Murphy strikes back (I broke the forums)

Feedback, Help and Testing Forum Technical Assistance
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Take the night off everyone cause it looks like I broke the forums. [B)]

I’ve heard from a number of people about being unable to post messages. I think I know what the problem is and will fix it first thing in the morning.

In regards to the forum performance, it is rather horrible at the moment. If I can’t get the performance issues resolved in the morning, I’ll re-enable the forums on the original server while we get this figured out.

My apologies to everyone. This move was supposed to improve things, not make it worse.

Hopefully when things get back to normal tomorrow, you’ll all have plenty to talk about other than how I broke the forums…

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That’s too bad. I guess the only bright shining moment is I don’t have to wait to talk about how you broke the forums!

Ah, kicking a man when he’s down isn’t as much fun as you would think. [:(]

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Okay, the problems in regards to not being able to post messages, update profiles, upload avatars, etc. should be fixed now. If you’re reading this and unable to post, please send an email to webmaster@finescale.com with “FSM - unable to post” (or something along those lines) in the subject.

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I guess this test post says I can post, but I’ve noticed the Forum load times seem longer than what I’m used to.

Regards, Rick

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Glad you got it working fast enough for my boss not to notice in increase in my work performance. [;)] [(-D]

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I made a small tweak. I’m going to let it run on this server for awhile longer. If you would please let me know if it seems to be running better or worse than before, I would really appreciate it.

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If I click on a topic header, it seems load reasonably quickly. When I try to go to another page in the post it either takes a really long time or just sits there.

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[#ditto] I have to press F5 to refresh the screen when it sits there.

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Also, nothing happens when I click on the “PM” button to send a private message.

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Hay Dave still loading slow, the main FSM logo with Galleries,articles etc loads first and takes anywhere from 12 seconds to 30 seconds to load the rest of the page.

See what happens when you fix something that dont need fixed[:P][:D]

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Ok, the forums are working great for me now, very fast. (Oct 11, 9:25am PST).

Edit: Hmmm… sometimes they go really fast for a bit, then it bogs down to a crawl again. Very sporadic.

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It works but it is slow. So David tell us what you did to tick off the server gremlins.

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It seems that your login is working too well, let me go fix that. [;)]

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[:D] Well you know that goes Dave

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Well for now we have two urls for the forum. So take your pick. [:)]

http://www.finescale.com/fsm/cs/forums/

/forums/

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AAAAAAAAAAAGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH[banghead][banghead][:P]

I’ll use the one that works[:D]

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If you want to know, it is still sometimes very slow, sometimes very quick to navigate thru the forum.

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Which url are you using? cs.finescale.com or www.finescale.com?

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You might want to check the smilies, David. Some aren’t working for some people.

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yes, thats true. ARG!!! like in my MSN, i cant se those d*mn smileys