Ancient Domains Of Mystery, forum overview / General / Forum instability?
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Darren Grey Registered user Last page view: 4575 days, 2 hours, 10 minutes and 2 seconds ago. |
I'm sure I'm not the only one who's noticed this recently, but the forums seem to be a tad unstable of late. Constant refreshes tend to get through eventually, but it can mean lost posts and such (I've taken to copying message contents before posting just in case). Is there any particular reason for this? Anything we can do to help? Waldenbrook, the dwarven shopkeeper, mumbles: "I'd offer 9 gold pieces for yer dwarven child corpse." |
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Silfir Registered user Writer of Overly Long Guides Last page view: 4404 days, 2 hours, 52 minutes and 12 seconds ago. |
Not the only one, yeah. I would've complained about it myself, but I was having enough trouble getting my other posts out :( You drop the golden ball. You kick the golden ball. It slides to the west. Suddenly Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, appears! "That's not how you play Quidditch! are you even listening?" Which direction? (123456789) 4 Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, is hit by a bolt of acid! Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, is annihilated. You hear the ecstatic cries of a large crowd! |
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Kingsdragon Registered user You smelt it you dealt it! Last page view: 6106 days, 8 hours, 50 minutes and 23 seconds ago. |
Yes, I was having trouble logging in all last week, then it took me a VERY long time to actually send a message, I'm talking about three or more minutes here... Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife XD |
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Hendar23 Registered user Last page view: 5992 days, 16 hours, 13 minutes and 37 seconds ago. |
Seems to be better now. "Men are born for games. Nothing else. Every child knows that play is nobler than work" - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian |
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gut Registered user Painted this one too. Last page view: 5233 days, 4 hours, 26 minutes and 58 seconds ago. |
Hurray! Put me in the 'fool filter', where I belong! |
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Darren Grey Registered user Last page view: 4575 days, 2 hours, 10 minutes and 2 seconds ago. |
Yup, magically repaired my end too. Thought at first it was just a fluke, but it's been like this at least 24 hours now. Back to normal ADOM discussion! Waldenbrook, the dwarven shopkeeper, mumbles: "I'd offer 9 gold pieces for yer dwarven child corpse." |
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Darren Grey Registered user Last page view: 4575 days, 2 hours, 10 minutes and 2 seconds ago. |
Did I speak too soon? Getting a *lot* of "system resource exceeded" messages now. Constant refreshing does the trick though (and firefox never loses what I've typed up thankfully). Waldenbrook, the dwarven shopkeeper, mumbles: "I'd offer 9 gold pieces for yer dwarven child corpse." |
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Jan Erik Administrator Last page view: 134 days, 25 minutes and 12 seconds ago. |
These problems seems to come and go. For a while I was sure it was due to the underlying Access database starting to reach it's limit, but then it seems to clear up again. I'm on a shared hosting plan so I suspect it's caused by them shunting various sites around and if we happen to share the server with more popular (or memory leaking) sites things start grinding to a halt untill they re-distribute things again, or something like that. Jan Erik Mydland HoF admin |
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Darren Grey Registered user Last page view: 4575 days, 2 hours, 10 minutes and 2 seconds ago. |
Jan, you think maybe it might be best to just disallow unregistered posts? Waldenbrook, the dwarven shopkeeper, mumbles: "I'd offer 9 gold pieces for yer dwarven child corpse." |
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 Maul Registered user [banned user] Last page view: 5264 days, 2 hours, 35 minutes and 46 seconds ago. |
I don't think registering needs any validation, so it'd be a matter of time 'till the bots smartened up. I'm not suggesting to make registering a pain, mind - what I really hate is when someone gives me a link to another forum, where I have to sign up, enter half a page of info and click a link in an email just to be able to view the damn thing. 1l= Y0(_) [4l\l R34[) 7l-l15, Y0(_) l\/l(_)57 83 PR377Y G00[). |
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Jan Erik Administrator Last page view: 134 days, 25 minutes and 12 seconds ago. |
Maybe... but I'd like to try a few more anti-spam countermeasures first, and it haven't been all that bad lately. Think we can live with having to nuke 2-3 spam posts a day manualy. Might have to completely disallow posting of URL's by unregistered users or something if it keeps up thugh... Jan Erik Mydland HoF admin |
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Jan Erik Administrator Last page view: 134 days, 25 minutes and 12 seconds ago. |
Just for kicks I set it up to send me an e-mail notice every time the filters currently in place where tripped. So far I seem to turn away something like 3-4 spam posts every 10 minutes, though obviously it will probably ebb and flow a bit. Jan Erik Mydland HoF admin |