That's happening a lot since we went over our connections.

I don't ever remember it happening 3 times at once, though. Do you?

I'm not sure what you mean. It's happened at least a dozen times in the past three hours. I think it's related to this new error message thing.

I meant that I've seen some strange things with post numbers on this board in the past, but not 3 'strange things' at once.

It's happened at least a dozen times in the past three hours.

I didn't know that. Your 'connection' theory looks quite reasonable to me, too (but I'm quite ignorant in these things, so my opinion doesn't really matter).

Oh gotcha. Yeah, I think the two are related. I know we've had weird post number things happen but not so many at once. At least once tonight, I went to post, got the error message in response and, while my post didn't appear, the next post number skipped.

ETA: Like what just happened with this post.

ETA: Like what just happened with this post.

And when I tried to read it, I got the post-less screen, like Matt described earlier, and needed to refresh a few times before I saw your post.

[Edit: and I got the error message twice now before I managed to post, and this post # is 2 numbers ahead of what it should be]

For reference, I'm getting

September 22, 2003, 12:38 am Am-Chau Yarkona[354]: ERROR [2] mysql_connect(): User bufforg_phoenix has already more than 'max_user_connections' active connections line 77 of file /home/bufforg/public_html/classes/giles.php

There has been an error. It's of the type we call fatal. Please don't be scared. You're not the one that's going to die.

Okay, where the $$&#&(@#& are the developers?

messages, maybe in seven of ten attempts to 'read new'. So you know.

I refreshed my message center and got the header, my name and the logo, no threads listed.

After another refresh I got the whole page, and there was a new message in one of the threads (well, here, as a matter of fact).

The following time I refreshed my message center there was no problem, and there were no new messages.

Lather, rinse repeat. When the message center is being refreshed without problems, there aren't any new messages showing on it. Once it had no new messages, but when I went to the home page, there was a new one posted right then.

Can the half-blank screen have anything to do with the fact that there was a change in the database (a new post)? I am completely juggling geese at this point, and - of course - have no idea what I'm talking about. Just wanted to point out something that may look like a pattern.

I just got a message centre with normal threads listed down the middle, and the error message in the right-hand column. It's like it connected okay for some of it, but not for all of it.

OK, now I needed to refresh a few times without any new message anywhere I could see. Forget my pet theory, then.