• Responding to email notices you receive.
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    In short, DON'T! Email notices are to ONLY alert you of a reply to your private message or your ad on this site. Replying to the email just wastes your time as it goes NOWHERE, and probably pisses off the person you thought you replied to when they think you just ignored them. So instead of complaining to me about your messages not being replied to from this site via email, please READ that email notice that plainly states what you need to do in order to reply to who you are trying to converse with.

  • IMPORTANT! PLEASE READ!! About the Google Adsense ads being displayed

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    Posted 08/15/2025
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    Yeah, I know. They are a pain in the butt. But they pay the bills to keep my server running. Just a fact of life, I am afraid.

    Want to get rid of them? Simple. Just become a Contributor level member or above and they will be gone. -> Please click HERE."

    Is that too much for me to ask of you to keep this site running? Well, sorry about that. I too wish I could get everything for free. But alas.....

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    Addendum: 01/10/2026
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    Google Adsense ad revenue for December, 2025 was just $30 over the cost of the lease for the server running this site. So, in effect, the money providing the incentive for me to continue running this site is coming SOLELY from the paid memberships and sponsorships here. Which honestly ain't much....

Problem after posting a message?

Trying another test....

edit (08:58pm): I am done fretting about this. Hopefully my programmer can figure it out. Otherwise..... well, just otherwise...
 
Let's see if it cured itself over night.....


EDIT: Nope. Took 61 seconds for this to complete. :(
 
FYI, replies and new threads ARE being posted to the site's database immediately after being submitted. It is just that the server is hanging up sending out the refreshed page back to the submitting client. To test this, you can submit a reply, then backpage out, then refresh your browser and you will see that your reply or thread has actually been accepted at the server and available to everyone else to view.
 
I just posted the following announcement to show up in ALL forums.

A problem with the server showed up yesterday whereby when you post a reply to a thread or create a new thread, after clicking the SUBMIT button, the site will apparently hang for sometimes 60 seconds or more before refreshing the screen to indicate that your reply or thread has been accepted at the server.

Replies and new threads ARE being posted to the site's database immediately after being submitted. It is just that the server is hanging up sending out the refreshed page back to the submitting client (you). To test this, you can submit a reply, then backpage out, then refresh your browser and you will see that your reply or thread has actually been accepted at the server and available to everyone else to view.

You DO NOT have to wait for the browser screen to refresh in order for your reply or new thread to have been posted successfully and available for viewing to the rest of the world. Just backpage, refresh the browser screen, then get on with other things you want to do.

Hopefully this will get fixed, but in the meantime, this is an effective workaround.
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testing testing....


EDIT: Hmm, this completed in two seconds!! Maybe Sinan fixed it!!!! YAY!!!
 
Yeah, Sinan found the problem. Tapatalk was the culprit. Evidently they are having problems with their servers, so when the plugin on this site was trying to contact their server, it was just hanging this site up. So Sinan disabled that part of the Tapatalk routine temporarily. Tapatalk will still work, it is just that notices of new posts will not go to their server(s).

For those of you who don't realize it, if it weren't for all the help I have gotten from Sinan over the years, this site would not be here today.
 
Well, apparently a new problem cropped up. One of the members brought this to my attention.

Replies are working just fine. However, when creating a new thread, hitting the SUBMIT button just gets you an immediate blank screen on your browser.

Can some of you try this to confirm that everyone is experiencing this new problem?

I could just SCREAM!!!
 
This is what I get:
 

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This is what I get:
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I sent you a private message. Took 72 seconds to complete. :(

Apparently there are still millipedes in the spaghetti. I don't know what it means, it is the only thing I could think of at the moment while my brain is imploding. Where the hell is my valium!
 
PM reply took about 40 seconds so something is still not right.
 
It is 2am in my programmer's time zone, so there is a good chance this won't get looked at for a while. :(
 
I believe I stumbled on the problem with the private messages. There is an option in the Tapatalk admin page called "PM push". I disabled that and it appears that the private messages are working properly again.

It appears that Tapatalk is having some real problems. Honestly, if it causes any more problems on this site, I may have to just pull it completely.

Still no luck with that problem with creating new threads, though. I disabled ALL Tapatalk options, and it made no difference.

That 500 error means that there is possibly something in one of the files that Sinan was testing that went south. Perhaps a parameter being passed is missing or incorrect, and the server cannot run the PHP file affected. Chances of me stumbling on that are pretty slim, to be honest. :eek:
 
This problem appears to be fixed.

Now as long as something new doesn't show up........ :face_palm_02:
 
Apparently the problem was being caused by Tapatalk. The way this problem was fixed was by disabling a couple of functions in the Tapatalk interface for this site that was sending notifications to the Taparalk servers, but wasn't getting a response back. It seems they have fixed things on their end, so I have re-enabled those relevant functions.
 
Just a note that I am seeing a slight delay with thread creations as well as with replies. So this is apparently an artifact of having that Tapatalk code embedded in this site for mobile device users.

If it becomes a burden that outweighs the benefits, I can disable it again, of course, but you all would need to let me know if or when that point is reached.
 
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