# Board performance problems **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [May 27, 2013, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-performance-problems/659491 "2013-05-27T21:15:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2013, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-performance-problems/659491/42 "2013-06-11T14:54:49Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > Help! I’m getting repeated requests to log in! I post, then jump to another forum, and try to post…and I have to log in anew. Worse, it sometimes takes two or more tries for me to log in! I enter my name and password, it says “Thank you” and then opens the name and password screen again! Once, it did this five times in a row! In this current session, I’ve posted three or four times…and had to log in all over before each post. I’ve been having this problem quite regularly also, for some time now. I’ve reported it several times, as have many others, most recently in [this thread, Post #22](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16364735#post16364735). ETA: Within the last few days, it’s getting even worse: I log in (sometimes taking several attempts), then type in a new post, and when I click on “Submit”, then I get a sign-in request page again! When that happens, I just press Back and try again, and it usually works the second time. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2013, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-performance-problems/659491/43 "2013-06-11T14:56:58Z")
I’m getting the same thing. The forum view shows threads as not having a post for over 12 hours, but when you go to the threads, they are current. If you check a thread in one forum, every thread in every forum is marked as “read.” Annoying. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2013, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-performance-problems/659491/44 "2013-06-11T15:08:22Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > Help! I’m getting repeated requests to log in! I post, then jump to another forum, and try to post…and I have to log in anew. Worse, it sometimes takes two or more tries for me to log in! I enter my name and password, it says “Thank you” and then opens the name and password screen again! Once, it did this five times in a row! In this current session, I’ve posted three or four times…and had to log in all over before each post. > > Wazzup? Same here. Must have logged in 20 times this morning. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2013, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-performance-problems/659491/45 "2013-06-11T18:42:55Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > Posting rates have been in steady decline for the past few years: > > 2010: Threads/day: 117, Posts/day: 3,730 > 2011: Threads/day: 109, Posts/day: 3,582 > 2012: Threads/day: 99, Posts/day: 3,339 > 2013: Threads/day: 88, Posts/day: 3,222 (1/1 to 6/5) Well there may be a reason post counts have been declining lately. As I and others have been noticing, it takes _multiple_ login attempts to post anything. (Including _this_ post.) The more times I have to try logging in, the more motivated I have to be to complete the process. More and more, if I just have some simple or goofy comment, I just say “screw it then” and forget about it. Maybe lots of users are beginning to react that way. (Maybe it’s for the better?) I know I’ve been posting less lately because of this. ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2013, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-performance-problems/659491/46 "2013-06-11T19:25:56Z")
> [@pravnik](#): > > Same here. Must have logged in 20 times this morning. I’m repeatedly having to log on today as well. Given that the problems evolved fairly quickly, I’m dubious whether a new server in and of itself will fix the problems. I’d be more of a believer if things had been getting worse over a year or two. That said, maybe the act of exporting from the old server and importing to the new will clean up whatever mess is in the database (or make all H–l break loose). ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2013, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-performance-problems/659491/47 "2013-06-11T19:38:14Z")
The main site ( [http://www.straightdope.com/](http://www.straightdope.com/) ) doesn’t seem to be resolving at all. Tested from two different computers at different locations, using three different browsers so it’s not me. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2013, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-performance-problems/659491/48 "2013-06-11T21:52:38Z")
> [@Anonymous User](#): > > A very new issue: today I noticed on my phone that it was automatically making everything lowercase so the 😃 emoticon wasn’t working properly because it was coming out as :d. This is very inconvenient especially due to the five-minute edit time limit. Please fix this as soon as possible. Was your post in all-caps? The board software automatically turns all-caps posts into all-lowercase. The 😃 emoticon registers as caps because it has a capital D in it. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-performance-problems/659491/49 "2013-06-12T00:26:05Z")
Perhaps tied in with the login problem: I just noted that the number of posts listed beside some threads are really wrong. The Astro City thread in Cafe Society has more than ten posts, but the indicator says “4.” ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-performance-problems/659491/50 "2013-06-12T00:30:49Z")
Just posting here because I clicked “new posts” during a normally busy time, and I got one thread with a new post returned. This one. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-performance-problems/659491/51 "2013-06-12T00:34:30Z")
> [@SeaDragonTattoo](#): > > Just posting here because I clicked “new posts” during a normally busy time, and I got one thread with a new post returned. This one. New posts have been acting pretty wonky all day for me too. ---
**Author:** ![R3d\_Anonymous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aeb1de/32.png) [@R3d\_Anonymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R3d_Anonymous)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-performance-problems/659491/52 "2013-06-12T01:39:20Z")
I feel bad for any of the people newly registering right now. ---
**Author:** ![R3d\_Anonymous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aeb1de/32.png) [@R3d\_Anonymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R3d_Anonymous)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-performance-problems/659491/53 "2013-06-12T02:03:22Z")
It has gotten worse. I clicked on, “Find all posts by Anonymous User,” and it said that my last post was yesterday instead of like 10 minutes ago. And my posts per day was 5.71 instead of what it should have been (5.77). Minor, but it shows how bad this board is acting up. ETA: More so, this post wasn’t even visible until going out and into this thread. ---
**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 12, 2013, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-performance-problems/659491/54 "2013-06-12T02:15:57Z")
Yeah, it’s all messed up. Every time I log on I get a different date for last posts in various threads- sometimes today, sometimes yesterday and threads I’ve recently posted in don’t show up uner my subscriptions. It’s all over the place. ---
**Author:** ![R3d\_Anonymous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aeb1de/32.png) [@R3d\_Anonymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R3d_Anonymous)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-performance-problems/659491/55 "2013-06-12T02:23:17Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > […]threads I’ve recently posted in don’t show up uner my subscriptions. Yeah, this is what annoys me the most. I don’t really care _that_ much about the other stuff, but this is the feature I rely on the most as it tells me whether or not there have been any new posts in threads that I am following. In fact, the first thing I usually click is “User CP” because this feature is supposed to make it really easy to quickly see which of the threads you are following have new posts. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-performance-problems/659491/56 "2013-06-12T03:21:37Z")
More oddness today. Clicked on User CP and some threads were marked UnRead with some mistakenly marked Read smattered among them. And some of the ones marked Unread I’d read two days ago! Then suddenly everything went to Read. And apparently what it lists as the last post entered in a thread is often different from the actual last post(s) in a thread once you click into it. I think the hamsters have dropped acid. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-performance-problems/659491/57 "2013-06-12T03:29:34Z")
If the Board suddenly starts singing, “Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do, I’m half crazy all for the love of you. It won’t be a stylish marriage, I can’t afford a carriage, But you’d look sweet upon the seat Of a bicycle built for two.” I’m out of here, in bed with the blankets over my head for the duration! I’m not being ejected out no air-lock! ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-performance-problems/659491/58 "2013-06-12T03:32:15Z")
Still more weirdness: I clicked on Quote in a thread to respond to a post, and there is no quoted post in the box I type my post in. But I could still type my post and post it okay. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-performance-problems/659491/59 "2013-06-12T03:39:08Z")
Oh, this is too rich - I’m having board performance problems trying to post in a thread about board performance problems. 😃 I meant to post about how I’m seeing the “New Posts” not coming up right, either, and apparently now I can’t select multiple posts and quote them - the selection is just being ignored. ETA: Realizing that’s what **Sam** was talking about. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-performance-problems/659491/60 "2013-06-12T03:41:56Z")
It feels like we’re sinking like the Edmund Fitzgerald. If so, I’d just like to say: “Fellas it’s been good to know ya.” ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-performance-problems/659491/61 "2013-06-12T03:48:26Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > It feels like we’re sinking like the Edmund Fitzgerald. If so, I’d just like to say: “Fellas it’s been good to know ya.” Nah. The Fitzgerald was violent. We’re more like the guy who just ODed on too much H and is slowly fading into a stupor to be followed by oblivion. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-performance-problems/659491.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-performance-problems/659491.md?page=4)