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Technical Issues & Fixes

By Staff

Community News Blog: The latest report about the known issues and fixes on the site.

We have been doing even further maintenance and issue investigations lately.

Resolved Technical Issues

To get you up to speed, the following issues are now resolved.

- Forum or union flooding errors
- User review not displaying immediately
- User images no longer displaying
- Harsh points loss when encountering a suspension.

Targeted Technical Issues


The following bugs may be resolved soon, but some need a little more testing.

- Fuse taking a while to load. We're moving Fuse to another server. With the amount of data that needs to be moved over, we hope to see GameSpot Fuse back online Wednesday at 1 p.m. PT at the latest.

- Cannot change Password. While this issue is being worked on, check out gmax's automated solution in this topic.

- RSS Feed Repeating. We think we figured out the problem for this issue related to international feeds, but we will need a little more testing to make sure things are displaying as intended.

- Settings Issues. For the time being, please use your Fuse settings until we can resolve the old settings issue.

Further Investigation Required

- Server error messages. We have multiple technical staff members working on a solution to the server errors, but it's taking a little more time than we thought. If you encounter these problems, please refresh the page. If the problem persists, let us know in the technical support forum.

- PC game download data missing. Please report any files you notice missing on the site in this topic.

- Misleading Search Results. We're looking into a variety of search issues you've all reported, including a way to search blogs. More information to follow at a later time.

If you have a technical issue on the site, please post it in the technical support forum. Include as much information as you can, such as the error message, your browser information, the webpage where you found the content, and a screenshot if possible.

The GameSpot staff would like to thank everyone for their messages in a recent discussion involving our plans to rebuild the site. We're working to make the new GameSpot, and we cannot wait to share more news about the changes later this year.

25 comments
WhiteKnight77
WhiteKnight77

This website is getting worse and worse. While issues are supposedly getting fixed, it appears that those same issues are getting worse by the day. I posted pictures of it in the Tech Support forum and yet nothing has been acknowledged by any GS staff.

In the past, I may have experienced just the Bonk! error, I am now getting the 504 errors too and on a regular basis and seemingly more often than I would get Bonk!.

 

It is beyond ridiculous as to how this website is running and seriously needs to be repaired or completely rebuilt. I know I am not the only one wanting fixes made nor am I the only one that appears to not want to visit it, even with the new ways to level up.

GazaAli
GazaAli

I dunno really, it seems to me that GameSpot is outright a legacy system. You can keep fixing bugs and glitches, but eventually you will have to move to something entirely new, right from scratches.

gbrading
gbrading moderator moderator

I'd love to see this "working" blog comments counter myself. ;)

JodyR
JodyR moderator moderatorstaff

 @gbrading A portion of that got resolved. Go to a blog on your profile and you'll see both numbers are working now. However, they need to fix the counter for the "front" profile page comments listing. That's being worked on.  

JodyR
JodyR moderator moderatorstaff like.author.displayName 1 Like

woohoo! The blog comments counter is working! 

Bozanimal
Bozanimal ranger

 @JodyR Mine is still zero! :cry:

JodyR
JodyR moderator moderatorstaff like.author.displayName 1 Like

 @Bozanimal but, if you go to your actual blog url, that part is working. I let them know about the "profile" front page counter needing to be fixed.

Bozanimal
Bozanimal ranger

 @JodyR

Ah, I was looking at my Profile page. I see the counter, now.

2ndWonder
2ndWonder ranger

 @JodyR That's great news. This was questioned by a lot of users as to when it will get fixed. Glad we won't have to see that big "0" for blog comments anymore.

g1rldraco7
g1rldraco7

A new GameSpot? I hope they don't lay off anyone, I love all the editors they have today :)

Allicrombie
Allicrombie moderator moderator like.author.displayName 1 Like

people are having issues??  Hogwash, I say!

game-ster23
game-ster23

Glad to hear that the issues here are getting fixed.

Avenger1324
Avenger1324

Thanks for the update - keep up the good work :)

fend_oblivion
fend_oblivion ranger

Wish the FUSE synching glitch would get fixed :(

starduke
starduke like.author.displayName 1 Like

Well, I say, you should unfix the comment system. The old one was a lot better.

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Bozanimal
Bozanimal ranger like.author.displayName like.author.displayName like.author.displayName 3 Like

Keep at it, Gamespot; we'll get there together- some day.

g1rldraco7
g1rldraco7

Take your time resolving these issues, rushing doesn't help much.

DeadMan1290
DeadMan1290

Hope you can resolve forum issues quickly. It's quiet annoying....

thom_maytees
thom_maytees

I just pray that all the major issues are fixed as I am beginning to get impatient. I also pray that there should be no more new problems that come as a result of these fixes.

tmaclabi
tmaclabi ranger

Thanks for the update!

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