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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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#182 11-10-2015 9:23pm
naughto

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Ya she's sick again

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#183 11-10-2015 9:23pm
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whatismyname wrote: »

Site down completely again tonight for me for about ten minutes.

Was down for all according to www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com

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#184 11-10-2015 9:23pm
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whatismyname wrote: »

Site down completely again tonight for me for about ten minutes.

Same here and AFAIR it's been like that at approx the same time (shortly after 9.00 pm) on a number of nights

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#185 11-10-2015 9:25pm
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jprboy wrote: »

Same here and AFAIR it's been like that at approx the same time (shortly after 9.00 pm) on a number of nights

Yep, was just thinking that. Seems I posted at 21:01 last night to say the same, so it was back slightly earlier. But interesting all the same.

Edit: just realised that I sound like I do nothing every night but sit on boards

Also, went down again for another while.

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#186 11-10-2015 9:27pm
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Hamsters' smoke break, prob'ly.

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#187 11-10-2015 9:41pm
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If the tech guys spent as much time working on keeping the site up instead of a redesign which no one wants we'd all be happier.

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#188 11-10-2015 9:42pm
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They tweeted it so someone is working on it I'd imagine

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#189 11-10-2015 9:44pm
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The site going down is a regular occurrence at this stage.

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#190 11-10-2015 9:44pm
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Quazzie wrote: »

If the tech guys spent as much time working on keeping the site up instead of a redesign which no one wants we'd all be happier.

Do you really know what's going on in the Boards office?

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#191 11-10-2015 9:46pm
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Yeah getting a bit pissed off at this stage. I'm sure boards have enoght money to fix the issue.

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#192 11-10-2015 10:01pm
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TallGlass wrote: »

Yeah getting a bit pissed off at this stage. I'm sure boards have enoght money to fix the issue.

I'd say boards makes sweet feck all. These things happen, sure FB was down last week for a while even with all their money. Sites go down all the time, we don't even know what the issue was yet

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#193 11-10-2015 10:05pm
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TallGlass wrote: »

Yeah getting a bit pissed off at this stage. I'm sure boards have enoght money to fix the issue.

I'm pretty sure boards is (or was until recently) running at a loss.

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#194 11-10-2015 10:12pm
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All they need to do is put the ads in the middle of the threads and make them bigger..............

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#195 11-10-2015 10:13pm
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It's fine for me.

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#196 11-10-2015 10:23pm
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KERSPLAT! wrote: »

I'd say boards makes sweet feck all. These things happen, sure FB was down last week for a while even with all their money. Sites go down all the time, we don't even know what the issue was yet

Considering Boards mostly survives on ad revenue, you can be sure it's no joke to them when the site is going down ten minutes of every hour. I'm as frustrated as anyone that the site is so flakey at the moment, but there's absolutely no call for the snipes at the people running the place.

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#197 11-10-2015 10:24pm
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Regular desktop site is working fine for me now, but the touch site is still a total mare. Wouldn't load at all for me at times over the weekend, and then when it did it would take ages, and the threads appeared to be in a state of temporal flux.

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#198 11-10-2015 10:30pm
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If boards is running at a loss. Could we not do a fundraiser like they do for Firefox? And even completely get rid of the ads. There a head melt.

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#199 11-10-2015 10:31pm
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TallGlass wrote: »

If boards is running at a loss. Could we not do a fundraiser like they do for Firefox? And even completely get rid of the ads. There a head melt.

I'd donate to boards. I love it and I would hate it to be gone.

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#200 11-10-2015 10:34pm
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Hollister11 wrote: »

I'd donate to boards. I love it and I would hate it to be gone.

Nothing stopping you - become a subscriber, which means you donate to Boards, and get a couple of small privileges into the bargain.

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#201 11-10-2015 10:36pm
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Hollister11 wrote: »

I'd donate to boards. I love it and I would hate it to be gone.

TrueDub wrote: »

Nothing stopping you - become a subscriber, which means you donate to Boards, and get a couple of small privileges into the bargain.

You can subscribe here - http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/payments.php

The reason I post a link is that I knew you could, although I actually hadn't a clue where to find the page to do it

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#202 11-10-2015 11:00pm
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If I was a sponsor of boards.ie I'd be rightly pissed off by now.

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#203 12-10-2015 1:18am
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TallGlass wrote: »

If boards is running at a loss. Could we not do a fundraiser like they do for Firefox? And even completely get rid of the ads. There a head melt.

Yea that'd actually be a good idea. There's an intrusive top-of-the-page banner ad, that I'd actually welcome.

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#204 12-10-2015 1:43am
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T'was totally gone for a few minutes just now. Maybe they plugged it out and plugged it in again.

Again.

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#205 12-10-2015 2:19am
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We just need to shout louder!

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#206 12-10-2015 7:08pm
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Site seemed to be down for a few mins just now.

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#207 12-10-2015 7:37pm
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Just went offline again for me.

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#208 12-10-2015 7:43pm
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I'm getting a new error that I hadn't seen before on Chrome

Error 324 (net::ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE): The server closed the connection without sending any data.

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#209 12-10-2015 11:36pm
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Sorry guys wasn't about tonight to do my nightly 'site went down completely for 5 - 10 minutes'. Hope you all got on ok :P

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#210 13-10-2015 12:12am
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Getting email notifs from threads that I haven't read since previous mails so that notifier is bust too.

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#211 13-10-2015 9:18am
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Dav!! You're not allowed go on hols EVER again

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