Resolved Let's Figure Out Why Crystal's Profile Doesn't Work

[Crystal]

Just trying to sort things out, because I'm stumped.

I went to the dev board and found that if I disable all add-ons and then enable them one at a time, I don't run into the issue until I activate any of the following add-ons:

-XenAddons Pickem
-s9e/MediaSites
-PWA (DigitalPoint)
-Editor & BB Code Manager
-Advanced BbCode pack

As far as I can tell, they have NOTHING in common...so...yeah...I'm stumped.

Anyone feel like shooting some ideas to try?

 

[Ben]

I took the forums offline for a few minutes and rebuilt all of the cached data, wondering if that'd fix anything. I think it actually did clear a couple of the errors I'm getting on the HTML markup validation, but not all of them.

Currently going through and making sure alt-text is set on all of the badges, in case that's the dumb reason.

 

[MC74]

Marquis de Clay​

| "Ah, my dear Sparkles." |

 

[TD]

Certain things will never escape me.

 

[Crystal]

Certain things will never escape me.

Because we love you

 

[MC74]

Because we love you

This.

 

[Raine]

So, it's spreading.

One of my PM conversations is now just showing as a white page.

Worth noting that I attached 5 images to the post that might have broken it. So... I mean that isn't particularly unique to that post, nor was the size of the post, nor was the total conversation size. But it's a thing all the same.

I also copy-pasted the contents of said post, including attachments, in a new PM conversation and those work/display just fine...


Edit/Update: I can direct link to previous pages and those all load just fine. It's just the last page that is blanking out.

 

[Crystal]

So, it's spreading.

One of my PM conversations is now just showing as a white page.

Worth noting that I attached 5 images to the post that might have broken it. So... I mean that isn't particularly unique to that post, nor was the size of the post, nor was the total conversation size. But it's a thing all the same.

I also copy-pasted the contents of said post, including attachments, in a new PM conversation and those work/display just fine...


Edit/Update: I can direct link to previous pages and those all load just fine. It's just the last page that is blanking out.

Damn, this is so strange!

 

[Ben]

So, it's spreading.

One of my PM conversations is now just showing as a white page.

Worth noting that I attached 5 images to the post that might have broken it. So... I mean that isn't particularly unique to that post, nor was the size of the post, nor was the total conversation size. But it's a thing all the same.

I also copy-pasted the contents of said post, including attachments, in a new PM conversation and those work/display just fine...


Edit/Update: I can direct link to previous pages and those all load just fine. It's just the last page that is blanking out.

The img tag is something I've been looking at. Debugging I get a lot of errors regarding the trailing / on void element tags like <img>, where an unquoted src variable can interpret the / in <img src=blah.jpg /> as part of the URL. So instead of "blah.jpg", it points to "blah.jpg/".

There's also some errors regarding a missing or incorrect height attribute to some <img> tags... Which might explain why some of them bust out of the frame.

I made a vague pass at removing the trailing / from the PAGE_CONTAINER template, but it threw an error on my trying to parse everything at once. I'll try to go through the markup validation line by line later.

I'm between it being an issue with Font Awesome in either the app_user_banner.less or extra.less template, and some markup error forcing Quirks mode and breaking the CSS entirely.

@Raine mind letting me know who the PM was to? I might be able to compare that account to Crystal's, or the threads that won't load.

@shortkut did ponder if it's just the number of images on the page, so that's another thing to investigate...

 

[Raine]

@Raine mind letting me know who the PM was to? I might be able to compare that account to Crystal's, or the threads that won't load.

Ongoing wolf/shenanigans PM chain with TD. Who is... naturally, fucking everywhere.

I actually still have a tab open with the offending post in it, so I can run some experiments as long as whatever I'm doing doesn't reload the page.

 

[TD]

Who is... naturally, fucking everywhere.

 

[TD]

Maybe worth noting too because while it did happen after one specific message - the page had gotten uh... a little GIF happy.

 

[Ben]

Ongoing wolf/shenanigans PM chain with TD. Who is... naturally, fucking everywhere.

I actually still have a tab open with the offending post in it, so I can run some experiments as long as whatever I'm doing doesn't reload the page.

Word. I 100% assumed it was him.

Probably IS badges though.

 

[TD]

Probably IS badges though.

 

[TD]

Wait I tried to display no badges and it displayed them ALL instead!?!?

EDIT: Changed to 1, for science.

Also the proof I'm not crazy:

Spoiler

 

[Raine]

The img tag is something I've been looking at.

Okay so some of that is way above my pay grade...

But I can confirm that if I replace the text of the offending post with "Experiment 1." that the page is then viewable again. I do not need to remove/delete the 5 attachments for this to succeed.

The images within that post (and I'm going to keep this tab open just in case it fucks this thread up lol) are:

Spoiler

@shortkut did ponder if it's just the number of images on the page, so that's another thing to investigate...

Counting images in totality, there would be:

17 attachments (16 jpg/png, 1 gif)
54 gifs (including duplicates in quotes, 2 new gifs in offending post)
2 YouTube embeds using the media tag
461 smiles/emojis before offending post + 23 more in offending post
Edit: Plus we're silly and use reactions as bookmarks so every post on the page (45) has a reaction image as well

...That's a lot of counting let me catch my breath and read new responses in this thread.

 

[TD]

Okay.

So.

Um. The page that broke in our PMs works now after I went down to 1 badge.

 

[TD]

Next theory: it's a certain badge.

Also. I'm totally high.

 

[Raine]

Crystal's page is still broken though.

 

[TD]

Okay so.

I added all my badges back 1-by-1 and tested.

So like 1 badge - works, 2 badges - works, etc.

...it broke after badge 6.

Swapped the badges, it's not a specific one but broke every time with badge 6.

 

[Raine]

Swapped the badges, it's not a specific one but broke every time with badge 6.

Okay, so, the above numbers and on that page you had:

28/45 posts

Although it's worth noting that, for me on desktop, it doesn't show badges in-convo. Requires mousing over. But, assuming that element counts, then we're also adding in any possible background images.

I feel like there's probably a thread I can blow up to test things with, uno momento.

 

[TD]

The Dept is at it again on a Friday night.

 

[Raine]

Got it.

3,000 faces caused the Testing Grounds thread page to break.

You're welcome, server. Smile more bitch!

 

[TD]

3000.

 

[TD]

Now is that because there were 3000 smileys or is it because of the cumulative file size of 3000 smileys?

 

[Raine]

Someone good at maffs will have to answer that.

 

[TD]

As long as it doesn't involve 100+...

Right Ben?

 

[TD]

One smiley is 0.04kb.
3000 is 120kb.

...
I don't think file size is the problem.

 

[Raine]

So, Testing Grounds thread is now viewable again by removing 375 faces.

I could sit here and add small amounts back in, put into consideration how many badges are shown, background banners, yadda yadda, but... that sounds like a lot of work.

Ostensibly though if you temporarily limit displayed badges to like 1, Crystal's page might be viewable? Or maybe that's a separate issue and the two of us just went and found a different way to break things.

 

[TD]

So 2626-3000 is the range for broken?

 

[TD]

Wait wait wait.

So does this mean if I want to end an argument in a thread... All I need to do is smile 3000 times?

 

[Raine]

So 2626-3000 is the range for broken?

Plus whatever else is on the page besides the new smiles and badger gifs, yeah.

 

[TD]

Plus whatever else is on the page besides the new smiles and badger gifs, yeah.

This feels like too much power.

It's a good thing that if there's one word to describe me... it's... responsible.

 

[Ben]

As long as it doesn't involve 100+...

Right Ben?

Thanks @Raine and @TD for testing things.

I don't know if it's specifically going to be a file size/cache issue with the number of images being loaded, although possibly. I'd think that statistically if something is busted with images, dropping 3000 into one thread just increases the odds that it'll trip up on the CSS and puke.

 

[TD]

The Shitposting Department was literally made to push buttons when buttons are to be pushed.

 

[Raine]

So, I pushed our PM conversation forward a page (we were only 3 posts away from a new page) using the still-open tab.

It was much, much more difficult to get the previous page to fix itself afterwards. I mean, I suppose that makes sense in theory - 3 new posts means 18 new badges + 3 new avatars + whatever else. But I definitely had to remove more than ~30 smiles/emojis/gifs to get it to load again.

But going back and forth between the new page and the old page doesn't result in the white/blank screen... so, uh, cave(wo)man unga bunga go?

 

[Crystal]

So we've figured out lots of images = bad, Crystal = bad.

 

[shortkut]

TD. Who is... naturally, fucking everywhere

 

[Ben]

It's gotta be the badges fucking things up and probably just contributing to things on pages with thousands of images. I turned off all of mine except the 100 one, and page 6 of my D&D thread that broke now works again.

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It doesn't seem to be any particular badge, as I think @TD said earlier when he was fucking with it. 1 works fine, if I enable 2, it breaks.

I did go through and fix the height of the badge display (under ozzmodz_badges_featured_badges.less), so they don't bust out of the frame anymore. The upside down pineapple is now sized appropriately.



However this didn't solve the overall issue, it just fixes the stylistic bound-overflow issue.

My current thought is that it seems more common on the badges I've put in, which are generally at a way higher resolution than the others (even though they're still being scaled down.) I'm going to guess that it's choking on caching so much data at once, although the "big" pineapple image png is only 206kb. That's... Not huge. I can try scaling some of them down though, and testing whether that loads any easier.

Gonna sleep on it for now, though.

 

[Crystal]

It's gotta be the badges fucking things up and probably just contributing to things on pages with thousands of images. I turned off all of mine except the 100 one, and page 6 of my D&D thread that broke now works again.

Campaign - Stormwreck Isle; The Forgotten Clifftop Observatory (1-4)

Part 4 - The Forgotten Clifftop Observatory DM Screen | Initiative | Map MAP: https://www.dndbeyond.com/games/4957126 THE STORY SO FAR: Stormwreck Isle: Journey to Stormwreck Isle (1-P) Stormwreck Isle: Welcome to Dragon's Rest (1-1) Stormwreck Isle: Spores of Seagrow Cave (1-2) Stormwreck...

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It doesn't seem to be any particular badge, as I think @TD said earlier when he was fucking with it. 1 works fine, if I enable 2, it breaks.

I did go through and fix the height of the badge display (under ozzmodz_badges_featured_badges.less), so they don't bust out of the frame anymore. The upside down pineapple is now sized appropriately.

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However this didn't solve the overall issue, it just fixes the stylistic bound-overflow issue.

My current thought is that it seems more common on the badges I've put in, which are generally at a way higher resolution than the others (even though they're still being scaled down.) I'm going to guess that it's choking on caching so much data at once, although the "big" pineapple image png is only 206kb. That's... Not huge. I can try scaling some of them down though, and testing whether that loads any easier.

Gonna sleep on it for now, though.

Yeah, worry about it later, go sleep!

 

[Ben]

Yeah, worry about it later, go sleep!

((I was gonna do it anyway, but... Not 'cause you told me. ))

If I didn't have a fucking life that took up my free time until past 12am, I wouldn't have to start coding by werewolf rules.

But yah, I'll get back at it tomorrow.


OH. Also I had tried bumping down all of the max badges for usergroups to 5, and/or setting them to 5 where they had been unlimited still (like TD's 10k group letting him show EVERYTHING without a specific featured badge.) However it again didn't force unselect badges for anyone. If you had 6 turned on, you've still got 6 turned on. I'm not sure if reducing them will even help since it seems to be anything over 1 but...

Also none of the fixes unfortunately did anything for Crystal's profile, so I'm still at a loss there. Still leaning towards just crawling through the markup errors line by line.

 

[Crystal]

((I was gonna do it anyway, but... Not 'cause you told me. ))

If I didn't have a fucking life that took up my free time until past 12am, I wouldn't have to start coding by werewolf rules.

But yah, I'll get back at it tomorrow.


OH. Also I had tried bumping down all of the max badges for usergroups to 5, and/or setting them to 5 where they had been unlimited still (like TD's 10k group letting him show EVERYTHING without a specific featured badge.) However it again didn't force unselect badges for anyone. If you had 6 turned on, you've still got 6 turned on. I'm not sure if reducing them will even help since it seems to be anything over 1 but...

Also none of the fixes unfortunately did anything for Crystal's profile, so I'm still at a loss there. Still leaning towards just crawling through the markup errors line by line.

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The answer is as I said it was -- because I'm horrible and my profile doesn't want anyone to see how bad.

NOW GO SLEEP!

 

[Ben]

The answer is as I said it was -- because I'm horrible and my profile doesn't want anyone to see how bad.

NOW GO SLEEP!

The only thing you're horrible at is being horrible, so (lovingly) sod off with that bollocks.

I'm going, I'm going.

 

[Crystal]

The only thing you're horrible at is being horrible, so (lovingly) sod off with that bollocks.

Lies.

I'm going, I'm going.

Damn right you're going. I'll send you to your room if you're not careful!

 

[Ben]

Lies.

Damn right you're going. I'll send you to your room if you're not careful!

 

[Crystal]

 

[TD]

So we've figured out lots of images = bad, Crystal = bad.

Alternative approach.

TD has posted on your wall. TD was in the PM conversation. TD hoards badges. Badges contribute.

TD is the problem.

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like TD's 10k group letting him show EVERYTHING without a specific featured badge.

 

[Crystal]

Alternative approach.

TD has posted on your wall. TD was in the PM conversation. TD hoards badges. Badges contribute.

TD is the problem.

Negative, TD is amazing.

 

[Ben]

Negative, TD is amazing.

*Jack the Ripper, found at the scene of multiple crimes.*

Crystal: Jack is amazing.

 

[Crystal]

*Jack the Ripper, found at the scene of multiple crimes.*

Crystal: Jack is amazing.

...I mean he was a decent rapper...



Kidding, kidding, even my dumb ass isn't that stupid.

 

[TD]

*Jack the Ripper, found at the scene of multiple crimes.*

Crystal: Jack is amazing.