Finding your way around ... The Help Thread

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Re: Finding your way around ... The Help Thread

Postby Angel on 26 Jan 2010, 18:58

It's SO slow for me as well... :oO:
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Re: Finding your way around ... The Help Thread

Postby Klee on 26 Jan 2010, 20:44

it is really weird today, I sometimes get a blank page after loading the page for ages...
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Re: Finding your way around ... The Help Thread

Postby Mini-ni on 26 Jan 2010, 21:05

yes it's really slow, especially the random & fucking spamming hardly loads, even if i click on a special page of it. some times of the day it's better than others but well... that server hates us at the moment.
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Re: Finding your way around ... The Help Thread

Postby Luzie on 26 Jan 2010, 21:13

I have the same problems but I have remarked another new thing. I get an e-mail again when someone has written me a PM but the e-mails are different than the previous e-mails. The sender is team@placebofansww.com and in the end it says Thanks, The Management. So maybe there is some kind of forum renewal running?
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Re: Finding your way around ... The Help Thread

Postby ziggsy on 26 Jan 2010, 21:40

I tried to open other threads and gave up after a couple of minutes when nothing happened. This one opened but it took 4 minutes 11 seconds. ::W:

R&S has been opening poorly for quite some time now, I thought it was because it's so long thread but this is something new.
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Re: Finding your way around ... The Help Thread

Postby picassoblue on 26 Jan 2010, 21:59

About Ram + Spam... I noticed that very popular forums like Mika and The L Word have a new thread every now and then when it gets too long. I had assumed it was because their site hosting is poor and can't take it, but it might be easier to have a new Spam thread... ::2:

Now for what I was going to say .. I couldn't open R+S at all for about an hour, and it took me about ten goes to get into this thread, the index page loads poorly but for me is the only thing that usually works.

edit: by the way I am only clicking submit once and for some reason it shows my post twice above me in the "somebody posted before you" page, so I'm assuming the forum is somehow submitting it more than once. :oO:
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Re: Finding your way around ... The Help Thread

Postby Dominic on 27 Jan 2010, 11:20

picassoblue wrote:About Ram + Spam... I noticed that very popular forums like Mika and The L Word have a new thread every now and then when it gets too long. I had assumed it was because their site hosting is poor and can't take it, but it might be easier to have a new Spam thread... ::2:

We [mods] already talked about that and we decided not to open up a new one. :^^: Unless Sarah has changed her mind.
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Re: Finding your way around ... The Help Thread

Postby rougevelvet on 27 Jan 2010, 12:15

^ This.

Also the forum slowness is for everyone. Even for really short threads yesterday I could barely get it to load, and this week I've had to try threads a few diff times. Yesterday was the worst though.

Sounds like a server issue.

Hopefully the drain is not caused by too many members here otherwise twill cost a fortune to get a dedicated server
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Re: Finding your way around ... The Help Thread

Postby poetress on 27 Jan 2010, 13:23

I usually find the speed ok at lunchtime (13:00-14:00 uk time) but it has been unbelievably slow in the evenings this week. Last night was the worst so far. It was taking ages to load anything except the index page and a couple of threads took so long to open I gave up :(

I also had random weirdness like i was typing a reply (on the post reply page, not quick reply) and I backspaced a couple of times and the page suddenly reverted to what I was looking at two pages ago *confused* How can that even happen???

I would say that the fact it only runs slow for me in the evenings points to server overload, but it has also happened when there are only about 12 people listed as being online so unless we have hundreds of invisble users that doesn't really explain it...

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Re: Finding your way around ... The Help Thread

Postby Angel on 27 Jan 2010, 13:28

Yeah but we're not on a dedicated server, so maybe it's another forum on the same server that is causing the lag?? It is definitely worse the later it gets.
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Re: Finding your way around ... The Help Thread

Postby rougevelvet on 27 Jan 2010, 16:07

poetress wrote:I backspaced a couple of times and the page suddenly reverted to what I was looking at two pages ago *confused* How can that even happen???

Oh, well that's how I go back pages sometimes. It's not a PFWW issue.

Try it when you're not typing etc, a fast click, particularly fast double click of the back space will take you back in your browser. This can also happen when you're typing if you have clicked out of your typing field on to the browser or general page.
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Re: Finding your way around ... The Help Thread

Postby poetress on 27 Jan 2010, 20:41

^I never knew you could do that... *makes mental note*

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Re: Finding your way around ... The Help Thread

Postby zee on 28 Jan 2010, 09:47

Ninnchen wrote:mmh, just thought I'd mention that if I go to the direct url, I can access the Fanfics section without being logged in. Since I thought the 'More than meets the eye' section was just for logged in menbers, I thought it might be important. But maybe it's supposed to be like this?
Just thought I tell in case it's not supposed to be like this lol


that's not a problem at all. The section is hidden on the main page but Sarah has not made it 'log in only' yet.
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Re: Finding your way around ... The Help Thread

Postby Kysha on 12 Feb 2010, 19:14

I'm having a bit of a problem sending PMs ::2: When I start a new PM topic I'll send it and it will appear in my outbox briefly, but is never received and then disappears from my outbox and send messages. It's happened a couple of times now and although it's not a major problem I though I should let you guys know :)
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Re: Finding your way around ... The Help Thread

Postby Kat on 13 Feb 2010, 13:55

Forum was extremely slow last night. There weren't many people online, so I have no idea why. It took me 30+ seconds to post something. And I wasn't pissed off... At all. Because I'm a very patient person.
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Re: Finding your way around ... The Help Thread

Postby Ditty on 13 Feb 2010, 14:06

^ Yeah, it's being slow a lot recently, very annoying ::W: blame it on the server.
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Re: Finding your way around ... The Help Thread

Postby mouse on 13 Feb 2010, 14:19

^^ yes it was the same for me last night too.
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Re: Finding your way around ... The Help Thread

Postby Lowayyz-Bo on 14 Feb 2010, 00:08

I'm still a little confused as how to put a link/URL so it comes up as a word(s) not the whole 'www...'
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Re: Finding your way around ... The Help Thread

Postby picassoblue on 14 Feb 2010, 00:29

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Re: Finding your way around ... The Help Thread

Postby elise on 14 Feb 2010, 02:51

mouse wrote:^^ yes it was the same for me last night too.

i think it is just our server but it took me three attempts just to get to the pfww index just now.
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