The title pretty much says it all. For a decade, I've been waking up each morning and loading all the stories I'm following in tabs. Yesterday, I started getting "Too Many Concurrent Connections" errors that can't be cleared by refreshing a page.
What's going on?
Check out this thread: https://storiesonline.net/d/s1/t505/big-change-to-the-site, the last dozen or so posts are about this.
To add to Keet's post, a TL;DR - you now need to leave a gap of 20s between accessing one story and accessing another. In your case it sounds like you are ctrl-clicking on multiple stories, which will trigger this lockout. Furthermore, going through the tabs and hitting refresh will also trigger this; you need to leave a clear 20s between site accesses to different stories, so just hit refresh on a tab with this error after you've read the previous story (unless you are an ultra-speed reader who can consume a story page in under 20s, in which case you'll have to slow down a tad).
https://storiesonline.net/h/66/too-many-concurrent-accesses-error
I added some code to mitigate this issue. It shouldn't be as bad anymore as the page will reload itself after an interval and this will help those who open too many tabs sequentially.
I have one tab only. I get the message when I click on a link in a forum post.
Ian
The only way to get it from the forum is if you click on at least two links from a forum post to two different stories in under 20 seconds.
I would suggest you not be too much in a hurry like that.
I get it on my first click on a link. But only if I haven't logged in yet.
Ian
Because the URL is not rewritten, where it catches me - marking as visited on one computer/browser, stories I've accessed on another, which I typically do as ctrl-click as fast as I can get the mouse pointer to the next story on the 'stories accessed today' page - still works as I intend, i.e. the link is marked visited.
I added some code to mitigate this issue. It shouldn't be as bad anymore as the page will reload itself after an interval and this will help those who open too many tabs sequentially.
I'd rather have it static or configurable (user choice reload or don't), as 100 tabs all retrying would take over half an hour to settle out. It's quite amusing to watch a whole row of tabs where random ones do a reload and refail, like a browser version of twinkling xmas-tree lights
I'd rather have it static or configurable
Too much code/data for something that 99% of users won't ever care about.
Too much code/data for something that 99% of users won't ever care about.
Mobile users with a limit on data usage?
Mobile users with a limit on data usage?
How would hitting more than 1 story download per 20 seconds conserve limited data usage?
How would hitting more than 1 story download per 20 seconds conserve limited data usage?
Auto-reloading uses data, the more tabs open, the more data usage while you are not actively using that data. If you click you make a choice, auto-reloading takes away that choice. It's only a problem on metered connections
It's only a problem on metered connections
Those on metered connections shouldn't be opening tabs that they may not read.
It's all a simple matter of adjusting one's behaviour slightly. Instead of opening everything before you read anything, it becomes open as you go.
I'd rather have it static or configurable (user choice reload or don't), as 100 tabs all retrying would take over half an hour to settle out. It's quite amusing to watch a whole row of tabs where random ones do a reload and refail, like a browser version of twinkling xmas-tree lights
If you have over a 100 tabs open you should review your way of browsing. It's not a problem for the computer but a mere human can not keep track of 100+ tabs. That's what bookmarks are for.
On the other hand, mobile users won't be happy with auto-reloading tabs, it uses data that they are not actively using.
If you have over a 100 tabs open you should review your way of browsing.
If it weren't private info, I'd take a picture of one of the other agent's screen. Sixty to seventy tabs across the top, and her entire screen is full of icons from where she's taken screenshots and never placed them into folders.
If it weren't private info, I'd take a picture of one of the other agent's screen. Sixty to seventy tabs across the top, and her entire screen is full of icons from where she's taken screenshots and never placed them into folders.
A good way to completely loose track of everything :D
If you have over a 100 tabs open you should review your way of browsing. It's not a problem for the computer but a mere human can not keep track of 100+ tabs. That's what bookmarks are for.
On the other hand, mobile users won't be happy with auto-reloading tabs, it uses data that they are not actively using.
I use vertical tabs in Firefox and usually have about fifty standard tabs open - pages I access regularly and always want quick at hand. With tabs down the left side, it's very easy. Yes, they're bookmarked, but it's easier just to have them open automatically when I fire up the browser.
If you have over a 100 tabs open you should review your way of browsing. It's not a problem for the computer but a mere human can not keep track of 100+ tabs.
I have multiple workspaces, each being for a separate general purpose (mail, Bash, SOL, etc etc), and have a dozen Firefox windows open across these with about 150 tabs total, most of which are bookmarked, and again themed within the workspaces. However, bookmarks will not retain the position on the page (how far you've read in a story, or which answer on stackexchange you find the most useful) - and, I don't reboot often (currently uptime is 22 days, I've had over 90 days up) nor generally close Firefox - it crashes often enough by itself - but when it restores the tabs, it will often bring me back to the same place on the page. My bookmarks are in a hierarchical tree, but the total number dwarfs the number of tabs; an export of them a year ago (transferring to another machine) is nearly 70MB, because I hadn't found a way to selectively export. And, I use a different browser for pron, so Firefox bookmarks and tabs are not affected by that. I'm definately pushing the capabilities of Firefox, as sometimes I've gone looking for a tab I know I opened only to fail to find it, or have tabs restored after a crash that I know I had previously closed.
I have multiple workspaces, each being for a separate general purpose (mail, Bash, SOL, etc etc), and have a dozen Firefox windows open across these with about 150 tabs total, most of which are bookmarked, and again themed within the workspaces. However, bookmarks will not retain the position on the page (how far you've read in a story, or which answer on stackexchange you find the most useful) - and, I don't reboot often (currently uptime is 22 days, I've had over 90 days up) nor generally close Firefox - it crashes often enough by itself - but when it restores the tabs, it will often bring me back to the same place on the page.
The numbers seem to make things more difficult than they should be. You do seem to have things logically organized so that might allows to make some sense in so many tabs. I used workspaces a lot but nowadays I use separate virtual machines so I can choose which keep running and which I close at night or after usage. Also makes it easy to completely separate them and use the appropriate level of security and encryption. A great way to make a copy once and always start with the original, clean VM. I rarely have more than 10 tabs open and usually no more than two FireFox instances in two different VM's. Everything else is in bookmarks. I do have a lot of bookmarks but like you, organized in the VM where they fit. For example my development VM only has FireFox bookmarks related to development. I can't rely on restoring open tabs after a crash since I have FireFox configured to clean up everything with every restart, which means open tabs aren't saved. I must say it's been a very long time since I had a FF crash but I only use Debian Stable ESR versions so they are a little more reliable.
