Forum problems, glitches, etc. POST HERE ONLY PLEASE

[panacea151]

Originally Posted by Freedom777

When you enter several forums including this one, the home page (where all the threads are seen) is incredibly wide with some links showing only the red "x", my Avatar is missing from my member page...only a red X, although it's viewable whenever I post...

I have the same problem, and my profile picture shows as a red x, also.

[Jaden]

still only getting links posted from photobucket - no images appear.

[Lefty Robb]

I'm showing a bunch of crazy stuff today, I don't know if its due to the new firefox update or something server side, I'm showing posts with all the keywords, some avatars not showing up, just "so-and-so's Avatar" in it place. it wasn't doing this yesterday.

[Dee]

^^ Same for me.

[Clonetool]

Yeah what a mess.

[Jeroenn]

That's a blackhat SEO technique called "keyword stuffing", where they take a load of keywords that normally should be actual content, and put them in such a way in the HTML where a search engine can find them but we as normal visitors won't see the text.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spamdexing

If you look at the HTML source of a few of these pages, you can see the floating div's with the keywords.

[danielb]

The issue with the tag words showing is unknown to us and I request that if a user suffers this please contact us via the "contact us".

As for the missing images - there was a service issue with the Amazon servers that host all the images (including avatars and emoticons). It has since been fixed and the site should be back to normal.

[panacea151]

Avatar pics on the forum landing page and profile pics in a user's personal profile still do not work.

[jemsite]

FYI - Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3) was down for more than eight hours over the weekend, affecting many prominent sites, and the company is still investigating the cause of the problem.

http://www.betanews.com/article/Amaz...age/1216675215

[jemsite]

FYI site frontpage overhaul & more tentatively set for Tuesday night... glen

[panacea151]

Will the overhaul fix these two issues?

[jemsite]

Ok, it's a go...

Late Saturday Night / early Sunday Morning EST jemsite will be revamped as follows:

New Jemsite Home Page - a lot more colorful, with great features such as: Latest Posts and Most Popular Threads, as well as Video of the Day and News.

New Content Management System - From now on it will be very easy for members to contribute articles, and for the Jemsite Staff to review and publish them... promote them to the homepage, articles section, etc. It's great!

News section: We are adding a new module that brings fresh, related news, every day to Jemsite.

New Gallery: Dynamic photo gallery - everyone can contribute!

...glen

[Ayrton]

w00t!

[panacea151]

Great news !!

[Lefty Robb]

So how long will Jemsite be down for the change over? The site really does need some massive spring cleaning.