# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2013, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-performance-problems/659491/102 "2013-06-14T20:37:32Z")
Things seem much better today, at least for me. Many thanks to **Tuba** and TPTB. ---
**Author:** ![user\_hostile](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/user_hostile/32/474_2.png) [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2013, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-performance-problems/659491/103 "2013-06-14T21:04:04Z")
Operations are as smooth as a baby’s bottom. Ditto what **Elendil’s Heir** said ---
**Author:** ![Hershele\_Ostropoler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e47c2d/32.png) [@Hershele\_Ostropoler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hershele_Ostropoler)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2013, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-performance-problems/659491/104 "2013-06-14T23:25:48Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Do bulls (Red or otherwise) eat hamsters? > > I assume Mr. Zotti’s remark refers to the notion of acquiring newer and better hardware. (Upgrade to 486’s?) Is it also envisioned to upgrade to a newer version of vBulletin? (Or possibly even to some other message board software, like phpBB or whatever?) Discourse! We all love Discourse, right? Eh? Eh? > [@Joey\_P](#): > > New posts have been acting pretty wonky all day for me too. I assumed it was the timer resetting thing there’s already a thread about, but it got so wonky for me – three different last visiteds on different pages – I ended up just logging out entirely, and then logging back in today. And it works now, is the important part. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2013, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-performance-problems/659491/105 "2013-06-14T23:51:36Z")
Thank you! Thank you thank you thank you! (Now, if only I had something useful to say! 🙂 ) ---
**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 15, 2013, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-performance-problems/659491/106 "2013-06-15T02:32:05Z")
The Straight Dope Message Board now enters its post-Infinite-Crises existence. All further SDMB references must now specify pre-crisis or post-crisis. ---
**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 15, 2013, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-performance-problems/659491/107 "2013-06-15T03:58:55Z")
It does seem to be working much better now - thanks to all who had a hand in the fix. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2013, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-performance-problems/659491/108 "2013-06-15T14:11:58Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > The Straight Dope Message Board now enters its post-Infinite-Crises existence. > > All further SDMB references must now specify pre-crisis or post-crisis. BC (Before Crises) or AD (After Disasters). ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2013, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-performance-problems/659491/109 "2013-06-15T15:23:13Z")
As someone who has posted a lot of complaints about the search timer reset glitch, I want to thank those who did the work. The boards are running better now than they have for ages. ---
**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 16, 2013, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-performance-problems/659491/110 "2013-06-16T00:44:05Z")
Yes. My hat’s off to the team. Thank you. ---
**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 16, 2013, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-performance-problems/659491/111 "2013-06-16T01:32:27Z")
No problems since the board went back up again for me. Ah, is not it great for the board to be actually working again! > [@Canadjun](#): > > BC (Before Crises) or AD (After Disasters). +1 ---
**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 16, 2013, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-performance-problems/659491/112 "2013-06-16T02:17:52Z")
However, every time I search the SDMB through Google, I am logged out because it’s not “[boards.straightdope.com/](http://boards.straightdope.com/)…” but “[x.boards.straightdope.com/](http://x.boards.straightdope.com/)…” (substitute “x” with anything you get). Usually it’s “[senegoid.straightdope.com](http://senegoid.straightdope.com)”, but just now, I even got a wacky number in the place of “senegoid”. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2013, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-performance-problems/659491/113 "2013-06-16T02:28:29Z")
😕 It’s not working for me. I can hardly get in and then I get kicked out. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2013, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-performance-problems/659491/114 "2013-06-16T02:37:27Z")
> [@Becky2844](#): > > 😕 It’s not working for me. I can hardly get in and then I get kicked out. ☹ Yeah, we added that to the program specifically for you. We’ve had about enough of your shit, Becky. ---
**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 16, 2013, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-performance-problems/659491/115 "2013-06-16T03:58:20Z")
> [@Anonymous User](#): > > However, every time I search the SDMB through Google, I am logged out because it’s not “[boards.straightdope.com/](http://boards.straightdope.com/)…” but “[x.boards.straightdope.com/](http://x.boards.straightdope.com/)…” (substitute “x” with anything you get). Usually it’s “[senegoid.straightdope.com](http://senegoid.straightdope.com)”, but just now, I even got a wacky number in the place of “senegoid”. Maybe that’s because **Senegoid** _is_ one wacky number? ---
**Author:** ![spinky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@spinky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spinky)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2013, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-performance-problems/659491/116 "2013-06-16T06:39:19Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > The Straight Dope Message Board now enters its post-Infinite-Crises existence. For like the fourth time! Huzzah! ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2013, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-performance-problems/659491/117 "2013-06-17T02:34:33Z")
Still running smooth as silk for me. Thanks again! ---
**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 17, 2013, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-performance-problems/659491/118 "2013-06-17T03:00:21Z")
I had a couple more Read Time-out glitches yesterday, but it’s Smooth As Silk (Thai Airways’ official motto) for me today. ---
**Author:** ![AaronX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7bcc69/32.png) [@AaronX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AaronX)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2013, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-performance-problems/659491/119 "2013-06-17T04:33:24Z")
I had a database error about 20 hours ago. ---
**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 17, 2013, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-performance-problems/659491/120 "2013-06-17T05:31:46Z")
Mods, are you still following this thread? **TubaDiva** , are you there? Okay, we’re about 2½ days Post-Crisis now, and pretty much everything seems to be going well. So, the recent posts above are mentioning some sporadic glitches. Likewise, I had one instance of couldn’t-log-in earlier today. But hey, that’s not even in the same ballpark as this time last week! Can you tell us something about what transpired? Have you swapped in some new hardware already, or did you just do a data re-build so far? You’ve told us earlier that this re-build would be followed by updates or re-builds or whatever on various slave servers over the next few days. What is the status of that? It seems that whatever Jerry did last Friday has substantially fixed things. So are you done? Or still going to do more work on it? Where do the sporadic glitches of the last two days fit into your grand scheme of things? Do you keep your hamsters working with carrots or sticks? Were very many of them replaced? Have you upgraded to a newer version of [Genetically Modified Monster Hamsters](http://uglypets.blogspot.com/2009/06/ugly-zombie-hamster-monster-pictures.html)? Don’t keep us ignorant! To do so is blasphemous around here! ---
**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 17, 2013, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-performance-problems/659491/121 "2013-06-17T14:28:49Z")
The Board keeps sticking for me tonight. It will take a minute or longer to open a link – thread, forum, anything – then snap back to normal, then stick again. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-performance-problems/659491.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-performance-problems/659491.md?page=7)