This Ning site...

This is driving me bonkers, but as of the last two weeks this site has been loading in pseudo-text based mode with most of the graphics and images not loading.

It's the same problem for IE or Chrome.

Is this just my office network connection speed? (In otherwords, my problem?)

I SWEAR I didn't change nothin... argh.

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Permalink Reply by Arthur Mamou-Mani on April 4, 2011 at 3:50pm

Hey Taz,

I had the same problem and found out it was related to my office's firewall.

We got rid of any ban related to social websites and it worked again...

I can even use facebook now, got them !!! :)

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on April 4, 2011 at 4:14pm

What's odd is I use Chrome both at home and work. Work has been fine but home has been screwed up as in Taz's screen shot. I haven't changed anything at home and I'm the network administrator. :)

Permalink Reply by Pieter Segeren on April 4, 2011 at 3:53pm

Hi Taz, i guess you have disabled the stylesheet (css) somehow. With Firefox with webdeveloper add-on I disable styles by hitting Ctrl+Shift+S...

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on April 4, 2011 at 4:57pm

Since you're using Chrome, goto Options, Under the Bonnet, Clear Browsing Data. That has helped me in the past when certain sites would no longer load or load weirdly.

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by taz on April 4, 2011 at 8:23pm

I can't even see who I'm directly replying to, but thanks all for the suggestions!

The Chrome option to "obliterate the following items from the beginning of time" hasn't work.

Social network sites (like Facebook) have always been banned, but Ning sites haven't (yet) been flagged so I don't think it's a permission issue.

I can't disable the firewall or tweak the setting to see if that's the problem (unless I get IT to do the testing).

I think there was a recent switch from Norton to Symantec virus protection so that could be it, but (again) I can't tweak the settings.

I'll send out an internal company message and see if anyone has ideas.

Thanks again.

Permalink Reply by taz on April 8, 2011 at 10:41am

It's a firewall issue (probably) since our firewall was apparently "updated" recently.

See ya'll after I can get somebody to fix this for me, which may not be anytime soon...

Permalink Reply by Scott Davidson on April 8, 2011 at 10:55am

Taz -

It sounds like the firewall is blocking these addresses:

"api.ning.com" and/or "static.ning.com"

Is there a way they can allow those?

Permalink Reply by taz on April 8, 2011 at 7:36pm

Hi Scott,

I'm going through the appropriate channels so someone in the UK can (hopefully) flip a switch and allow the Ning to flow again.

I shall return!

Permalink Reply by taz on April 15, 2011 at 11:50am

...and we're back!

Did I miss anything?

Oh wait, I'm 2 releases behind already...

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on April 15, 2011 at 11:55am

By my reckoning you've missed about 300 posting opportunities ;)

Permalink Reply by taz on April 15, 2011 at 3:02pm

Thanks Danny, I'm sure you picked up the slack while I was away on my forced hiatus...

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on April 15, 2011 at 3:50pm

Did you get a chance to look into the PM I sent you about fancywires.com?

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