Long Post takes forever to send

[sakumar79]

Hi,
I have noticed a couple of times (in this forum) when I want to post a reply or a new thread and have a lot of text in the message, the submit command takes forever to process and often I am left with error message... Have others faced this problem? Any idea what may be the cause of the problem and how to sort it out?

Arun

[The Unknown]

Originally Posted by sakumar79

Hi,
I have noticed a couple of times (in this forum) when I want to post a reply or a new thread and have a lot of text in the message, the submit command takes forever to process and often I am left with error message... Have others faced this problem? Any idea what may be the cause of the problem and how to sort it out?

Arun

Yes me too. I was facing this problem when i used opera. now also i use opera but i mask it as IE of FF. Still sometimes it happens. And sometimes, it won't send at all. Just remains @ the page.

[Sukhdeep Singh]

IF i use FAst Reply, takes a second. If i use ADD REPLY, takes ages

[The Unknown]

Originally Posted by sukhdeepsinghkohli

IF i use FAst Reply, takes a second. If i use ADD REPLY, takes ages

True.

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Well in that way any other forum software is good. For Ex: PhpBB or Mybb, etc.

MYBB and PHPBB are the most max used forum soft.

[Sukhdeep Singh]

I think this is not vBulletin. I am member of lots of forums powered by vBulletin and only Digit has this problem.

[The Unknown]

Originally Posted by sukhdeepsinghkohli

I think this is not vBulletin. I am member of lots of forums powered by vBulletin and only Digit has this problem.

Or if it is vBulletin, then it is an old version which has many bugs.

[Sukhdeep Singh]

Originally Posted by The Unknown

Or if it is vBulletin, then it is an old version which has many bugs.

Yeah, thats a possibility. The forum is running on old version, i dont know why Digit didnt upgraded since there are so many security fixes

Digit on Version 3.5.4
Latest - vBulletin 3.6.7

[sakumar79]

I generally use Opera 9.2 these days (before that, it was 9.10, before which it was 9.02 and before that, well, you get the picture )...

But I also tried it with IE and had the same problem... Whether you go for quick post or advanced post...

Arun

[praka123]

if i post anything using my iceweasel(FF),this forum hangs!ie,it shows a busy thing like about to post,i have to check the thread again to see that what i've posted is there!go,upgrade to latest vbulletin @least its got updates for subscriptions.

[Kiran.dks]

Yes. It happens with all browsers. But for me it's not dependent upon the amount of text in the reply. It just happens every now & then. It appears like sometimes the script of reloading the page misses out. While it hangs up, just try >Open in a new tab....your post will already be there. So it's just the matter of reloading the page fails sometimes.

[Lucky_star]

This problem happens with me every now and then.
What you have to do is to immediately stop loading the page when this happens by clicking on stop button. When it stops, again click submit reply. A notificationb will come that this post was posted recently.
This should be done within a minute.

Click on the thread title above and you can see your submitted reply.

What happens is Vbulletin fails to send the reply received acknowledgement to us, and our browser keeps waiting for it.

[sakumar79]

@Kiran, I get the problem repeatedly with the same post... I have saved the text of the message in a Opera Note and I copy paste it at different occasions but receive the same error... So, I think it has to do with the length of text...

@Lucky Star, I will try your method tonight and let you know how it goes...

Arun

[piyush gupta]

I am also facing this problem a number of times may be server is down or my net connection is slow dont know

[praka123]

see the http://ubuntuforums.org with more than :
Currently Active Users: 5466 (860 members and 4606 guests)
running:
vBulletin 3.6.7 ©2000 - 2007, Jelsoft Enterprises
^^ digit forum runs an old version isnt it?
get this upgraded,this bug also hopefully got fixed

[The Unknown]

Now many of us know that this a old version of vBulletin. Why then the admins are participating in this thread?

[sakumar79]

Just now got my post up finally... For info on size of my post check it out http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/show...431#post501431 (Ok, I know it is slightly shameless advertising, but anyway...)

What I did was run a Preview Post and after 10 seconds, stopped and put Submit new post... Similar to Lucky Star's post... May be that happened or as Kiran said, it might have been a random occurance... Anyway, thanks all who responded...

Arun

[The Unknown]

Originally Posted by sakumar79

Just now got my post up finally... For info on size of my post check it out http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/show...431#post501431 (Ok, I know it is slightly shameless advertising, but anyway...)

What I did was run a Preview Post and after 10 seconds, stopped and put Submit new post... Similar to Lucky Star's post... May be that happened or as Kiran said, it might have been a random occurance... Anyway, thanks all who responded...

Arun

But then what about our problems. we're too facing the same problem?

[sakumar79]

I guess you can try what I did and hope it works for you too... Meanwhile, I wonder if anyone has contacted the mods with this problem... If not, I think someone should post a link to this thread in the Feedback Thread (I believe there is a sticky for website feedback)...

Arun

[The Unknown]

Originally Posted by sakumar79

I guess you can try what I did and hope it works for you too... Meanwhile, I wonder if anyone has contacted the mods with this problem... If not, I think someone should post a link to this thread in the Feedback Thread (I believe there is a sticky for website feedback)...

Arun

Mods can't do anything 4 this. anyway i will contact mehul.

[mehulved]

I have already read the thread yesterday but there's nothing mods could do, or alteast I am not aware of it. Still I will PM the link to this thread to FatBeing.

[sakumar79]

Thanks mehulved...

Arun

[FatBeing]

Hmm....I can't seem to reproduce the problem here. Still, duly noted, and I'll keep my eyes open for more occurences. We're busy with the June issue right now, so any fix will have to wait till the end of the month.

(Someone remind me if I forget, please)

[mehulved]

neither can I reproduce it. I took all the posts on this page and made a single post. It didn't give me any problems or errors.

[sakumar79]

@mehulved, did you try it with my post http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/show...431#post501431 that was originally causing the problem? I tried it with Opera 9.20 as well as IE6+SP1 (through Slimbrowser)... It happened for a couple of days (in the early morning or late night)...

Arun

[Lucky_star]

^^^Sakumar, I tried with the post you mentioned. And surprisingly, it got posted very easily... It seems vBulletin is playing tricks with us...

[Sourabh]

Are your passwords stored in the browser? It could just be that while typing those long posts, the session must have expired and due to this change & start of new session, the posts take an eternity to post. Plausible...

[The Unknown]

the root cause may be the DB has to be optimised. so FatBeing shud optimise the db. phpbb3 on my site also had such probs. but after optimistation all ok. also optimisation will save space of the db and make it run fast.

[Kiran.dks]

I think Sourabh has a point here. Let's see whether the problem exists even when "Remember me" option is not checked while logging in.

[Sukhdeep Singh]

Almost on all forums, i am on "Remember me". Doesnt happen there

Either it is something with DB or vBulletin

[The Unknown]

Originally Posted by sukhdeepsinghkohli

Almost on all forums, i am on "Remember me". Doesnt happen there

Either it is something with DB or vBulletin

me too.