@box said:

Have a look at this thread, it was the first I noticed it on and it's mostly links to articles rather than image servers.
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=179&t=51084

Thank you Box for the link. This page you linked, contains about 5,147 KB data compared to the page where this post is written contains about 818 KB. The other page also initiates 122 http requests to several servers. If any of those servers are overloaded that delays the rendering of the whole page.

Let's make a quick calculation: Let's say we're on an average internet connection with an average download speed of 250 KB/sec. Only for the data content of that page to be downloaded takes 20 seconds at such an average connection. And we haven't yet spoken about the delays what are caused by the http requests and about the slower servers.

Of course there are possible solutions to improve the situation. I'll try to find the most effective one. But IMO the pbhpBB software is not designed to link hundred images per topic page...

One possible solution could be to reduce the number of posts per page in topics wehere the number of image links grow above a limit... Opinion about this?

Now I see your other post and yes, an other possible solution could be to display place-holder images in case of outer links....

The problem is definitely with Photobucket. Here is an image link from the "The Art of SketchUp - part 1: Fantasy" topic:

http://i593.photobucket.com/albums/tt12/ken28875/Simcity%205/R_gen_W2D2_townhouse_08_01_DetailedConcept_zpscdc8cecf.jpg~original

It is supposed to point to a .jpg image. Instead it serves a whole .html page. On the 7th page of the "The Art of SketchUp - part 1: Fantasy" topic there are about 36 such links to Photobucket. No wonder that on a slow internet connection it takes ages to download the page and the browser times out (crushes).

I'll take a closer look to the problem tomorrow to find out if a solution could be found on our side. Until a solution comes up, I recommend not to use Photobucket links on the forums.

I also PM ken28875 who linked his amazing work this way into the "The Art of SketchUp - part 1: Fantasy" to ask him if he could change the images to sketchucation hosted ones or not.

@jojo9 said:

Hi,

not even Chrome changes displays me SCF attachments. So, it isn't the Browser to be the problem.
i added sketchucation.com and buysellads.com to my firewall whitelist, then i cleaned the Cache. Unfortunately, nothing changed.

May I ask if you're connected to the internet via a corporate network or not? If yes, is it possible that the corporate firewall blocks buysellads?

Congratulations ThomThom!
Good luck for the new job.
So now you will wear two different hats? (SU and SCF)

Thank you for the download link. I'll try it out for sure.

Great news. Where is it downloadable from?

After changing several PMs with Box we identified the problem that it was with the URLs containing subdomains. The subdomain system is obsolete at SketchUcation since we set up the new site. However after the switchover to the new site we set up redirects for these subdomain URLs but the usage of them is contraindicated. So a link to this topic correctly is:

sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=76&t=53554

not the old URL what would be:

forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=76&t=53554

However both works but the usage of the first is recommended as the second one is a redirected URL.

Thank you to everybody for their contribution in this topic and the PMs.

@box said:

It looks like the site has a DNS error again, FF and Chrome are both redirecting shortcuts.

I checked the DNS settings and checked the DNS records and from here (Ireland) it seems to be OK. Could you please tell if the problem still exists or not and exactly what is the phenomena? If it is still exists please PM me what georgraphical location you are at and what is your ISP? It might be the problem is with the ISP's DNS server.

At a more advanced level maybe this series of books also could be useful:

http://sketchucation.com/shop/books/30-intermediate/180-the-secrets-behind-car-modeling-in-sketchup-part-1-of-3

@mwm5053 said:

Yes I see them now in my Spam folder.

Thank you very much for checking it. I have to admit that I don't really know why it lands in the spam folder of some email clients. I will investigate and if there is a solution for that at server-side I'll do that.

Until then I'm sure a filter or whitelist setting at your side will help to receive them to the right folder,

mwm5053: Please let me know if there are any changes on receving SCF mails today. I checked the server's mail system and I'm pretty sure that the mails are sent out. The funny thing is that during the checks even I realized that some SCF mail addresses were filtered out (not forwarded to my personal box) from my mailbox due to some filter settings I made several times ago and I forgot about them.

mwm5053: Thank you for the information. Are you using gmail to receive the mails? Today morning I made some modifications on the outgoing mail settings let's hope it helps. If not then probably we need to make some tests with your mail address to see exactly what is happening and why you are not receving the mails. So if even today you won't receive any mails what you think you should receive then I'll send you some test mails from the server and trace them.

Krisidious: Thank you for the information. So you receive the mails but gmail puts them into your Spam folder. Please set up a filter in your gmail mailbox for the SCF mails to be delivered into the folder you want to have them.

Could you please check your Spam folder as well? Since when haven't you receive the mails? Could you tell me when the last mail was received?

The outgoing mail address changed about a week ago. Is there a possibility that a filter is set to that address? (I have had a filter for noreply@sketchucation.com and now that the mail address changed back to it, first I couldn't find my mails until I realized that I have a filter set to that address.)

If you're on a corporate network, it also could be the case that company firewall restricts the access to the ads.

Don't forget to urlencode/urldecode the variable if it contains special characters...

@krisjaniszakis said:

...could you pleas post small code example ?

A possible exampele for myfile.php:

<?php if(isset($_GET['v'])) ; ?>
	The variable; <?php echo $_GET['v']; ?>
<?php else ; ?>
<html>
	<head>
		<script type="text/javascipt">
			var v=[ your function to get the ruby variables ];
			function myredirect() {
				window.location='http://myserver.com/myfile.php?v=' + v;
			}
			window.onload=myredirect();
		</sript>
	</head>
	<body>
	</body>
</html>
<?php endif; ?>

There is an other possible hack - however more complicated - to use GET variables instead of POST:

• You open index.php in your webdialog.
• index.php contains the Javascript to get the Ruby variables
• You make a Javascript redirect with the variables appended to the URL as GET variables.
• You have the GET variables available at the .php side.

Not a usual solution but works.

@cotty said:

It would be nice if the different fields can be combined for a search:

Thank you Cotty, a good suggestion. We will put it on our "to do" list and will realize it after we are ready with the area for Plugin Developers.

Done.

@jim said:

Here's your one-liner:

UI.toolbar("Reload").add_item(UI::Command.new("Reload"){load "myplugin.rb"}).show

Thank you for the improved version.