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2Has anyone else had issues recently with meh or morningsave freezing up? I placed an order recently and the progress bar just froze. When I went to look at my orders a few days ago, I found my order was duplicated. I sent a ticket in to meh asking about it and got a reply back from morningsave with a different ticket number. I never sent any requests in on morningsave. Wtf is going on with things lately?
Also, it would be really nice if I could look at the forum pages on my phone without having to turn it sideways to see the damn thing.
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I have noticed that in the last week sometimes when I click on something on meh.com, my browser shows an “in progress” indication and never seems to come out of it. If I open a new tab and go to meh.com it works fine with the usual quick responses.
@ItalianScallion same
@ItalianScallion I’ve seen this for a while now.
Occasionally. My main problem happens streaming on Hallmark.com; Shakespeare and Hathaway will freeze on an image while the soundtrack continues to run, after a few seconds another frozen image succeeds the first. Happens with Rosemary and Thyme etc.
@aetris Are parsley and sage OK?
But yeah I had some weird unexplained freezes too.
Yeah, I went to check the site last night and the tracker URL never forwarded. I thought maybe it was my Pi-Hole blocking the tracker, but even meh.com wasn’t loading.
@cinoclav
What phone are you using and what size screen? Can you post a screenshot of what you’re seeing when not in landscape mode that makes it unusable?
@Ignorant An iPhone 16 Pro Max 6.9”
@cinoclav thanks.
The devs are aware of the forum not displaying properly issue, unfortunately it is a problem for lager devices like yours.
I’m not sure where that issue sits in their to-do list but hopefully it’ll be resolved in the near future.
@Ignorant Seems like just one of several problems going on there.
@cinoclav @Ignorant Well that other “W” site still only works in vertical mode even on large tablets. Just sayin’ maybe you guys don’t suck as much as we make it out to be.
Yes. I briefly had issues attaching emoticons to my post. Each time I tried my browser would shut down on my phone. I’ve since gotten in the habit of copying my text for a post before putting an emoticon in it just to be sure I don’t have to re-type the whole damn thing. Seems to be working fine now though. I even started a topic about that issue a few days back.
@chienfou I saw your posts about that. Seems like the more they try to fancy it up, the more problems they’re creating.
@chienfou @cinoclav As a longtime software developer and then maintainer/bug fixer, it used to irk me (see what I did there?) that developers would add new features without fixing known problems themselves rather than passing them along to the maintenance group I was in. I figured we were there to fix bugs that were unknown and found by the QA/testing group and customers.
@chienfou @cinoclav @ItalianScallion Long barely-related story but as a support person I would sometimes have to fly to a customer site to debug some problem. (These were systems $1M+). After a few days of experiments and debugging, they would finally give us access to the original engineers and on a conference phone hear things “oh yeah we never finished that” and “we didn’t think it would work.” Maybe in the next release?….
EDIT so I got my revenge… I moved into software engineering.
@chienfou @cinoclav @ItalianScallion @pmarin I worked for years as a systems SW developer. There were inevitably obscure bugs that made it through our evaluation only to have a customer run into them. One interesting case was reported to us by the NSA (we weren’t even aware they were a customer).
The support call was interesting:
Me: What was your application doing when you saw the problem?
Them: Um, I can’t tell you.
Me: Can I remote into your system to debug?
Them: Um, no.
Me: Can you send me a fragment of your source code where the problem occurred?
Them: Um, no.
…
This went on for a while. Finally we agreed that they would craft a separate, independent test program that demonstrated the problem. But they could not send any electronic media from their site. Instead they printed a paper listing, physically mailed it to us, then we had a secretary type the code into a file that I could compile and use to debug.
Somehow, this all worked and I was able to find and craft a fix for the problem. I guess it worked - we never heard from them again.
@chienfou @cinoclav @ItalianScallion @macromeh
Yeah that’s what happens. I worked with some at a tech seminar, non-classified. They enjoyed the jokes about “we can’t tell you more or we’d have to kill you.”
But my worst “secret” experience is like yours. I had to duplicate a customer’s program (not govt) on our different system. But they could not send the code. It was printed in 6pt font on red paper which apparently makes it hard to photocopy. I swear my eyesight has never been the same.