national PCSOs

falkor · Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 5:00 pm Post subject: SECOND WEBSITE

http://www.fa1kor.co.uk/national-pcsos

I have been talking with CA5 about some members' problems POSTING and replying on the site e.g Police Kit and jensx

For this reason a SECOND SITE is now hosting the PCSO forums

Please try out the above url and see if the forums run any different for you on there Wink

Please reply on here with what your exprerience is

e.g 1) No different! what's the fuss?
2) Brilliant!! Much better/ faster
3) Worse! Nothing works now Shocked

Gforceuk · Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 5:20 pm Post subject:

no different for me. whats the fuss.

falkor · Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 7:26 pm Post subject:

thanks Gforce but there are half a dozen members who have made "bad performance" reports on this forum's runnings

I was wondering whether running the forums from another website would make any difference

And when I say another website I mean another website TOTALLY

www.fa1kor.co.uk is hosted and owned by a completely different company, so hopefully there will be a performance difference

HOWEVER
there is 1 problem that you may not be aware of Embarassed

ATTENTION
those of you who have experienced poor performance from these forums, please note that when you first connect to http://www.fa1kor.co.uk/national-pcsos you may NOT be logged in

this is critical

ok LOG IN - you MUST TICK "Log me on automatically each visit"

As soon as you are logged in, pay attention to the top browser bar, ARE YOU STILL IN http://www.fa1kor.co.uk/national-pcsos or has the site switched back to http://national-pcsos ?

if it has - no cause for alarm, but this simply means that you are running the forums from back on the old site again - you are not going to see any difference in performance are you?

If your browser shows that you ARE back at national-pcsos then MANUALLY write into the browser http://www.fa1kor.co.uk/national-pcsos url IS case sensitive

as you specified "Log me on automatically each visit" the forums will now be logged in for you and will NOT switch back to national-pcsos

keep an eye on the browser bar though, to check that you are not subsequently switched back to national-pcsos (you shouldn't be)

I am hoping that the new site will solve many of the posting and replying problems that have been reported over the last couple of months BUT ..... although there are two websites, there is still just one database

Whichever site is "running" the forums, it is still drawing data /sending data to the same database, so - will another website make a difference anyway?? I have no idea!! I am just hoping that it will!!

Please add your comments here - just as Gforce did Wink

e.g 1) No different! what's the fuss?
2) Brilliant!! Much better/ faster
3) Worse! Nothing works now !! Twisted Evil

Dan · Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2004 6:29 pm Post subject:

wow thanks to the forums being hosted on another site I can now post Very Happy

hurray!
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falkor · Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2004 2:47 pm Post subject: severe e-mail restrictions

Hi Dan

Thanks for the thumbs up on the second website but there are a number of compromises that have had to be made, in order to allow the second site to host the forums, as well as the first.

Regrettably only ONE of the sites can "consent" to the initiation of e-mails

E.G you may have noticed that you can specify a forum to send out an email, once any person "replies" to your topic, so say a week later, a member replies to your topic e.g the Document / Utility Pouch thread, ordinarily the forums would send an email alerting you to this new reply

Unfortunately only one of the sites can do this. Either the national-pcsos site OR the fa1kor site

Whichever is switched to allow auto-email, the other will fail to auto-email and generate error messages instead

So it is, that regrettably the fa1kor.co.uk site will fail to send emails (because it will initiate a national-pcsos email on a fa1kor site, this cannot succeed Crying or Very sad

)

So, anybody using the fa1lkor.co.uk site for running the forums - if you reply on a forum where members have specified that they wish to be informed of any "replying" you could start to see some horrendous looking error messages, which make you wonder if the whole flippin site is about to fold! No it isn't and you DID post ok, it's just that the settings ask for email, but the system "can't cope with it" Wink

Martin · Posted: Sat May 01, 2004 9:57 am Post subject:

I found the 1st site painfully slow, the pages would tend to take around 30s to display which was quite discouraging. However this 2nd site is much better, just about instantaneous.

Big improvement for me! Cool

falkor

Hi Martin!! Brilliant 360degrees

nice to know it was worth the effort to upload the forums to fa1kor.co

Well it looks like you will be staying with fa1kor.co from the tone of your post which is fine of course joyojoy

could you possibly do a log over the next 7 days and list all the problems that you see from that 2nd site it you have time please? Any areas of glitch, failed images, error messages and in what situation etc ? it would be appreciated, then with a list of areas to address I can get to work

Anymore comments on the second website you people? evils

falkor · Posted: Sat May 01, 2004 4:38 pm Post subject:

little bit of confusion about the website address

http://www.fa1kor.co.uk/national-pcsos

the old address was http://www.fa1kor.co.uk/phpBB21 so what's the difference?

weeeeeell Wink

for some reason the BB21 version uploaded with quite a few damaged images, I uploaded the forums all over again just now but on a different setting
the result? Razz

well as far as I can tell the new upload has no damaged images and is a far better version, hence the different address

http://www.fa1kor.co.uk/national-pcsos is the superior version - which is why I edited the first post in this thread BUT as I said in the post above this to Martin, I would like a log of errors please from anybody willing to make a few notes !! Laughing

Martin · Posted: Sun May 02, 2004 11:58 am Post subject:

Will do Falkor, I'll keep a note of any problems I encounter. Second site is much better!

The only issue that I've hit at the moment is that when I'm accessing linked topics in the posts, the URL is for the national-pcso.co.uk forum which still doesn't work for me. I have to manually note the topic number and access it by changing the URL at the top. Other than that, it's great. Smile

Shimmy · Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2004 9:47 pm Post subject:

Sometimes it lets me post, normally it doesnt.

Says connection timed out and stuff

Possibly because im on AO Hell - i had this trouble with another site run on the same system - phpbb thingy

Shimmy
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Hmmm....haven't the faintest idea what all the above jargon really means despite having done a couple of IT courses, but only basic stuff like word processing, never touched computer programming. Be amazed actually if this posting does materialise as I did register with the old site but was unable to post. Wasn't going to bother attempting again for various reasons, but decided as I also hope to eventually be successful with a civilian post with the police, that I might as well join this site. VERY familiar with a some names on here as they will be with me, although under a different cyber handle as ******** is my newer and usually the main one and only one I use if I can now on most forums that I post on, although I've cut back a bit in this area....too time consuming for one reason and others I won't mention. Confused

Logging out now....MIGHT be back if I can access the site to post. Nite then....