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Title: Forums All Weird And Stuff
Post by: thunter34 on May 06, 2008, 03:36:18 pm
PM's and sometimes just the board in general have been acting all slow and weird for the last day or two.  Is this a sign of bad things to come?   :o
Title: Re: Forums All Weird And Stuff
Post by: Miss Philicia on May 06, 2008, 03:39:16 pm
I have not experienced this at all actually.  Do you ever use a maintenance program to clean out cache and log files, etc.?
Title: Re: Forums All Weird And Stuff
Post by: Dachshund on May 06, 2008, 03:44:32 pm
mines be acting kookie too.
Title: Re: Forums All Weird And Stuff
Post by: David_CA on May 06, 2008, 03:44:57 pm
I've got it here, too.  It's definitely not my connection and happens on two pc's.  
Title: Re: Forums All Weird And Stuff
Post by: thunter34 on May 06, 2008, 03:52:26 pm
See, philly?  Hmpfh!
Title: Re: Forums All Weird And Stuff
Post by: Oceanbeach on May 06, 2008, 04:12:43 pm
Here at my house in Calif., posting seems a little slow, spell check did not work last night and I went to log off and that wouldn't happen today.  ;D  Have the best day
Michael
Title: Re: Forums All Weird And Stuff
Post by: draco on May 06, 2008, 05:04:59 pm
Try this little test:

1) Log out of the forums

2) Try to navigate while logged out

When I did this response time returned to what I'd think normal for most web sites.  When I logged back in first I got a time-out error on the log in and after successfully clawing my way back response time is rather lacking.   Right now I'm waiting for a preview to be fetched... that is a T, not an L.  Preview is here after 25+ seconds.  Wonder how long this will take to post?  I already sent someone duplicate PMs thinking the first hadn't gone through.

Drac

edited to add well over 60 seconds elapsed before the posted message appeared.  We must be overloading the server dreadfully.

edited again to add as soon as I'd added the remark above response time was fine, so I guess I somehow fixed the problem.
Title: Re: Forums All Weird And Stuff
Post by: anniebc on May 06, 2008, 05:17:16 pm
I thought it was slow yesterday, but when I logged on 15 minutes ago it was fine.

Huga
Jan :-*
Title: Re: Forums All Weird And Stuff
Post by: draco on May 06, 2008, 05:24:00 pm
This is amusing. 

The icon in the browser tab with my post to the "Gotta love mom" thread is still spinning away but another tab shows the post is there.  When I press Post this one will ineluctably post immediately. 

Is it live or Memorex?

Drac
Title: Re: Forums All Weird And Stuff
Post by: Mouse on May 06, 2008, 05:33:32 pm
It's been absurdly slow for me the past couple of days, in some cases not loading for me at all.
Title: Re: Forums All Weird And Stuff
Post by: thunter34 on May 06, 2008, 05:44:40 pm
This is amusing. 

The icon in the browser tab with my post to the "Gotta love mom" thread is still spinning away but another tab shows the post is there.  When I press Post this one will ineluctably post immediately. 

Is it live or Memorex?

Drac

That's how it has been for me with posts and PM's.  It says it is still whirling around loading, but if you hit the back button or close it and return, it is there. 

This is just the way it acted last summer when it started going all bananas for everybody.

Heads up, tech staff.
Title: Re: Forums All Weird And Stuff
Post by: draco on May 06, 2008, 06:11:53 pm
What's really amusing is opening another browser (and possibly removing poz.com cookies) and using the site.  Response time has gotten slower in the last few minutes but it is like a T3 connection compared to a 300 baud modem with the brower I'm logged in on.  It's faster to read stuff logged out and if you really want to expend energy and time to post use your logged in browser.

Is this perhaps not a glitch or sign of overload but a new enhancement to help people make really sure they want to post?  It's having that effect on me, about to log out and crawl out from under this rock to see what's going on, briefly.  It's my night to host mah jongg so I must buy more sweet sherry and Ritz crackers.  There's still plenty of Cheez Whiz.

Drac

Call Ripleys!  I'm reading this post in IE while it's waiting to be published in Firefox.  We may have accidentally created a rift in time or a opened a door to another dimension.  Having recently seen the godawful movie The Mis(sed)t as well as Cloverfield (like the Statue of Liberty's head would fit in the middle of a one lane street) I fear nightmares may be ahead this evening.  If I die in my sleep from fright I guess I'll never know but I could wake up banned, a fate far worse than death. 

Title: Re: Forums All Weird And Stuff
Post by: richva on May 06, 2008, 06:48:02 pm
Oh....  You're talking about speed, connectivity, etc.  I thought "forums all weird and stuff" was referring to the recent hissy-fit-ness of the place.  It's been very much like "Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf" these days....

But, yeah, regarding speed, it's been a bit hinky on my Mac, too.
Title: Re: Forums All Weird And Stuff
Post by: BT65 on May 06, 2008, 06:56:44 pm
Yes, my responses are very slow to post.  This started happening to me yesterday.
Title: Re: Forums All Weird And Stuff
Post by: J.R.E. on May 06, 2008, 07:40:02 pm


Very, very sklow here also. had to hit the refresh button to make my last post go through


Ray
Title: Re: Forums All Weird And Stuff
Post by: thunter34 on May 06, 2008, 07:51:00 pm
If I die in my sleep from fright I guess I'll never know but I could wake up banned, a fate far worse than death. 

Never fear.  Some folks around here are great believers in reincarnation.
Title: Re: Forums All Weird And Stuff
Post by: Matty the Damned on May 06, 2008, 07:55:20 pm
Ja,

Obviously something is skewiif. I've had periodic problems with PM's timing out when I've tried to send 'em.

MtD
Title: Re: Forums All Weird And Stuff
Post by: Oceanbeach on May 06, 2008, 10:58:53 pm
It took an act of god (using the lower case "G" so I do not appear pretentious) well at least a few tries to log into the Forums right now.  ;D  Have the best day
Michael
Title: Re: Forums All Weird And Stuff
Post by: Queen Tokelove on May 07, 2008, 01:45:08 am
Guess I missed all the slowness and stuff. I just noticed that folks haven't been posting as much lately or certain threads are still hanging around that I thought would've been dead a long time ago. I guess no one has anything to talk about or is out enjoying the weather.
Title: Re: Forums All Weird And Stuff
Post by: edfu on May 07, 2008, 06:16:26 am
I've been having the same problems as everyone else.  Thought it was my lousy computer and spent some time cleaning up a little, to no avail. 
Title: Re: Forums All Weird And Stuff
Post by: BT65 on May 07, 2008, 07:28:52 am
I couldn't log on for the longest time this morning.  Things are still messy.
Title: Re: Forums All Weird And Stuff
Post by: mjmel on May 07, 2008, 07:37:33 am
Same here. Major hesitations and freeze ups when trying to log on as well as sending PMs.
Mike
Title: Re: Forums All Weird And Stuff
Post by: thunter34 on May 07, 2008, 10:26:11 am
Ack!   The PM's are all messed up!  You can't reply or quote PM's. You have to send all new ones.

This is devastating. 

(BTW....I now have almost 7,000 PM's in my cluttered box.  I so need to get rid of a ton of them, but there is some juicy information in there as well.  I hold Benj, Philly and Doxie primarily responsible.)
Title: Re: Forums All Weird And Stuff
Post by: Dachshund on May 07, 2008, 10:29:21 am
Ack!   The PM's are all messed up!  You can't reply or quote PM's. You have to send all new ones.

This is devastating. 

(BTW....I now have almost 7,000 PM's in my cluttered box.  I so need to get rid of a ton of them, but there is some juicy information in there as well.  I hold Benj, Philly and Doxie primarily responsible.)

You keep believing that Chatty Cathy.
Title: Re: Forums All Weird And Stuff
Post by: Peter Staley on May 07, 2008, 10:37:14 am
We ran some scripts this morning to clean stuff up, and it looks like it helped.  The scripts brought the forums down for a while, but everything should be working fine now.

Peter
Title: Re: Forums All Weird And Stuff
Post by: thunter34 on May 07, 2008, 10:41:47 am
No.  No, it isn't fine.  The PM's are all scewed up.  You can't quote or reply to them.  You have to send all new PM's each time. 
Title: Re: Forums All Weird And Stuff
Post by: Peter Staley on May 07, 2008, 10:48:29 am
I just tested replying to a PM.  Worked okay for me.  Are others having PM problems?

Peter
Title: Re: Forums All Weird And Stuff
Post by: Robert on May 07, 2008, 10:59:17 am
hi peter....peter

Yeah, I'm having problems with the PM.  I just got one and there is no "reply" option.  I have to write a new PM.  ("....not that there is anything wrong with that")

robert
Title: Re: Forums All Weird And Stuff
Post by: Peter Staley on May 07, 2008, 11:06:35 am
Tim -- can you try logging out, then logging in again, and see if that helps?
Title: Re: Forums All Weird And Stuff
Post by: Robert on May 07, 2008, 11:17:20 am
Peter

I just logged off and on again.  Still the same problem...no 'reply' option.

robert
Title: Re: Forums All Weird And Stuff
Post by: Dachshund on May 07, 2008, 11:23:11 am
Me too. My PM's only show delete, no reply or quote funtion.
Title: Re: Forums All Weird And Stuff
Post by: thunter34 on May 07, 2008, 11:25:30 am
Tim -- can you try logging out, then logging in again, and see if that helps?

Off and back on....still no reply or quotes for PM's. 
Title: Re: Forums All Weird And Stuff
Post by: Peter Staley on May 07, 2008, 11:32:04 am
Sorry, guys.  Something's not right, obviously, but we're not seeing it with our accounts.  If one of you wouldn't mind, please PM me your forums password so I can login using your account to see this problem myself, and help us diagnose it.  You can change your password, if you want, after I'm done.
Title: Re: Forums All Weird And Stuff
Post by: david25luvit on May 07, 2008, 11:53:37 am
Working fine down here..............
so far...........
Title: Re: Forums All Weird And Stuff
Post by: Dachshund on May 07, 2008, 11:59:19 am
Me too. My PM's only show delete, no reply or quote funtion.

My PM is back in working order.
Title: Re: Forums All Weird And Stuff
Post by: thunter34 on May 07, 2008, 12:01:01 pm
me, too
Title: Re: Forums All Weird And Stuff
Post by: Peter Staley on May 07, 2008, 12:41:51 pm
Tim, et al -- your PM functions might be missing again.  Please check.  I tried applying an SMF patch yesterday, and it messed everything up.  Uninstalling the patch doesn't work well either, leading to the loss of some functions for some users.  At this time, I've kept the patch off, but will need to spend some time with the tech team to fix the problems that removing the patch caused.

Peter
Title: Re: Forums All Weird And Stuff
Post by: Dachshund on May 07, 2008, 12:48:18 pm
yep, lost the quote and reply again
Title: Re: Forums All Weird And Stuff
Post by: Miss Philicia on May 07, 2008, 01:59:28 pm
still no problems
Title: Re: Forums All Weird And Stuff
Post by: Peter Staley on May 07, 2008, 04:57:13 pm
Okay, we restored some back-up files.  Can folks see their PM Reply and Quote buttons now?
Title: Re: Forums All Weird And Stuff
Post by: thunter34 on May 07, 2008, 05:03:25 pm
it's all working swimmingly for me right now...all functions, and it is fast as well. 

::fingers crossed::
Title: Re: Forums All Weird And Stuff
Post by: Matty the Damned on May 07, 2008, 06:06:01 pm
Aye-aye Captain Pete. All is ship-shape in the PM department.

MtD
Title: Re: Forums All Weird And Stuff
Post by: David_CA on May 07, 2008, 06:08:01 pm
It seems to be working fine for me, but I'm on my PC at home.  Thanks for getting it taken care of so quickly!

David
Title: Re: Forums All Weird And Stuff
Post by: BT65 on May 07, 2008, 06:50:12 pm
Everything's o.k.
Title: Re: Forums All Weird And Stuff
Post by: Peter Staley on May 07, 2008, 06:54:17 pm
Phew! 

I've never had an SMF patch mess up the forums like that.  Grrrr.  We're stuck at 1.1.4 for now, since 1.1.5 doesn't like us.  But I'm still looking forward to 2.0, which comes out this year (currently in its first public BETA release).  It has some really cool moderation tools, giving us even MORE power.  Ha-ha-ha-ha-haaaaa!

Oh.. and it's got some nice new features for members too.
Title: Re: Forums All Weird And Stuff
Post by: J.R.E. on May 07, 2008, 07:10:56 pm
Phew! 

I've never had an SMF patch mess up the forums like that. 


Yes, everythings great again. For a spilit second I thought it was my computer, as I had just put in Microsoft's latest XP- service pack-3 update. But that update been working fine now.


Ray