Image Hotlinking / Comment Editing

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Posted on October 11th, 2009 in Misc

As you may have noticed, VirtualR had a short outage last afternoon. The problem wasn’t some glitch with the server but a complete overload of traffic, caused by hotlinked images from the Forza Motorsport 3 car gallery story that had been posted in several very popular forums.

Because of these problems, I´ve decided to temporarily disable image hotlinking until the traffic from those sources eases off. What does that mean for you? This doesn’t affect regular visitors, all it does is prevent users from posting images hosted on VirtualR on forums or other sites. You can still post links to images hosted on VirtualR but you can’t place them between [img] tags to have them load automatically as this creates a lot of traffic if images are posted in popular forums.

I´m sorry for any inconvenience this is causing but the first and foremost goal is to keep the site accessible.

Another thing: Many commenters have complained that they can’t use the comment editing feature anymore while others can use it fine – Including me. This seems to be a problem related to the latest system update, I think I´ve fixed what caused it but have no way to check since I didn’t have the problem to begin with.

So, if you´re reading this, please check if it’s working and leave a short comment. If it does not work for you, I´d appreciate if you could leave your browser version too so I can further investigate this issue. Thanks for your help and again, apologies for the inconvenience.

25 Comments For This Post

Siggs
October 11th, 2009 at 19:27

Inb4 website collapse? :D

Joking man, also, this is edited in, seems to be all good here :)
.
JGoenR
October 11th, 2009 at 19:44

TEST!
carbonfibre
October 11th, 2009 at 19:46

Testing
eddiespag
October 11th, 2009 at 19:54

Everyone wants a ‘piece’ of you. Job well done on this site then!
carbonfibre
October 11th, 2009 at 19:59

Editing still broken.

btw, I would just disable hotlinking indefinitely. This site is only getting more and more popular anyway, and it already ain’t as snappy as it used to be.
JGoenR
October 11th, 2009 at 20:16

EDIT function still not working.
TomHolland
October 11th, 2009 at 20:26

After I login I have to refresh the page to see the comment box.
F1Racer
October 11th, 2009 at 21:36

Checked a recent post of mine and still cannot edit (using Firefox 3.5.3, but it works with IEtab addon or Internet Explorer).
Montoya
October 11th, 2009 at 21:54

So it works with one browser and not with another? Very weird…

I´ll look into this, until then the edit feature will be unavailable for some I´m afraid….
Aleksi Elomaa
October 11th, 2009 at 21:54

editingg testtt
Aleksi Elomaa
October 11th, 2009 at 21:55

doesn’t work (Opera 10)
F1Racer
October 11th, 2009 at 22:15

Montoya: So it works with one browser and not with another? Very weird…I´ll look into this, until then the edit feature will be unavailable for some I´m afraid….

firefox users can of course get the IE Tab addon and add virtualr.net to it so that Firefox uses the IE engine when it loads the page.
msater
October 11th, 2009 at 22:33

Testing
EDIT: It worked :) Using Google Chrome
triskele10
October 11th, 2009 at 22:58

Hi People
triskele10
October 11th, 2009 at 23:01

Doesnt work with iPhone safari
DeadStar
October 11th, 2009 at 23:21

Testing
DeadStar
October 11th, 2009 at 23:23

Edit still does not work with my Firefox
ermax18
October 12th, 2009 at 02:00

Test
vali
October 12th, 2009 at 02:15

Doesnt work with FF 3.0.14
Gerdoner
October 12th, 2009 at 03:21

Test
Gerdoner
October 12th, 2009 at 03:22

Can’t edit it with Opera 10.
And my avatar isn’t shown either, although it works on other websites with the same email address… weird
ForzaBarca88
October 12th, 2009 at 09:38

Nope, editing not working with firefox 3.5.3 for me.
All good, I’ll just have to practice the ancient art of proofreading
F1Racer
October 13th, 2009 at 00:51

..or get the ‘IE Tab’ add-on as I mentioned earlier
spliff
October 14th, 2009 at 18:33

this is a test-comment. (firefox 3.5.3)
spliff
October 14th, 2009 at 18:34

result:
no edit-option for me, too.

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