Accessing long threads

[bykimbo]

Whenever I try to view messages in one of the really long threads (over 3,000 for example) I just get a blank page (firefox or IE tab) - does anybody else have this problem, and is there a workaround?

Cheers!

[clockmad]

Nope! No problem for me....http://www.mysmiley.net/imgs/smile/confused/confused0024.gif (http://www.mysmiley.net/free-adult-smileys.php)

[fudgeheaven]

It sometimes takes ages for the page to load.
Click on the page you want and go put the kettle on - it works for me! :)

[bykimbo]

LOL okay, I'll try that. Though the symptoms suggest it's stopped loading and is "done". Just produces an empty page. I'll try a little more patience though. :)

[bykimbo]

Nope! Patience doesn't help. It quickly goes to the thread page, shows a blank page with the right URL and status "done", that's my lot. :(

[cornishmaid1961]

Nope! Patience doesn't help. It quickly goes to the thread page, shows a blank page with the right URL and status "done", that's my lot. :(
Can't say I've ever had a problem it seems to go straight in when I click on 'last page'. Have you tried hitting the refresh button when you get the 'done' message. I sometimes have to do that using the gallery when my photo doesn't come through. Also try clearing out your cookies and old files that might help.

[bykimbo]

Thanks, but tried all that. :( It's weird... none of the routes in I try produce anything if there's over 3,000 messages. Oh well, I'll just have to stick for the short and sweet threads until I suss it!

[cornishmaid1961]

Thanks, but tried all that. :( It's weird... none of the routes in I try produce anything if there's over 3,000 messages. Oh well, I'll just have to stick for the short and sweet threads until I suss it!
Try putting this up in the glitches forum for Gazza and the techies to see. They might be able to come up with a solution for you. Hope it gets solved soon. The eBid army needs you reporting in on their thread !!!;):D

[bykimbo]

LOL Thanks Cornishmaid - I'll do that and see if they have any ideas. I'm sure those big threads need one more poster. ;)

[cornishmaid1961]

LOL Thanks Cornishmaid - I'll do that and see if they have any ideas. I'm sure those big threads need one more poster. ;)
Oh I always need more Cornish troops to back me up !!!

.......what's that I hear the Captain muttering? ......one is quite enough?!!! :D

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/132/414932269_265c207ee2.jpg?v=0

[bykimbo]

Happy to be part of the Kernow club, even if I am only a recent import. :D

[cornishmaid1961]

Happy to be part of the Kernow club, even if I am only a recent import. :D
Don't worry I'm an export!!!
Stowed away on a pasty lorry to get out! :D

[bykimbo]

Oh pasties, yum, don't mention pasties... the shop is much too close. :rolleyes:

[kengillam]

I love Cornish pasties :)

[cornishmaid1961]

I love Cornish pasties :)
Them gotta be proper ones thou' Ken boy! None of your plastic wrapped rubbish you find in the supermarket!

http://www.dshed.net/digitised/imagem/images/LRpasties.jpg

The original Cornish pasties for the miners had savoury filling at one end and jam at the other for pudding ! The crust was shaped like that around the side for the miners to hold with their dirty hands and be thrown away afterwards. Little Cornish history lesson for you! :D

[bykimbo]

My local pasty shop is wonderful, and is apparently now a small chain that started here in the village (Mevagissey). I've checked for you, and they have a branch in Winchester, so you've no excuse. ;) http://www.pastypresto.com/shops.htm Incidentally, I moved here from Hampshire - used to live in Lymington, which bit are you in? Earlier this week I bought some postcards from somebody in Leighton Buzzard, where I was brought up and went to school... Ebid seems determined to prove it's a small world. :D

[bykimbo]

The same idea developed all over the country. Where I was brought up the same meat/jam pasty was called a Bedfordshire Clanger, and was for the men working the fields. But my favourite local food was the Dunstable Doughnut... small round doughnuts with spiced sugar dusting, sold in bakers' dozens. Slurp!

[kengillam]

I'm just outside Portsmouth so Winchester isn't that far. Know Lymington as I've sailed from there, back in my comepetetive days ;)

[bykimbo]

I learned to sail in that part of the world, despite living in Bedfordshire at the time... not a lot of yachting in the home counties, it's a bit land-locked. ;)

I'd been to Lymington several times by land, before I realised it was the same place I'd visited by boat... it looks so different from the water! You can tell I wasn't a navigator. ;)

[kengillam]

I see, bit like the Navy Lark...... left hand down a bit No 1 :D

[cornishmaid1961]

Bet those doughnuts would sell well on ebid with our lot here on the forums. Always fighting over food !!! :D