4605 Giveaway of the Day Forums » User Favorites: Bigun en-US Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:24:28 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/search.php http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6220/page/2#post-65134 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:47:44 +0000 HappyPerson 65134@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Not a problem, GMON.....with all of the forums, topics, and discussions, it can make anyone&#39;s eyes dizzy - you&#39;re in good company, for sure.</p> <p>Best,<br /> Happy </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6220/page/2#post-65057 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:11:14 +0000 gmon 65057@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>It finally worked for me last night just in time to grab the Paragon GOTD, yaay!! :D<br /> I didn&#39;t see this thread or I wouldn&#39;t have started a new one, guess I need to get bigger eyes. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6220/page/2#post-65041 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 01:47:34 +0000 Whiterabbit-uk 65041@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Yeah, it&#39;s working for me too. Pity I&#39;ve missed the last weeks giveaways. I missed Driver Magician last time as well, so was a little disappointed at not getting that one. Still, if i really wanted it I should purchase it; but I prefer to buy games, lol.</p> <p>Thanks for the heads up on the fix Happy. I ouldn&#39;t have bothered with todays if I hadn&#39;t read your post. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6220/page/2#post-65030 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:33:27 +0000 HappyPerson 65030@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hi again everyone, the 502 problem appears to have been fixed (yippeee!)<br /> I clicked on the &quot;download link&quot; and everything popped up like a charm.<br /> I feel like celebrating by doing cartwheels, backflips, and somersaults.<br /> You see, simple things in life make me Happy (get it?) Happy...as in Happy Person :)</p> <p>Best,<br /> Happy </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6220#post-64994 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:11:49 +0000 RDurbin 64994@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I had received the 502 Error code also. After looking through the forum for an answer, I tried some troubleshooting of my own. I went through my &quot;cookies&quot; list on my browser (Google Chrome)and deleted the ones for Giveawayoftheday. Knowing they regenerate themselves when you log on again. Use the &#39;Options&#39; command to find the right section in your settings.</p> <p>I restarted my browser, went to the giveaway for the day and it worked. Not sure what changed from before, but now I can download giveaways again. Hope this helps! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6220#post-64988 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 06:32:59 +0000 Jim0622 64988@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Thank you all for posting this Error 502.<br /> I have had the Error for the past 2 weeks<br /> I can not download or add a comment about the software.<br /> I thought I was the only one who had this problem.<br /> I posted my concern a long time ago and never got an answer form the staff about it.<br /> I don&#39;t know whats going on with the team at GAOTD but a lot more users have this problems than they think. Plus they have to know about it. I&#39;m sure they have computers at their homes, like us.<br /> Why they are not addressing it. ( who knows why, but it&#39;s not good. Maybe they have a new secret 007 virus on their server or something). </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6220#post-64968 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:31:46 +0000 notblocklox 64968@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Meanwhile we have 3 threads to this topic. </p> <p>These two are closed:</p> <p><a href="http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6259#post-64967">Am I the only one still getting bad gateway and try again later?</a><br /> <a href="http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6227">Error 502 Bad Gateway</a> </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6220#post-64830 Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:49:35 +0000 Whiterabbit-uk 64830@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I&#39;ve not been able to access any giveaways for two days now. Initially it was intermittent, but now everytime I try to download from the promary or mirror links I get a 502 error. anyone any idea&#39;s?</p> <p>WR </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6220#post-64797 Sun, 27 Sep 2009 13:57:58 +0000 Robert 64797@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Some reported changing to another country once in a while (changing flags on top of the main page.LOL) and use the download link from there helped.<br /> I suppose there&#39;s no logic in that except of course if it&#39;s a browser&#39;s cache problem. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6220#post-64793 Sun, 27 Sep 2009 13:43:53 +0000 HappyPerson 64793@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Thank you, Wizzard and Graylox, these links are very helpful.</p> <p>Best,<br /> Happy </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6220#post-64785 Sun, 27 Sep 2009 12:48:18 +0000 notblocklox 64785@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>or just send a PM to : &quot;admin&quot; : <a href="http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/profile/1" rel="nofollow">http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/profile/1</a> </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6220#post-64784 Sun, 27 Sep 2009 12:37:40 +0000 wizzard_of_ozz2004 64784@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>You can find that page here happy:</p> <p><a href="http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/about/contact/" rel="nofollow">http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/about/contact/</a> </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6220#post-64781 Sun, 27 Sep 2009 12:07:05 +0000 HappyPerson 64781@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hi Wizzard,</p> <p>How do we e-mail the company? I don&#39;t see any contact information posted.</p> <p>Thanks,<br /> Happy </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6220#post-64779 Sun, 27 Sep 2009 11:57:49 +0000 notblocklox 64779@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Me too - no problems <strong>:)</strong> </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6220#post-64777 Sun, 27 Sep 2009 11:47:34 +0000 wizzard_of_ozz2004 64777@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Happy, I think what Bubby was saying is that while the company should be aware that as many people as possible are having this problem, they should be e-mailing the company instead of flooding the forums with their &quot;me too&quot; posts. I also think he&#39;s eluding to the fact that &quot;me too&quot; posts add nothing to the discussion. I guess it&#39;s kind of like those comments you see on the giveaway page where they add nothing to the discussion except &quot;I can&#39;t get this to activate either.&quot; It&#39;s annoying and frustrating. I myself deleted two separately started threads yesterday that people felt they needed to open a new one just to say &quot;me too.&quot; By now, I&#39;m sure that GOTD is aware of the problem and are working on fixing it.</p> <p>By the way I can&#39;t add to the discussion as I&#39;ve not had any problems downloading. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6220#post-64775 Sun, 27 Sep 2009 11:24:19 +0000 HappyPerson 64775@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Notblocklox,</p> <p>We are all members of GOTD, correct? Very plain and simple. Free membership is still membership - so what I am saying is that if these technical glitches do not get resolved soon, many members may no longer wish to visit the GOTD site.</p> <p>Also, given that the GOTD team has not posted this problem in its &quot;blog&quot; section, this is what made me say that I hope GOTD managers take our comments to heart. All other past glitches (I believe)were posted in GOTD&#39;s blog section, so why not this one?</p> <p>Bubby, as one of the GOTD administrators of this forum, you should be encouraging GOTD members to report their &quot;error/glitch/inaccessiblity findings,&quot; instead of discouraging folks to do so. For, the more people who report these prevalent/pervasive glitch issues, this will be helpful to the GOTD team, and to other members also.</p> <p>Moreover,the problem is not intermittent - it is constant and it is happening on a daily basis-and this is why I don&#39;t understand why GOTD does not post this on its blog.</p> <p>Also, the problem appears to occur only on the U.S.-English site. Why? </p> <p>In summary - I believe GOTD will benefit by hearing from as many users as possible.</p> <p>That&#39;s just my two-cents-worth on the subject. </p> <p>Best,<br /> Happy </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6220#post-64709 Sat, 26 Sep 2009 10:19:06 +0000 BuBBy 64709@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I&#39;m yet to have any 502 errors, and I understand how frustrating it must be for those who do get them.</p> <p>The problem does seem to be intermittent - and I am quite sure that the GOTD team know about the errors. Future &#39;me too&#39; posts that bring us no closer to a solution really doesn&#39;t help anyone (except perhaps the individual who just wants to &#39;let us know&#39;).</p> <p>But we do. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6220#post-64707 Sat, 26 Sep 2009 09:21:45 +0000 notblocklox 64707@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Thanks <strong>Robert</strong>, I&#39;m not really worried about the 502 thingie and even less about the output of the error console. At this moment the console is showing tens of &quot;errors&quot; or warnings about several sites though I never had any problems surfing.<br /> I had to post that &quot;warning&quot; because I thought it was curious in its nerd language - just wanted to entertain :) </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6220#post-64705 Sat, 26 Sep 2009 08:55:26 +0000 notblocklox 64705@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Come on <strong>Happy</strong> be happy! (<em>sorry, couldn&#39;t resist</em>)<br /> Do you think the &quot;GOTD managers&quot; wouldn&#39;t care? The project is their business, they are doing this for money and that is the best impetus to doing things as good as they can.<br /> BTW which membership are you speaking about? Did I miss something? </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6220#post-64693 Sat, 26 Sep 2009 03:10:40 +0000 GMMan 64693@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>It seems to happen frequently to me these few days. Most of the time the pages don&#39;t load completely, or else it&#39;s a 502. Chances are either the Giveaway IT people are doing something with the site, or else their upgrade had a few bugs. My biggest concern is nginx. I&#39;m not quite sure what it&#39;s used for, but it&#39;s some sort of proxy. Maybe GOTD&#39;s servers aren&#39;t running on the standard http 80 port and uses nginx on an appliance or something for redirection. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6220#post-64672 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:02:35 +0000 winracer 64672@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I get the same error 502 no mater if I use FF or IE, I also tried from 10 different computers at work and all the same error. I also tried at my house same error. I did like the downloads but I am missing them now. Even hard to post comment becasue same error..........hope it get fixed...... </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6220#post-64663 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:04:01 +0000 Robert 64663@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Cluelesslox <img src="http://images.boardhost.com/emoticons/confused.gif"><br /> Your error might be related to the use of the FF add-on Adblock Plus(or another ad blocker).</p> <p>Error 502 could be an overload/failure problem of the Gotd server <a>but</a> it might help clearing your browser cache completely.<br /> (In FF3.5 go to Tools-options-advanced-network-offline storage) </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6220#post-64661 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:39:49 +0000 notblocklox 64661@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I found this in the error console :<br /> <blockquote>Warnung: getBoxObjectFor() sollte nicht mehr verwendet werden, versuchen Sie element.getBoundingClientRect() zu verwenden, wenn möglich.<br /> Quelldatei: <a href="http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/wondershare-mp4-video-converter/" rel="nofollow">http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/wondershare-mp4-video-converter/</a><br /> Zeile: 0</blockquote><br /> <em>my translation: Warning: getBoxObjectFor() should not be used anymore. try to use element.getBoundingClientRect(), if possible.</em></p> <p>Well, I confess, no matter which language - I have no clue :P</p> <p>cluelesslox </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6220#post-64657 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:08:09 +0000 winracer 64657@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Ok when I use Firefox I get same 502 error but when i look at the error console I see this</p> <p>Security Error: Content at <a href="http://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/" rel="nofollow">http://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/</a> may not load data from <a href="http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/wondershare-mp4-video-converter/" rel="nofollow">http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/wondershare-mp4-video-converter/</a>. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6220#post-64650 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:29:44 +0000 HappyPerson 64650@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Given that this problem is occuring for many people, this clearly is a GOTD server issue, especially since we were all able to easily and smoothly access/download/post on GOTD before. I hope GOTD managers take our comments to heart and try to fix the problem soon. Otherwise, GOTD may see declining membership due to these technical &quot;glitches.&quot;</p> <p>Best,<br /> Happy </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6220#post-64643 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:35:34 +0000 notblocklox 64643@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I&#39;m sorry to hear that many users have the 502 problems; and I&#39;m sorry that I can&#39;t help you.<br /> Maybe it&#39;s a regional problem? I am able to download with Firefox and IE, with and without a downloader, from the main source and from the mirror.<br /> I have tried it several times from the English site and the German.<br /> <strong>But</strong> I too get the Bad Gateway <strong>sometimes</strong> when I will give a + or - or a thumbs up. After F5 / refresh it seems that my click was counted.</p> <p>The test-comment I wrote got the error message too, but after F5/refresh it appeared as usual under the comments.<br /> graylox </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6220#post-64641 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:32:46 +0000 Whiterabbit-uk 64641@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I&#39;m still getting the bad gateway 502 message, but only intermitently. I&#39;ve been able to download yesterdays (24th Sept) and today&#39;s (25th Sept) programs. </p> <p>I think I&#39;ll return to firefox again. :) I just never bothered to reinstall it from the last time I reformatted in July.</p> <p>WR </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6220#post-64640 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:16:38 +0000 winracer 64640@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I am not sure why but I have not been able to download a program for a few days now. I get</p> <p>502 Bad Gateway</p> <p>——————————————————————————–</p> <p>nginx/0.5.33</p> <p>I have also tried from different location..</p> <p>does anyone know what is going on?<br /> I can&#39;t dowmload anything and sometime even when I post a comment I get the same error...... </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6220#post-64630 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 06:00:25 +0000 Bigun 64630@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I have no explanation for this phenomena.</p> <p>Using Internet Explorer 7, I repeatedly got the &quot;502, Gateway error&quot; message, that each of you mentioned. I tried downloading today&#39;s offer using Internet Explorer every 3 to 5 minutes for about two hours. I switched to Firefox 3.0.11 and immediately was able to download the GOTD offer. Going back to Internet Explorer, I continued to get the &quot;Gateway&quot; error message.</p> <p>The time of day when the above occurred ran from approximately 3:30 UTC to approximately 5:45 UTC on 25 September 2009. UTC is the abbreviation for Universal Coordinated Time which is very similar (technical differences) to Greenwich Mean Time. I believe that Whiterabbit&#39;s time zone, and the entire UK, are the same as the UTC times quoted. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6220#post-64628 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:57:41 +0000 DiscoveryByte 64628@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>The problem is being faced by me as well. I was unable to download 9-23 and Today&#39;s (9-24) giveaway. Please fix this problem soon. </p>