Forum blanks out...

[Blueszz]

Firefox 3.5.5 and the same problem, also with IE (to lazy to look up version now). I had the same problem 3 days in a row when I browsed on eBay...
Could this be a Windows update problem?

Nicole

[camille1585]

Nicole, Ebay was having issues over the weekend, I just read about on internet this morning.

But I have to agree that it seems to be getting worse and worse, and it's the only website doing this to me! I'm not getting signed off, just the blank screen. Didn't check IE, since that doesn't work on my computer for some reason.

[Blueszz]

Didn't know eBay had problems. What helps for me here on OB is refresh the blank page.
Nicole

[Ross]

I'm really surprised none of Admin hasn't chimed in here. While I also have had problems (both IE8 and Firefox both) I have had way more problems with Facebook. I do know the blank screens in Facebook are due to insufficient server power for the load (they seem to add servers daily) so perhaps that might be the issue here as well? I also suspect many more are having the problem but didn't open this thread (I know I saw it days ago but didn't respond).

[Sandy4453]

This is the only site I'm having these issues with and its been constant.

Have tried everything so I'm assuming it's due to an overload of more members, possibly because of the exposure on Facebook?

[Ranchnanny]

Well this morning I had 4 e-mails from OB and could not get to OB at all. I had to go to my favorites and click on OB there. Somethings wrong somewhere.

Sheridan

[Marty]

I noticed that clicking on email links doesn't always spawn off the website. This used to work just fine, but after loading 500 windows updates it doesn't always work as it should. I don't think this is an OB problem. Easy check, whenever this happens to you, just copy and paste the link, I bet it will work just fine. I've had before when after clicking the link, it will hang before opening up a browser and the OB page.

of course from time to time there could be glitches on OB too, we have bunch of backup scripts running, archiving everything, forum software runs bunch of crontabs, etc. Server is always working. On top of that if we get hit by a traffic wave and the server is running scripts there may be a lag.

[RosieC]

I've been having a problem as well with the screen going blank as it load a link to a thread.

Marty, I'm afraid the answer is no, I cut and paste the link and it does the same, I refresh the page it does the same. I have to refresh three/four times before it loads. Sometimes I've tried closing IE completely and repasting the link and still the same.

As others have said it's been getting worse.

BUT I get the same from facebook!
I'm half wondering if it could be a problem caused by the link to facebook. It's been getting worse and worse over there as well.

The facebook thing may be a wrong track, but it seems to have started since those links were added.

I also have the problem with it logging me out WITHOUT it resetting my 'new posts' list (so it's not timed out). That seemed to start arround the time of the update which gave us the facebook button to post a thread to facebook.

[camille1585]

Same here, cutting and pasting the links doesn't work. I either have to wait a few minutes and try again, or click back to the last fonctioning page and from there it seems to have a greater chance of working.
Rosie, I'm on Facebook A LOT (as you probably know!) and I never ever had an problems with it, other than the 'some bits got lost on the way to your computer' thing on Farmville. But then again, I haven't used the OB-FB link feature yet.

[RosieC]

When I'm just in facebook (no OB link) I will get white pages just the same as over here.

Maybe that one is just me then.