Did the TalkBass forum format change?

[dafunky1]

I didn't log in for a couple of days and yesterday, when I logged on, the format, look and feel or Talkbass changed.......or is it my computer? I brought up TB in IE and Firefox and it looks different, like a "bare bones" look. did I miss the announcement?

 

[Corporate Boy]

It looks whacked out to me. None of the formatting/structure graphics load. Only the ads. Not sure if it is my company's firewall or not, but it has been like this for 2 days now.

 

[dafunky1]

Good.....I'm glad someone else sees this also! I thought it was just me.....

 

[transition]

FWIW, it looks the same as usual for me on:
Chrome and IE (Windows 7)
Safari and Firefox (Mac OS 10.6.4)

 

[dafunky1]

I'm on a PC at work: Windows XP, Firefox 3.6.13 and IE 7

I have a Mac at home with Firefox, so I'll check that tonight.

 

[JxBass]

Looks the same to me on both Mac OS and iOS (iPad).

 

[paul]

Sorry about the mess. I didn't announce anything because I thought in this day ISP's would be updating their DNS on a decent schedule.

On March 14th we started off-loading all images and javascript to a Content Delivery Network (CDN). CDN's speed up website loading for users, because instead of loading all the data from the TB server in Texas, you can get the data from an ultrafast node in various spots around the country (NY, LA, etc) and internationally.

Your ISP, however, has not updated its DNS, and so your browser don't know what to do with our new image calls to img.talkbasscdn.com, and it can't load javascript from js.talkbasscdn.com, etc. I wish I could tell you when they'll update - 99% of ISP's updated within minutes of the change. Some take a day, but by now you should be updated...

 

[SteveC]

I havent noticed a change...except that I like typing on my iPad instead as it does capitalization and punctuation for me.

 

[dafunky1]

Sorry about the mess. I didn't announce anything because I thought in this day ISP's would be updating their DNS on a decent schedule.

On March 14th we started off-loading all images and javascript to a Content Delivery Network (CDN). CDN's speed up website loading for users, because instead of loading all the data from the TB server in Texas, you can get the data from an ultrafast node in various spots around the country (NY, LA, etc) and internationally.

Your ISP, however, has not updated its DNS, and so your browser don't know what to do with our new image calls to img.talkbasscdn.com, and it can't load javascript from js.talkbasscdn.com, etc. I wish I could tell you when they'll update - 99% of ISP's updated within minutes of the change. Some take a day, but by now you should be updated...

Thanks for the explanation. Fortunately, the site is still usable......It just looks strange.

 

[testing1two]

Apparently my company's ISP must have given up DNS updating for Lent.

 

[testing1two]

I am happy to report that things are finally back to normal today.

 

[Corporate Boy]

Still whacked out for me, but I'm behind a pretty big company firewall that probably handles its own DNS.

 

[paul]

I'm pretty ignorant of corporate firewalls, but if they indeed handle their own DNS this would explain why so many people at work still cannot resolve talkbasscdn.com.

Still, I would think they could update at least every couple weeks

 

[tink9975]

The site is loading up like this for me today, very bare bones, no banner on the top. I suppose I should just wait and see if it self-corrects?

 

[paul]

The site is loading up like this for me today, very bare bones, no banner on the top. I suppose I should just wait and see if it self-corrects?

If you're at work, maybe you can try telling your IT department to update its DNS to get you access to talkbasscdn.com

If you're at home, you might try contacting your ISP, as they should not take a month to get you access to new domains.

 

[HeavyDuty]

Paul, the site just started acting up for me this evening - it's almost like the stylesheet isn't loading, and page load times are horrendous. Server issues?

 

[HeavyDuty]

I don't know what the problem was, but it seems to be cured now.