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Greg Strong wrote on Mon, Aug 20, 2018 09:29 AM EDT:

Something has changed - now whenever I complete a move on GC, the result page is scrolled all the way to the bottom. This happens on PC or mobile. It's really annoying on the phone because I have to scroll back up quite a way to get to the "your logs" button.

🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Mon, Aug 20, 2018 01:02 PM EDT:

I was noticing the same thing last night. I'm in the process of converting the site from HTTP to HTTPS, and it seems to be related to that, but I don't know what's happening. Notice whether this happens only when the page is an HTTPS one or whether it is also happening for HTTP pages.

🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Mon, Aug 20, 2018 02:48 PM EDT:

Here is what I know so far. It is unrelated to using HTTPS. I have been having the same problem with http://www.chessvariants.com/play/pbm/play.php. It does not appear to be anything in the footer. I temporarily commented out the footer, and it still happened. I also temporarily commented out the header, and it still happened. Whether it happens seems to depend on which form shows up. It is skipping down the page for the View and Menu forms, though not for other forms I've tested. It is probably from some change I made yesterday while preparing to switch to HTTPS, though I'm not sure what could be doing this.

🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Mon, Aug 20, 2018 05:02 PM EDT:

I have also confirmed that it is being done by JavaScript. When I disabled JavaScript, it stopped.

🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Mon, Aug 20, 2018 05:41 PM EDT:

Another thing I did yesterday was enable Rocket Loader™ on Cloudflare. Once I disabled this, the problem stopped. So, I guess I will keep it disabled for now. I'll try it again when the changes I'm trying to make are finished.

Сергей Бугаевский wrote on Mon, Aug 20, 2018 11:42 PM EDT:

how in the party to abolish the enemy's illegal course?

Greg Strong wrote on Tue, Aug 21, 2018 09:55 AM EDT:

If you refer to Shatranji, my move is not illegal. Why do you think it is?

Greg Strong wrote on Thu, Aug 23, 2018 03:12 PM EDT:

I think there is a serious issue with the Victorian Chess preset used with this log:

http://play.chessvariants.com/pbm/play.php?game=Victorian+Chess&log=sxg-cvgameroom-2018-233-587

Whenever I try to open the log to make my move it seems to crash the server. Maybe there is an infinite loop. I would try to troubleshoot but I'm not certain how to investigate the log without trying to open it and possibly crashing the server... (The URL above is deliberately not a hyperlink because I don't want anyone to click on it.)

@sxg, did you create or edit this preset or is this the one Fergus created?

Greg Strong wrote on Thu, Aug 23, 2018 03:19 PM EDT:

UPDATE: it is not just that log, so the problem is more general. Also very strange, the server is clearly not crashing, but I can no longer view it from the same computer. It acts like the site is off-line, but if I go to another computer it is working fine. If I try to open a game log, though, that computer will then no longer see the CVP. Go to a third computer and it's fine ...

Don't know if this is caused by all game logs or just some of them. I have made some moves today successfully. This must have something to do with the sub-domain changes in progress. Let me know if I can help with any testing.

🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Thu, Aug 23, 2018 04:29 PM EDT:

I'm looking into it now. I'm not sure what is going on, but it does seem more general than particular logs.

🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Thu, Aug 23, 2018 04:52 PM EDT:

I had changed some constant values from using http to using https, and this messed up with drawing images of boards, because str_replace failed to change URLs to file paths, and it couldn't find the graphics it needed. Maybe it had other effects too. I changed the constants back, and the problem seems to have gone away.