After two weeks of work the new server is finally ready for use and if you can read this it means at least something works.

However there could still be some issues somewhere, please tell me about anything that doesn't work in this thread! Enjoy the increased site performance, if it isn't clearly noticeable I will go an hero.

those double capa have gota go cant make out new letters at all

Site's faster and more responsive than ever, but just got hit by a ransomware upon first access. Had to restart the computer.

Time to call up that ad provider again and go blue in the mouth, Admin. These kinds of shit're pretty horrible.

Flash game's are not working for me... After clicking one I am sent to a blank screen and I wait a while and nothing loads up. I tried refreshing the page and it says it will have to resend data but I'm still hit with the same blank page afterwards.

I just doubled the amout of RAM installed on the server so hopefully that will make it fully responsive. Otherwise the problem might have been the network connection, which is the same as it was for the old server.

if you click on last page of archives you can go back a couple but once you get to page 2974 out of 2977 you get this error:

404 Not Found

The page you are looking for has returned to the mana pool.

I got a couple of times this error after waiting about half a minute for one flash to load.

Error 524 Ray ID: 10fba3776cd50a6c
A timeout occurred
You
Browser
Working

London
CloudFlare
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swfchan.org
Host
Error

>>10937
CloudFlare seems to be having some trouble. It's possible that the new swfchan server denies a CloudFlare request if it requests the same resource too many times, I've noticed myself that sometimes a page takes a long time to load but if I add a dummy string at the end of the URL (for example "?bla") it loads immediately. I've looked around but haven't found any setting to fix this so far. I'm considering trying to run the site without using CloudFlare for a day and see if the server can still handle the load. Thanks for letting me know that it's not just me that sometimes are getting timeouts on pages.

Very slow, cannot load some swf for uknown reason, anyone can help?

swfchan.com/[2933 - 2974].shtml were skipped. you get a 404 when attempting to access these pages. might have something to do with the automated rebuild. i think you filled the empty pages with newer data, but newly added flashes are inserted at the latest index, ignoring the gap that was moved to the front end of the index.

The reason for all those missing listing pages by the way was that they were empty. Seems like the system failed to add flashes to the site a lot recently (970 times in a row, what the hell?) which reserved a lot of IDs that never actually got used, in turn making a whole bunch of blank listing pages. Problem was that these blank listing pages never got written to disk so that's why there were so many 404 messages going on. Don't know why there were so many fails in a row, that never happened before on such scale. Probably some resource was locked by another process or something, if it happens again I will look into it deeper.

apparently huge chunks of the pages since 2933 have not shown up, showing non existant. im sure others have seen and reported this.

but you have a few nasty pop ups on my device (lg optimus) that can easily cause problems. the whole "device is infected, scan now" appears to be the worst. and while this site does get a few porn based files daily, seeing porn based adds all the time does get annoying. why use juicy ads when kikstarter adds are better and more reliable (and take you to safer links) like to katbox, or bad-dragon.

>>10972
The listing pages should be alright by now, I know there are a lot of blank pages but it can't be helped since there are a lot of flash IDs not in use.

Are you sure JuicyAds are giving the bad ads and not AdultAdWorld? I will try out some new ad providers soon if swfchan is approved on their network. I can't find anything about any "kickstarter ads" though, don't know what that is.

Upon snooping around it seems like this is database related and nothing is actually wrong in my code. The database appears to be skipping some IDs for some reason. This sucks because now no flash was assigned the ID 150000...

I can see that this ID skipping has happened in the database here on .org as well, that's why the numbers of the posts here has gotten so high all of a sudden. It matters less here though since there will be no blank listing pages because of it. Still is bad of course and I'll be sure not to use automatic number increases for anything except look up columns in future database tables that I design.

I'll implement something that detects skipped IDs on .com and then delays how long it takes until the next try to insert a new flash, that should reduce the number of unused IDs in the future and hopefully prevent further blank listing pages. As for the post numbers here on .org I don't think it's worth the work to prevent skipped IDs, especially since it would delay new posts from being made.

I noticed that the swfs are not opening even though the page loaded, showinh the "temporary moved to a new adress" link message. Ideas?

i typically download my files because viewing them in browser takes ages. the last five pages worth of files either completely download but say loading after or fail even if it says complete. ive checked my end using other files but the new ones just dont download right.

It's important that I know the URL of the place you are downloading the files from, otherwise it's next to impossible for me to find any issue. Both the URL to the actual swf file and the URL of the page that presents the flash would be great.

the home page is showing but the swf are just showing blank..
it doesn't even show the preview pages where there are captchas or anything..
PS. i just cleared the history and cache of my computer...

What exactly is 404:ing for you? Files on swfchan.com or .org? If .com, I'm assuming it's the actual swf files. What server does the actual swf link point you to: files1, files2 or files3? And do you get the 404.swf flash animation or do you just get a blank page or a 404 text message? Can you give some examples of flashes that doesn't work for you (links to the GET FILE button)? Also, how long ago was it since it last worked for you?

Alrighty, a little more detail for you:

As far as I can tell, it seemed to work fine a few days ago (for the first time since Spring 2013), which is why I was visiting swfchan quite often in the last couple of days (now again, I'm a little disappointed about the 404 issue not having been fixed after all).

By "everything" 404'ing, I am referring to the actual pages that contain the .swf files that I want to view after entering the captcha(s), namely flash.asp. I do *not* run into any sort of default nginx 404 page, but rather 404.swf on about 95% of possible flash files. Flashes that don't require authentication (swfchan.org/$threadID/$filename.swf or swfchan.org/$threadID/$filename.html) work just fine.

From what I've tested, it seems that swfchan.com's files2 isn't working the way it should. Unfortunately, a big deal of the files linked on swfchan.net/swfchan.com is located on files2.

Working (files1):
http://eye.swfchan.com/flash.asp?id=63571&n=Matri ce+Angelique.swf
http://eye.swfchan.com/flash.asp?id=127320&n=godd ammitrobin.swf

Not working (files2):
http://eye.swfchan.com/flash.asp?id=49&n=2-9.swf
http://eye.swfchan.com/flash.asp?id=4629&n=toon_1 188938919493_toon_1181935241222_djs080906.swf
http://eye.swfchan.com/flash.asp?id=16470&n=tamam i01.swf
http://eye.swfchan.com/flash.asp?id=497&n=nexdemo .swf

Experimenting with the three options on the GET page resulted in no change in behavior. I have not tested files3 (since I couldn't find any files that were located there).

TL;DR: files2 on swfchan.com/swfchan.net is broken, it never delivers content, but only 404.swf.

files3 is only used for the currently most popular flashes and the newest flashes, here are two flashes that are currently using files3:

http://eye.swfchan.com/flash.asp?id=150990&n=star barians_loop.swf
http://eye.swfchan.com/flash.asp?id=151049&n=2376 54.swf

Could you test to see if they work, please?

I kinda guessed that the problem was files2, it's a server that I rent and runs on code that I haven't written myself. It actually delivers all content to me without a problem but from what you are telling me it seems that it fails for certain IPs. Do you know if you have recently gotten a new IP from your ISP? I've tested it from a bunch of different IPs and assumed that it worked alright since nobody had reported issues with it until now.

If you uncheck "embed" and press the GET FILE button you will get an alternative link in the gray text below the main link that allows you to download the file from files1 btw, you can use this until I've sorted things out.

Half-wondering if I should turn off files2 for the time being because the admin of it was having some problems these last two months. For example, I can't upload new files there until he fixes something. But keeping files2 on still saves quite a bit of traffic. Might not be an issue on the new server though, hm.

For the first flash, this is not a problem, since Adobe Flash grants a "Play" action in the context menu (right click on the flash content).
For the second flash, this is a problem, since the flash author removed the default actions from the context menu, so even if the file is finished loading, the event won't fire and the user can't manually start it. Thus, the second flash file is not viewable for me and I'm stuck in the "Loading" screen.

The alternative link that leads to files1 is an acceptable workaround for the meantime, thanks a lot. I might write a little userscript that automatically embeds the flash from files1, regardless of the "embed" option being checked or not.

My current IP is 79.240.xxx.xxx. You can figure out the rest by looking into /var/log/nginx/access.log, around 17:55:00 UTC+2. I've moved to a new place in Spring of 2013, which is pretty much since when I'm having these issues (so this might really be an issue for a specific subnet). Since I live here, I've never gotten swfchan to work properly, which is why I've degrated to using swfchan.org only (and giving up swfchan.net and swfchan.com).

And just a little remark: Although PHP is horribly slow, ASP.NET can't keep up with it (plus, it's obsolete and proprietary). You might gain an incredible speedup by switching your server-side scripting to PHP (or at least ditching ASP.NET for something rather scalable).

In case you want to keep files2, you might want to re-write or deeply inspect the code it runs. Otherwise, you might want to give directing all the traffic to files1 and files3 a shot.

Yep, I see now both the files I linked to doesn't start automatically. Should have picked other examples.

I've always disliked when authors remove options from flash's right-click menu, like they think things look cleaner or something (for the record I also dislike when the flash don't scale to fullscreen too, increasinly annoying as our desktops get higher and higher resolutions).

237654.swf that I linked to can be started using framestep in the seekbar. Been thinking a while now about showing some kind of message that explains this if the flash lingers on the same frame(s) for a few seconds even after the swf file loads 100%.

>might write a little userscript that automatically embeds the flash from files1, regardless of the "embed" option being checked or not

If not you can always middle-click the download link to open the swf file in a new tab. That's almost like an embed.

>/var/log/nginx/access.log

I'm not using nginx actually, if you ever saw nginx mentioned on swfchan it was probably in the ads (meaning the ad provider had some error on their server).

>ditching ASP.NET

Hah, I'm not even using ASP.NET, just plain old skool classic ASP (VBScript). The site started out that way and will end that way. There's no way I'm putting in over 100 hours in re-writing code from one language to another when there is nothing broken just to potentionally reduce load times with half a millisecond. Never cared that much for PHP, though it's still used in some parts of the swfchan engine (using ASP, PHP, Java, C, maybe something else that I'm forgetting, plus compiled binaries by third parties).

>deeply inspect the code it runs

files2 runs on code that I don't have access to, I will e-mail the guy I rent the server from and ask him what's up.

CloudFlare is based on a modified nginx version :) You can also see that by curling the page:

>curl -I http://swfchan.org/
>HTTP/1.1 200 OK
>Server: cloudflare-nginx
>...

>There's no way I'm putting in over 100 hours in re-writing code from one language to another when there is nothing broken just to potentionally reduce load times with half a millisecond.

The amount of data that is on here is HUGE. More and more people are getting aware of this site, I assume, so I personally think it's better to regulate these sorts of things before they get out of my control. If you don't see any future in this project, you might as well let go.

>files2 runs on code that I don't have access to

This sounds... quite risky.

>Trying having files2 off for a while, see how it works.
On user side (my side), it runs fast as a lightning bolt and doesn't bear 404's! Great work! The load is indeed a problem, though. Why don't *you* provide the code that he should run on his server?

>Added a little message that appears below the flash if it's detected that the flash's loader appears to be stuck.
Thanks a lot! :)

CloudFlare is based on a modified nginx version :) You can also see that by curling the page:

>curl -I http://swfchan.org/
>HTTP/1.1 200 OK
>Server: cloudflare-nginx
>...

>There's no way I'm putting in over 100 hours in re-writing code from one language to another when there is nothing broken just to potentionally reduce load times with half a millisecond.

The amount of data that is on here is HUGE. More and more people are getting aware of this site, I assume, so I personally think it's better to regulate these sorts of things before they get out of my control. If you don't see any future in this project, you might as well let go.

>files2 runs on code that I don't have access to

This sounds... risky.

>Trying having files2 off for a while, see how it works.
On user side (my side), it runs lightning-fast performance-wise and doesn't bear 404's! Great work! The load is indeed a problem, though. Why don't *you* provide the code that he should run on his server?

>Added a little message that appears below the flash if it's detected that the flash's loader appears to be stuck.
Thanks a lot! :)

>it's better to regulate these sorts of things before they get out of my control

It's not broken so I don't have to fix it, if it ever gets to the point that the CPU is constantly at 100% and the page generation actually starts taking a while to load I will just get a new processor. By then CPU power has probably doubled for the same price I bought the current CPU. But I doubt it will ever get to that point, unless half of India suddenly gets Internet access and visits swfchan during the same day.

files2 isn't risky, it's just a file host after all. I have checks in place to verify all the files before they go live on the site too.

Great that everything loads fast for you! I hadn't provided code for his server because I wasn't familiar with the setup and he offered to do it so it felt good not having to bother. Got a mail from the guy, says it will be a few weeks before everything is fixed. Going to re-enable files2 and make it so that people can set a cookie not to use files2.

Now I have to find a workaround to this shit because NoScript decided to be super strict about how the web is supposed to work. Sure, security is good but all these limitations are killing me. I remember the good old days when you could create moving popup windows that didn't have a close button and when you could open the visitor's CD ROM tray just by visiting a web page.

This meant I had to turn off CloudFlare for swfchan.org. Images and other files are now gotten via get.swfchan.org instead (if you have JavaScript turned on that is) since that subdomain is now passed through CloudFlare. A little funny since it used to be the other way around, the get subdomain was previously used to receive big files on the /res/ board without going through CF.

At least something good came out of this, the pages should load faster now on .org since it isn't passed through CloudFlare anymore (pages aren't cached like files on CF so page requests are actually slowed down when using CF).

you link dont work at all fo this game i love to play it when it working

It's been several days since I was last challenged to enter a Captcha. I'm guessing that isn't what you want.

Instead of hunting for the cause of this and fixing it I think I will remake how the actual captcha process takes place. It's actually pretty complex right now, I wrote it like this because the old server was being overloaded. Everything is dealt with in memory, the HDD read/writes are kept to a minimum. But with the new much more powerful server, and the new modern database, I no longer think this is needed.

It will take some time making a new captcha handler, gotta make everything fit together (stats collection for example) and I can't start tonight unfortunately. But I've been meaning to do it anyway since the current setup doesn't work too good with proxies and I've noticed some people have been complaining on 4chan that they can't get their captcha to be accepted (probably because their IP is changing between seeing the captcha and submitting the solution). So it's for the best. The change will probably be completely invisible to the user, everything should look the same.

And yeah, these goddamn NoScript Users,
I don't even use Ad-block most of the time.

To echo gattacacheemall's problem, I cannot view any of the flashes. The home page works fine, but when I click 'get file' it takes me to a blank screen. There is never a prompt to enter a captcha.

But if you download the file and play it offline (in browser or in the official Flash Player program) the preloader works just fine. Almost as if Adobe has changed something with their flash plugin to make something not work as it should online. The flash has local sandbox restrictions (doesn't have Network Access enabled), could it be that it's now not even allowed to read its own amount of loaded bytes when online?

>>12618
Okay thanks for telling me, I will start working on that new captcha handler I talked about earlier right away.

If you find anything not working as it should please tell me about it BUT let's take the discussion in the Bug Thread over at http://swfchan.org/17/, I think it's about time to move on from this thread now since I doubt anything at this point will be actually related to the new server (it will just be a normal bug that could have happened on the old server as well).