My display is simillar to Grazie & Peter Wright.
IE6 on Win2K

I've seen what Grazie is seeing on his systems and it's a mess.

Whatever is happening SOMETHING has changed.

I've tried it on two machines, one IE7 under XP and this one with IE6 under Win2K. Both are perfect. NO, perhaps they're too perfect. I wasn't joking or being trite before when I said it's now working better than it ever has. I mean it's probably at least an order of magnitude faster. In fact I'd say it's the FASTEST website I've been to apart from my ISP's home site.

I know precious little about web sites but I wouldn't be surprised if the whole site had been hijacked and is now running on some uber fast box plugged straight into a major backbone.

Whatever it is someone needs to look into this more seriously. Not wanting to be an alarmist here but it could be something nasty going on.

Bob.

Ah! Got it now Pete.

Yeah! That's exactly it.

Other non-SONY forums are fine: DVinfo - fine DMN - fine COW - fine . .

I needed somebody under my last post to kick it in the pants? Thanks Mahesh!

Grazie

Site speed is now back, but still looks like the screenshot - another strange thing is the text is grey instead of blue, but the screenshot came up blue.

I'm getting something similar to the screenshot above, but all the text is Times New Roman and the formatting is all whacked out. This malformed forum web page thing happened briefly about a week ago, but I didn't think much about it then as it only happened once. Something is seriously wrong.

I'm a Windows XP user, IE 6 and 7 (at work and at home). I'm on this site at least 3 to 5 times per day, and haven't seen any problems at all in the last couple days. Certainly, no formatting problems like pictured above, and overall I think the performance has been pretty good. But maybe it was just luck that I was here at the right times?

Tim L

John, I'm not getting Times but another font that I don't recog? Typing in this edit box is Courier.

Pete's screen grab is exactly what I'm seeing too. Thanks Pete!

John Cline's description of the font issues are the same also. As I move the cursor over the link list, blocks of it disappear.

Yes, Jay, I get that too.

G

I mostly use my W98SE computer with IE6 or Firefox 2 or Opera 9.27 for daily browsing and computing including participation in this forum. I haven't seen the problems described.

I tried it on my other W98SE computer I used to use for editing and didn't see it. I also tried it on my XP Pro SP2 editing computer using the aforementioned three browsers and didn't see it either.

The forum is faster than ever and the search engine works great, but if I saw what Pete and the others are seeing that would be unacceptable.

Something has to be different for some to see it and not others. Maybe we can figure out what it is. For those of you who are seeing this anomaly, is there anything you installed recently or "updated" recently that could be possibly causing this?

John

John,
I'm in the same boat as you. I've now tried it on all 4 PCs at home, a mixed bag of OSs and versions of IE, even my wife's laptop which is probably infected with all manner of things. All work perfectly.
Just to be clear, the speed increase I'm seeing is compared to how this forum was this morning and how it is now. looking at when the problems started to be reported and when I've noticed the speed boost it would seem very likely there's a correlation.

Forum Admin are saying they're not seeing anything wrong either.
It'd be nice if they said for certain nothing has been changed..or has. Certainly from my end something has changed, for the better but the only way that can happen is if something has changed??

Bob.

"For those of you who are seeing this anomaly, is there anything you installed recently or "updated" recently that could be possibly causing this?"

John, in order for this to be the case, we, those who are seeing this, would have to have the same systems with the same programs and have installed the same updates at the same time. Impossible!

I'm seeing this on two totally different computers with different set ups.

Jay,
If that is the case then Bob is right; it would be nice if the Forum Admin. actually stated that they made absolutely no changes at the time when you first noticed this problem.

John

It could be the connection, that's a long shot but it's the one thing that would explain this, how I haven't a clue.

All the packets to my home go through the one ISP and generally pretty much along the same route to the forum server.
What if this is some uber subtle screwup in a backbone router?
Maybe packets are being routed differently.
This would fit the 'some have it on every PC and some have it on none' case. Note that no one so far has it on some PCs and not on others. It'd also explain the sudden speed boost some of us are seeing.

Bob.

The thing that I find puzzling is that the problem is so wide spread around the world.

No doubt(?) Sony changed something on their end.

I have just tried my edit-pc.
IE6 on XP pro
The forum display is fine.

So to recap,
I see the weird display on my IE6 running win2k but it's normal on IE6 running XP Pro.

Weird. Not a programmer, but I think there is a chunk of code that's screwing up on some OS.

My guess is a broken master page or css page link. It's possible some of you have a cached page that doesnt' show the problem. Clear you temporary file cache and see if it is a mess after that.

Well, it's back to normal now - usual font, usual colours, usual headers - perhaps it was all an international bad dream?

POUffe!!! And SazamAlaKAzam! Zee Greet Vegastrion Puuerforms 'is Global Magic . .. and back to normal . ..


... breath out . . and reeeelax . ..

Now, what was all THAT about?

G

I think Sony did it on purpose just to see how long the reaction thread would be.. ;-)

Rob

.............an international bad dream
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LOL. I love it.
(I could add to that category, but i'll stifle it).

John

Actually, I just got an e-mail from Sony (Kevin). He said he found the problem (I don't know what it was), and he put a temporary fix in place while working on a "permanent solution."