Broken images?

[K'Tesh]

Most, if not all, of the forum images are coming up as broken images on my computer... Is this system-wide? Post if you have noticed this.

[K'Tesh]

Jonathan wrote me back... here's what he had to say...

yes.. i know why it happened... i'm trying to fix it.

I need to update my Vbulletin license/software... some phishing scammers had exploited the "images" directory so I took it down from the server.

thanks for the heads up..

if you want to do a post telling folks that we know there's a problem, that'd be great.

[rainperimeter]

is this why the view of the thread listings sucks right now?

[sabernar]

If you're using Apache, you can easily set up a rule to disallow outside people from using your images. I'd have to google around to find it, but it should be pretty easy.

[bonny790]

Originally Posted by rainperimeter

is this why the view of the thread listings sucks right now?

Ugh, it drives me nuts! When you first open the page it takes several seconds to "settle" in. In the mean time, it's jumping around as new things are popping in. Not popups, just parts of the page.

Toby

[krystenr]

Yeah, this is really annoying. I'm gonna stay off the site for a few days and wait until it's figured out.

[Tait]

Originally Posted by bonny790

Ugh, it drives me nuts! When you first open the page it takes several seconds to "settle" in. In the mean time, it's jumping around as new things are popping in. Not popups, just parts of the page.

That's a feature, not a bug, as they say. The theory is that the page will load faster if you render the elements as you encounter them instead of waiting until you know the entire layout to display the page. The latter behavior means nothing is displayed until the browser has received enough data to know the page layout. In most browsers, this is configurable behavior... i.e. you can probably find a setting buried somewhere that will stop all the jumping around. I don't remember the setting, but if nothing else the Opera web browser defaults to the non-jumpy behavior.

The behavior can be ameliorated with some code changes on the server side (to actively specify element sizes instead of relying on the browser to calculate them dynamically), too, but most people don't care enough to bother.

The message composer is the worst... all that alt text instead of images makes the box drift off the right side of my browser.

[mizake]

yeah, i'm off the forums until this is fixed.

[Jonathan Maus]

well folks, the images seem to be working now.

it took an upgrade of the software, $89 to renew my license, and some back and forth with the vBulletin tech folks.

but all seems to be working now. sorry for the mess up... thanks for participating in the forums.

[lynnef]

whew! thanks Jonathan!