General Chat

is frequent at the moment :-D

I only get it on 2 of the games threads - both such well-used favourites that it's not surprising if the many years' memory chokes the system a bit!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyw6_lu3Y7Q

You have 49595 post against your name - that might have something to do with it.

I haven't had an error message since Saturday :-D

I haven't been able to get on My Threads for almost a week.

I can access all the other Boards, but not My Threads :-(

Like Elizabeth, I'm receiving the error messages on the Games Threads.

Not just on the word threads but also on the food one :-|

Same as Sylvia. My threads is very erratic. :-0

My Threads isn't erratic ........

......... it just won't open no matter how many times I try! :-|

you had to jinx it ... !

I had never ever had an error message

yesterday I had it constantly :-)

I blame the weather ;-)

Same as Sylvia.......I guess they are tinkering again

As for the 'search' facility...............it's about a year since that worked! Google works better

tinkering??

I think they actually are doing nothing!

the site is being left to fall apart :-( :-|

That may well be a thought :-|

AARrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!

I had to "Run The Gauntlet" of Error Messages to get in!



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I think that the site is becoming too clogged up.

The easiest solution for GR might be to accidentally woosh a couple of large threads.

Perhaps they could instead, just close the large threads but allow them to be read. Then new threads could be started with a link to the old one in the opening post.

Those of us with a large post count could try to remove some from Chat style threads. Would that make a difference?

You would have to delete hundreds of posts to make much of a difference. That would take ages.

If you are the OP on a big thread then you could delete it which would probably make a difference but would irritate the other contributors.

Possibly it is processing for Watched Threads that causes the timeouts that give rise to the Error Message. For a large thread there may be many "lapsed" members who get informed of updates to the thread.

no ;

the problem is related to distance from the server + user's speed of connection and ping time. Try running a speed checker. Ping should be around 18ms and anything > 30ms will give problems. Similarly net connection < 4 Mb/sec - common with USB Key connections or mobile data - can create timeouts. Lastly if there are a lot of nodes between the server and user timeout errors are more likely than not. This mainly affects users in OZ, Canada etc.

There is only one server located in Greater London nr Croydon. There are no servers in other countries.

Most web sites use Apache web servers which out-of-the-box are fairly easy to setup for resilience so that users get a result regardless of connection quality.

GR uses a Microsoft IIS 7 server which is picky. IIS is really designed for company intranets not publicly facing web servers. However Bright Sold's main biz is yeah, company intranets so DCTFH have to live with what they are given. IIS7 is not the best choice if the budget is tight either. Setting up IIS7 to allow flaky connections also leaves it very open to being hacked.

My guess is that at some point GR will quietly disappear absorbed by FMP and the Facebook site. It has the "do not resusicate" feel of web sites at the end of the line. Even Errol has gone away.

Not only error message but now being thrown
out on occasion.