Is the board down or is there some other problem?
[QUOTE=Bob Dylan]
Broken lines, broken strings,
Broken threads, broken springs,
Broken idols, broken heads,
People sleeping in broken beds
Ain’t no use jiving
Ain’t no use joking
Everything is broken
[/QUOTE]
Yeah, things are a bit busted.
I’m having the same issue, but it seems intermittent. Very strange.
Yeah, the only way I can access this thread is to click on it from the SDMB main page. The thread disappears when I go to ATMB. Weird.
Been getting signed out just about every time I click on anything. Super annoying. Used to experience this frequently but this is the first time in a while.
Are the servers slow?
Or for some reason are people just not posting? Is there a major outage somewhere? Many posters dealing with fallout from the hurricane in Texas?
Something is definitely borked. I’ve notified our admins. Hopefully it will be fixed soon.
I don’t get logged out, but the quote function was not working for some time this morning. I would get the “reply” box, but the post I was quoting does not show up.
And this thread does not show up on the ATMB page. I only got here via the link in the thread that got closed.
For me, this thread shows up on the ATMB page intermittently – sometimes it’s there, sometimes it isn’t. The system appeared to be offline briefly perhaps for a reboot, but this particular weirdness seems to persist.
For me, this thread shows up on the ATMB page intermittently – sometimes it’s there, sometimes it isn’t. The system appeared to be offline briefly, but this particular weirdness was still there when it came back.
Last night, the GQ page was listing a thread as having only two replies, even though it had more. The thread itself showed them, and reloading fixed the forum page. I’d assumed that it was on my end, but maybe not.
If I go to a page like http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/forumdisplay.php?f=7 I see no thread updates in the last 7 hours. I click refresh and may get a more up-to-date record. So far, very normal.
BUT, if I continue to click refresh, about every 4th time or so I get the seven-hour-old display back! It’s as though a stale cache is occasionally substituted.
Clear the router cache and bounce the WFE’s!
Going by the timing of when the problems started, obviously it iscyber warfare trying to kill the site…
Is this it? Has Skynet become self-aware? Are we at the robot apocalypse?
If so, I would make a wonderful administrator and supervisor of the human meat-slaves.
Told you that would work!
It’s The Rapture! Those of you (including me- I’m Jewish) who are here to discuss it: too bad.
checks groin, turns head and coughs
Nope.
Probably some Quantum Mechanical effect. Perhaps you should start a GQ thread about that. 
Glitch in the Matrix; Proof we’re living in a simulation.