# New Thread on Board Performance **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 30, 2014, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-on-board-performance/694442 "2014-07-30T19:59:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**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:** [October 22, 2014, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-on-board-performance/694442/241 "2014-10-22T10:57:12Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > And now if someone could merge me and **SiamSam222**? I have asked Jerry to merge your test account into your regular account. ---
**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:** [October 23, 2014, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-on-board-performance/694442/242 "2014-10-23T00:17:41Z")
And it’s done. Thanks. I feel as if I’ve had an out-of-body experience. ---
**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2014, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-on-board-performance/694442/243 "2014-10-23T01:02:16Z")
I don’t even have Word (I use OpenOffice… and it’s not open that much). I haven’t been zapped since last week. ---
**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:** [October 23, 2014, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-on-board-performance/694442/244 "2014-10-23T12:56:34Z")
And zapped again, the first time since I morphed back into **Siam Sam**. But hey, screw it. Obviously this is not something that can probably be fixed in our lifetime, so I’ll grit my teeth and stop reporting the zaps. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2014, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-on-board-performance/694442/245 "2014-10-31T15:40:33Z")
Okay, now it’s happened on my home computer, where I don’t even use Word. I’ve been updating Java and Adobe Flash. Changed pages in Firefox, tabbed to those updates, and when I tabbed back to Firefox I found that my last visited had changed from Yesterday at 06:00 PM to Today at 11:31 AM. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2014, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-on-board-performance/694442/246 "2014-11-01T01:52:11Z")
And just to say, I’m getting zapped more and more these days, although I’ve stopped reporting each individual time. I guess there’s just nothing to do for it. ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2014, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-on-board-performance/694442/247 "2014-11-01T23:38:07Z")
Zapped but with a twist. The board is showing that I was last here at 8:20am (not the current time, which is usually how I’m zapped). The computer wasn’t on at 8:20. ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2014, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-on-board-performance/694442/248 "2014-11-02T00:35:06Z")
Been zapped each of the three times I’ve checked the boards today. I go into ATMB, then hit the back button and go into GQ. Zap, everything marked read. ---
**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:** [November 2, 2014, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-on-board-performance/694442/249 "2014-11-02T06:58:31Z")
> [@jabiru](#): > > Zapped but with a twist. The board is showing that I was last here at 8:20am (not the current time, which is usually how I’m zapped). The computer wasn’t on at 8:20. That’s an odd one, and it just happened to me too! It says my last time logged in was an hour ago. But I signed out about _three_ hours ago and logged back in just now. ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2014, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-on-board-performance/694442/250 "2014-11-02T08:17:34Z")
Haven’t read the whole thread and I don’t know if it’s been mentioned, but I’m personally suspicious of the multiple hyperactive threads with many thousands of posts. And I’m not just saying that as a convenient excuse to get rid of [GAME] threads. It used to be that the board would get wonky from threads with posts numbering in the hundreds. Those are definitely not mission-critical threads and if it’s even \*possible \*that axing them would help matters for the mission-critical parts of the board, then what are we waiting for? [GAME] threads can resume when we get a handle on the problem, but should probably be hard-capped at 500 posts maximum. **Proposed:** Delete all the [GAME] threads and put any new ones on hold for a while? ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2014, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-on-board-performance/694442/251 "2014-11-02T10:35:58Z")
> [@Turek](#): > > Been zapped each of the three times I’ve checked the boards today. I go into ATMB, then hit the back button and go into GQ. Zap, everything marked read. And just now again. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2014, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-on-board-performance/694442/252 "2014-11-02T14:48:49Z")
Has **Siam Siam** ’s name grown by one space since we last saw him? Can’t remember now. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2014, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-on-board-performance/694442/253 "2014-11-02T17:17:13Z")
For the last hour I’ve been getting “ **408 Request Time-out** ” 2/3 of the time on this board, running Firefox on Windows 7. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2014, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-on-board-performance/694442/254 "2014-11-02T18:40:16Z")
Slow loading this morning (especially). ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2014, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-on-board-performance/694442/255 "2014-11-02T19:35:51Z")
Just hit me on my work computer between MPSIMS & The Pit; went from Today at 1:36 PM to Today at 3:31 PM (obviously the board is still on DST) without my tabbing out of the browser. ---
**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:** [November 2, 2014, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-on-board-performance/694442/256 "2014-11-02T23:55:51Z")
> [@Leo\_Bloom](#): > > Has **Siam Siam** ’s name grown by one space since we last saw him? Can’t remember now. I expand and contract, like a jack-in-the-box. ---
**Author:** ![urban1a](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e47c2d/32.png) [@urban1a](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/urban1a)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2014, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-on-board-performance/694442/257 "2014-11-03T02:39:21Z")
Two nights in a row - all marked as read as soon as I signed in. CLUE?: Board thinks it is 8:35 but it is actually 7:35 pm my time. Sure makes the boards hard to read. Bob ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-on-board-performance/694442/258 "2014-11-05T15:03:10Z")
The “last visited” issue is getting quite bad again (as well as intermittent hangs, but I don’t find them **quite** as much a nuisance). It’s getting reset more and more frequently. ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-on-board-performance/694442/259 "2014-11-05T18:06:42Z")
Twice in one morning. ---
**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:** [November 6, 2014, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-on-board-performance/694442/260 "2014-11-06T03:41:43Z")
Here’s a new problem that’s not happened to me before. It’s almost the opposite of my old problem. No matter how many times I go into the [Board is sluggish today](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=739123) thread in this same forum, it stays marked as Unread. Only this one thread, no other. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-on-board-performance/694442.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-on-board-performance/694442.md?page=14)