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Gandolorin
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on: December 19, 2014 12:08
My Firefox browser has been informing since a few days that it it blocking "Adobe Flash" from running as soon as I log in to CoE - and only there. I have so far clicked on "continue blocking", but that's just my normal Internet paranoia. Can anyone tell me if it would be OK to allow "Adobe Flash" to run? I had lost the bar at the bottom of the page a while ago - Chatrooms and Who's Online and stuff - and managed to solve it by changing my Firefox security to slightly less aggressive settings, so I'm wondering if this is a similar case.
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on: December 22, 2014 09:00
My chat bar shows 0 online even when I know people are on and the chats do not post sometimes or all the chats disappear. It does that once in a while though.
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on: December 22, 2014 10:49
Gandolorin said: Can anyone tell me if it would be OK to allow "Adobe Flash" to run?


I have Adobe Flash running on my computer without any issues, Gando, so it should be okay.

Also, thanks to tarc's recommendation, I am trying a new search engine that is based on the Firefox model called: Pale Moon. I find Firefox is becoming overloaded with plug-ins and such which has been causing speed issues with my computer. Pale Moon is less "cluttered" and is much faster. Unfortunately, it doesn't carry over the Firefox bookmarks which means you have to re-bookmark the sites and passwords which I actually found useful as it prompted me to clean up my lists, and change my passwords. Overall, I happy with Pale Moon, although I still run Firefox as my back-up search engine.
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on: December 23, 2014 12:00
Err... it's a browser, not a search engine. And you can export bookmarks in html and load them into any browser.
Oh, and Palemoon can use Firefox plugins as well.
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on: December 24, 2014 03:58
I am really confused by the poles. I am guessing the number on the right shows how many votes each option has got, but sometimes an option with one vote has a bigger percentage than an option with 5 votes! (For example on a thread about reading Realmer's Digest.)
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on: December 27, 2014 02:14
It all depends on the amount of people who participated in the poll, I think.
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on: December 28, 2014 06:30
If you're talking about the polls in the forums threads, most of them were made on the old site and when they were transferred to the new site they got messed up (old coding not compatible with the new perhaps?). I don't know if there is any way to fix them but as it hasn't been I am guessing no.
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on: December 31, 2014 10:39
Ok fair enough. It is strange because the percentages don't match up with number of votes, but it makes sense if they were transferred from the old site.
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on: January 01, 2015 01:08
Why was the site updated? I remember a large hacking that occurred about two years ago, a few months after I first joined. Did that prompt a new site?
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on: January 01, 2015 03:55
Yes, the old site was being hacked on a pretty regular basis and days of post would be lost which is exactly what prompted the site we have now.
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on: January 05, 2015 01:11
I have had various problems with the chat with quite a few users.

These include:
The pop-up notification not working when I have a new message
The messages on the page just disappearing
Receiving a message way after it was sent, prompting the other user to ask if I had choked to death or something
The Who's Online showing 0 online although there are clearly people online
The user names disappearing when I click the Who's Online button.

This is a real inconvenience, and it seems it is not just happening on my side of the chat. Can anyone help?

Plus, can someone tell me what this whole corrupted uncorrupted malarkey is?
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on: January 05, 2015 01:46
Can't help you with the Chat thing but I can clear up the Corrupted vs Uncorrupted thing.

It's one of the facets that makes the Realm of Vairë the Weaver unique. We ally ourselves to the corrupted/uncorrupted characters in Tolkiens' works, particularly in our games threads. Because we have one of the most active Realm memberships on the site, these factions have managed to work their way into the main games forum; helped by the fact that I'm the de facto Leader of the Realm's Corrupted Army (well, Sauron, or Morgoth, are but .... usurping power is, well, intoxicating.)


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on: January 06, 2015 05:40
I have all the same issues as described by PSK with chats. This has happened before. I wonder if going in a chat room would make a difference.

There are bugs in the system and we just have to deal with it. It is not always like that.
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on: January 06, 2015 07:41
Oh ok E~S. It's no secret which side you are on!

It's a shame I didn't know this when I joined a realm, should've done more research really. Although, it is kinda my fault that I also haven't explored my own realm so much.

Anyhoo, I am pretty sure most/lots of the users will have experienced the problems at one point or another, but I think it has got a lot worse recently.
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on: January 08, 2015 11:05
I noticed something similar in the chat-room popout window during the Vairë chat on Jan 3rd. I had the window at about half my screen size (left half), and occasionally the text would disappear. Rarely the entire text, mostly the last five or so lines. I also had the impression that occasionally (newer?) comments appeared above other comments instead of below, as if they had a time stamp but were delayed in becoming visible in the chat window. And occasionally, the text I was typing in the comment line also flickered.
More generally, occasionally when an avatar is at the top of the browser window, it disappears and reappears at a rapid rate. Haven't paid attention to whether or not this effect is limited to active avatars like Lindarielwen's or Dolwen's, or happens to all. And last, sometimes when I scroll to the top of a page, the top quarter or so of the page goes pale as if someone had turned on a strong back-light.

[Edited on 01/08/2015 by Gandolorin]
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on: January 08, 2015 11:29
PSK, you're allowed to move to another Realm.

Gandolorin, I don't use the chat, so I won't comment on that, but I've not experienced the disappearing avatars or a pale page top. Might it be the browser you're using?

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on: January 08, 2015 12:48
I've been using Mozilla Firefox pretty much from the word go. Of course, there are updates, so maybe I should try out the IE for a change.


OK, tried to log in several times with the IE, failed every time. Odd.

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on: January 08, 2015 01:23
I had so many issues with IE on the CoE, so I switched to Chrome and everything is working fine.
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on: January 08, 2015 06:41
I agree with you on that, Maxie. I had so many issues with IE here but I switched to Google Chrome and love it. But I still am having some chat problems.
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on: January 09, 2015 05:46
Your comments make me wonder why CoE works fine with IE on some computers and not on others... Curious...

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on: January 09, 2015 06:34
I use chrome anyway and it seems it's the only one that works properly, however the chat problems are on chrome (haven't tried other browsers).

And cool NenyaGold. I thought when I joined it said you can't change, but I think that's username and I got mixed up.
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on: January 09, 2015 07:11
Since PSK asked, I'll post it here. Yes you may change Realms after you've been in one for three months. We had so many active members when the Realms began that Rivka didn't want people hopping all over the place.

On the left side of the screen where you see Home, go down to Community, then click Realms. At the bottom of that page is a list of each Realm. Click the one you want to join, then click Join Realm at the top of that page.

The page with the list of Realms is where you can glean more information about each realm by going to their main page and clicking their info and even their member list. Most is probably out of date but it will give you an idea of what the realms basic interests are.

There is also the Realms Forum where some of the active Realms have made themselves known.


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on: January 09, 2015 10:38
Well, well, well, I'm on a US server today. Let's see what that does to my "multiple users" issue. I believe to remember that that was NOT an issue whe I was occasionally on EU or US servers. Ve schalll ssee.

No "multiple users" on 09 Jan into early 10 Jan CET.
And now the second login in a row with a US server. On va voir.

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on: January 09, 2015 05:40
http://www.councilofelrond.com/fm/edit-post.php

This has come up lately whenever I edit a post. Thoughts?
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on: January 11, 2015 10:43
findemaxam48 said:http://www.councilofelrond.com/fm/edit-post.php

This has come up lately whenever I edit a post. Thoughts?

No idea, if I try the link, Firefox shows me a blank page. But my settings include a script-blocker, which seem to make it a fire-breathing fox. I have had to use the IE a couple of times because of this.
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on: February 10, 2015 07:33
Search returns no results, and I cannot figure out if this issue was already noted (because search doesn't work).
Member profiles point to member gallery, as noted before (it's still not fixed).
Finally, seems like the forum is not indexed by Google, which is a pity - one cannot search the content of the forums through Google while local search is being fixed.

Pleasepleaseplease fix it!
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on: February 11, 2015 10:46
The search does work, it's just very, very slow. At first it shows a blank page but if you leave it a while the results will eventually appear.
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on: February 23, 2015 05:26
something is not right. in the box that shows the most recent post for threads on the mane forum page. the Nuwbie one shows "Last post by in Re: on" if you click the RE: it brings you to the elfish translation of the word thread

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on: February 24, 2015 06:27
That happens when something is deleted there and will disappear when a new post is made.
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on: March 11, 2015 08:35
A day's worth of posts lost from 10 March? If this was a planned outage, I don't remember seeing any announcement.

Remember RP writers, save what you post, and archive the thread as well!
I've seen too many good RP posts and even complete RPs lost due to some server/software belch over the years.
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on: March 12, 2015 11:01
I lost contact with CoE yesterday evening at perhaps 9 PM CET (so about 3 PM EST etc.) Tried several times to reconnect, but then gave up, powered up my 2008 high-powered (and offline) games tower and doodled around with one of my Sokoban (cube-pusher) games. Noticed I was a tad rusty ...
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on: March 12, 2015 12:17
I lost it as well, sometime in the afternoon. Updates?
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on: March 12, 2015 04:30
My friend in The Netherlands has been unable to log on to the Council in several days. A screen comes on and says Error..Council of Elrond. Does anyone know anything about this?
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on: March 12, 2015 05:06
I don't know anything, but I remember that something like this usually happens around this time each year, at least since I have been here.
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on: March 12, 2015 07:44
Not sure why your friend is having issues. I know Rivka has been working on some of the programming but that shouldn't keep someone off for days. I believe your friend would be in the same time zone as Gando (who will likely read this), I wonder if he has had the same problem.
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