# Just feeding back that virtually everything is awful

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**Created:** [July 2, 2022, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-feeding-back-that-virtually-everything-is-awful/967313 "2022-07-02T18:22:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2022, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-feeding-back-that-virtually-everything-is-awful/967313/24 "2022-07-02T20:22:16Z")

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> [@bobot](#):
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> Remember when the old board crashed regularly? Or was knocked out for some reason? That sucked.  
> It sounds like you’re working through some stuff that the rest of us dealt with at the time of the switch. I don’t miss the old board anymore.  
> Stick it out, you’ll get used to it.

I’m glad you and @Riemann mentioned the lack of stability. It’s easy for some of us (like me) to forget that. It reminded me that I took some screenshots back then, and we had at least one long thread about the frequent crashes.

Here are some pics. The first crash pic is from Dec 2019 and the last is from Mar 2020 — from my notes that means we had systemic crash problems through those 3+ months. It was awful.

And here is one of the old threads where many of us complained.

And this reminds me that I was a late adopter of the new Discourse. I stayed away for many months, and then slowly made my way back.

Discourse is soooo much better!

(4 screenshots)

[[Album] Dec 2019 thru Mar 2020: SDMB frequently offline ![](https://i.imgur.com/YddQ6Qf.jpeg?fb "Dec 2019 thru Mar 2020: SDMB frequently offline") ](https://imgur.com/a/q1kxc9h)

(And here is an old thread)

> [@Recent server timeout errors — anyone else getting them?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-server-timeout-errors-anyone-else-getting-them/844514):
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> Frequently, yesterday and today. 504 Gateway Time-out 502 Bad Gateway Error: Server Error. The server encountered a temporary error and could not complete your request. Please try again in 30 seconds. Are you also getting them?

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