Home Page as Offline

[Ventus Fall]

Going to the home page (thefurryforum.com) this last week (approx.) gives me an error message sometimes. Most of the time it shows the home page of the forums wit the banner at the top asking to Retry For Live Version (which usually only happened to me when the forums were actually down).
But when I go to the forum part (thefurryforum.com/forums) then there is no problem! It shows it's just online.
And I know from at least one other person they have this issue as well.

(I know I addressed this before in another topic, but considering it might be about something else like a bug, I decided to create a separate topic for it.)

Thanks for reading

[anoni]

I'm assuming this is someway related to the homepage taking a very long time to load.


Hmnm if it weren't for the shoutbox I would suggest just temporarily removing the homepage altogether

[Cheza]

I have the same issue as well.


And speaking of the home page. How about a slight update of the welcome-text on it?
For example, the poking thread is dead and buried at this point, and has been for almost a year now.
Some of the other stuff seems kinda outdated-ish as well.


I think temporarily removing it and giving it a quick update could be a good idea.

[anoni]

I have the same issue as well.


And speaking of the home page. How about a slight update of the welcome-text on it?
For example, the poking thread is dead and buried at this point, and has been for almost a year now.
Some of the other stuff seems kinda outdated-ish as well.


I think temporarily removing it and giving it a quick update could be a good idea.

I can do that, any ideas of a good welcome text? Or should we just go with a generic "Welcome to the furry forum, put your paws up and make yourself at home!"

[Vortex Cynbel]

I think that's an awesome idea.. and a good welcome message :p .

[Ventus Fall]

I checked yesterday when going to thefurryforum.com/forums and it gives now the same error with the Retry for Live version.
And the homepage does take a long time to load, but that's not the direct issue. When I click on a nacigation button, it brings me to the forums as a logged in member, and when I click the home page button, it takes me there, logged in. Granted, a slow loading time, but it shows the screen when I'm logged in.
But with this issue, it's going to the site itself (be it just thefurryforum.com or thefurryforums.com/forums
I can try at some point what happens if I try to go to other lnks of the website without clicking buttons and just typing it in the browser?

[anoni]

I checked yesterday when going to thefurryforum.com/forums and it gives now the same error with the Retry for Live version.
And the homepage does take a long time to load, but that's not the direct issue. When I click on a nacigation button, it brings me to the forums as a logged in member, and when I click the home page button, it takes me there, logged in. Granted, a slow loading time, but it shows the screen when I'm logged in.
But with this issue, it's going to the site itself (be it just thefurryforum.com or thefurryforums.com/forums
I can try at some point what happens if I try to go to other lnks of the website without clicking buttons and just typing it in the browser?

The retry does not seem like a homepage problem if you're connecting via www.thefurryforums.com/forum. I don't understand the problem you're saying there on the second line onwards, could you rephrase and perhaps post screenshots to show what you mean?




Also, I edited the welcome message with some more modern threads. Namely the Random Thread (which probably will never die) and Furry Cafe II (which, when/if it does die, I'll update). Also removed the references to the Paradise Inn. Whoops was editing a deprecated page, ignore that part. Still modified the Welcome message a bit.