# Lots of board errors lately **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 1, 2012, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-board-errors-lately/633323 "2012-09-01T00:57:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-board-errors-lately/633323/21 "2012-09-05T00:49:39Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > Couldn’t access the board for the last 5 minutes, after considerable slowdowns. Ping works OK. I was gonna say the same, but couldn’t reply for over ten minutes. Couldn’t even get the Home Page of SD. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-board-errors-lately/633323/22 "2012-09-05T00:54:07Z")
Lemme see what I can find out. Last time this happened the building that houses the server farm was on fire. ---
**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:** [September 5, 2012, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-board-errors-lately/633323/23 "2012-09-05T05:48:15Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > Lemme see what I can find out. Last time this happened the building that houses the server farm was on fire. Did anyone save the poor hamsters? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![RaftPeople](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@RaftPeople](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaftPeople)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-board-errors-lately/633323/24 "2012-09-05T06:09:32Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Did anyone save the poor hamsters? :eek: If I remember correctly the source of the fire was friction from their hamster wheel. It was a pretty busy day but they were keeping up when suddenly 2 search requests in a row. Dang thing burst into flames, hamsters barely got out. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-board-errors-lately/633323/25 "2012-09-05T06:15:14Z")
Was I lied to? I thought we upgraded to capybaras! ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-board-errors-lately/633323/26 "2012-09-05T06:44:40Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > Lemme see what I can find out. Last time this happened the building that houses the server farm was on fire. You’re kidding, right? Hard to tell sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-board-errors-lately/633323/27 "2012-09-05T06:52:20Z")
The board’s behaving more erratically than shoehorn butterhorse. C’mon what’s the deal? ---
**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:** [September 5, 2012, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-board-errors-lately/633323/28 "2012-09-05T11:59:22Z")
> [@Jragon](#): > > Was I lied to? I thought we upgraded to capybaras! No, that was just **Canadjun** misunderstanding (or wishful thinking). Capybaras are bigger, eat more, and thus even more expensive to operate. Furthermore, they can only function when immersed in a bath of liquid helium, lest they overheat and set the server room on fire. Oh wait. That already happened once. That’s why they went back to hamsters. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-board-errors-lately/633323/29 "2012-09-05T14:31:24Z")
Just slid in here at lightning speed. Don’t know what you did, but it worked! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-board-errors-lately/633323/30 "2012-09-05T16:10:16Z")
Yep, me too. Been happening on and off for the last week or so. I think a building’s on fire. ---
**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:** [September 6, 2012, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-board-errors-lately/633323/31 "2012-09-06T02:51:38Z")
Working better for me now too … so far. ---
**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:** [September 6, 2012, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-board-errors-lately/633323/32 "2012-09-06T06:03:03Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Working better for me now too … so far. Well, so much for that. Screwing up big time now. ---
**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:** [September 6, 2012, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-board-errors-lately/633323/33 "2012-09-06T16:32:41Z")
“User CP” is completely not working. Have to click on the individual forums. ---
**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:** [September 6, 2012, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-board-errors-lately/633323/34 "2012-09-06T17:26:58Z")
Works for me from both Android tablet and firefox on a PC. ---
**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:** [September 6, 2012, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-board-errors-lately/633323/35 "2012-09-06T17:36:25Z")
User CP still down for me on my PC, both on IE and Firefox. ---
**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:** [September 7, 2012, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-board-errors-lately/633323/36 "2012-09-07T02:49:23Z")
Had a good night’s sleep, got up, it’s almost 10am here … and User CP still will not work. Just an error message comes up. ---
**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:** [September 7, 2012, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-board-errors-lately/633323/37 "2012-09-07T02:58:44Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Had a good night’s sleep, got up, it’s almost 10am here … and User CP still will not work. Just an error message comes up. Okay, now this is getting really annoying. On top of no access to User CP, now the main Straight Dope page has gone all wonky, although I can still read it. And not all the icons on the Bard page will appear such as Insert Link, Go to First Unread Post or some of the smilies. Again, it’s only with this website that it’s occurring, and it’s the same on IE and Firefox. ---
**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:** [September 7, 2012, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-board-errors-lately/633323/38 "2012-09-07T23:20:10Z")
Seems to have snapped back again. Hope it stays that way. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-board-errors-lately/633323.md?page=1)