If you got a "too many connections" message, I don't think there's anything we can do about it until morning. We need to figure out who's sucking the life out of our connections.
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Do you have problems, concerns or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.
Kristen - Sep 21, 2003 9:00:22 pm PDT #4996 of 10000
Daisy Jane - Sep 21, 2003 9:01:35 pm PDT #4997 of 10000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
And then kill them?
Maim?
Smack 'em around a bit?
Fine. How about looking at them witheringly?
Kristen - Sep 21, 2003 9:02:40 pm PDT #4998 of 10000
Okay, I can't believe this is just an innocent "someone hotlinked to a thread and a bunch of people went to read what it said". It's 11 PM on a Sunday night on the West Coast.
And I don't know what we're going to do. If we figure out where it's coming from, we can always report them.
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 21, 2003 9:12:20 pm PDT #4999 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
In addition to the fatal error messages other people have been getting, I've also gotten several pages that only loaded the logo, quote, and text at the top of the page down to the "Threadsuck" line, with everything below that being blank. Admittedly I know nothing about programming, but that sounds like something going wonky in the site's coding rather than just me getting bounced due to no available connections.
P.M. Marc - Sep 21, 2003 9:12:42 pm PDT #5000 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
It's a SLOW 11pm on a Sunday night on the West Coast, as well.
Not just here, but at all my online haunts. What sort of logging do we have?
Nilly - Sep 21, 2003 9:33:42 pm PDT #5001 of 10000
Swouncing
if we go over, we get that handy dandy, and yes annoying, error message. As opposed to flying way way over and getting yanked.
And it's so much better, at least in my eyes, to wait a couple of minutes and then try again, when compared to the whole board being closed. Kristen, many thanks for you and your colleagues.
In addition to the fatal error messages other people have been getting, I've also gotten several pages that only loaded the logo, quote, and text at the top of the page down to the "Threadsuck" line, with everything below that being blank.
Me too.
This is strange. This is morning in my timezone, so I'm quite familiar with the hours the Phoenix Board is mostly asleep in, and this is one of them - my Monday morning (and also 'my' Sunday morning) are the most quiet hours of the board.
Is there anything helpful I can do while almost everybody is not-here? I'm going to keep looking and see if I get those messages in the hours that practically no new posts are being made, anyway. If I do, I guess it has a meaning, only I have no idea what that meaning may be.
Lee - Sep 21, 2003 9:34:27 pm PDT #5002 of 10000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I just got the same message several times, even this late.
helentm - Sep 21, 2003 9:35:43 pm PDT #5003 of 10000
Religion isn't the cause of wars. It's the excuse. - Christopher Brookmyre
Okay, a bit disturbing, but glad to know it's not us. And Kristen, good work on error message, this way we can just leave when the board overheats, instead of not even realising. Which is what I'll do now :).
Kristen - Sep 21, 2003 9:37:34 pm PDT #5004 of 10000
I actually can't take credit for it. It was as much of a surprise to me that they implemented it as it was to you guys.
Daisy Jane - Sep 21, 2003 9:38:49 pm PDT #5005 of 10000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Seems that it's calmed back down whatever it was.