The board's been slow, but internet at the U has been craptastic lately.
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Board's been slow (both navigating and posting), and I've been seeing the erroneous new post numbers on the individual threads.
And I apparently, didn't get a "new" message in Press when Sophia announced the results of the gaming thread vote.
Seems posting is sluggish for me today. Viewing is A-OK-fine. Posting.. takes a few to get it out there.
I'm having that thing where "Read New" shows me a couple of messages I've seen already.
I noticed last night that there were a couple times when a thread would tell me it had new poosts but when I clicked over I had read them already.
Over the last couple of days, I've seen a couple of "post 213 of 212" type things.
If you think these issues are bugworthy, make sure you're putting them in the bug tracker. I can't guarantee that'll make them go away, but it's a good list mechanism. I will need specifics about thread and post numbers and times, though.
Pages are loading quickly for me, but posting still takes a while. Like, a noticeable while. Just FYI.
I poked at the board hosts to find out what we'd have to do to get to PHP 5+ and PostgreSQL 8+ as has been discussed in the past. They suggested a new server, naturally, with a new version of Plesk, at $10 more per month.
Is this market standard? I do remember the last time we had this discussion the Plesk upgrade wasn't on the table from them, but PHP 5 at least had been out for quite a while.
I'm searching through the thread, and it looks like this is the normal time for my annual CAN I HAZ POSTGREASQL?
Of course, now that I've bumped into Ruby on Rails it's become apparent that my ancient maiden aunt could code the board in her sleep, but there you go.