What happened to the public videos section?
Okay, this is a weird one, and I'm not absolutely convinced it's not a Chrome error. But lately, when I have been moving from a thread index to a post, I have been receiving an intermittent occurrence of the following Chrome message pop-up:The page at https://live-ssl.cdn.spongecell.com says:something else other than 200 was returnedThis pop-up only has an OK button. Once you click OK, the requested navigation completes and you go to the correct page for the post you selected.I have a suspicion that the live-ssl.cdn.spongecell URL noted has something to do with the sideboard adverts on the site. If I had to guess, Chrome is seeing a response from one of these ads that isn't correct based on the cookie or on the html coding of either the main page or the ad frame.However, I always have some concerns when my browser pops up such error messages. My main worry is that one of the ad providers may have been compromised and the browser is seeing something that could indicate malware attempting to load itself along with an ad.So, I figured since I was seeing a URL related to the issue, I would post it just in case Mark could look at it and say, "Well, spongecell, that's XYZ advertisers! Let me shoot them off an e-mail and ask them if they've been having issues with their ad servers" or something like that... For the record, I am running Windows 10 Home edition (64-bit), with all Windows updates to-date, and Chrome version 45.0.2454.101 m.
And there's a massive trend to embed those fake stories that are ads, you know the "Other things that will interest you" fake articles like "You wouldn't believe what she said next" and "10 top cheerleaders" which are ads FULL of ads and all manner of crap.
A content delivery network or content distribution network (CDN) is a large distributed system of proxy servers deployed in multiple data centers across the Internet. The goal of a CDN is to serve content to end-users with high availability and high performance. CDNs serve a large fraction of the Internet content today, including web objects (text, graphics and scripts), downloadable objects (media files, software, documents), applications (e-commerce, portals), live streaming media, on-demand streaming media, and social networks.Content providers such as media companies and e-commerce vendors pay CDN operators to deliver their content to their audience of end-users. In turn, a CDN pays ISPs, carriers, and network operators for hosting its servers in their data centers. Besides better performance and availability, CDNs also offload the traffic served directly from the content provider's origin infrastructure, resulting in possible cost savings for the content provider. In addition, CDNs provide the content provider a degree of protection from DoS attacks by using their large distributed server infrastructure to absorb the attack traffic. While most early CDNs served content using dedicated servers owned and operated by the CDN, there is a recent trend to use a hybrid model that uses P2P technology. In the hybrid model, content is served using both dedicated servers and other peer-user-owned computers as applicable.
It should be down to the site to balance ads versus content. I've been on a lot of sites where it's literally impossible.....pop up ads, video ads (noisy ones, that autoplay), video ads in the middle of articles, totally unrelated. Surveys (pointless ones) before you can read the text. Heck even borders that are ads that "follow you" as you scroll.And there's a massive trend to embed those fake stories that are ads, you know the "Other things that will interest you" fake articles like "You wouldn't believe what she said next" and "10 top cheerleaders" which are ads FULL of ads and all manner of crap.It's getting really silly. We'll never allow that here - and I get at least 10 e-mails a day from these companies that want to embed all manner of crap into this site (for a lot of money too - especially for a heavy hit site like this one). And they all use the tactic of sending the e-mail five times, with a "in case you missed this" and then "can you please respond!" Amazing! Wankers, the lot of them! I think we're pretty good here. We have the right hand side and it's all space stuff. We have the bottom google placement, but that's really it and it's not in your face.L2 pays the bills.
Today I was reading this thread:http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=38636.0and after a page or two I noticed I wasn't offered "Quote" or "Like" buttons. I reopened the first page of the thread, and "Like" and "Quote" were present. Strange.
Did you log out (as in your login time expired) during reading?
Hmmm... about 15 minutes ago, I started seeing slow response in forum navigation. Then I got an error that SFM, I think it said it was, could not connect to the database. Then the site wouldn't load at all for about a minute, and now it's loading but I'm still getting intermittently slow navigation, on the order of five to fifteen seconds of waiting for a navigation link to actually connect to the requested page.At the same time, other websites were loading fine, and even a speed test ran fine, with very fast speeds and little jitter.FYI...