# Something weird going on.... **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [August 14, 2001, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-weird-going-on/76268 "2001-08-14T21:18:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2001, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-weird-going-on/76268/1 "2001-08-14T21:18:01Z")
It takes no time at all to open a thread. It takes a VERY long time to make a post, five, ten, even fifteen minutes. The search engine also takes a VERY long time to work or it doesn’t work at all. ---
**Author:** ![headshok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e56c9b/32.png) [@headshok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/headshok)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2001, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-weird-going-on/76268/2 "2001-08-14T21:19:17Z")
As of right now, the OP of this thread isn’t visible. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2001, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-weird-going-on/76268/3 "2001-08-14T22:26:18Z")
OP visible, took less than 20 seconds to post. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2001, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-weird-going-on/76268/4 "2001-08-14T22:29:17Z")
Although, I must add… I obviously said 20 seconds _before_ I hit the submit button. At about 30 seconds, when the post had not gone through, I hit cancel and exited that window. But when I went immediately to the thread, my post was there. So, your post gets through, but you don’t realize it? ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2001, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-weird-going-on/76268/5 "2001-08-14T22:41:12Z")
Search engine took about 30 seconds for me just now. NOt too bad. I’m gonna hit ‘post’ for this message and then cancel after 10 seconds. Let’s check. ---
**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2001, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-weird-going-on/76268/6 "2001-08-14T22:48:16Z")
Weird… there are some blank threads floating around. And, it took over 5 minutes to post a few minutes ago (18.45 EDT, Tuesday), and opening threads is as fast as can be… ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-weird-going-on/76268/7 "2001-08-15T00:14:04Z")
Hmmm. The hamster must be out of crack again. Yeah, we’ve noticed the glitches too. Or bugs. Or features. 😉 No answers yet, but we’re working on it. Well, not me _personally_, of course. That would only make things worse. ---
**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-weird-going-on/76268/8 "2001-08-15T04:47:33Z")
I _think_ it’s fine now… We’ll see how quickly this post goes through. ---
**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-weird-going-on/76268/9 "2001-08-15T04:48:40Z")
Yep, it’s fast again. It might just be a 1am thing, I don’t know. I’m not complaining.