Until further notice, OmnomIRC refresh rate of 1 second has been increased to 8 seconds, except when sending messages, where it still refreshes one second after sending the message. This was done to lower server load, since sometimes several people have OmnomIRC ON, and also to see if this might help reducing the errors  we have been getting more and more lately due to the recent OmnomIRC update combined with traffic increase. Of course it doesn't guarantee we will get rid of errors, but hopefully it might help until we switch server, or at least help us find if Omnimaga is the cause of the downtimes.

On an unrelated note, but related to the site itself, we have modified EzPortal a little bit to get rid of the Unread Replies and Posts links in the info center. Those are unreliable because the list is cleared as soon as you close your internet browser, meaning that if you check the list but don't have time to check all posts, you miss out on a lot of discussion. Those links were replaced with the list of the latest 200 posts, which marks topics as unread until you actually read them (or mark the entire board as read).

UPDATE: We also switched from PHP4 to PHP5.

Yeah I noticed OmnomIRC isn't PHP5. You might want to try to find a solution as 1and1 suggested me to upgrade just now.

Ah ok. It seems file_get_content() didn't work well on PHP4 either, though, because this is what the modified version of the Stop Forum Spam mod used and it still didn't work any better than when it used fetch_web_data() or something

I wonder if modifying the .htaccess file in the Omnimaga folder to allow it would be possible?

it did? Nice to hear. I wonder why the Stop Forum Spam stopped working then. I'll try again I think. It's weird because it still says it could not connect to the server

Yeah I just replaced them because I felt they were too misleading. A lot of discussion is missed by people who frequent the forums in 5-10 minutes chunks during a short period of the day. I feel the list containing the last 200 active topics is more reliable, because if a topic got a new post or if the last post was edited, it shows the "new" image besides them in the list.

quick problem, i can no longer send anything on the irc....?

quick problem, i can no longer send anything on the irc....?

Yea, I called a global variable that wasn't present in Firefox that borked the javascript.

It should all be fixed, though it was broken in Firefox for a majority of the day.

I need to test more thoroughly when I make changes...

Im not getting any problems in Chrome