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CrewMember169CrewMember169 Registered User regular
I get this message about half the time I try to reach the forums. Please feed the hamster or grease his wheel. Thanks much.

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  • Hank_ScorpioHank_Scorpio Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Same

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  • WillethWilleth Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    The forums are due an upgrade very soon. Either this is just proof that it's necessary, or a result of them setting up the new board.

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  • Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    edited April 2011
    I think they may be testing the new forum setup on their own servers before they get everything set up on the cloud hosting.

    Which would do nasty things to the regular servers I guess?

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  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    edited April 2011
    It's not related to the new forum. One of our servers is down so we're running at capacity at peak times.

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  • TamTam Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    How often is everyone getting these? I get a few per minute.

    edit: or at least I was around 5pm or so.

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  • NappuccinoNappuccino Surveyor of Things and Stuff Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    I'm not sure. I get one then go to other sites for 10 min or so, come back open a few threads/pages, get one and repeat.

    No sense making it harder on the sever by trying multiple times in one min.

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  • TamTam Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    I guess so
    I just tried to reload the page twice
    I doubt it makes that much of a difference
    sometimes I get in

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  • Chris FOMChris FOM Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    I get them multiple times per day, probably about 30-40% of the time I try to open them. It seems to be random, persists for a few minutes, then goes away. Once I've succeeded in getting to the forums, however, I've never had it show up. It's only when I first open them.

    Edit: Of course when I try to make this post, it happens to me for the first time while I'm actively on them.

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  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited April 2011
    It's a known issue. They're down a server, and what you're doing doesn't really have anything to do with how likely you are to get the message. It's simply a matter of how many people are on the forums at that time. More people, more server busy messages.

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  • KainyKainy Pimpin' and righteous Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Is there anything we can do to help lessen the load, aside from just avoiding the forums?

    Also, any ETA for when the server will be fixed/replaced?

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  • StormwatcherStormwatcher Blegh BlughRegistered User regular
    edited April 2011
    I'd just like to say that, as this is a FREE service, I don't mind the occasional problems, and I know I'm not entitled to anything. I'm thankful that this place exists at all, and I understand that shit breaks down once in a while. I also wanna thank the people that keep this up, and we users all can live with the error messages for a while.

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  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    edited April 2011
    It seems that our dead server is unsaveable, so I'm afraid the problems at peak times are going to continue until the forum software upgrade. I don't have a precise time frame yet, but it is a priority and we'll have it up as soon as we can.

    Tube on
  • MechMantisMechMantis Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    It seems that our dead server is unsaveable, so I'm afraid the problems at peak times are going to continue until the forum software upgrade. I don't have a precise time frame yet, but it is a priority and we'll have it up as soon as we can.

    Cool!

    Sucks about the server, but thanks for all the work you guys are putting in.

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  • AnteCantelopeAnteCantelope Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    I'm not sure if this is the same issue, but all posts now have a vertical line running down the page next to them. Is this intentional? A sign of a server meltdown? Worth mentioning at all?

    Also, I wanted to say something like what Stormwatcher said, but his sounded better than mine would have, so: "What Stormwatcher said."

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  • RamiusRamius Joined: July 19, 2000 Administrator, ClubPA admin
    edited April 2011
    I'm not sure if this is the same issue, but all posts now have a vertical line running down the page next to them. Is this intentional? A sign of a server meltdown? Worth mentioning at all?

    Also, I wanted to say something like what Stormwatcher said, but his sounded better than mine would have, so: "What Stormwatcher said."

    could you post a screenshot of the vertical bar thing? I don't see it here on Firefox 3.6

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  • AnteCantelopeAnteCantelope Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Ramius wrote: »
    I'm not sure if this is the same issue, but all posts now have a vertical line running down the page next to them. Is this intentional? A sign of a server meltdown? Worth mentioning at all?

    Also, I wanted to say something like what Stormwatcher said, but his sounded better than mine would have, so: "What Stormwatcher said."

    could you post a screenshot of the vertical bar thing? I don't see it here on Firefox 3.6

    Sorry, that was at work on IE, I've just come home and it's not here (on chrome or IE). If it's still there at work tomorrow I'll post it.

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  • HappylilElfHappylilElf Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    I just started getting the verical bar thing. It started sometime just after the no avatars test (using updated version of IE in WinXP, doesn't happen Chrome). I'll post a screenshot:

    Odd.jpg

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  • AnteCantelopeAnteCantelope Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Yep, that's what I was getting too.

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  • GrobianGrobian What's on sale? Pliers!Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    That's probably the same thing that was discussed here. I guess it returned because a new version of IE does something strange with the gif?

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  • AnteCantelopeAnteCantelope Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    I'm guessing you've got more important things to worry about, but if you care to know: it's NOT showing up in IE 8.0.7600.16385, it IS showing up on my work's IE which I'm pretty sure would be older.

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  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Kainy wrote: »
    Is there anything we can do to help lessen the load, aside from just avoiding the forums?

    Also, any ETA for when the server will be fixed/replaced?

    The only thing I can think of other than not using the forums would be to disable avatars and sigs from your user options. Since most avatars, and the text portion of sigs are stored on and served by the forum server, enough people (probably would require a ton) doing that may make it a little better. Though I don't have any numbers on how much it would lessen the load if at all.

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  • SliderSlider Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Signed.

    How old was the server?

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  • RamiusRamius Joined: July 19, 2000 Administrator, ClubPA admin
    edited April 2011
    Kainy wrote: »
    Is there anything we can do to help lessen the load, aside from just avoiding the forums?

    Also, any ETA for when the server will be fixed/replaced?

    The only thing I can think of other than not using the forums would be to disable avatars and sigs from your user options. Since most avatars, and the text portion of sigs are stored on and served by the forum server, enough people (probably would require a ton) doing that may make it a little better. Though I don't have any numbers on how much it would lessen the load if at all.

    I tested the disabling of avatars last night and the effect was negligible. Those things are generally cached at the client for quite some time, so they aren't any real load on the server.

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  • RamiusRamius Joined: July 19, 2000 Administrator, ClubPA admin
    edited April 2011
    The vertical bar thing should now be fixed. Let me know if you are still seeing it. It's a goofy little thing that makes it come back like that when I edit the postbit template. I'd look into it further if we didn't already have plans to abandon this platform...

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  • ViscountalphaViscountalpha The pen is mightier than the sword http://youtu.be/G_sBOsh-vyIRegistered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Has this loss of a server hastened the abandoning of this platform?

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  • Romanian My EscutcheonRomanian My Escutcheon Two of Forks Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    I'm still seeing the vertical bar thing on Firefox.

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  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Ramius wrote: »
    Kainy wrote: »
    Is there anything we can do to help lessen the load, aside from just avoiding the forums?

    Also, any ETA for when the server will be fixed/replaced?

    The only thing I can think of other than not using the forums would be to disable avatars and sigs from your user options. Since most avatars, and the text portion of sigs are stored on and served by the forum server, enough people (probably would require a ton) doing that may make it a little better. Though I don't have any numbers on how much it would lessen the load if at all.

    I tested the disabling of avatars last night and the effect was negligible. Those things are generally cached at the client for quite some time, so they aren't any real load on the server.

    My dreams are crushed.

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  • GrobianGrobian What's on sale? Pliers!Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    I'm still seeing the vertical bar thing on Firefox.

    I don't have it on Firefox 3.6.16 (Windows, if that makes a difference)

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  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited April 2011
    Thanks for the update Tube.

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  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    edited April 2011
    Our current soft target for launching to the mods is the end of next week.

    Tube on
  • agoajagoaj Top Tier One FearRegistered User regular
    edited April 2011
    These servers sure seem to cause a lot of problems. I hope the new forums are serverless.

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  • darleysamdarleysam On my way to UKRegistered User regular
    edited April 2011
    The current hard target is being hunted by Arnold Vosloo.

    But seriously, thanks for all the effort in getting things up and running again guys.

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  • JustinSane07JustinSane07 Really, stupid? Brockton__BANNED USERS regular
    edited April 2011
    Has Alpha gone Office Space on the dead server yet?

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  • BobbleBobble Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Has Alpha gone Office Space on the dead server yet?

    Requesting video if/when this happens.

    Bobble on
  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    agoaj wrote: »
    These servers sure seem to cause a lot of problems. I hope the new forums are serverless.

    The new forum will actually be Alpha himself, with wires and plugs going directly into his brain.

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  • EndEnd Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Henroid wrote: »
    agoaj wrote: »
    These servers sure seem to cause a lot of problems. I hope the new forums are serverless.

    The new forum will actually be Alpha himself, with wires and plugs going directly into his brain.

    Sounds like fodder for a new hat

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  • BurtletoyBurtletoy Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Ramius wrote: »
    The vertical bar thing should now be fixed. Let me know if you are still seeing it. It's a goofy little thing that makes it come back like that when I edit the postbit template. I'd look into it further if we didn't already have plans to abandon this platform...

    Again, this is totally not an important problem, but what is up with the horizontal black bar that (I assume) is supposed to seperate sticky'd threads from the normal ones?

    In D&D this slightly thicker bar that seperates threads is after the 5th thread, but there are only 3 stickies.

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  • EndEnd Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    End wrote: »
    Henroid wrote: »
    agoaj wrote: »
    These servers sure seem to cause a lot of problems. I hope the new forums are serverless.

    The new forum will actually be Alpha himself, with wires and plugs going directly into his brain.

    Sounds like fodder for a new hat

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  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Yesss. Where is the hatless version of the image for those of us who want to try our hand at hatting?

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  • DisruptedCapitalistDisruptedCapitalist I swear! Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    All the more reason to visit the sponsors folks. That new server has to be paid for somehow.

    (And turn off Adblock fer'crissakes!)

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