Baseball Graphics for new posts

[T B0NE 10]

The baseball graphic on the left telling me when we have a new post on a topic is not showing up... Im getting something like New Post in text instead.

[1992casey]

I've been seeing the baseballs. But the good news is that seeing "New Post" is the backup in case the graphics don't load.

 

It could be either a Brewerfan thing or a Yuku thing that causes this. Come back and post to this thread if the issue persists on your end.

[T B0NE 10]

It says unread message......and on the closed boards it says closed forum

[T B0NE 10]

On Internet explorer i get the red x as if the picture couldnt load....

 

on firefox i get the text

[hawing]

I have the same lack of graphics, and did Thursday afternoon too. Frankly, I assumed it was related to heavy website traffic due to the draft - but maybe not.

[brewcrewman17]

It comes up as the blue question mark in Safari, the default "won't load" graphic.

[PeaveyFury]

The main site is down as well, FWIW.

[1992casey]

The pattern seems to be that you're not getting the pictures that are stored on Brewerfan.net. The "Unread Message" and "Closed Topic" graphics are stored on Brian's server space.

 

Are you seeing the pin graphics for stickied threads? Or are you seeing the words, "Sticky Topic"? Those come from ezBoard.

 

Also, what happens if you go over to the non-Yuku portion of the site (brewerfan.net)? Are there graphics missing over there?

[TheCrew07]

I tried to look at Farris' profile in the Player Index earlier tonight and I get the standard 403 forbidden error.

[1992casey]

Here we go. As Peavey says, the problem is that the main site is down. I just checked things out in a browser with a clean cache, and none of the Brewerfan-hosted graphics are loading. Likewise, when I try to access the main site, I get a 403 Forbidden page. If you're still seeing some or all of the Brewerfan-hosted graphics, they're in your cache.

 

I'm not sure which graphics are hosted where without looking. If this persists, I can do some switcheroos and put some of them on Yuku. I don't have access to the main portion of the site, though, and even if I did, I'm not sure I'd know what to do, anyway. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif

[brewcrewman17]

Fixed for me

[PeaveyFury]

Yeah, main page is back up.

[1992casey]

It should be fine now for everyone. Brian had the provider "bounce the server."

[TooLiveBrew]

DFA BtA!

[logan82]

I just had red X's everywhere instead of baseballs. I figured you guys were trying to tell me I was grounded.

[1992casey]

Each browser has its own way of telling us that graphics aren't loading. It appears that the majority show a "broken graphic" image. Firefox shows the alternative text when the webmaster has bothered to include it.

 

I've now uploaded the board-related graphics to Yuku, but I haven't yet gotten around to getting the skin to point to them. I don't want to put the header graphics on Yuku, though, unless Brian were to decide that the main part of the site should also load those graphics from Yuku. Having a graphic in two places would cause a visitor to load it a second time when moving between the Brewerfan.net and Yuku portions of the site. It would be an inconvenience for those on slow connections.

 

EDIT: The skin is now pointing to the board images at their Yuku locations, so they'll still be available if Brewerfan goes down. If images.yuku.com goes down, we're going to be missing more than just a few board images anyway, so this would seem to be the right move.