# Message Board issues! **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 24, 2009, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-issues/504157 "2009-07-24T20:18:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2009, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-issues/504157/1 "2009-07-24T20:18:08Z")
Something is wrong with the IMHO forum (and maybe others, haven’t checked). New posts are not being shown in the forum display and you cannot quote new posts. Within some threads there seems to be a lag in the addition of replies. Just FYI. Not sure if anyone has noticed yet. ---
**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:** [July 24, 2009, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-issues/504157/2 "2009-07-24T20:20:06Z")
Everything appears to be lagging – I find it hard to believe there’s been an hour with no posts in most of our forum areas. Might need some attention. Let me go find out. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2009, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-issues/504157/3 "2009-07-24T20:24:53Z")
will it work? ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2009, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-issues/504157/4 "2009-07-24T20:25:04Z")
When I try to quote any recent post (like within the last half hour or so), all I get is a blank field. It still seems to work with older posts. Is it just me? Did I accidentally change a setting or something? ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2009, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-issues/504157/5 "2009-07-24T20:36:40Z")
As of some time this afternoon, every time I try to quote a post (whether using the quote button or the multiquote toggle), I end up being sent to a reply page that doesn’t actually include any of the text I want to quote, so I have to manually copy and paste it. Anybody else have this happening? I’m posting from work, so I’m browsing on IE7 on a laptop running Windows XP Professional. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2009, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-issues/504157/6 "2009-07-24T20:44:11Z")
I haven’t seen any new posts or threads since about 2:15 pm CDT. Is this thing on? \ ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2009, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-issues/504157/7 "2009-07-24T21:20:52Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > When I try to quote any recent post (like within the last half hour or so), all I get is a blank field. It still seems to work with older posts. Is it just me? Did I accidentally change a setting or something? Test. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2009, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-issues/504157/8 "2009-07-24T21:23:07Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > Test. Works now, thanks. I hadn’t yet noticed the other problems with the board when I posted. ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2009, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-issues/504157/9 "2009-07-24T21:24:47Z")
Sorry son, looks like we have to put ol’ Yeller down. ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2009, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-issues/504157/10 "2009-07-24T21:29:15Z")
In case anyone’s confused, I’ve merged several threads dealing with the last bout of board problems. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2009, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-issues/504157/11 "2009-07-24T21:29:24Z")
wasn’t there before! ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2009, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-issues/504157/12 "2009-07-24T21:30:16Z")
Including **IvoryTowerDenizen** ’s latest post here. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2009, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-issues/504157/13 "2009-07-24T21:33:07Z")
Seems to be fixed with the reboot or whatever that downtime was. ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2009, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-issues/504157/14 "2009-07-24T21:39:46Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > As of some time this afternoon, every time I try to quote a post (whether using the quote button or the multiquote toggle), I end up being sent to a reply page that doesn’t actually include any of the text I want to quote, so I have to manually copy and paste it. > > Anybody else have this happening? > > I’m posting from work, so I’m browsing on IE7 on a laptop running Windows XP Professional. Oddly enough the board was behaving in exactly the same fashion (trying to Quote and getting the blank Reply box instead) almost a month ago. It resolved itself then quite quickly but now the glitch is clearly back. [Here’s my post about it.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=11275380&postcount=5) ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2009, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-issues/504157/15 "2009-07-24T21:46:56Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > Oddly enough the board was behaving in exactly the same fashion (trying to Quote and getting the blank Reply box instead) almost a month ago. It resolved itself then quite quickly but now the glitch is clearly back. > > [Here’s my post about it.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=11275380&postcount=5) The issue today was that you couldn’t quote “new” posts. At some point new posts were being saved but not displayed on the forum page but were displayed on the thread page. When you tried to quote a post that was posted after that glitch started you couldn’t quote it but you could quote those from before the glitch. I’m assuming the issue was that the table that contained the post number (an index maybe) was locked up but the table that contained the post text was not. The “quote” function probably relies on the index table as well as the body text table. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2009, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-issues/504157/16 "2009-07-24T21:52:02Z")
The board is “hanging” a lot for me right now. Main forum directory loads fine, but then clicking on an individual forum link seems to cause an interminable delay. Firefox, Vista. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2009, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-issues/504157/17 "2009-07-24T22:37:26Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > The board is “hanging” a lot for me right now. Main forum directory loads fine, but then clicking on an individual forum link seems to cause an interminable delay. > Firefox, Vista. Yeah, seems there’s a ton of instability still. Wonder if they are rebuilding some indexes. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2009, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-issues/504157/18 "2009-07-24T23:15:49Z")
I cannot search and I started the same topic twice in MPSIMS twice, thinking I was going nuts and hadn’t posted. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2009, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-issues/504157/19 "2009-07-24T23:22:30Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > The board is “hanging” a lot for me right now. Main forum directory loads fine, but then clicking on an individual forum link seems to cause an interminable delay. > Firefox, Vista. Doing it for me also, Firefox, Solaris. But one refresh seems to work, and at least posts get through, even if not the new forum page. ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2009, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-issues/504157/20 "2009-07-24T23:32:18Z")
Yeah, search has been bugging out on me for a few hours now, too. [Edit: But now is working] I think search issues were questioned recently. Is it possible this is a sign that something’s being worked on? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-issues/504157.md?page=2)