# Ridiculous **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [May 3, 2013, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculous/657463 "2013-05-03T23:43:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![R3d\_Anonymous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aeb1de/32.png) [@R3d\_Anonymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R3d_Anonymous)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2013, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculous/657463/1 "2013-05-03T23:43:55Z")
Alright, you have got to be fucking kidding me. I have experienced so many issues today. Today in the morning, it kept logging me in and out. Then today at home, I am getting DNS errors for a little bit. Then, since a few hours later (since about a half hour ago), I again couldn’t get the site to load and was getting DNS erros. Maybe after 15 tries the site would load barely and the read/unread timer was screwed up. It was saying the last post was like 6:29 for one forum I remember, and actually it was some time after 7:00 in reality. Then after that, I tried to post a complaint in About This Message Board and again I was getting DNS errors for about 10 minutes and finally it loaded after much of a hassle so I could post my complaint in ATMB. On top of that, the images are not even showing up correctly now. Not to mention, even The Straight Dope homepage wasn’t loading. ---
**Author:** ![R3d\_Anonymous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aeb1de/32.png) [@R3d\_Anonymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R3d_Anonymous)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2013, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculous/657463/2 "2013-05-03T23:46:09Z")
Double post due to severe site problems… ---
**Author:** ![R3d\_Anonymous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aeb1de/32.png) [@R3d\_Anonymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R3d_Anonymous)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2013, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculous/657463/3 "2013-05-03T23:47:43Z")
On top of that, after posting this thread, the thread wasn’t even showing up… Also overall, everything is super slow. See, even posting this reply is not working due to DNS errors. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![R3d\_Anonymous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aeb1de/32.png) [@R3d\_Anonymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R3d_Anonymous)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2013, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculous/657463/4 "2013-05-03T23:50:20Z")
Actually, I don’t think it’s DNS. This is the message I am getting from Chrome: This webpage is not available The webpage at [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/forumdisplay.php?f=2](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/forumdisplay.php?f=2) might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address. Error 103 (net::ERR\_CONNECTION\_ABORTED): Unknown error. ---
**Author:** ![R3d\_Anonymous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aeb1de/32.png) [@R3d\_Anonymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R3d_Anonymous)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2013, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculous/657463/5 "2013-05-04T00:01:12Z")
_ **Finally** _, I was able to get on properly! ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2013, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculous/657463/6 "2013-05-04T00:10:49Z")
Holy crap! A free (to you) website had server/ISP issues today! Alert the fucking media!!!1!!!1!!! ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2013, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculous/657463/7 "2013-05-04T00:11:34Z")
The site’s being extremely wonky for me today too. I’m surprised that I even managed to get the thing to load right now. Let’s see if this post gets saved… ETA: **Anonymous** , I don’t blame you for getting mad. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2013, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculous/657463/8 "2013-05-04T00:15:57Z")
I consider this to be the hamsters’ way of telling me to focus on work today. Message received, and mission accomplished. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2013, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculous/657463/9 "2013-05-04T00:28:50Z")
But it’s Saturday! I don’t want to work today! ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2013, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculous/657463/10 "2013-05-04T01:36:57Z")
Yes, there have been problems. See this thread. > **[Recurring connection problems](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=689998)** > > Is anyone else having problems with the board going in and out of existence? It isn’t affecting any other site, so I don’t think it’s on my end. Still, it seemed odd that no one else has posted about this–unless they just couldn’t. Closed as a duplicate