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**TheUnknownShadow**

I don't think this is something that just happens here on dn1 as I seem to get rather odd loading issues on Station forums too.

It *might* be something with IE as I have tried to get the same thing with firefox but so far nothing...

If you really push the forums too far, you get a fun message:

**Croesis**

I've been having problems for the past week and a bit... pages not loading properly, code stopping in random places. Same at home in Firefox and at work in IE. I thought the maintenance period yesterday was going to fix it but it hasn't.... Not got that pretty picture though...

**TheUnknownShadow**

Yeah, I got that one up just before while trying oh so hard to reply to a thread.

The thing of it is that the forums do seem to save what you're doing (like if you've just clicked reply or next page or whatever) yet then there seems to be just random stuff thrown out at you at times:

<img src=" /mxo/sty

That's one I got 2 min ago on a thread I was "trying" to read (the kill smith one) and rather than loading the full thread up, it got about 3 posts down then stopped with that.

No fun SMILEY

**Croesis**

It's harder at work than at home for me as not only do I have to contend with jittery forums but the blocks they have in place (images, certain scripts etc...) tend to mess up the loading as well

Still I will endure... as I said before I don't pay my subs so I can work at work... SMILEY

**Procurator**

You thought the maintenance period would fix it? *Chuckles haughtily.* Maintenance periods never result in anything. They're just Web Presence having a laugh. 'Make them think we're doing something!' they bellow across the tumbledown, cubicle strewn wasteland that is their office.

But yeah, I've been having similar problems. I sometimes get that screen when I post a message (though thankfully not very often), and occasionally a page just won't load. No error message, no random images scattered confusingly around the page, but nothing. A refresh fixes it.

Just make sure you copy the contents of the posting box before you submit a post. If something goes wrong and you need to go back, it's quite probable that it will delete the contents or lock the box so you can't do anything to it. Everything about this forum screams 'my first JSP project'.

Except, of course, the bits that were programmed by the original developers before SOE figured it'd be a fun idea to copy it and ruin it for their own site.

*Makes a very loud noise expressing frustration.*

**Croesis**

Procurator wrote:

You thought the maintenance period would fix it? *Chuckles haughtily.* Maintenance periods never result in anything. They're just Web Presence having a laugh. 'Make them think we're doing something!' they bellow across the tumbledown, cubicle strewn wasteland that is their office.

Hey don't laugh... I thought they'd at least patch up the recent problem thats occuring. I had to spend 3-4 hours in work grudgingly doing some...

Anyway... /throwsparkle1.0

**Phluff**

Ditto on all the phlukes described above. I've had them also phor the past couple of weeks, and it is phrustrating to have to revert to actually working at work. *sigh*

*Goes and looks phor sparkle ammo 2.0 phor Vinia*

**AltDimension**

It's because you're using Internet Explorer.

**Phluff**

Happens in Phire Phox too.... phor me anyway.

**Croesis**

Vinia wrote:

Same at home in Firefox and at work in IE.

**Procurator**

*Coolly produces a pair of Sparkles-B-Gone shades from his jacket pocket and puts them on.*

SMILEY

Happens in Opera too. IE sucks more than the mind can comprehend, but it's not at fault this time.

**MXOWinterMute**

I had quite a cute one yesterday: typed in username/password, and when I clicked submit the page died.

Hit the back button, tried again, and got "invalid username or password"

Tried that a few times before noticing that at the top right of the screen it said, "Logout [MXOWinterMute]"

Apparently the process completed, even if the "logged in successfully" page didn't make it.

I can't blame the site too much: it's not that valid for MXOWinterMute to try to re-login....as MXOWinterMute. SMILEY In its own way, that page was doing the right thing.

**Croesis**

MXOWinterMute wrote:

I had quite a cute one yesterday: typed in username/password, and when I clicked submit the page died.
Hit the back button, tried again, and got "invalid username or password"
Tried that a few times before noticing that at the top right of the screen it said, "Logout [MXOWinterMute]"
Apparently the process completed, even if the "logged in successfully" page didn't make it.
I can't blame the site too much: it's not that valid for MXOWinterMute to try to re-login....as MXOWinterMute. " /> In its own way, that page was doing the right thing.

Thats happened many a time for me, even before the latest bunch of errors. I just look out for it now.

**TheUnknownShadow**

I'm going to add things like this:

" width="15" height="15" />

Into here, as that seems to happen after every emoticon if you edit your original post. Try it yourself, it's good times SMILEY

You can get variations on that too but the edit seems to kick out the code of the emoticons for some reason... you'll notice another variation above actually in another post *points*