Beer Reviews Timing Out

Yes, I've had the "timed out" recently as well. You don't have to do anything other than just hit "submit" again and it will go through.

 

I believe I got the same error several times on July 21st. The dialog box was from the BA site, not the standard http error. Hitting submit again always worked

 

This happened to me a few times and the problem was fixed by hitting refresh or submit a second time. Finally I learned to type faster.

 

I've noticed it occasionally, but it's affected my every attempt today. I go to review a beer (which takes some time), and hit "save."

I get an alert box saying "timeout." I happen to be smart enough to know what I think that means, but dumb enough to not know why. I even tried to save mid-review last one and got the message. I do have multiple tabs/windows open, but is there a reason this is happening more and more often?

Luckily I don't lose my reviews and can copy/paste on error, but it's a pain.

Edit: sorry, I tried a search. Thanks for merging, this is the perfect existing topic!!

 

This happened to me each time that I rated 4 places this morning. It pops up when I click 'Submit' but I close the error window and hit submit again and it goes. There was no long time period involved, just 30 seconds or so to input the numbers.

 

Your photo is not visible here. Photobucket policy has changed and they no longer provide for free third party viewing.

 

That's interesting because I can see it, but thanks for the heads-up. I'll get another third-party site involved and re-post the screenshot in a few minutes. I'm happy to be leaving Photobucket. I've never seen so many pop-up ads!

Now I can't get an image to link here from Imgur. Anyone know how to make that site work?

 

Check the site talk threads and other. There's been a fair amount of discussion of what some are doing to make the change.

 

This might answer your question.

https://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/posting-pictures-in-the-forum.527553/#post-5555050

 

I had found that thread also and it was helpful. Thanks. I don't know why I couldn't find the Direct Link earlier, but maybe Imgur has a waiting period that passed while I was reviewing that thread.

Is the pic visible now?

 

No pic showing in this post.

The one above is showing error message about timing out.

 

So you can see it.

 

I was happy enough when I saw the pic in the post on my end that I didn't want to take a chance to add text to that post! That was probably my 10th attempt at getting something posted using all kinds of links until I waited long enough for the photo to process thru the imgur system. Thanks for your help.

@Todd - FYI above

 

This is by design, however, it was not working as intended. By default your web browser will wait forever for a request to be completed. This meant that if there were a problem with the connection somewhere between your device and the BA server the request would just get stuck indefinitely.

@Todd and I discussed this and decided to implement a timeout. The timeout makes it so that if your request does not complete in a certain amount of time it will be cancelled and you are notified to try again. This is a much better solution than waiting indefinitely.

The timeout had been set to occur too quickly which could have caused a timeout to occur even when there wasn't a connection problem. I have increased the amount of time before a timeout occurs to 10 seconds. This should resolve the issues mentioned here but it is still possible to experience a timeout if there is a legitimate connection problem and a request takes longer than 10 seconds to be completed.

You may have to clear your browser history/cache for new settings to take effect.