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asqwn said:
https://slimgur.com/ links don't embed at all.
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Testing Slimgur embedding....seems to work. Be sure to use the 'direct link' option.

Valiant said:
I've noticed sometimes when you change to chat tabs like kiwifarms.net/chat#3, the window goes to the front page, so I'm constantly shuffling back to chat.
Is this a problem on my end or something else?
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I don't follow. You mean instead of staying in the tab it opens within a new window in the front the second you try to change to it?

Holdek said:
@KatsuKitty What's the situation with the scaling issues?
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It's only loading a bit slower for me, but yeah It's noticeable. Did Katsu mention we are either down-scaling or up-scaling something?
Ping response times seem normal.

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Glaive said:
It's only loading a bit slower for me, but yeah It's noticeable. Did Katsu mention we are either down-scaling or up-scaling something?
Ping response times seem normal.
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We're having scaling problems. This means that more users are coming to the website (which is growth, which is very good), but the server hardware cannot keep up. Thus, server performance is not proportionately "scaling" to our newfound popularity.

I briefly discussed this with Null and all we really know is that the current server is running out of RAM when response times lengthen. Half the swap space fills up during a period of high load (ideally, no swap space would be used). When the server runs out of RAM, Apache needs to delay additional requests until other requests are fulfilled and the RAM used in these requests is freed, hence the load times. It's not quite as simple as buying more RAM though. Buying new RAM for the server is very expensive; the maximum Linode allows you to upgrade to on a single VPS is 384MB, which costs around $200 a year (almost the cost of another Linode server). By my estimate, we would need an additional gigabyte to scale appropriately and eliminate the latency during periods of high load.

What we may have to do is rent an additional VPS (also not cheap) and find some way to distribute the memory that XenForo, Apache, and MySQL uses across these two boxes. XenForo is not designed to run distributed across two servers, so it's not quite as simple as buying new hardware and flipping a switch in the ACP. Reducing RAM may require we place the database on a separate server while we host the forum on the existing server, for instance.

Either way, solving the problem will not be easy nor straightforward; additionally, the money for all required hardware needs to be raised.

These are topologies we need to consider.
 
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KatsuKitty said:
We're having scaling problems. This means that more users are coming to the website (which is growth, which is very good), but the server hardware cannot keep up. Thus, server performance is not proportionately "scaling" to our newfound popularity.

I briefly discussed this with Null and all we really know is that the current server is running out of RAM when response times lengthen. Half the swap space fills up during a period of high load (ideally, no swap space would be used). When the server runs out of RAM, Apache needs to delay additional requests until other requests are fulfilled and the RAM used in these requests is freed, hence the load times. It's not quite as simple as buying more RAM though. Buying new RAM for the server is very expensive; the maximum Linode allows you to upgrade to on a single VPS is 384MB, which costs around $200 a year (almost the cost of another Linode server). By my estimate, we would need an additional gigabyte to scale appropriately and eliminate the latency during periods of high load.

What we may have to do is rent an additional VPS (also not cheap) and find some way to distribute the memory that XenForo, Apache, and MySQL uses across these two boxes. XenForo is not designed to run distributed across two servers, so it's not quite as simple as buying new hardware and flipping a switch in the ACP. Reducing RAM may require we place the database on a separate server while we host the forum on the existing server, for instance.

Either way, solving the problem will not be easy nor straightforward; additionally, the money for all required hardware needs to be raised.
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Could we do a Kiwi Farms summer FUNdraiser through either through Paypal or Crowdfunding? Maybe there can be some perks or something?
 
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So it's not a huge issue but today I've been getting a warning from Firefox:

"Firefox has prevented the outdated plugin 'Adobe Flash' from running on kiwifarms.net."

Doesn't appear on the main thread listings, but just the thread pages. I know everything on my side is updated, nor does it seem to be really affecting anything. Anything I need to be concerned about?
 
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So it's not a huge issue but today I've been getting a warning from Firefox:

"Firefox has prevented the outdated plugin 'Adobe Flash' from running on kiwifarms.net."

Doesn't appear on the main thread listings, but just the thread pages. I know everything on my side is updated, nor does it seem to be really affecting anything. Anything I need to be concerned about?
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There was a Firefox update yesterday along with a Flash update as well . Please update both and restart browser.

I like to use this page to check for updates in Firefox all at once: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/
 
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Don't know if this is a known issue, but the forums sometimes forget what page I was on when I left a thread. It usually works if I'm on a later page, but if I exit out on say page 1 or 2, the next time I click it, it catapults me to page 4 or 5.
 
Getting a lot of 400 errors when clicking on threads today. A refresh or two fixes it. Not sure if it's a technical problem or something on my end but I figured staff should know.
 
Changed a few settings like e-mail, looking at the off-topic forum and... it's private.

I'm not sure what's up with that. Is it just me who's seeing this? There's no chat window either.
 
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Picture uploads seem to hang most times, never closing the dialogue box and returning to the post editor. Not exactly a biggie, as refreshing the page shows the image was uploaded and attached.
 
  1. https://static.kiwifarms.net/data/avatars/s/4/4312.jpg?1416809666 6 minutes ago Mollybdenum:
    @ @Null, SPOILER: No cached version of this page is available.
 
I don't know what browser, operating system, or if you're using desktop/mobile. I cannot help you.
 
ToroidalBoat said:
I don't know if this has been reported yet, but sometimes when I sign in and then hover the mouse over the alerts, I'm automatically logged out of the forums. It's been happening a lot lately.
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Hellblazer said:
Happens with me, too.
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Make that three.

However for me these types of logouts will also sometimes occur to me right after I navigate to another page directly following a 'successful' login. I have a feeling it has something to do with the login actually not being successful. Sometimes I will have to try 2 or 3 times before I actually STAY logged in and will be able to see my alerts and navigate to a login required page such as chat. I never reported this because I simply stay logged in nearly 24/7/365.

Firefox/Win 7/Desktop.
Never seen it happen on mobile, but then again I haven't logged out of mobile since May.
 
Is anyone experiencing this that is not using FireFox, IceWeasel, or any fork of FireFox.
 
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