Browsing problems after forum maintenance? Try clearing your cache/data.

5 posts · 2007-02-10 16:31:42 to 2007-02-11 19:25:53

#36300163364 02/10/2007 16:31:42 Browsing problems after forum maintenance? Try clearing your cache/data.
We've had a few forum maintenance periods over the past few days. After these periods, I found on one or more of my computers at work, even on multiple browsers, that I couldn't get certain posts or forum pages to load up, or that I was shown logged in as "Anonymous," and got stuck at a black screen if I tried to re-log.

I've heard from a player that others are experiencing similar problems at the moment. I can't speak for everyone, but what fixed me up was closing all but one browser window, going to a non-station.com site, going into my browser's options (both Firefox and Internet Explorer), and clearing out my browser's cache, cookies, browing history, etc, then returning to the forums. You probably don't need to do all of that, but if you're having similar problems since the last forum maintenance we had mid-Friday, at least clearing your browser's cached data may help.

I'm sure some of you will have more knowledge/information about this than I do, so please feel free to post whatever information you feel may be useful for helping your fellow players get back to being able to frolic on these crazy forums of ours.
#36300163369 02/10/2007 16:35:51 Re:Browsing problems after forum maintenance? Try clearing your cache/data.
I too have been having trouble, often logging in only to be re-directed to a blank 'security check' website. Upon returning to the previous page I find I am logged in as Anonymous.

The problem seems to rectify itself after a period of time, but Rarebits' solution seems to be much more efficient.
#36300163806 02/11/2007 12:29:36 Re:Browsing problems after forum maintenance? Try clearing your cache/data.
at some points i couldnt log in
#36300163825 02/11/2007 13:00:39 Re:Browsing problems after forum maintenance? Try clearing your cache/data.
Yeah i could log in, well im always signed in ,, but couldnt post at some points, 

then i couldnt edit my mgs , heh all weird

Sorts itself out though usualy
#36300164146 02/11/2007 19:25:53 Re:Browsing problems after forum maintenance? Try clearing your cache/data.

It's been happening to me on and off all day/night... I couldnt do anything this morning for a few hours and had awful problems logging in and such, and half of the forums disappeared... nothing past the community forums were listed... page didn't show a PM box option. I was even having problems with security issues as well. I kept receiving a certificate error warnings, saying that this site's certificate was not valid, yada yada. Eh, I cleared everything and the problems were still on and off.  I'm ok at the moment, finally.

*edit* duplicate post message... /sigh