Forum:Opera problems

Wikia seems to no longer allow edits made in Opera. Clicking either "Save page" or "Show preview" shows a completely blank page as the preview, no matter what my edit was. It did this yesterday, too, and I didn't try to make any edits in the few days preceding yesterday. Before that, it worked just fine. I've tried rebooting the computer, as well as clearing my cache and restarting my browser. Neither seemed to have any effect. I normally use Opera 9.51. I had to switch to a different browser to make this edit, which is quite a nuisance.

On another note, after logging in, it would be nice if pop-up box to log in closed on its own. Instead, it just sits there covering part of the screen after I log in. I have to close the box on my own and then reload the page for it to show me as logged in. Quizzical 18:19, 15 August 2008 (UTC)


 * This is a bug that just developed in the last couple days. The tech folks are working on a solution for it right now. I'm sorry for the inconvenience; we're hoping that the fix won't take long. -- Danny (talk ) 19:05, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I just upgraded to Opera 9.52 and it seemed to fix the problem. I guess anyone having this issue can try that first. Addps4cat 20:54, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Scratch that, I guess it just works occasionally. I still have the issue w/ Opera 9.52 Addps4cat 10:44, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

I had encountered this problem as well. In addition to that I am now unable to log in using Opera: I always get "You have not specified a valid user name" even if I copy it directly from talk pages.


 * I use the newest version as well, Addps4cat, it still doesn't work. WHLfan (talk to me!) 23:59, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

I'm really glad to see that wikia folks are working on the problem. I could only wish that it could be fixed ASAP - that is really annoying. Mauser 14:26, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

I downloaded Opera three days ago and encountered the same problems, just like Mauser I got a message saying "You have not specified a valid user name". Then finally today, I get it to log-in, but like Quizzical, it's just blanking the page when I hit save, preview, or show changes. I'm using IE8 right now, which I find is much slower.

I'm glad you guys are on top of it, and hope to see the problem fixed soon.

WHLfan (talk to me!) 08:26, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Response from Engineering
This was posted on the Central Wikia mailing list by Artur, head of Engineering and Operations. I'm re-posting here... I hope this answers some of the questions about this continuing problem. -- Danny (talk ) 23:57, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Hi.

Over the last couple weeks, we've had problems with Opera users not being able to log in to Wikia. We recently changed our front end loadbalancers to speed up performance on the site -- an important change that will help all of our sites. Sadly, this is causing a problem with logins and Opera.

We've been working on fixing this error -- but it's been more complicated than we expected, and we've been unable to reliably replicate the error. But we are working hard on it (and I am going to be working over the weekend on it :)

Sorry for the inconvenience -- I know this has been a big problem for folks who use Opera.

Cheers,

Artur


 * Thanks for working "over time" on the fixing this. Hope you can figure it out soon.


 * WHLfan (talk to me!) 00:44, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Waiting and hoping, folks! Mauser 00:52, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

Yeah - waiting... ;) Jamjumetley 14:50, 24 August 2008 (UTC)