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Juggernaut76

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Re: Forum running incredibly slowly.
« Reply #15 on: October 12, 2020, 05:03:45 PM »
same it's been happening for over a week and it makes so I don't even want to check threads. THEREADS I STARTED.
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MaxBigfoot

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Re: Forum running incredibly slowly.
« Reply #16 on: October 12, 2020, 05:42:11 PM »
Yeah, it's an ongoing problem, there's a couple of threads in Site Issues about it.

I can't understand how salem, Zookie, and solvegas are patient enough to do what posting they're doing.  I tried to browse the forum today, and I don't have enough patience to do that.  I've only checked 4 threads, and I'm fed up.  There's over 50 threads worth of new posts, and I doubt I'll ever see some of them.

Posting pictures under these limitations is beyond me, I'm not willing to spend literally hours a day to do that.

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zeo

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Re: Forum running incredibly slowly.
« Reply #17 on: October 13, 2020, 02:55:21 PM »
I couldn't find a thread so I was starting to think it was only me that was experiencing it. It's click go take a nap or do something else and come back slow.

It's like it's a prolonged DoS attack or something aimed only at the forum. The rest of the bearchive seems fine. Or maybe the machine running the forum is in desperate need of reboot or some such. It's as if it is dealing with huge swap file or cache or something along those lines.

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solvegas

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Re: Forum running incredibly slowly.
« Reply #18 on: October 13, 2020, 10:43:07 PM »
This coming Friday will make it three full weeks since the forum went FUBAR ( Fucked Up Beyond All Reason ) .  :(

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Liam

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Re: Forum running incredibly slowly.
« Reply #19 on: October 13, 2020, 11:38:40 PM »
I know that people don't like to go post on another site, but this is just a reminder that this is (or was) the BEA's official reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/BEArchive/

I bring this up because with 3 - 4 minute load times I don't know how you people have the patience to post in these site issues threads, let alone the others.

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Liam

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Re: Forum running incredibly slowly.
« Reply #20 on: October 14, 2020, 03:39:04 AM »
Interesting.  This was the last Announcement that botcomics posted on their zendesk site:

https://botcomics.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360038284831-Unplanned-update-on-December-2019

^I wasn't here the end of last December when that other thing happened, so if that's been posted before, my bad.

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Trace

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Re: Forum running incredibly slowly.
« Reply #21 on: October 14, 2020, 10:28:37 AM »
Feels like hardware failure of some sort - the forum has to run on physical machinery, and it's not uncommon for a site to have its forum running on different hardware from the main revenue-generating portion of the site (which would explain why the revenue-generating sections of the BEA aren't apparently affected). The effect feels a lot like running software on a computer with either not enough processing power or not enough memory.
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"That word is 'Nazi.' Nobody cares about their motives anymore."

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TheZookie007

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Re: Forum running incredibly slowly.
« Reply #22 on: October 15, 2020, 09:37:39 PM »
I couldn't find a thread so I was starting to think it was only me that was experiencing it. It's click go take a nap or do something else and come back slow.

It's like it's a prolonged DoS attack or something aimed only at the forum. The rest of the bearchive seems fine. Or maybe the machine running the forum is in desperate need of reboot or some such. It's as if it is dealing with huge swap file or cache or something along those lines.

I keep shouting at the screen, "Have you turned it off and then on again yet?!"
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TheZookie007

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Re: Forum running incredibly slowly.
« Reply #23 on: October 16, 2020, 01:57:19 AM »
"Hey, you know, the Forum has been through a number of fastapazools in the past. We should migrate the hosting to the cloud maybe."

"That's a great idea. Give me a few days to research the best option."

"Hokay!"

(sometime in late September)

"Hey, boss, I think I've got it, let's move everything to Amazon S3."

"Cool, go for it."

"D'you think I should let the Forum users know or make a total backup of everything beforehand?"

"Nah...after all, what's the worst that could happen?"

"Hokay!"

(three days later)

"Hey boss, I've moved everything over to Amazon Glacial Services...things should be running fine now...."
AOC, HC, TW, BO, KH: FU. FUATH. 100x.

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solvegas

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Re: Forum running incredibly slowly.
« Reply #24 on: October 16, 2020, 06:44:35 AM »
I figure that the forum has been struck by one of mankind's oldest failings, sheer incompetence. It is very frustrating.  :(

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solvegas

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Re: Forum running incredibly slowly.
« Reply #25 on: October 16, 2020, 07:07:17 AM »
^ Sounds about right ....  :P :(

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Trace

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Re: Forum running incredibly slowly.
« Reply #26 on: October 17, 2020, 09:06:24 AM »
Also, the slowdown is bad enough that the chat function is completely broken (unless there's some workaround). Is there some unofficial alternative real-time chat frequented by Archive-goers?
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"That word is 'Nazi.' Nobody cares about their motives anymore."

- A.R. Moxon

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Breasts

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Re: Forum running incredibly slowly.
« Reply #27 on: October 19, 2020, 11:46:30 AM »
Seems to be FIXED!!!!! :D
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jmikeh

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Re: Forum running incredibly slowly.
« Reply #28 on: October 19, 2020, 02:36:11 PM »
Seems to be FIXED!!!!! :D

Much better speed from Oklahoma

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TheZookie007

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Re: Forum running incredibly slowly.
« Reply #29 on: October 19, 2020, 02:53:49 PM »
I figure that the forum has been struck by one of mankind's oldest failings, sheer incompetence. It is very frustrating.  :(

The loading speed's returned to normal! Hurray!!

(Now if they could just return the Forum's attachment limit back to 5 MB...baby steps... ;) )
AOC, HC, TW, BO, KH: FU. FUATH. 100x.