Intermittent error loading all PA artist pages
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Printed Date: February 21 2025 at 02:33
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Topic: Intermittent error loading all PA artist pages
Posted By: yam yam
Subject: Intermittent error loading all PA artist pages
Date Posted: February 15 2025 at 11:23
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I've been getting intermittent errors loading PA artist pages for about the last hour or so, the main error being: Microsoft VBScript compilation error '800a0401' Expected end of statement /Progressive_rock_discography_includes/inc_webstorelinks.asp, line 74 end if amazonMusicCountryLink <> "" then -------^ Earlier I also had the error: Microsoft VBScript compilation error '800a03ea' Syntax error /Progressive_rock_discography_includes/inc_webstorelinks.asp, line 35 Case "AI","AG","AR","AW","BS","BB","BZ","BM","BO","BR",,"KY","CL","CO","CR","CU","CW","DM","DO","EC","SV","FK","GF","GD","GP","GT","GY","HT","HN","JM","MX","MS","NI","PA","PY","PE","PR","KN","LC","VC","TT","TC","US","UY","VE","VG","VI" -------------------------------------------------------^ The errors are intermittent, but seem to affect all PA artist pages during the short time that they persist. |
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Posted By: Easy Money
Date Posted: February 15 2025 at 15:04
| I contacted Max, a similar thing is happening on his other sites. |
Posted By: Easy Money
Date Posted: February 15 2025 at 15:48
| It should be okay now, check and see. |
Posted By: yam yam
Date Posted: February 15 2025 at 16:09
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^ Yes, it's been fine for about the last hour. I realise that M@X has been tweaking one or two things with the site over recent days, so I guess the odd bug here and there was only to be expected. I just posted here earlier today for the purpose of making a record of the error messages that were being displayed, since someone more computer savvy than myself might know what they actually meant!
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: February 15 2025 at 16:41
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My one issue is the enlarged artist photos are blurry. ------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |
Posted By: yam yam
Date Posted: February 15 2025 at 17:49
| ^ That depends really on the source material. As long as a decent, non blurry image of reasonable dimensions (>500px) was uploaded to begin with, then it shouldn't suffer from having an enlarged thumbnail displayed. If the original upload was only a tiny, low res photo though, then yes, the image on the artist's page is going to look crap after being enlarged. |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: February 15 2025 at 18:07
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^ Many were originally sourced with smaller images and some are major artists--- ELP, Yes, Tull, Holdsworth, all are now over-enlarged and blurred, not to mention tons of others. It's an unfortunate byproduct of the new format and if PA is to remain a world-class site, either the images will have to be replaced or resized, assuming the new format stays. It's a big issue that must be addressed. ------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |
Posted By: yam yam
Date Posted: February 15 2025 at 18:53
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^ Of those artists you mention, only the Allan Holdsworth image has been noticeably upscaled, and thus made significantly more blurry than than the https://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_band/AllanHoldsworth.jpg" rel="nofollow - original upload . The Yes and ELP images have been slightly enlarged, and thus are marginally more blurry than the originals, but the Jethro Tull image is no smaller, or more blurry than the original upload. I think all but the Allan Holdsworth image are more or less acceptable even after being slightly enlarged really. But yes, there are some naff artist images floating about on here, so I guess we could open a new dedicated thread where cases of inadequate artist images could be reported, and suggested replacements posted, or just get folks to post them in this existing thread: https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=36282" rel="nofollow - https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=36282 for the E&O team to deal with them.
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: February 15 2025 at 19:14
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^ If unfocused images are acceptable, then sure, I guess. It's just not a great look. And frankly most of the new sizings are unnecessarily large, even if defined or not. But if people are okay with that, then so be it. ------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |
Posted By: yam yam
Date Posted: February 15 2025 at 20:12
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Atavachron wrote:Posted By: yam yam
Date Posted: February 15 2025 at 20:32
How about this for a better Allan Holdsworth pic?
 Full size image is 1440x1987, and can be viewed https://bostonglobe-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/G6OSGMBGG4I6PJX5ZGP7KTE43I.jpg?auth=4850508a9d2d76decc3cc7d01a0b7d7ea46707a2d8b1532edf8106f04d1ae2ef&width=1440" rel="nofollow - here . It's an AVIF image though, and would ned to be converted to JPG or PNG before it could be used.
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Posted By: yam yam
Date Posted: February 15 2025 at 20:42
Emerson Lake & Palmer: Full size (1200x1200) is https://cdn-images.dzcdn.net/images/artist/c839501d721d4bf43c567fe16a2967e6/1900x1900-000000-80-0-0.jpg" rel="nofollow - here as a JPG.
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: February 15 2025 at 20:48
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^ Those look pretty good--- Maybe try and see how it looks ? ------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |
Posted By: yam yam
Date Posted: February 15 2025 at 21:09
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^ I could easily swap the photos (having first saved the originals in case the change of photo wasn't widely accepted as an improvement), but we're not supposed to alter an artist's profile in any way (even very small changes) without first contacting the genre team. Keishiro posted about this somewhere in the cz. I'll try to find his post.
Edit: https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=118250" rel="nofollow - https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=118250 .
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Posted By: yam yam
Date Posted: February 15 2025 at 22:10
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Here's one I'm tempted to just swap anyway, since it's almost the same image, but in much better quality: https://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=3" rel="nofollow - Abraxas (Poland) : Current image (290x287):  Proposed replacement image:  Full size version (700x700) https://r2.theaudiodb.com/images/media/artist/thumb/v1pnya1645013339.jpg" rel="nofollow - here .
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: February 15 2025 at 22:33
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Thank you for your efforts. I guess we'll see how it plays. ------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |
Posted By: yam yam
Date Posted: February 15 2025 at 22:45
| ^ Yep, I guess very few of the collabs who were involved in getting this baby up and running back in the early days still visit the site at all, never mind regularly, so we can hardly ask them for permission to make these sort of changes. Eugene of the E&O team is one of them though, and hopefully he will spot this thread and have some input to add to it. |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: February 15 2025 at 23:18
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I'm always open to an artist's photo I've added being updated, and I've added quite a few. There were times when I was lucky to find some dim, tiny old image after scouring the web. If someone finds a better one, I say have at it. ------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |