Thread "The duck's 12 step program. Post here if you found a bug/design error." in forum "Comic Talk and General Discussion *"

Posted at 12:05AM, May. 10, 2013

Hmmmm…. Then it's NOT just me having trouble uploading a page.

Posted at 2:05AM, May. 10, 2013

I've investigated and sent off a report to head office! This is serious people… we may have a zombie infestation! o_O

Seriously serious folks, I've reported it.
From what I've seen in the Admin system it looks like that part of the server is not accessable right now for some reason.
As you'll know from right-clicking on any pic our image servers are hosted with Amazon cloud servers and that's where the issue is, but there are backups and garuntees with all that sort of thing too.
For some reason the comic page upload system is down. This IS a server issue, not a coding problem or a bug. Hopefully it can be fixed with a reboot like usual.
We'll have to wait on the working day to start in LA first though.

Sorry for the delay and the issue!

Posted at 4:05AM, May. 10, 2013

So I get this error "500 Internal Server Error" whenever I try to update my avi.

Posted at 5:05AM, May. 10, 2013

Yup, same issue as the comic thing I'm afraid.

Posted at 10:05PM, May. 10, 2013

The site was rebooted but that did not do anything for the issue. Other strategies are being worked on. I have no further info at this time, sorry.

Posted at 7:05PM, May. 11, 2013

The 500 plague is gone.

Posted at 10:05PM, May. 11, 2013

What 500 plaque? Please be more specific ^_^

Well, page uploading is fixed again now! Yay!!!!

Posted at 5:05PM, May. 18, 2013

I'm not quite sure what happened but I sent someone a PQ and then got a confirmation that it never got through.

The PQ isn't in my "sent" inbox, either, so it's looking like it got somehow lost. And before anyone says that I just forgot to press the send button, I have first hand eye witness seeing me send the post.

Posted at 6:05AM, May. 20, 2013

I do not know what that could be PP. At the moment I'd imagine that it was probably some wierd glitch. I will try sending you a PQ to test it though.

Posted at 12:05PM, May. 21, 2013

Not sure if this belongs here, but didnlt know where else to put it …
Someone called henderson10 is posting spam comics that appear to be advertising (I haven't actually viewed any of them). The last twn updates seem to be all henderson10 as I write this, and I don't want cheap Lious Vetton handbags with my comics.

Posted at 5:05PM, May. 21, 2013

Yup, and Bavolbavol too, the forum is now overrun with their spammy posts here too!
I'm kinda jealous that the spambot apparently has no character limit for its rollover description, ha!

Posted at 6:05PM, May. 21, 2013

That was a lotta work to kill. Thanks for the report guys! :)

Posted at 9:05PM, May. 21, 2013

Ah, but they're both back and apparently really mad, because they put a real nasty word in their names, spammin' the forums again :C
(unless that's an admin joke heh)
*facepalms* it probably was, since the post counts are at 0 sorrysorry!
Seems the spambots are upping their game, this is worrisome!

Posted at 10:05PM, May. 21, 2013

Hahaha! Yeah…
I put that in their names so I could easily find them in the system aaaand because I deleted all their stuff I thought it would never be seen. BUT I didn't count on how crappy the backend system is, the thread Topics are not connected to the posts, so I deleted one but not the other.
Anyway, I got it ALLLL now thank the gods!
That was quite a massive deluge.

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Edit- just killed all their tutorials too! Jebus…

Posted at 1:05AM, May. 22, 2013

*snickers* I thought so, though it dawned on me right after I posted. :)
Agh it sounds like this was particularly troublesome to get rid of, I hope that we're not going to see a lot more of these…

Posted at 7:05AM, May. 22, 2013

From the looks of the spam I'd say it was a person rather than a bot. Usually they et bored with their spamming after a few tries and move onto another site.
so hopefully we'll be ok! ^_^

Posted at 5:05PM, May. 22, 2013

On the positive side, the 502 bad gateway error is becoming a rare sight.

Although, as a humorous jab, I feel compelled to point out that it got so bad, at times, that my browser learned to permanently associate drunk duck with the bad gateway error:

Posted at 6:05PM, May. 22, 2013

LOL!

Posted at 8:06PM, Jun. 2, 2013

The Duck really needs to work on its image. I use Norton Identity Safe and it classified my login for duck as pornography

Posted at 7:07PM, Jul. 11, 2013

i seem to have some trouble editing the comic or managing pages
i find it difficult to re-order the pages, the system/site thing just seems to kinda stall
if i wanted to edit or rearrange multiple pages it would be impossible
what if i had multiple issues and wanted to rearrange multiple pages or entire issues or upload stuff to the middle somewhere or the beginning? this would become virtually impossible to manage with the current system
it would virtually be more easy to just reupload everything from scratch

Posted at 7:07PM, Jul. 11, 2013

i seem to have some trouble editing the comic or managing pages
i find it difficult to re-order the pages, the system/site thing just seems to kinda stall
if i wanted to edit or rearrange multiple pages it would be impossible
what if i had multiple issues and wanted to rearrange multiple pages or entire issues or upload stuff to the middle somewhere or the beginning? this would become virtually impossible to manage with the current system
it would virtually be more easy to just reupload everything from scratch

Posted at 6:08PM, Aug. 2, 2013

You need to reign in your advertisers. http://flashupdatenow.com/5/?b=3e6b33cc&sid=flvload&uid=07d9bf02071042ab9430d2bcad437c7b&filename=Flash_setup&skillet=280 runs a drive-by download of what is purported to be "Flash Player".
This is simply unacceptable behavior for any website.

Posted at 7:08AM, Aug. 6, 2013

Thanks for reporting that. It's a malware pretending to be a fake update for adobe flashplayer. Once installed it redirects your URLs.

I've reported it on.

Posted at 12:10AM, Oct. 14, 2013

Anyone else not having their comic show up as updated in their favorites list?
M.Organ Art updated Sunday, but when I check My Favorites it says the last update was Aug 11, 2013.

Posted at 5:10AM, Oct. 14, 2013

Yep. Going through My Favorites list
The KAMics
Magical Misfits
Habibah's Song
all updated today, but none showed as updating in the Favorites list.