Report for 09-28-03:[ul][li] Great clickthrough speed and posting all the way past noon PST.[/li]
[li] Afternoon (evening EST) snarl of page refresh and posting turn around.[/li]
[li] Higher failure rate of “sneak through” post submits.[/li](Some timeouts still manage to complete text transmission without finalizing the signoff handshake. Upon a second preview, the post is shown as having been added to the thread. During the final stages of board gridlock, timeouts occur with “sneak throughs” occurring 3% of the time.)
[li] Update of latest contributors on forum pages can remain unchanged for up to ten hours so far tonight.[/li]
[li] One of my posts was lost.[/li](Can’t remember the thread now as I am not currently logging all posts. If the situation deteriorates, I will begin logging my posts again (and posting times from now on).[/ul]
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[li]9/29/03[/li] Everything seems fine, but I can’t get this feeling that someone is watching me… Stalking me. I heard the murderous server of chicago is on the loose. I hear he’s been taking threads from the Zenster district… Doing horrible things to them.
WAIT! What was that noise?
Investigating. If I do not reply within 6 hours, assume dead.
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Well, Quasi’s “Lottery and Stock … WTH” thread in GQ is shot to hell.
No OP present between the header and footer. When I posted a note to the mods, the forum then showed 0 replies, yet indicated that I was the most recent poster. Could be that I am viewed as the original poster or something.
Methinks it’s time to reset the server, or take all the hamsters out for a drink (or a bullet, whichever comes first).
Thread ID:
For me those times when you press submit and the thread either hangs or times out - the thread gets posted 99 percent of the time.
(I think I remember only one occasion when the post didn’t post)
Board slowness co-incides with the following occurences…
1 minute after I arrive here.
Whenever I spot an interesting thread (it’s fine before that)
Whenever I get a particularly good idea for a thread or reply to a thread (again, fine before that)
Whenever someone has said something dumb or wrong and I must correct quickly.
This used to be the case, but lately, it seems to be the reverse situation. When I have a post that times out, I always preview to check, and lately (this summer, or so), it’s not been posting the first time.
What is the deal here?! I think someone is swiping recipes and forgetting to put them back in the cookbook!
This behavior must desist!
And I (who have silently been observing for a few months) am at great puzzlement upon witnessing disappearing threadmarks.
Where are the VBulletin Police when we need them?
:eek:
Nitpick: Do you mean PST or PDT? I’m pretty sure that all of the Pacific zone states observe Daylight Saving Time, and we haven’t fallen back behind, yet.
Recently, it’s pretty apparent that the boards really choke up as the “lunch crunch” sweeps across the continental United States. From about 9:00 to 13:00 PDT the boards bog down rather badly.
Today, a pit thread started by Otto had its OP deleted and my GD “Lack of Modernization in the Middle East” thread posted, received three views and then promptly self-destructed. I’ve just noticed another missing post in the IMHO “Baby Shower for Guys” thread. (Now reposted.)
Time to reset the server or whatever it is that fixes this.
Well, that’s three different posts of mine that have gone missing from the IMHO “Would I want to eat the chicken’s feet served in Chinese Restaurants?” thread.
Someone’s tender ministrations are required. Hammer or no.
Okay, something really twisted is going on. I have never seen anything like this before. I’m trying to do a search in the BBQ Pit and after a while, the screen goes totally blank (white). The back button returns me to my forum search entry just fine.
Very strange. The progress bar shows the search function completing, but instead of the “Your search is now in progress” notification, I get a blank screen.
