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Geek Culture / Forum performance as of late

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dark coder
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Posted: 9th May 2007 17:26
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Hey,

This has really been bugging me this past week or so, the forums take stupid amounts of time to post or edit anything, this morning I timed it; it took 16seconds to post, and 11 seconds to edit that same post. Just now it took over 60seconds to post from which I manually refreshed the page due to it taking far too long. There seems to be immense lag starting from 10PM my time which resides for a few hours, during this time the forums either fail to work or take ages, also this isn't just a local issue as I've talked to many users who have the same problems. During these times the online count isn't that huge compared to others so I don't understand what the deal is, are the forums getting DOS attacked at certain hours of every day? are the forums backing up to floppy disks? I don't know about you but when you forget to copy a long post and it just times out after 5 mins of failing to post and you get some CGI error it's quite annoying.

I heard a lot of people welcoming the addition of the ads to the forum because they will help support the site and etc etc but if anything the forums speed has degraded to a point where you cannot even use it at times, what does everyone else think?

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Benjamin
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Posted: 9th May 2007 17:35 Edited at: 9th May 2007 17:42
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Same here, the forums have been pretty much unusable at times. It takes absolutely ages to make posts and sometimes I just get a CGI error.

So, when is Rich going to upgrade these forums to PHPBB?

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Dazzag
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Posted: 9th May 2007 17:46 Edited at: 9th May 2007 17:50
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Yeah, I thought it was my web connection (which can suck quite badly), but everything is fine now, but DB's website is still grinding this afternoon. Sometimes I notice it says a different website at the bottom when I'm waiting ages (and haven't got the mouse hovering over a link or bookmark). Will have to take more notice.

Cheers

Ps. When I posted the original message I noticed a problem, so I wanted to edit. But it took like 2 or 3 minutes to actually post the 1st time. Browsed a few other forums, made some posts, checked my mail etc etc. DB then posted the message. It just said waiting for the DB site, but at the end it mentioned transferring data from some google site (had syndicate in the name I believe) for about 20 seconds.

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Current fave quote : "She was like a candle in the wind.... unreliable...."
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zenassem
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Posted: 9th May 2007 17:51 Edited at: 9th May 2007 17:54
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Was much slower earlier today. Thought it was my wireless. Good thing for duplicate post/edit detection. Seems a lot better now, but still not snappy.

Scratch the a lot better now part.

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zenassem
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Posted: 9th May 2007 17:59
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Was much slower earlier today (about an hour ago). Thought it was my wireless. Good thing for duplicate post/edit detection. Seems a lot better now, but still not snappy.

Scratch the a lot better now part. :\'(

I don't think it can be DOS, only becuase I am able to browse the Forums just fine. It's only when I post or Edit that I have the 30sec to minute lag.

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Benjamin
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Posted: 9th May 2007 18:38
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I've just tried for about 25 minutes to access this page, that's pretty bad. It timed out twice after about 7 minutes, then said "service unavailable".

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Fallout
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Posted: 9th May 2007 18:42
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Seems to be made worse by the google ads as well. Sometimes the page loads down to the first google ad then just hangs. I wonder if that's the culprit?


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Phaelax
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Posted: 9th May 2007 19:34
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I've been noticing problems for the past week or two myself. Just very slow speeds.

Quote: " It just said waiting for the DB site, but at the end it mentioned transferring data from some google site (had syndicate in the name I believe) for about 20 seconds."

Wouldn't be the first time Google was the cause of a major delay of loading times on this forum.


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hessiess
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Posted: 9th May 2007 19:54
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the form has been extremely slow over the last few days for me as well.

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Diggsey
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Posted: 9th May 2007 21:18
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Same here


VISIT MY WEBSITE!
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Posted: 9th May 2007 21:22 Edited at: 9th May 2007 21:24
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I haven't noticed any problems yet. But maybe there will be when I post this.

EDIT: Nope, posted in less than a second.

EDIT: Also edited that last one in less than a second. (Probably less than half a second)

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Benjamin
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Posted: 9th May 2007 22:05
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Quote: "But maybe there will be when I post this."

The forums aren't slow around this period of time.

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heartbone
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Posted: 9th May 2007 22:20
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The forums seem quite zippy here for me on dialup too!

I'm unique, just like everybody else.
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Dazzag
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Posted: 9th May 2007 22:26
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Yeah, but we are talking hours later now...

Cheers

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Posted: 10th May 2007 01:03
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I'll keep checking back to see if it's slow then.

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Agent Dink
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I sometimes notice a posting lag as well, however what really bothers me is that sometimes I have to wait for about 5 minutes to load a new thread. The whole site just locks up and suddenly after a few minutes it all just starts to load like normal.

I have no signature...
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The ARRAYinator
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Posted: 10th May 2007 02:37
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Ive noticed this to. I used to think it was the my schools web connection until it happened on my pc at home.

Quote: "I sometimes notice a posting lag as well, however what really bothers me is that sometimes I have to wait for about 5 minutes to load a new thread. The whole site just locks up and suddenly after a few minutes it all just starts to load like normal."


Happens here to and it can get quite annoying,lol



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spooky
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Posted: 10th May 2007 02:43
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It's flying along at the minute and posting is really quick but a lot of the time recently, specially this afternnon it has been really slow and posting was taking at least 30 seconds and viewing threads was taking anything up to 30 seconds. I just gave up trying to view anything and did some work instead.

Boo!
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Gil Galvanti
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Posted: 10th May 2007 03:04
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yeah, sometimes it will time out for me it takes so long and sometimes it loads in a second.


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Posted: 10th May 2007 04:34 Edited at: 10th May 2007 04:34
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It wasn't working at all earlier, it said that they were doing updates at first, then it said that it couldn't connect to the server. That only lasted for about 5 minutes then it worked again.

EDIT: Still posting quickly.

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Jeremiah
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Posted: 10th May 2007 04:45
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I did a visual traceroute on them and I wasn't aware they were hosting in the united states.

For those of you having problems, where are you located. Country and or state/city.

It appears that the oc3 lines they are contacting to are having problems. I never have any problems connecting to this site, but I am here in the USA
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Phaelax
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Posted: 10th May 2007 05:16
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ohio and i get problems. Its not all the time, but once in awhile its insanely slow to the point where i just give up.


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Gil Galvanti
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Posted: 10th May 2007 06:26
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Texas and I've only had a few problems lately, but more than the no problems I had before.


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Posted: 10th May 2007 06:56 Edited at: 10th May 2007 06:56
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It's slowing down for me now, but not too bad. It took about 10 seconds for my last post.

EDIT: This one was fast, though.

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Posted: 10th May 2007 07:17
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it happened to me alittle bit, but i'm fine

to the ones thats trapped inside of you, this is it!!
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Darth Vader
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Posted: 10th May 2007 13:04
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Browsing is always okay. But sometimes when I post or try to edit it take ages! At least 2-5 minutes! And I'm on Broadband!


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bugger me, what you people whining about? it's always been fine for moi

you 'kids' have it easy, try waiting for a Spectrum game to load, ah, now that was WAITING, I dunno... *shakes head*
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Dazzag
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Posted: 10th May 2007 14:03
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Neverending Story 128k version. Don't know of any Speccy game that took longer than that (about 15 mins). I'm welling up....

Heh, interesting factoid; a friend of mine could identify around a 100 spectrum games from their loading sounds (think it was *all* spectrum games until they started making bucketloads). Sad but true. He was going to go onto You Bet!, but for some reason didn't. Can't remember why not....

Cheers

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Quote: "He was going to go onto You Bet!, but for some reason didn't. Can't remember why not...."


because it would have been the least interesting thing they had ever done - ever, ever, ever?

"Beeeaaauuussssqrrraaaaaaiiiiiiooooookkkkllleuhhh"

"Manic Miner, second edition, 1984"

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Dazzag
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Posted: 10th May 2007 14:17 Edited at: 10th May 2007 14:18
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Quote: ""Beeeaaauuussssqrrraaaaaaiiiiiiooooookkkkllleuhhh""

Yeah, that was about right. He demonstrated on like 4 programs I picked at random. Was pretty good in a very geeky kind of way. Closest I got was starting to like the sound at one point (I was kinda tired) and even thinking it sounded like music

Quote: "Manic Miner, second edition, 1984"
Hah, yeah I remember that one. Wasn't it like very subtly different (think some sprites were slightly changed) because he got stuffed by the first publisher? So he then declared the 1st version was fully open to being copied (dropped the copyright) and made a slightly changed version for a new publisher (so under a different copyright). Something like that. Remembering from geeky school conversations 20 odd years ago

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My reference to 1984 and a second edition was highly inspired, I just wrote it without thinking! I knew that I had committed some useless facts to the back of my mind, but that is unbelievable

I just checked the facts, and it is correct

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Dazzag
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Yep. Think it was 83 then 84 for the 2nd one. Think the 2nd one was his own company or somesuch. Wish he would get his head together and finish megatree.

Cheers

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zenassem
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Well something must have changed because today everything has been fine. And I had been seeing the slowdown each day at the same time for the last few days.

Did anyone get any word on the Forum happenings? Was some sort of compaction, backup taking place the last few days?


Are they injecting another advertising change, like every time you post you have to watch an add? (Oh great, that might just give them an idea)

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It took about 5 minutes for the forum to load this time. But it's normal now.

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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It's been nippy for me recently. It used to be very slow.


Since the other one was scaring you guys so much...
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