# What just happened with the board?

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**Created:** [January 25, 2021, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-just-happened-with-the-board/931495 "2021-01-25T23:17:26Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 26, 2021, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-just-happened-with-the-board/931495/13 "2021-01-26T20:51:08Z")

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@codinghorror replied about this to my related thread in the Site Feedback forum (which is the forum I think he checks most often).

> [@Read only mode and composing posts](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-only-mode-and-composing-posts/931502/5):
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> Yes, we are looking at moving this instance to a more powerful cluster soon. Sorry about that. (Lots of history and data here, larger sites = more database and thus more power needed)

So it seems it was a load issue, and they’ll be fixing it soon by upgrading our (virtual) server.

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