It seems that not only Osclass Market is creating problems to sites running the script. When Osclass.org is down, our admin crawls.
Today Osclass.org is down (as can you see in the capture) and i'm informed that Osclass admin dashboard is freezing or it is very slow.
Checking also the official Forums at Osclass.org i see several related complaints from users running Osclass for the site. Some report fatal errors also.
It seems that we need now more than ever, to totally get RID of any connections with anything at Osclass.org. Market or Updates or whatever.
I find it totally unprofessional for Osclass.org to create such a problem to everybody. This is the perfect way to totally kill Osclass script.
Actually what happens is the following: When an admin logs in the dashboard for the first time, everything freeze for almost a minute (or longer, i haven't measured the exact duration). Apparently until a "timeout" of some sort happens. I have no idea if this temporary "freeze" happens to users also when visiting the front of the site at the same time. I hope it doesn't.
Now, if you login as admin and just wait 1 or 2 minutes, then everything works almost right.
And this is unacceptable and Osclass guys should be ashamed about it.
Right !
I guess we all have to strip everything related to Osclass.org, Osclass Market and all kind of updates.
And if you are not into editing php files, here are the files ready:
There are 3 options, first a full Osclass 3.8 stripped (for new installations), second only the files to remove Osclass Market and last the files to remove Osclass Market AND updats/ugrades check.
Guys you are wasting your time with Osclass problems and everything. Please see that there is NO reaction to all that, i mean the shutdown of the market, Osclass not beeing updated, the slowness when Osclass.org is down ...
The almost non-existent reactions can only mean one thing: there is NO audience any more. Nobody uses Osclass anymore but a few die-hard people like us. Check their forums, a very few people contribute any more and the reactions are almost zero.
Do not invest much time with all that. Keep Osclass as long as you can and prepare for an alternative script for your site, most probably based on Wordpress and some plugin.
Pitty .....
Well even some years back, when Osclass was blooming, no serious talk was done anywhere. I mean, in the official forums. Just people with problems and bugs, looking for help.
No one ever talked about the future of Osclass, what is missing etc etc. And probably 1-2 people that dared to post something like this, they got no replies or anything.
So it is only natural that no reactions are posted now that Osclass is dying. It seems like nobody cares but a few people. Very few.
On poorly configured hosting you get a error 500 when Osclass.org is down (because of short timeout less than a minute setting) and on proper hosting you just get a freeze for 1 minute or so (until a timeout of 1 minute happens).
I copy the solution suggested below:
1. This is because osclass.org the site is not currently available. But there is a function that checks every day if a new version of the Osclass is available in osclass.org.
check_version_admin_footer In /oc-admin/themes/modern/functions.php 386 line you can comment code
osc_add_hook('admin_footer', 'check_version_admin_footer');This should fix the error. But the Osclass ceases to check for new versions every day. This can be used as a temporary solution.
So what exactly i have to do to fix this ? It is a bit complicated, if you could simplify a little bit ?