# Why so many timeouts?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-many-timeouts/849815
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [March 19, 2020, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-many-timeouts/849815 "2020-03-19T17:06:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2020, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-many-timeouts/849815/1 "2020-03-19T17:06:24Z")
Is anyone else experiencing this? More than half the time when I switch fora or even threads I get a timeout. Nearly every time I post, I get a time out.
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### Author:  [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2020, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-many-timeouts/849815/2 "2020-03-19T17:10:38Z")
Are we sure this isnt a DDOS?
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### Author:  [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2020, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-many-timeouts/849815/3 "2020-03-19T17:14:25Z")
Yeah I’m getting it around 1/3 of the time, too.
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2020, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-many-timeouts/849815/4 "2020-03-19T17:59:18Z")
> [@Hello? Mods? TubaDiva?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-mods-tubadiva/848252/193):
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> …the system is not acting logically. It’s failing.
>
> We keep hearing of intermittent episodes of various things not operating correctly. I’m convinced we’re in some kind of death spiral.
…
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### Author:  [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2020, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-many-timeouts/849815/5 "2020-03-19T19:02:36Z")
I take back what I said earlier about getting the 504 timeouts only one-third of the time. By this point, it’s like 80% of the time.
Having the Dope work properly on my browser is now the exception, not the norm.
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### Author:  [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2020, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-many-timeouts/849815/6 "2020-03-19T21:24:43Z")
As I announced recently, the system is in its death throes.
It cannot be fixed.
We will be getting a new system soon. How soon exactly is not yet determined; this is not a decide it on Monday and get it up on Tuesday kind of thing. There is much work behind the scenes to make this happen before you see it and it takes time and etc to do this. And especially to do this properly; remember that whatever they come up with, we have to live with this for years to come and so let them do what they need to do and do it right.
I have copied over my announcement on this subject and stuck it at the top of this forum.
[https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=892110](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=892110)
I wish I had resolution for you today but I don’t. However, it is on the way.
Jenny
your humble TubaDiva
Administrator
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### Author:  [@Dude111](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dude111)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2020, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-many-timeouts/849815/7 "2020-03-19T23:45:48Z")
Its pretty good/fast right now 🙂
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### Author:  [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2020, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-many-timeouts/849815/8 "2020-03-20T00:07:16Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#):
>
> As I announced recently, the system is in its death throes.
>
> It cannot be fixed.
>
> We will be getting a new system soon. How soon exactly is not yet determined; this is not a decide it on Monday and get it up on Tuesday kind of thing. There is much work behind the scenes to make this happen before you see it and it takes time and etc to do this. And especially to do this properly; remember that whatever they come up with, we have to live with this for years to come and so let them do what they need to do and do it right.
>
> I have copied over my announcement on this subject and stuck it at the top of this forum.
>
> [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=892110](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=892110)
>
> I wish I had resolution for you today but I don’t. However, it is on the way.
>
> Jenny
> your humble TubaDiva
> Administrator
I know it’s a PITA to do this, but I think this is great news. I have so much trouble getting here then staying here that I figured the board was circling the drain. Very positive news indeed!!
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### Author:  [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2020, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-many-timeouts/849815/9 "2020-03-20T01:19:35Z")
> [@Dude111](#):
>
> Its pretty good/fast right now 🙂
Yeah, the past couple hours have been as good as in the middle of the night in the US. Much better.
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2020, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-many-timeouts/849815/10 "2020-03-20T04:14:08Z")
> [@EllisDee](#):
>
> Yeah, the past couple hours have been as good as in the middle of the night in the US. Much better.
“Middle of the night in the US” is irrelevant. I’m in the US, and I’ve experienced the most horrendous sessions in the middle of the night. Location and time of day are not factors.
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### Author:  [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2020, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-many-timeouts/849815/11 "2020-03-20T05:48:02Z")
Just admit it, the board has the Corona virus and we’re all infected now. Dr Jenner told me.
Do I actually need to add a smiley?
CMC fnord!
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### Author:  [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2020, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-many-timeouts/849815/12 "2020-03-20T06:31:38Z")
> [@panache45](#):
>
> “Middle of the night in the US” is irrelevant. I’m in the US, and I’ve experienced the most horrendous sessions in the middle of the night. Location and time of day are not factors.
I experience frequent, consistent, horrendous, almost-unusable levels of timeouts during the US daytime. During US nighttime I experience almost no problems at all. (Like right now, for example.)
EDIT: I imagine “location” is always irrelevant. I mean, the internet is the internet.
EDIT 2: Look at me! Editing, editing, no timeouts! This feels almost decadent…
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### Author:  [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2020, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-many-timeouts/849815/13 "2020-03-20T13:17:34Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#):
>
> Just admit it, the board has the Corona virus and we’re all infected now. Dr Jenner told me.
> Do I actually need to add a smiley?
>
> CMC fnord!
504 is how a web site coughs.
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### Author:  [@MindsEye\_Watering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MindsEye_Watering)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2020, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-many-timeouts/849815/14 "2020-03-20T15:56:45Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#):
>
> As I announced recently, the system is in its death throes.
>
> It cannot be fixed.
>
> We will be getting a new system soon. How soon exactly is not yet determined; this is not a decide it on Monday and get it up on Tuesday kind of thing. There is much work behind the scenes to make this happen before you see it and it takes time and etc to do this. And especially to do this properly; remember that whatever they come up with, we have to live with this for years to come and so let them do what they need to do and do it right.
>
> I have copied over my announcement on this subject and stuck it at the top of this forum.
>
> [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=892110](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=892110)
>
> I wish I had resolution for you today but I don’t. However, it is on the way.
>
> Jenny
> your humble TubaDiva
> Administrator
Thanks, Jenny.
It helps to know that a permanent fix is in the works.
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### Author:  [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2020, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-many-timeouts/849815/15 "2020-03-20T18:14:54Z")
^ +1
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### Author:  [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2020, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-many-timeouts/849815/16 "2020-03-20T20:58:27Z")
I got a timeout trying to access this thread to find out why I’m getting timeouts.
I was starting to take it personally!
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### Author:  [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2020, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-many-timeouts/849815/17 "2020-03-20T21:02:30Z")
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### Author:  [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2020, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-many-timeouts/849815/18 "2020-03-22T10:02:51Z")
This place flies at 3 am Pacific. At least my insomnia’s good for something. 😃
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### Author:  [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2020, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-many-timeouts/849815/19 "2020-03-22T14:16:44Z")
I’ve grown quite fond of a saying circulated by modern Buddhists:
**Relax. Nothing is under control.**
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### Author:  [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2020, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-many-timeouts/849815/20 "2020-03-22T14:25:12Z")
> [@Helena330](#):
>
> This place flies at 3 am Pacific. At least my insomnia’s good for something. 😃
+1!
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