# Fuck the SDMB **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 10, 2004, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-sdmb/233491 "2004-03-10T15:17:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-sdmb/233491/21 "2004-03-11T03:47:17Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > 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 Feel free to donate. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-sdmb/233491/22 "2004-03-11T03:51:01Z")
Aside from the first couple weeks after the most recent upgrade, the boards have been pretty fast and reliable to me. I get 404s maybe once every two days now as opposed to once every two or three hours before. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-sdmb/233491/23 "2004-03-11T03:53:48Z")
> [@iampunha](#): > > 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?). Well according to my Timezones of the World mousemat (no you can’t have it, it’s mine, all mine, I tell you) it would be 3.30 PM in Bangladesh and Burma and almost nowhere else. It is 19.30 hrs in Brisbane, Australia. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-sdmb/233491/24 "2004-03-11T03:56:53Z")
My apologies to the hamsters 🙂 . I feel better now that I vented and I’m still hooked. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-sdmb/233491/25 "2004-03-11T03:59:31Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > Well according to my Timezones of the World mousemat (no you can’t have it, it’s mine, all mine, I tell you) it would be 3.30 PM in Bangladesh and Burma and almost nowhere else. It is 19.30 hrs in Brisbane, Australia. Hey, **Princhester** , look over there! [swipes mousemat] ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-sdmb/233491/26 "2004-03-11T04:18:35Z")
Nice try, but I had my have my hand on it at all times, Bucko. I’m not silly, I know you’re all insanely envious. ---
**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-sdmb/233491/27 "2004-03-11T05:16:45Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > 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. **The SDMB:** _“C’mon, baby. You know that if I could respond, I would. You know how much I loves you, baby, and how much I loves delivering you from your ignorance, baby. Feels good, don’t it baby? But I’ve gots other things I haveta do, baby. Other posters I’ve gots to respond to… but it’s you, baby, that I really want reading me. Keep tryin’ me, baby. I’ll open up for ya, baby. You know you wanna…”_ ---
**Author:** ![Thaumaturge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@Thaumaturge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thaumaturge)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-sdmb/233491/28 "2004-03-11T05:24:11Z")
Last I heard, you can’t donate to the SDMB, though plenty of people have made threads asking to. Which kinda sucks, I’d certainly donate for a faster server and connection. I usually ctrl-A ctrl-C my posts, unless they are short ones like this one…\* crosses fingers\*…_realizes he doesn’t beleive in that nonsense_…_uncrosses them_ ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-sdmb/233491/29 "2004-03-11T07:27:06Z")
You know, I have to say that I very rarely run into slow performance here. Really! Ever since the upgrades, it’s been running smooth as silk for me. ---
**Author:** ![gouda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c77e96/32.png) [@gouda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gouda)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-sdmb/233491/30 "2004-03-11T08:16:31Z")
> [@iampunha](#): > > 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?). 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. every damn day, here in India. Which is rather sucky, because that’s about exactly when I come back from lunch ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Morrigoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/858c86/32.png) [@Morrigoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morrigoon)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-sdmb/233491/31 "2004-03-11T08:33:23Z")
All your hamster are belong to us. ---
**Author:** ![blowero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-sdmb/233491/32 "2004-03-11T08:37:02Z")
> [@John Mace](#): > > 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… MY GOD! Are you mad? Next you’ll be running with scissors.😃 And I always perview before I ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2004, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-sdmb/233491/33 "2004-03-12T02:44:35Z")
Let me tell you about when I was a newbie. You kids have it easy. Back in the day, you’d wait five, ten minutes for every thread to load - even with blazing fast internet connectivity. Every upgrade has come with an IMPROVEMENT in service. When I started, it took guts and commitment to be a member of this board…you guys just show up and complain about a few 404s. Snowed all the time too. And I walked to school in it. Uphill…both ways… ---
**Author:** ![Thaumaturge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@Thaumaturge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thaumaturge)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2004, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-sdmb/233491/34 "2004-03-12T03:33:57Z")
Ahh…the old ‘it once sucked worse, so you should be happy with the current amount of suckage’ argument. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2004, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-sdmb/233491/35 "2004-03-12T12:07:04Z")
Oh, it was worse than slow, it was down. Daily. Sometimes it was down for days. The cold sweats, the tremors, the nausea-- it was terrible. That was before vB. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2004, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-sdmb/233491/36 "2004-03-12T14:32:59Z")
Man, I get errors daily. Tolerable, but it keeps me from posting nearly as much as I’d want to. Mostly, I think, is because I post during my spare time at work… and after the fourth or fifth 404 or “Cannot Find Server”, I usually get too frustrated to continue. Oh well. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2004, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-sdmb/233491/37 "2004-03-12T17:41:10Z")
Right after the recent upgrade I had problems daily. For the last couple of weeks though, it’s been working fine again. The flop sweat is gone and I no longer see giant spiders all over my keyboard. The ones on top of the monitor are still around, but they’ve always been there, so that’s okay. I call the big one Mikey. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-sdmb/233491.md?page=1)