I have a silly question..........

SKR8PN · September 04, 2008, 08:00:50 AM

How come I can open every thread with the exception of the "Testing the Ohio market" thread?? For some odd reason,my browser just grinds away and it will NOT open that thread. Is it because I am in Ohio? LOL! LOL!

Crosley.In.AZ · September 04, 2008, 08:12:05 AM

hmmm, interesting. I read the thread last night. This AM , same problem you have = no open.

Charlie Chops 1940 · September 04, 2008, 08:15:06 AM

I can't either. Maybe it got locked as spam???

Charlie

phat46 · September 04, 2008, 08:26:15 AM

opened for me, it was real slooooow, but it did open....

sirstude · September 04, 2008, 08:46:14 AM

I had the same slow issue with that thread and the truck from hell thread last page. Just figured it was my connection.

Doug

phat rat · September 04, 2008, 09:14:25 AM

opens slow as can be for me also

enjenjo · September 04, 2008, 09:30:39 AM

Me too. I'll have Fatcat look into it. I have no idea what is happening.

GPster · September 04, 2008, 11:36:20 AM

I wrote to tFat Cat about this this morning thinking that it was only me. Seeing this I thought it was bigger and I added some osort of explanation but it's lost. I just signed on and I noticed a slowness in getting on Truck from Hell which is the same sloness that started for me yesterday with Dave Boley. GPster

58 Yeoman · September 04, 2008, 01:50:08 PM

Same for me, then I tried to reply to this post, and it happened here too. I left the site and came back, and can reply to this post easily. I'm going to go and try the Ohio post again and see what happens.

river1 · September 04, 2008, 02:26:17 PM

i've been have the same trouble with the ohio market thread. i've been using firefox and wondered if that was the problem. i shut down firefox and opened explorer. same problem took a long time to open BUT when it opened(?) i got this message

QuoteCouldn't obtain smilies data

DEBUG MODE

SQL Error : 2006 MySQL server has gone away

SELECT * FROM bb_smilies

Line : 755
File : bbcode.php

maybe this will help fatcat figure out the problem.

later jim

Fat Cat · September 04, 2008, 07:00:18 PM

OK it is fixed now. The problem appears to be that Dave added an image of his truck to his profile for an avatar. He sed an offsite link to this image

which is way too big at 792 x 594 pixel instead of the standard of 120 x 100. So when you tried to load the post the software would try to load the image above and that would break the software. I have resized and uploaded the image to our server and that seemed to fix the problem.