No doubt many of you have encountered maddening glitches in the Board’s operation. We have contacted Dreamhost, and at the moment they are troubleshooting the matter. We are aiming for a resolution in whatever way we have to come to it.
The main issues are two: lag time when initiating functions (IOW, loading sometimes take much longer than is reasonable), but most glaring of all is an Error page upon hitting Submit. When this happens, your submission has actually been successful: just back-arrow to the post you were answering, hit Refresh, and your post will appear as intended. As to the slow load, I’ve had to resort to stop-and-refresh maneuvers, and sometimes this takes as much as a few tries. It’s unacceptable, and we hope it hasn’t chased people away. Please be patient. We’ll keep you all informed, so watch this space.
Dreamhost, who provide the server for our Board, have made a change, and, for me at least, the Board appears to be functioning normally for now. If anybody has any remaining issues with being timed out or having difficulty posting, please do let us know.
Connections seems to be slowing down, at times login attempts only successful after several times, a ‘service unavailable’ notice too, once. Trouble brewing?
Same problems again for the past week, from slowing connections to complete unreachability and from no longer being able to log in (doesn’t recognise password) to ‘service unavailable’ . Forum seems to be working now though (albeit, ot turns out, on and off. Editing in this caveat took five minutes login time and several more minutes to bring up pages). Is collapse imminent?