This just started happening to me on Thursday, but I just shut my browswer and went away. Then it happened again last night (Friday). I even got the DNS error for buffistas.org. I figured the site was down.
Hey! What a surprise! Hostile 17! Can I get you a drink, Hostile 17?
Xander ,'Dirty Girls'
Buffistas Building a Better Board
Do you have problems, concerns or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.
Cindy - Jan 18, 2003 4:36:12 am PST #2790 of 10000
Nobody
sj - Jan 18, 2003 4:51:35 am PST #2791 of 10000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I tried to post the other day and my browser shut down.
tralfamadore2001 - Jan 18, 2003 6:03:58 pm PST #2792 of 10000
"Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I got this quote:
I see your uhhhhhhhhhhh and raise you a gnyeh.
Xander, 'Prophecy Girl'
Which I think is from "Bad Eggs" and said by Buffy.
Elena - Jan 18, 2003 7:48:18 pm PST #2793 of 10000
Thanks for all the fish.
Hi. I appreciate all the hard work you computer type people do; but can I request that MARCIE be bumped a little higher on the to-do list?
John H - Jan 18, 2003 7:55:52 pm PST #2794 of 10000
I just did something kind of interesting and scary -- I downloaded an entire finished thread "the hard way".
This is, and don't try this at home, by setting your posts per page to 11,000 and clicking on the thread.
I downloaded the whole of Natter 6, 7.6 MB, in fourteen minutes. I found that I couldn't do anything else with the board (like, for instance, set my posts per page back to a much more sensible number) in the meantime. Any page I clicked on timed out until the download was finished.
Probably this is related to the browser not knowing how big the file was, because it was being generated on the fly, unlike with a static file.
I really hope nobody else experienced delays or stalls during this time.
Noumenon - Jan 18, 2003 8:14:54 pm PST #2795 of 10000
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
I, on the other hand, set my posts per page to 4000 today to get the last of Natter 6 and set them back to 40 while it was downloading. No problems. Threadsuck is going into the CVS very soon, and then it won't matter.
Jon B. - Jan 18, 2003 8:20:01 pm PST #2796 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I finished the threadsuck coding last week and I believe ita is checking it out this weekend (but don't hold her to that!).
DXMachina - Jan 18, 2003 8:35:45 pm PST #2797 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I downloaded the whole of Natter 6, 7.6 MB, in fourteen minutes. I found that I couldn't do anything else with the board (like, for instance, set my posts per page back to a much more sensible number) in the meantime. Any page I clicked on timed out until the download was finished.
I had much better performance than that when I did a whole thread download a while back, maybe 30 seconds to a minute for the whole thing on a cable connection. I have noticed lately, though, that I often seem to have trouble actually getting to the board this time of day, so it may not be a browser issue, but rather a server issue.
John H - Jan 18, 2003 8:55:19 pm PST #2798 of 10000
maybe 30 seconds to a minute for the whole thing on a cable connection
Modem here. Connected at 42667. So that explains it.
Vortex - Jan 18, 2003 9:57:23 pm PST #2799 of 10000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Hey guys. I know nothing about the actual workings of the board, but I have noticed that this quote
We die horribly and painfully, you go to hell and I spend eternity in the arms of baby Jesus.Gunn, 'There's No Place Like Plrtz Glrb'
appears at least once every time I'm on the board. And I'm here fairly often, so I notice it a lot.
Just FYI. or something.