# Board acting unstable **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 27, 2009, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-acting-unstable/501164 "2009-06-27T12:41:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2009, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-acting-unstable/501164/1 "2009-06-27T12:41:53Z")
Feels like a prelude to crash- server doesn’t respond. Infrequent thread updates. FYI ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2009, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-acting-unstable/501164/2 "2009-06-27T12:59:07Z")
You said it. For instance, clicking links to latest post in a thread takes you straight there, whereas clicking the link to the forum it’s in gets you nothing but an eventual time out. The main page is fine but the links to individual forums just aren’t responding at all, unless, as I said, you’re hitting a link to a specific post. ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2009, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-acting-unstable/501164/3 "2009-06-27T15:06:12Z")
I’ve been experiencing the same thing, on my laptop and iPod and on different networks too. Sometimes clicking on a link will just make it hang, but clicking a second time goes straight through. It’s rather annoying. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2009, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-acting-unstable/501164/4 "2009-06-27T16:20:26Z")
Not sure what was going on an hour or two hours or more ago but it all seems fine now. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2009, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-acting-unstable/501164/5 "2009-06-28T13:06:47Z")
It’s happening to me. A lot. No matter what Jerry tries to do to fix this stuff, it has never ever worked. Might I suggest there’s something fundamental at fault, and the consistent factor has only ever been your IT guy? ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2009, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-acting-unstable/501164/6 "2009-06-28T13:10:05Z")
It’s not working ok this morning- one database error after another. ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2009, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-acting-unstable/501164/7 "2009-06-28T13:40:39Z")
I’m getting the exact same behaviour now as in my last post. General forum links won’t resolve, only individual post links are getting through. Thus I could not use the About This Forum link and had to get here by clicking Last Post in the forum. Edit: Wouldn’t ya know it! Back to normal now! ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2009, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-acting-unstable/501164/8 "2009-06-28T13:44:36Z")
I had big problems yesterday morning, but all afternoon and today it seems to be fine for me. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2009, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-acting-unstable/501164/9 "2009-06-28T13:47:12Z")
It often resets my “read” flags-like 2 minutes into my session everything becomes marked read, instead of the 30 minute timer. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2009, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-acting-unstable/501164/10 "2009-06-28T14:17:31Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > It often resets my “read” flags-like 2 minutes into my session everything becomes marked read, instead of the 30 minute timer. I see that occasionally. It was mentioned in an earlier thread that this seems to be a Firefox issue. Which browser do you use? ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2009, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-acting-unstable/501164/11 "2009-06-28T21:53:57Z")
Yep, FF.