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What is wrong with the site? (Please read updated post #1)

Dav · 2015-10-05 11:15:41

Hello everyone. I'm back form 2 week's holidays today, only to arrive in and find that an ESB substation has popped somewhere around the South William St area and so we've been sitting here with no internet connection in the office for nearly 4 hours. When it rains, it pours, eh? OK, so the site has been, to use the…

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#272 16-10-2015 12:18pm
Son Of A Vidic

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DareGod wrote: »

I'm sure this has been posted a gazillion times already... but the search function doesn't seem to be showing posts from the past 24 hours when I search for "all posts by user," namely myself. Just an FYI.

Yip, I've also been having that problem for the past two day from my desktop. Using the search function, I can only see posts in my history from three days ago.

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#273 16-10-2015 12:35pm
Synode

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Is there a way to go to the last unread post using the new beta?

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#274 16-10-2015 1:30pm
KomradeBishop

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I don't think there was ever an update on what exactly - technically - is going wrong here?

It would be good to hear that it is at least known, and that - if the site is under some kind of DoS/DDoS attack - that it's just a dumb bandwidth/resource hogging attack, and not one that actually gains wider access to the site/infrastructure.

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#275 16-10-2015 2:22pm
DareGod

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How do I try out the Beta?

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#276 16-10-2015 2:27pm
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DareGod wrote: »

How do I try out the Beta?

There's a link at the bottom of every page.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057509092&utm_source=sponsored_thread&utm_medium=homepage&utm_campaign=2057509092&utm_content=thread_title

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#277 16-10-2015 2:27pm
Synode

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DareGod wrote: »

How do I try out the Beta?

There's a link 'Turn Beta On' at the bottom of every page

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#278 16-10-2015 2:57pm
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Unless you are using old boards software.

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#279 16-10-2015 3:10pm
Synode

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Harry Palmr wrote: »

Unless you are using old boards software.

What?

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#280 16-10-2015 3:54pm
Harry Palmr

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Synode wrote: »

What?

The one previous to the one that most people use now.

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#281 16-10-2015 4:03pm
unkel

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Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe!

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Slow slow slow this afternoon. Takes several minutes from when you hit post until the post shows up in the thread. Surely I'm not alone in this?

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#282 16-10-2015 4:07pm
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Nope, it's pretty bad at the moment.

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#283 16-10-2015 4:10pm
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Friday now, and not a single fúck was given all week by the staff of Boards.ie

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#284 16-10-2015 4:18pm
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Site is crawling for me as well

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#285 16-10-2015 4:24pm
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unkel wrote: »

Slow slow slow this afternoon. Takes several minutes from when you hit post until the post shows up in the thread. Surely I'm not alone in this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq2lG_42X7s&t=0m54s

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#286 16-10-2015 4:30pm
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OSI wrote: »

A Dos/DDoS by it's very nature is not intended to gain access, but rather deny it to others.

Well, a DoS can include a pretty wide variety of things, including gaining some level of access, to help deny it to others.

With the way the site has been borking-up - not just losing the ability to access, but weird bugs being thrown up when using the site - the latter just looks a bit more 'weird' and relates to the internal workings of the site, and would be good to know that it can definitely be explained just by excessive bandwidth/resource usage.

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#287 16-10-2015 6:17pm
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Giving me notifications for posts read a week ago #sake

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#288 16-10-2015 6:30pm
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esto no es bueno. el sitio está funcionando muy lento.

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#289 16-10-2015 6:37pm
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suicide_circus wrote: »

esto no es bueno. el sitio está funcionando muy lento.

That's what she said

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#290 16-10-2015 7:43pm
My name is URL

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Getting beyond ridiculous now.

Funny how it's coinciding with the ugly looking beta site thingy... which will probably be enough to destroy usability on its own

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#291 16-10-2015 7:43pm
My name is URL

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Getting beyond ridiculous now.

Funny how it's coinciding with the ugly looking beta site thingy... which will probably be enough to destroy usability on its own

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#292 16-10-2015 7:49pm
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What an absolute shambles of a site.

Sort it out FFS!

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#293 16-10-2015 7:49pm
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Tried using the beta site. It just didn't respond.. A Bit like Boards HQ

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#294 16-10-2015 8:01pm
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ERR_TIME_OUT * 10000

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#295 16-10-2015 8:05pm
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Is it a pain in the rectum? For sure.

Unless you're subscribing to the site though (which I ain't) you've fup all right to be complaining about a service which 999/1000 runs perfectly.

It'll get fixed soon enough. Get over yourselves lads.

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#296 16-10-2015 8:12pm
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Pictures that are attached to posts won't load for me.

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#297 16-10-2015 8:16pm
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Mars Bar wrote: »

Pictures that are attached to posts won't load for me.

Can't attach pics on touch. getting an SSL error

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#298 16-10-2015 8:19pm
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It's the weekend, so naturally boards is screwed.

Turning into a joke.

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#299 16-10-2015 8:30pm
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I'm pretty sure the Apocalypse is coming.

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#300 16-10-2015 8:33pm
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Perhaps we need a support group forum? :pac:

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#301 16-10-2015 8:46pm
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I think we all know whats happening.

Boards is pulling a Skynet and becoming sentient, I await the inevitable nuclear Armageddon with great anticipation.

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