# Is this board up-and-down-and-flakey today (7/11/2020)? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 12, 2020, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-board-up-and-down-and-flakey-today-7-11-2020/915089 "2020-07-12T04:26:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [July 12, 2020, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-board-up-and-down-and-flakey-today-7-11-2020/915089/1 "2020-07-12T04:26:33Z")
Is this board intermittently up-and-down today, or is it just me? (Various other sites I go to aren’t giving me any problems.) ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2020, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-board-up-and-down-and-flakey-today-7-11-2020/915089/2 "2020-07-12T04:31:11Z")
Last couple of hours, yeah. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2020, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-board-up-and-down-and-flakey-today-7-11-2020/915089/3 "2020-07-12T04:35:45Z")
No problems here, and I’ve been off and on all day. Might have missed a brief outage, though. ---
**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:** [July 12, 2020, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-board-up-and-down-and-flakey-today-7-11-2020/915089/4 "2020-07-12T04:37:52Z")
So much trouble just to get in long enough to post the above OP, I was on the verge of signing up on Giraffe to ask there. [![](https://giraffeboards.com/images/smilies/addons/smack.gif) ](https://giraffeboards.com/images/smilies/addons/smack.gif) ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2020, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-board-up-and-down-and-flakey-today-7-11-2020/915089/5 "2020-07-12T22:15:43Z")
Pretty funny, the first two times I tried to read either this thread or the other one I got the spinning circle and neither thread opened. This is kinda familiar… ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2020, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-board-up-and-down-and-flakey-today-7-11-2020/915089/6 "2020-07-12T22:50:18Z")
I’ve had trouble with the board UI being really sluggish yesterday and this morning, e.g clicking on the ‘categories’ menu at top left of a main page takes like 6-8 seconds to actually pop up, to the point that you’d click again (did I click the first time?) and the menu would popup and disappear from two clicks hit. Lots of stuff like that. Seems okay ATM. ---
**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:** [July 13, 2020, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-board-up-and-down-and-flakey-today-7-11-2020/915089/7 "2020-07-13T01:27:43Z")
Getting more trouble again today (7/12/2020 at about 18:20 PDT). Long pauses or complete hangs when opening threads, posting to threads, even auto-saving drafts while composing. Even as I type this, I’m seeing that it’s trying to auto-save a draft and can’t. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2020, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-board-up-and-down-and-flakey-today-7-11-2020/915089/8 "2020-07-13T01:32:35Z")
Weird. I’ve been checking the board all day without a single problem. I’m using Firefox on a PC if that makes any difference. ---
**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:** [July 13, 2020, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-board-up-and-down-and-flakey-today-7-11-2020/915089/9 "2020-07-13T01:35:02Z")
Okay. Cancel my above post from a few minutes ago. Seems like I’m having problems with my own modem/router here. (But not sure if ALL the problems I’m having in the last half-hour or so are that.) ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2020, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-board-up-and-down-and-flakey-today-7-11-2020/915089/10 "2020-07-13T14:34:48Z")
Just popping in to say that I have the same problems. It’s like the page doesn’t exist when I click it in my bookmarks. Nothing happens and nothing is trying to happen - it’s just not there. This can happen for a few hours at a time. Then, suddenly, it just starts working again.