After a year or so of getting at least average performance from this site, recently it has gone back to the old standard of copy every post before you hit submit because the site will time out or get a “server busy” message for minutes at a time and you’ll lose your input. Is anyone else experiencing this?
(Copies OP before hitting “submit.”)
Yes, it’s been really bad the last few days.
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I’ve also noticed this.
The board has been loading really, really slow for a few days now, whether it’s posting or just clicking a new topic.
THIS.
Zillions, but seriously, what’s the point in complaining?
(I have, also, taught myself to copy every reply post as it’s better than even odds it will disappear into space. Sigh.)
They must know it’s renewal time. Seriously, what are they thinking?
(One day, I’m convinced that there will be a course about this odd and baffling business model, taught in Business Schools throughout the land. Loyal customers, begging for merchandise, denied, volunteer services, denied, offer suggestions, shut down, continue paying for services that are often seriously compromised, complaints, ignored and unaddressed. Shockingly remaining up an running for 10+ yrs, not shockingly, hardly profitable. People’s heads will explode, can’t you just picture it? If it wasn’t so sad it’d be truly laughable.)
THAT.
So… the future we all want to buy is a board that’s broken? I fail to see the relevance of this article.
I was just curious, you know, with the board running as slow and unsteadily as a drunkard on rolling skates, and that.
Or is it just my shitty internetz again?
If it’s yer shitty internetz, you must be in my house somewhere because I’m having the same problems.
I’ve merged ivan astikov’s thread with Cat Whisperer’s, since they’re about the same problems. We’re aware of the situation, some of the staff (including me) have been experiencing the same problem the last few days. I’ve asked an admin to weigh in.
Is this the part you meant?
No? Then what was your point again?
Yeah, I’ve noticed a general slow down and a few double posts and such (check out the GameRoom’s D&D thread for a good example of like 3 double posts in a row).
Just some general kinks lately.
I wouldn’t bother if it was just sporadic, but it’s happening fairly regularly all of a sudden.
I have excellent internetz - I had it checked. 
elbows, will you kindly chill and stop making assumptions? This is every bit as frustrating for me as it is for you. Our hosting service has been reconfiguring one of the other sites on our corporate server cluster for the past week or so. Apparently they’ve been parking some files temporarily with us and using up our disk allocation in the process. They’ve put two fixes in place so far that haven’t worked. Files have disappeared, the column archive search function is broken, and I can’t get into the server at least half the time. In short, I’m well aware of the problem and would appreciate your fricking goddamn patience. Sorry to be snappish, but this has not been a good day.
{{Ed Zotti}}
Ed,
Thanks so much! Sorry for the frustration. I’m just glad to know that it’s not just my system–would hate to have to buy a brand-new computer just to access the archives, but it would be worth it.
No prob, sorry to let my irritation show. They’re supposed to be done with this interminable project tomorrow but we’ll see.
Ah, it’s good to know that there’s a known reason for the odd behavior. Perhaps the missing files will magically reappear somewhere else in the system, once things quiet down a bit.