Recent Forum Issues

Discussion in 'Temptation Cancun' started by Steve, Nov 18, 2018.

  1. Steve

    Steve Administrator Owner

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    Apologies for the issues regarding log in problems the last few days.

    These should now be resolved although may occur again later next week as I attempt to make some changes.


    Techy Part
    I'm in the process of having a third party company review our advertising, they use machine learning and artificial intelligence to figure out the best placement and type of ads shown on the site and have access to ad networks that I as an individual do not. As part of this I need to use a CDN (Content Deliverry Network) called Cloudfare - in theory this should speed up load times too. I used this before a few years ago and had problems with it then so paused it, I thought the issues might now have been resolved, but it seems not.

    As a result users were unable to log back in if they logged out, this also affected me. I logged out to test the user reports I was getting and was unable to log back in myself for 2 days. I paused the CDN to set it back to the same state as it was before, however this didn't seem to remedy the problem so I had to remove it completely, which did the trick but unfortunately brought a premature end to the ad experimentation.

    Regarding the ads, I know some delivered were pretty ugly, too big, too many, covered part of the content etc. It was a test period and the intention was to filter those particular ads out through time, leaving effective but not too obtrusive ads in place.

    I intend to experiment some more later in the week once I have had chance to talk to my account manager at the ad company, and hopefully resolved the CDN issue. Please bear with us, things may look ugly at times but what you see is not intended to be the final look.

    Thanks for your continued support and participation.
     
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  2. MandEOntario

    MandEOntario Addict Registered Member

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    Hi Steve, thank you for letting us know. It's great you continue to offer and continuously improve the CCC and CS sites to everyone's benefit -- and at no cost to us!
    Always informative, interesting, entertaining, available and appreciated. Thanks again to you and your team.
     
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  3. Donna & Tim

    Donna & Tim I can choose my own title Registered Member

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    Thanks Steve one of my phones displayed the CCC site perfectly my other phone you couldn't see the first section of the forums, on a computer it was ok.

    T
     
  4. SteveandShele

    SteveandShele Enthusiast Registered Member

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    As per Donna and Tims comment my phone was the same way i couldn't see the Temptation forum. Figured out if i turned my phone sideways it would show it.

    Figured you might be able to use the info to help out

    Steve
     
  5. ging

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    If you'd like, update this thread when you turn cloudflare back on. If there are problems I could probably tell you what it is. Off the bat, it could be your cloudflare setup doesn't support HTTP POST verb (which is required for log in) or its caching cookies used to auth users. Those are just guesses but common problems. Anyways, good luck!
     
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