WHAT? Are you crazy? You want me to post instructions - where the entire world can see them - about how to create a page that will render an L19 user's account virtually inoperable after he clicks on it?

No way am I going to do that. I'll tell Jordus, but that's it. I'm taking this one to my grave.

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Although I may resurrect it for particularly troublesome users as a precursor to banning.
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I can connect for the first time in days without a proxy. I find it hard to believe a dodgy thread caused the entire site to be down for people in some parts of the world but not others...

You don’t really expect me to answer this, do you? And if I did, it wouldn’t be a credible answer, would it?


Well, I realized what this would mean right after submitting my comment But wait, you wrote “an L19 user’s account” (emphasis by me)—very interesting. I thought it had just to do with that Malkovich page doing something to the server.


OK, I guess that’s the thing to do.

Anyway, I guess one day I’m a-gonna go and shoot all computers.

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Agreed, that is weird. But I have a guess how it could happen. I only saw real slowdowns in the mornings here. That is when a lot of Europeans are on.

We are on a shared server. If our neighbors are using their bandwidth mostly around 6:00-12:00 Greenwich time, and if we have one munged thread that strains the SQL server, then the shortage would only be felt when are neighbors are maxing their usage.

But..seeing that there are no more reports to this thread, I think we can say that the problem is fixed.
If it appears again, I'm going to grab a sledgehammer and join Bonobo.

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I haven't been able to read/replyto this (and other) thread for days.

What I usually notice is that the site will work fine for a some days and weeks, then any thread longer than 20 posts will start to takes minutes to load (if not timeout altogether). After a several days of that, I assume the sql server gets restarted, everything is back to normal, for a time.

I see these cycles every few weeks, and have for months, years. I've reported this a number of times in the past, but no one else seems to notice. To me, it feels related. I think I'm just feeling the strain on the sql server sooner than everyone else because, as an aside, I have my default number of posts per page set much higher than the default.

This recent "outage" was worse than others in the past. I could load short threads, but not longer multi-page (>40 posts) threads.

the long threads have slowed down again for me. anyone else noticing issues yet?

Similar here (Northern Germany) … I just tried to load a short thread w/ 12 replies, no problem, then two threads w/ 80+ replies … waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, after about a minute (!) the pages load.

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And submitting this comment was fast, but loading the page after that was very slow again, > 1 minute

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I haven't seen any problems from portugal, lately. But I'm not sure I've been coming here on European time, so dunno.

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seems back to normal today

Same here.

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BTW, we currently are seriously considering a dedicated server, so this won't happen. I think Jordus plans to make a decision within the month.
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It's being slow today, at least for me.

seems ok for me today... so far.

OK for me, too, and I often had these problems with long threads.

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It's fine for me today

It appears to have happened again: I can connect on my phone, but not on my compuster.

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OK here right now.

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I've had major issues trying to connect to the server throughout today.

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It has been timing out here for the last 10 minutes.

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I had several problems yesterday - no time out though. Mostly it just loaded like forever but eventually the requested page popped up.

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