Anybody Else Having Problems With The Board?

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2002-11-08 03:58pm

Darth Wong wrote:Search by author would still work. It's just search by keyword that would be nuked.

NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! I use the search very often. It kinda sucks though because you cannot search by phrase

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2002-11-08 04:00pm

You do realize what the final and most logical thing to do is, right? Make this a pay site. Yes, I know. We don't want that, but what choice does Mike have?

Arthur_Tuxedo · Post by **Arthur_Tuxedo** » 2002-11-08 04:06pm

Darth Wong wrote:Search by author would still work. It's just search by keyword that would be nuked.

Oh, well then nuke away

Lord_Xerxes · Post by **Lord_Xerxes** » 2002-11-08 04:16pm

Argh. This started for me last night, and it's been happening mor eand more frequently since. Seems like every time I go to do something on the board (change threads, switch a thread page, go to my pm inbox, etc) it does it. This fucking blows.

Lord_Xerxes · Post by **Lord_Xerxes** » 2002-11-08 04:19pm

Argh. This started for me last night, and it's been happening mor eand more frequently since. Seems like every time I go to do something on the board (change threads, switch a thread page, go to my pm inbox, etc) it does it. This fucking blows.

Ted · Post by **Ted** » 2002-11-08 04:27pm

Lord_Xerxes wrote:Argh. This started for me last night, and it's been happening mor eand more frequently since. Seems like every time I go to do something on the board (change threads, switch a thread page, go to my pm inbox, etc) it does it. This fucking blows.

Just because of this problem doesn't mean that you can double post. If it don't load when you post it, go back to the page it would go pnj and refresh it, if it dont appear, then go forward and hit post again.

data_link · Post by **data_link** » 2002-11-08 04:30pm

Kelly Antilles wrote:You do realize what the final and most logical thing to do is, right? Make this a pay site. Yes, I know. We don't want that, but what choice does Mike have?

KELLY! How dare you even suggest such a thing! <WORF>If you were any other woman I would KILL you where you stand</WORF>

Oh, and someone fix Xerxes double post.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2002-11-08 04:57pm

I consider Kelly's option to be one of last resort only. I've contacted the webhost and they said they're aware of the problem and looking into it. It looks like it might not be sheer overload, and may actually be some kind of software issue. If that's the case, then hopefully they can fix it and this will go away.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2002-11-08 05:00pm

The internet is a medium for the free exchange of ideas. If Mike makes it a paysite, he will be sacrificing the very values he smacks Micro$oft around with.

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2002-11-08 06:36pm

If you will notice, I did say FINAL thing. Geez. I was just throwing out ideas.

Cal Wright · Post by **Cal Wright** » 2002-11-08 09:44pm

Here's a question. If having all of the old threads and posts can cause a problem such as this, is there a way to delete the old ones, or find a way to archive them and freeze everybody's post count at thier current number and let it rise from there?

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2002-11-08 11:24pm

It isn't necessarily the old threads; that was just one possibility among many (presuming that database size is slowing down the engine). But I ran "top" for a while on the server and mysqld wasn't hogging resources; it was httpd. So I'd guess that they were having some kind of Apache-related problem. Maybe they can fix it.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2002-11-09 06:16pm

Hmm, it seems to have stopped for now. I seriously hope thats all that it was.

What might help trim that database down a little is deleting all the un-used accounts. They may be small, but they can add up.

Lord_Xerxes · Post by **Lord_Xerxes** » 2002-11-11 12:54pm

Ted wrote:
Lord_Xerxes wrote:Argh. This started for me last night, and it's been happening mor eand more frequently since. Seems like every time I go to do something on the board (change threads, switch a thread page, go to my pm inbox, etc) it does it. This fucking blows.
Just because of this problem doesn't mean that you can double post. If it don't load when you post it, go back to the page it would go pnj and refresh it, if it dont appear, then go forward and hit post again.

Ted, that's what I did. I didn't double post on purpose. Sorry about that. The problems were being horrific to me. I didn't mean it. I would delete it, but I can't figure out how?