieces of shiny transparent glass tubes through which photos shoot - this is before it even gets to the hugely complicated slab of metal and plastic and silicon and gold and aluminium and lead before all those zeros and ones are translated into something that can shoot out of your screen into your eyeballs.

trog lies, everyone knows QGL runs from a dusty old TRS-80 sitting in the back room.

I'm just a member of the site trying to be helpful by making you aware of a problem. I'm not here asking for you to do something for me. Every single day I address bugs reported by members of the public, and there is no 'rule number one' like you said.

Let's play a game - who can guess the URL I was looking at based on what I said? Hint: starts with qgl. and ends with .com and is an ausforums website.

last edited by thermite at 15:02:11 29/Jun/09

was it mbm.livewiredev.com ?

its because you're capped. it happens with me sometimes on this forum and on SA. its something on your end. maybe youre over analysing things?

ignore trog he is just angry that you block ads.

http://i856.photobucket.com/albums/ab124/drfail/qgl-bork-1.jpg

As you can see there is no way to create a thread or to find a thread. Which made creating this thread and getting back to it a real pain in the ass.

last edited by thermite at 15:10:53 29/Jun/09

I'm just a member of the site trying to be helpful by making you aware of a problem. I'm not here asking for you to do something for me. Every single day I address bugs reported by members of the public, and there is no 'rule number one' like you said.

Let's play a game - who can guess the URL I was looking at based on what I said? Hint: starts with qgl. and ends with .com and is an ausforums website. last edited by thermite at 15:02:11 29/Jun/09

don't take it like a personal insult cuz I used swear words (you shoulda seen what I originally was going to post - now THAT was offensive); they were just for emphasis

it's called forum kharma.

Well I figured maybe this is the case, I just called everyone a f***** for liking HL2 in another thread, maybe someone switched on some 'make users life difficult' thing on my account.

It's not consistent, sometimes I do see a listing, so that would add to the frustration of such a user punishment feature.

last edited by thermite at 15:22:50 29/Jun/09

oh that bug

yeh that is some stupid bug in our forum software that crops up randomly (some function gets double-declared somehow on random page loads, it is totally f***ing weird)

we have a plan to move that site to a new server which I'll try and see if I can expedite in the hope that it fixes it

See what happens when you provide useful information?

See what happens when you provide useful information?

Never experienced this particular bug on the AusGamers side of life.

Happy ending for all.. everyone turn to the left and give the guy next to a pat on the back for a job well done.

I can't say I've ever seen that bug and I've been reading qgl.org for like 8 years or something.

Sounds like a fun one to try and fix :) ... coding bugs that are hard to replicate consistanly are never fun.

oh fuk its boxhead die f*****.

I think i love you...

Every single day I address bugs reported by members of the public, and there is no 'rule number one' like you said.

you're doing it wrong dude

Let's play a game - who can guess the URL I was looking at based on what I said? Hint: starts with qgl. and ends with .com and is an ausforums website.

the same forum is available in at least one other site/system, eg: http://www.ausgamers.com/forums/general/index.php

it's pulled out of a content system and formatted individually by the receiving site, thus it's important (as it _always_ is when diagnosing website issues) to know exactly what URL you were attempting to access at the time

I'm having a problem. Please help.

umm, did you read this thread at all twisted? we'll need more information

Maybe its a little personal...

I hear you can get a nasal spray for that now ...

I'm having a problem. Please help.

http://justf***inggoogleit.com/

Haha thermite is my new favourite poster.

I'll be looking for your next post matey, watching you asplode everywhere over nothing is bloody awesome.

watching you asplode everywhere over nothing is bloody awesome.

How appropriate ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermite_Reaction

seriously who couldn't have a good guess at precisely what I was talking about, especially considering it was a known issue :/
I'm the one enduring the bug, I should be allowed to be confused and clueless.

It's like when you don't understand something when you're little and someone goes 'why don't you understand?' that question just blows your god damn mind because you are in no position to be philosophising about your own lack of cognition.

I haven't seen that bug since I left the world of dial-up.

It is happening a MAJORITY of the time for me, from office and home, perhaps you can use my account for your testing.

seriously who couldn't have a good guess at precisely what I was talking about, especially considering it was a known issue :/

I've seen the bug myself, and seen it reported, but I had no idea what you were on about. Your bug report was vague and sucked!

But your ongoing reaction to a simple request for more information continues to be spectacular. Rage on dude. \'''/

'I get no threads' man, do you think it means I can't afford to buy clothes?

Henceforth you will remember this bug when someone says 'no threads' ok?!

last edited by thermite at 16:53:43 29/Jun/09

I think the best thing you can do is turn off your pc

and leave it off

forever

:D

thermite, it seems you feel very strongly about this error and no one is acknowledging your frustration. How does this make you feel?

Are you trying to Exceed his expectations there infi?

www.grouphug.us ?

It is happening a MAJORITY of the time for me, from office and home, perhaps you can use my account for your testing.

hmm, if its the error I'm thinking of, I can only see it happening 4 times in total to anyone since 7am this morning. So maybe you have some new weird error.

Next time it happens can you 'view source' and save the source as a .html file somewhere so I can check it out ?

Whats funny is that you claim to get bug reports from users all the time so you should know better and provide every single f***ing detail, but you revert to one of your clueless users and just go "Duuuhhhh my computer is teh broken" and look like an idiot.

Eds, I said exactly what I saw. The problem is so obvious and frequent to me that I expected it be well known enough not to have to explain details that seemed to make no difference, as the thread listing did not work regardless of which forum link I clicked, or whether I just went to the home page the way I do when I first come to the site. If I tell you I see no threads, it is not like there are 10 billion places I could be trying to look.

Here is a paste of the problem page http://pastebin.com/m1e3e672f

In this particular case the URL was http://qgl.ausforums.com/index.php/439207/? but if I change that crap on the end it makes no difference!

time to upgrade to http://www.ausgamers.com/forums/general/ imo

its because you're capped. it happens with me sometimes on this forum and on SA. its something on your end. maybe youre over analysing things?

ignore trog he is just angry that you block ads.

Wow, that's really odd. When I get capped (bpa cable) QGL forums are the ONLY site I can load. Google's front page loads but results? Nope. SA is out of the question, OCAU loads if I refresh it a few times.

So you guys know if I start posting on qgl more than usual, it's probably because I'm capped :)

To add input I suppose, The only time I've ever seen anything remotely close to what thermite posted in the screenshot is when you'd log in and get a similar page. Other than that, a few times I've seen some silly white page with an error about not being able to re-declare some variable but a refresh clears that up.

last edited by whoop at 18:02:15 29/Jun/09

time to upgrade to http://www.ausgamers.com/forums/general/ imo

I went there and it just looked like a forum full of cocks. I think I'll stay here in QGL land.

fyi, this s*** is happening to me atm too

ALL THE TIME
http://members.iinet.net.au/~davidbroughton/again.jpg


last edited by Spook at 19:32:25 29/Jun/09

fyi, this s*** is happening to me atm too

rule 1 spook

what f***ing url f***ing

(strawman, I know.)

how does it feel!?

ps: high five on having the same problem

last edited by thermite at 20:37:11 29/Jun/09

+1 for using IE8
+1 for bookmarking WWTDD
-1 for bookmarking news.com.au
-1 for uTorrent when newsgroup is the future (and past)

Otherwise I'd say that's a good screenshot.

This is a sneaky trick to get everyone upgrading to ausgamers whiteness. This has been probably asked before but could a QGL blue theme be added to ausgamers?

what f***ing url f***ing

I can see Spooks URL

hahahaha

Jim made a change before which might help mitigate that problem, lemme know if you're still getting it

Did Jim's change involve banning Thermite?

Righty-o. Now I'm getting that error and I've never had it before. Someone re-boot jim in the jimsaq

I suppose Trog's evil plan to force everyone onto ausgamers so he doesn't have to maintain the ausforums code and blame it on jim is now in effect :p

Posting from the Ausgamers forum, and I don't feel comfortable :S

Yeah I still got it.

I think I see the PORBLEM.

Posting from the Ausgamers forum, and I don't feel comfortable :S

yeah me too, but at least greasemonkey allows me to make it fill the entire screen (ausgamers forum seriously looks s*** on wide screen monitors) and make the colours less harmful to my retinas.

nah I didn't make a change before, the thing I thought it might be was already at a suitable setting. but I have made a change now!
basically I've made it so the cms can gobble about 6 times as much ram as it could before, which I think is an excellent solution to the problem

dammit, why'd you have to fix it, I was getting used to the ausgamers version

Our long national nightmare is finally over!

The ausgamers forum is ghastly compared to qgl version. not just the colours, type size, font, layout, it all doesn't compare to the might qgl version. imo anyway.

yeh that ausgamers scheme really is s***

I like ausgamers.

I like AusGamers scheme, hate Rudd, and prefer LCD over plasma.

/thread

I assume this issue is now fixed, if not please PM me