Post-site maintenance items

[mrbrian200]

I've been noticing last couple months (even before the server/hardware upgrade) sometimes when clicking the 'post' button the page that comes up looks like a preview and didn't post. That happened just now with the IIHS headlamp thread. When what looked like a preview came up I clicked post on that page and got a message that I can't post again too soon. I checked, it did post the first time. I suspect this is what happened with this double post:
viewtopic.php?f=9&t=81824
viewtopic.php?f=9&t=81823

In one of those threads someone 'reminded' the OP that one thread was adequate. I don't think he did it on purpose. I would have accidentally done it just now had I delayed the second click by some number of seconds or minutes.

Windows 10 v. 1703 build 15063.413, IE11 11.0.43
Don't yell at me for using IE. It's the only web browser I can get to manipulate various web sites properly using a multi touch screen (with a CSS). I do reserve FF for an occasional site/page that doesn't load properly under IE. But FF isn't optimized to work well with touch screen input whatsoever.

[mrbrian200]

Discovered FB linking error.
[phpBB Debug] PHP Notice: in file [ROOT]/vendor/lusitanian/oauth/src/OAuth/OAuth2/Service/Facebook.php on line 171: Undefined index: access_token

[93Regina]

Discovered

I'm using a satellite ISP, but it seems when posting, there is an additional delay, than what would be expected. It could be a satellite ISP issue.

[mrbrian200]

When I was in Colorado 2 years ago staying with family, at the time they had satellite. Longer latency was noticeable websurfing but not enough to cause problems. The problem we were having with was with satellite plan data caps I would consider barely adequate for a cell phone and three separate computers trying to download very large Windows 10 upgrade packages at the time. It was awful. They were trying to set up a new house and needed to look at retail sites over a connection throttled to dialup speed. Fortunately when I went again last year and stayed for a month a fixed terrestrial wireless ISP with a reasonably fast unlimited plan (20mbs/s) had put up a new tower within line of sight and they dropped Hughes like a hot potato... and all was well. I was even able to connect their Directv DVR to the network so they could use live rewind and on-demand. On Hughes 20 or so minutes of on-demand would effectively take down the internet connection for an entire month. And you dared not watch anything on youtube more than a couple minutes long. Facebook auto playing/prebuffering videos was a real problem too. I can't imagine living in some of those truly remote areas we drove through on our sightseeing excursions to Durango and the Snowy Mountains in Wyoming with population so sparse that even terrestrial wireless and cellular carriers can't justify the cost of building out. Getting stuck with Hughes satellite long term - oh my.
Here's a nice pretty picture I took while we were in Wyoming...

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...Picture is just begging for my lovely Barents Blue S60 in there somewhere...

[matthew1]

Great photo, MrBrian!

I've figured out the occasionally missing images problem. At least, most of it. I'm addressing that now, and the work should be done this time tomorrow.

That was Job #1. Then I'll work back toward other items you guys have helpfully listed in this thread.

Thanks to all who have reported bugs here.

[matthew1]

All attachments (images, .PDF) should be present. Please continue to use this topic if you see any missing attachments.

Now: continuing Web server tuning, uploaded avatars, and the rest of the items listed in this topic.

If you experienced downtime late last night or this morning, I apologize. I'm not a pro at tuning servers, but I know enough to make it work eventually, without acute amounts of downtime.

There might be more, but now that I know what I do about this server, hopefully it'll be substantially less than last night/this morning.