Fuck the SDMB

The BBQ Pit
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This place is like a bad drug dealer. You got me hooked but you are never around when I need you. I am hooked on the SDMB but around 70% of the time I get “Web site not responding”. I keep trying and trying and I get it over and over. This really sucks. If its a thread with more than one page I can never get through the whole thing. This isthe only site I go to frequently that I have this problem. Whoever is running the server please get a bigger wheel for the squirrel that is powering this operation. :mad:

thanks

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You get what you pay for. Quit your fucking whining.

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And the hamster resents being confused with a squirrel. Even the “hampsters” resent being confused with squirrels. That’s why they redirect you to the Cannot Find Server Message Board.

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You figured it out. See, the first hit is always free.

Hooked through the bag now, aintcha?

Now, all you need to do is slide US$100 a week into my paypal account and I’ll hook you up with the fast connection.

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It’s hamsters, not squirrels! Now you’ve gone and hurt their feelings…

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I have notice that the boards seem to crash at 9:03 east-coast time every morning.

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I’m like that too, until I have my first root beer of the day.

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Since about 1 month after the new software was installed, it seems like I have problems connecting about 1/10th the number of times as before. There is just no comparison.

I’ve even been lulled into not copying my posts before hitting the “submit reply” button anymore…

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Those hamsters are just waiting for that long, well researched, closely argued post to pounce…

(If something as slow-moving as a SDMB rodent can be said to “pounce”)

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Slither? Crawl? Ooze?

Fall on? :smiley:

But the OP is right about one thing: this Board is more addictive than crack.

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I vote for “flop”.

Oh, and don’t have many problems accessing the SDMB at all, which is good, 'cause otherwise I might actually have to get some work done.

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Funny, I notice it around midnight PST.

And John Mace, you sir are a braver man than I. There just is no way that I would ever neglect to copy a post any longer than a few sentences.

As to the OP, perhaps you could ask for your money back.

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I don’t think I’ve copied a post the whole time I’ve been here…

Add me to the “Hey, it seems a lot better now” camp. No real problems here.

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I tried to post a reply here and the hampsters attacked. I don’t think that’s a coincidence.

Midnight PST would be 2am in Chicago, right? Everyone is checking the boards after the bars close.

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2 a.m. might be when the bars close, but it’s also when the database is backed up and the SDMB is unavailable for maintenance.

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Ah, but did you notice that I said I’ve been “lured” into doing this? :slight_smile:

I usually do make sure to do a quick “copy”, but sometimes the Board is so, dare I say, dependable that I forget. It has come back to bite me a few times…

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AFAIR, the SDMB goes down for routine maintenance every 3:30 AM CST (since Chicago is the site of the server, and Chicago is in CST, that does follow), and is usually up within 30-60 minutes after that. One person’s 3:30 is another person’s 4:30 (mine, actually) and another’s 12:30 (far west coast of the USA) and another person’s 3:30 PM (no idea … Oz, maybe?).

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[nitpick]Actually, 3:30AM CST is 1:30AM PST, unless you meant Alaska ST, which is 12:30AM. But in a manner of speaking, the Hawaiian-Aleutian ST is the faaaaar west coast of the US (not counting American Samoa :)), and the time there would be 11:30PM.[/nitpick]

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I don’t copy my posts before I submit. On those occasions when the board has gone down, I make a decision on whether to retype the post or let it slide. Usually, my decision is “fuck it”. You people have missed out on many a pearl as a result, let me tell you.

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Then the PST midnight delay is obviously caused by all the East Coast Insomniacs who decide to give up on trying to sleep at 3 am.