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Post by xkamelx on May 3, 2004 16:20:04 GMT -5
Due to circimstances beyond my control, Temporal Reality has been experiancing extreme slow loading times during the U.S. Eastern evening hours. From around 4PM EST - 7PM EST.
These are peak hours for the server Temporal Reality is currently being hosted from, which likley also hosts thousands of other message boards.
I have looked into this problem at Proboards Support, and I discovered thier support forum is filled with dozens, and dozens of threads, with hundreds of people complaining about this, so it isnt just Temporal Reality, or our server, out of 30 servers experiencing this problem.
The only 'official word' I have recieved on this is "We are looking into it".
For now, all I can ask is that you guys bear with me during peak times when loading will be slow. I am not sure how long untill they fix this problem, but I can't imagine it being too much longer from now.
I do know for sure, that this problem should be fixed for good once PBV4 is released, which will give us all new features as well as a revamp of all servers, including our own. All of those details can be found in the New Upgrades/Features Comming thread.
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Post by voyager on May 3, 2004 17:54:59 GMT -5
call me an a-hole if you want Myke, but Proboards has known about these types of problems for 3 frelling years already. You would think that they would have had these problems with crappy servers fixed by now.
I remember when server 4 came into use, and the problems still persisted.
EDITED to change the profanity to clean versions
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Post by xkamelx on May 3, 2004 18:17:41 GMT -5
call me an a-hole if you want Myke, but Proboards has known about these types of problems for 3 frelling years already. You would think that they would have had these problems with crappy servers fixed by now. I remember when server 4 came into use, and the problems still persisted. EDITED to change the profanity to clean versions I agree. Apperantly all new servers will be put into use when PBV4 comes out. This seems to be an outbreak, as alot of servers are experiencing this all at once. I've been waiting on PBV4 for a year now, hopefully it will get here soon. Loading times are working perfectly now, but I guess peak times are over. call me an a-hole if you want Myke, Ok, you asshole
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Post by voyager on May 3, 2004 18:53:51 GMT -5
Well frell me raw you son of a bitch ;D Here I was polite and not violating site rules and TOS's for the first time in my online life and you call me names. to qoute South Park " You Bastard" EDIT: aww a filtered word I found yes I did
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Post by xkamelx on May 3, 2004 19:16:39 GMT -5
LOL The filtered word is actually the word meaning the same thing in an alien language on Farscape. They say it often like "What the frell is going on?" Who the frell are you" It's the same word but in thier alien language, so I thought it would be a cool idea
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Post by voyager on May 3, 2004 19:19:08 GMT -5
frak is the Battlestar Galactica equivalent
In my Algebra two class I have a girl that uses that instead of saying the F word
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Post by xkamelx on May 3, 2004 19:22:58 GMT -5
LOL I don't know if that's cool or not
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Post by voyager on May 3, 2004 19:27:15 GMT -5
actually I think it is.
She is a sci fi freak also, and once she gets better I am gonna tell her to check this site out
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Post by ConqueringWolf on May 3, 2004 20:17:44 GMT -5
yea..I noticed for a while the site wasn't loading at all today.....hopefully they fix this all soon....i know they 'say" all the servers are upgraded to the best they make and stuff...of course that wont be enough at this rate...but I am not going to be like some people on the support board and cuss ryan and pat out....i am just happy proboards is here ;D
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Post by voyager on May 3, 2004 20:34:26 GMT -5
.but I am not going to be like some people on the support board and cuss ryan and pat out....i am just happy proboards is here ;D I feel that I have every right to cuss them out and anyone who has used proboards for the past 3 years has earned that right. Dont get me wrong, but they offer a free service and also offer pay versions, the money they raised for ad free alone could pay for WAY BETTER SERVERS than they use. Why do I know this? Because in 2001 when I first came to a proboard site, they had 4 servers only(#4 just came up) and now they are on 30 and have been promising a hue upgrade for over 2 years. Enough is enough. They need to fix their shit ASAP because this is bullshit when I have never heard of these types of problems at other free messageboard sites
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Post by xkamelx on May 3, 2004 21:08:22 GMT -5
Despite thier server problems, I still believe they are the best service when it comes to free message board hosting. Sure thier are few features that other have that I wih we had, like uploading directly to the site, even if it was for the paid version only, which would be ok for as soon as ad free is avaliable TR is going as free.
I have never heard of anyone loosing thier board, or loosing the information due to a server crash or anything like that on behalf of Proboards' fault. I'm not saying it's never happened, but I've never heard of it, and it's never happened to me in the 2½ years I've admined message boards with them. The support is also excellent, but i'll admit that's largley part to the volenteers such as Kapt, but if it's a problem a volenteer can't fix, an admin usually fixes it within 24 hours. Alot of other sites are not as fully customizable as Proboards. There isnt a single thing on this site I cannot customize, however there are a few things like the reply buttons and such that I simply choose not to cusotmize, at least not at this time, perhaps one day in the future when I redo the color scheme/theme. I also feel the layout of the boards is perfect, and easy to navigate, and will become even more so with the option of sub catagories withing boards in PBV4. I can even mimipulate the cells on the main page with custom coding, such as I have done to add a seperate moderator cell on the main pahe in Internet Explorer.
The TOS is a bit extreme, but I understand where they are comming from, operating out the U.S. a lawsuit happy country, but besides, the mandatory TOS dosent really hinder anyone's ability to have fun, ecspecially on a sci-fi site such as this where flame wars and porn really dosent fit in.
I decided to stay with Proboards when I registered Temporal Reality for all of the things I listed above, and for the fact I know TR will still be here tomorrow when I wake up, and not gone because of a server crash or anything related.
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Post by voyager on May 3, 2004 21:23:51 GMT -5
What is the official reason that they are not offering ad free Myke
There have been boards lost before.
Remember the very first XFWL boards did lost about 1/4 from a server crash, which they did acknowledge was there fault, also remember the headaches to put the threads we did get back into the proper places as well?
That was the main reason I created the back up board on another server and on another free messageboard as well.
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Post by voyager on May 3, 2004 21:28:09 GMT -5
And before people start bombarding Myke with PM's asking who the hell I am, Myke knows me very well, we have known each other online since 2001, and we go way back really.
We are great friends(sometimes enemies) but we trust each others opionions and all that.
I am not saying for this site to leave probopards at all, I'm just stating that proboards needs to get their act together because it is ridicoulous that they are still having the same problems they have been having for the past 3 years is all.
Myke will tell you, I never waste an opportunity to raise Patricks defenses at all either(me and him had a little issue 3 years ago) but I agree with Yke that proboards is the best free site there is, but they can improve to stay the best as well.
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Post by xkamelx on May 3, 2004 21:56:49 GMT -5
Yes, I did forget about the first XFWL board on server 6. Didnt Patrick allow you and SF access to the server to move all of the threads back to the board? I didn't help move them because I think I was working that day or something. Wow that seems forever ago.
I stand corrected, but I'd like to think the servers are more realiable now, then 2½ years ago. That 'Too Many Connection' message that appeared on XFWL server 9 has now made it's way to Temporal Reality, but it's a safeguard to not le the servers overload to the point that they crash. Today's the first day I've seen it here on TR, but then again today's the first day this loading problem effected all the servers with open sign ups at once, at least from what I could tell at Proboards Support this afternoon.
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Post by voyager on May 3, 2004 22:08:42 GMT -5
No what they did was put all the threads back into the admin area and allowed us to move them back to the appropriate forumns. We did lose about 1/4 of the threads that were lost when it crashed but it took a few hours to get everything back in the right place because it wouldnt allow us to move multiple threads at a time.
Basically what me and SF did was one started at the top and the other at the bottom and we moved every thread one at a time till they were all back.
Yes proboards are nice andmore stable then they used to be, and if I wanted a messageboard I would go proboards.
Just I can never avoid not letting lose a barrage when warranted against proboards(I had a few run ins with them with RF as well)
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