Forums are back up!

[kstu]

Please fix tapatalk.

this

 

[zinfamous]

I wonder if it's an overall problem with the dynamic1 redirect? that seems to be where page loading is freezing up all the time.

For me, anyway.

 

[Exterous]

Fix the forum.

How? We'd first have to find a group of tech people and hope a couple of them know something about whatever magical methods are involved in a website/forum :awe:

 

[kranky]

Glad you posted this, I kept refreshing the OT forum hoping someone would post that the forums were back.

 

[cronos]

avatar check

edit: woohoo!

 

[ThatsABigOne]

avatar check

edit: woohoo!

It is still a mess. At least the website is faster now.

 

[WaTaGuMp]

I've been emailing Anand ahead of every planned trip to the forums. That way, he can let me know if they are up before I attempt to log in. This saves me the frustration of trying to access the forums only to learn that they are down again.

I must say, Anand is a stand up guy. He's quite punctual in keeping me abreast of the situation on an hourly basis.

That sounds like way too much work. Can you send up a smoke signal to alert me when they are up. I have pretty good vision with my glasses on and should easily see the signal from down south.

 

[Kev]

it would be nice to get an update from the admins on what is going on with the site. (and no, I'm not talking about one of perk's silly sticky posts that tell us nothing)

 

[Jeff7]

I wonder if it's an overall problem with the dynamic1 redirect? that seems to be where page loading is freezing up all the time.

For me, anyway.

A little hosts file modification can fix that.

I had that issue pretty bad awhile ago - pages would time out because the dynamic-something server wasn't responding. Hosts file redirect to 127.0.0.1 = fewer timeouts.
Then we got vB, where the nightly timeouts can last for hours.

 

[Squisher]

This place reminds me of that documentary about the Making of Jaws. The shark is working, the shark is not working, the shark is working.

btw-search is not working

 

[Karstein]

There's forum maintenance every Saturday night from around 10-11PM PST to the small hours which is kinda irritating. Surprised it's scheduled at at a time when people are most likely to be up late. As someone else mentioned, I can't think of any other forum I visit that goes down for 'scheduled maintenance' like that.

 

[dud]

no more error 503: servers not found

edit:
oh.. and first poster since forums came back up.

OK ... recommend that you start a new thread taking bets as to how long they stay up until the next outage ...

 

[WaTaGuMp]

I bet if they used something else like Fusetalk, we wouldn't have any issues.

 

[SpatiallyAware]

There's forum maintenance every Saturday night from around 10-11PM PST to the small hours which is kinda irritating. Surprised it's scheduled at at a time when people are most likely to be up late. As someone else mentioned, I can't think of any other forum I visit that goes down for 'scheduled maintenance' like that.

Not only that, but why Saturday? It seems as though Tuesday or Thursday would make more sense.

I dunno, I just post here.

 

[Borealis7]

i had an error 503 again half an hour ago. (noon local time)

 

[isekii]

Looks like the forums went back in time.
This thread was locked and had 3 pages yesterday

 

[brentpresley]

Forums are much snappier for me today.

 

[crownjules]

Forums are much snappier for me today.

Yes, but still getting database error messages in spurts.

 

[GrumpyMan]

Error 503 just now. And Database Errors just now followed by another 503. Pitiful.

 

[mmntech]

Getting database errors like mad this morning.

 

[BoomerD]

Yep, database errors again today.

 

[hclarkjr]

same for me just now too. wish they would dump the cloud and go back the way it was

 

[leeland]

jeepers creepers...wtf is the deal lately...I think I am a semi-regular lurker...and it seems like the database error page is becoming for frequent each passing day...I had it three times today just randomly coming in.