Slow Forums in the early morning

torbrex · 18 October 2014 at 12:20PM

I know that I have posted about this before and after much ignoring on MSE Towers part, I finally got the answer that it was due to the server backing up.
Well it has taking longer these last few days and now stretches to about one and a half hours from 5am to 6:30am.
The only threads that show on the boards during this period are new threads, additions to exsisting threads do not show on the boards or in searches, this can make question and answer sessions or any kind of conversations almost impossible to keep going.

There is also a problem with posting during this period, the forum just hangs when you hit the reply button and it leaves you unsure if the post has actually made it on to the board this causes double posts from people who don't know what is going on during this slow time period.

I can't be the only person that is affected by this slowdown even though i seem to be the only voice complaining about it, when the forum goes back to normal, all of a sudden there are 2 or 3 pages of posts showing up in the 'new posts' search with times on them going right back to 1 minute after the slowdown started.

C'mon early morning posters, back me up on this.......please

torbrex · 18 October 2014 at 12:26PM

Another thing that happens during this period.

If you happen to post on a thread that is 'turning a page' ie has reached 19 posts and the next post will start a new page, your post will 'disappear' and although the bottom of the page shows that there is a new page to go to, when you click it you are brough back to the top of the page you were viewing and the new post that you just made is not visible. The only way to get that post to show is to delete one of the previous posts on the page so that the new post is brought back and will then become number 19.

Lakshmi7 · 19 October 2014 at 5:18AM

torbrex wrote: »

I know that I have posted about this before and after much ignoring on MSE Towers part, I finally got the answer that it was due to the server backing up.
Well it has taking longer these last few days and now stretches to about one and a half hours from 5am to 6:30am.
The only threads that show on the boards during this period are new threads, additions to exsisting threads do not show on the boards or in searches, this can make question and answer sessions or any kind of conversations almost impossible to keep going.

There is also a problem with posting during this period, the forum just hangs when you hit the reply button and it leaves you unsure if the post has actually made it on to the board this causes double posts from people who don't know what is going on during this slow time period.

I can't be the only person that is affected by this slowdown even though i seem to be the only voice complaining about it, when the forum goes back to normal, all of a sudden there are 2 or 3 pages of posts showing up in the 'new posts' search with times on them going right back to 1 minute after the slowdown started.

C'mon early morning posters, back me up on this.......please

Here we go go again.

The site just hangs when you try to post a reply or a new thread.

You can't edit thread titles either, because if you do, MSE doesn't recognise the edit.

The site keeps crashing IE as well.

torbrex · 19 October 2014 at 5:41AM

Which IE version are you using and your operating system?

I have lost 2 posts this morning to a page change, I have changed my option to 30 posts a page and one of them has shown up but not the other one

torbrex · 19 October 2014 at 6:36AM

To add insult to injury, today when the forum came back to normal at 6:30, it logged me out

joansgirl · 19 October 2014 at 1:26PM

I've stopped posting in the early mornings coz I haven't got a spare 3 years to wait for the pages to load or for the post to appear

torbrex · 20 October 2014 at 5:56AM

In spite of the fact it has been over 8 hours since my last post, I still get the message saying that I must wait 30 seconds between posts, please try again in 15 seconds.

torbrex · 21 October 2014 at 5:52AM

Honestly, it would be better if you just closed the forum while doing the updates, it would be a damn sight less frustrating. :mad:

thewhiteavenger · 21 October 2014 at 5:58AM

torbrex wrote: »

In spite of the fact it has been over 8 hours since my last post, I still get the message saying that I must wait 30 seconds between posts, please try again in 15 seconds.

I often get that but I assume it was me accidentally pressing submit twice. Using the back button and refresh always shows that I made the post.

I usually come on here in that early morning period and can't say I have a problem. Maybe I'm just used to the site how it is at that time and it gets faster later? I use IE11.

Fruitcake · 23 October 2014 at 6:30AM

I get the same problem with posts not appearing unless I submit them a second time.

Smilies don't work for me at all unless I copy and paste them, and I can't do strikethrough which reduces my abilty to post comments with comedic effect.

I can't post pictures anymore either unless I upload them to botophucket first.

torbrex · 27 October 2014 at 6:57AM

I am clicking on a link that is 2 days old then scrolling down to see posts that have been made today.

Slow Forums in the early morning

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