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Noticing some new formating and the like buttons are back. And at times it’s even lightning quick.
It is slow at balls at times and I just had a reply eaten though :P
Dear god I hope so. These forums have been bad for over a year tbh. There have been times the forums wont load at all. Most of the time it takes 30 seconds to load. Half the time when you post something, there is a server error and you have to go back and try again (which is why I ended up coping everything before I post) . I would post more if it weren’t for those things. It’s a bit ridiculous. I frankly have found it perplexing that it was allowed to go on this long. And worse, is that there has been no communication to us about it, which is a big fail imo. It’s not that hard to keep us informed on site problems, updates, etc. It takes 1 min to say something.
UPDATE: Yep, just got the host error and will now try to repost. Really freakin’ tired of this.
I was wondering if I was seeing things lol.
Hey guys, I know there has been some talk about upgrades previously and a possible rethinking of what could the forums be. That’s all I know on that part.
As far as things being slow and error prone, I get that too, I fight it myself daily. But I assume the forums are not a profit generator and probably is somewhat a lower priority than things that make the business run. So it would tend to make business sense to me they get less love.
However, let me see if I can get an update.
Forum performance is still slow and yes the intermittent Bad Gateway error is still there but at least the Like button is back.
Hoping for continued improvement.
So I’m hearing word of this huge wordpress upheaval, which is the service that this site is built on.
Seems that has to do with what’s going on. I don’t really know the details, but it sounds like a huge clusterfuck.
It’s like our entire world is turning upside down. So much money and legalese going on. Not enough people just getting shit done!
Oh well, just another day in clown world!
Forums are back to taking 30+ seconds to load any page. And, I have tried on three different browsers. All the same.
I used to help run forums back in the Jedi Knight Outcast and Jedi Academy game with my clan. I also did for a SWTOR guild for a while as well. I never had any issue like this. No slow loading, no bad gateway, etc. So, I am wondering what they are using to make these forums, because clearly whatever they are using is not working right. I would suggest dumping whatever you are using for these forums and find something else that is better. I don’t think any of us would mind if they had to scrub what we have to start over fresh, because these forums load like its dial up windows 95.
My issue is the lack of communication about it. It takes 1 min to post and keep us informed on site maintenance and stability. Making a thread about the site and updates would be very simple.