This Board's Performance is Ass!

Just had a long one there.

Doing re-indexes in the middle of the day?

I was just going to reply with a anti-bathroom graffiti:

Here I stand
trying not to dance.
Tried to fart,
but I shit my pants.

However, since the board timed out 9 times before the quote function would work, I thought it would be appropriate to mention that. Normally I give up after the first couple of time outs, and come back later. This time, I was on a mission.

RED RUM.

Yeah. I sometimes think it’s God’s way of telling me to get back to work.

No, it’s MY fucking fault! Right after I posted, even with the smilie, I got bounced out for about 20 minutes! I cursed myself AND all of you!

Oops… :cool:

Yup - I got timed out, too, right after this thread. :dubious:

None for me yesterday, but quite a few today. It does get annoying.

The usual…had about 15 minutes of “cannot be displayed” about a half-hour ago. Happens once or twice a day. Don’t mind it any worse than I did yesterday. No better either, of course.

I’d complain, but hey, I know it’s just me, right? <shrug>

I had a timeout about three minutes ago. This one only took one attempted reload; sometimes they last for the 5-20 minutes others have described.

And yes, maybe it really is Og’s way of telling me to get back to work. But it’s my own choice goof-off time, dammit!

Much much better than it used to be.

I thought I smelled papaya!

Heh, you said ‘ass’. (And I’m timeouting too, but it’s not too bad here).

It locked down last night at about 9:30 Eastern for about 15 minutes. It would be pretty easy to determine whether there is an across the board lag in posting by running a query against the post times. If no one has posted for ten minutes or more, then there’s been something that has affected everyone.

It wasn’t one extended, 15 minute black out period. It appears more like the server had a 21 minute long epileptic seizure or the posting customers ran out of things to say (which I doubt is the case here).

At 9:14, posts were being made at the rate of about one per 15 seconds. Then a long long blackout followed by a couple intermittent posts between a pair of several minute long gaps, resuming with posts returning to their regular rate (4 per minute) at 9:35.

4 Posts @ Same Time – 877971 through 877974: 9:14 PM EDT
…12 Minute Gap…
1 Subsequent Post – 877975: Resumes at 9:26 PM EDT
…3 Minute Gap…
1 Subsequent Post – 877976: 9:29 PM EDT
…6 Minute Gap…
4 Posts @ Same Time – 887977 through 8877980: 9:35 PM EDT

I’ve been sitting here for the last hour or so, and have had numerous timeouts, so much so that I’ve grimly made sure to Copy and Paste every potential Reply onto the Clipboard before hitting Preview.

Along with finding other things to do in other windows, mostly putting random words into Youtube. Who knew there was that much footage of dust devils in the world?

Thump, thump, naaaaayyyyyyy, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump…
thump, thump, thump

It helps if you angrily drum your fingers on the table while waiting for the time-outs to subside. Whatever you do, don’t get up and stretch your legs, go to the bathroom nor feed the dog. That could cause you to miss periods of slow site response as well as the opportunity to get pissed-off about it.

That would be mid-morning for the European Dopers. Maybe they’re clogging the tubes. :smiley:

So your saying that crappy, sub-standard service should be put up with because there are other things you could be doing? An interesting take on how customer service should work.

Wow. Not one for the whole “reading comprehension” thing, are ya?
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