Temporary Thrall Room

[anne_d]

Let us hope it's very temporary. Proboards can bite me. Well, they can try, but I bite harder. So there. Grrrrr.

I'm going to be in and out, but anyone who wants to hang out here is more than welcome. I miss my S'cubies!

In other news, my Paradise Fibers package is now in Anaheim, where it should be out for delivery shortly, having gone from Salt Lake City to Las Vegas overnight. I'm fascinated. I just hope the contents haven't suffered.

Let's see... Spokane to Hermiston to Salt Lake City, a nice little detour on a UPS delivery truck and back again, to Las Vegas to Anaheim to Brea. It's like the Grand Tours young English gentlemen used to take. Yes, I've been rereading Trollope; I got bored and the Barchester Chronicles are comfort food. Which is probably why I started rereading Sunshine last night. Comfort food with vampires.

*Lays out beverages and snacks, fluffs pillows, checks on the goats, giraffes, peacocks with pretty tails (both male and female) and tiger*

Go for it.

*Edited because I only just noticed a typo* *Hits head on wall*

Comments

[julia-here.livejournal.com]

Actually, I signed on with no problem this morning and posted a couple of times around 6:50; did it go down again?

Julia, bunch of freaking dilentantes, are Proboards.

[anne_d]

I've been checking off and on since about 5AM, including just now. I can't get to it at all; I just get "server not found".

So either you hit a very narrow window of opportunity, or Proboards just doesn't like me. No telling which, although I'm leaning towards the former, because the latter would be just too bizarre even for me.

[julia-here.livejournal.com]

Try signing off and restarting your computer; that worked a couple of times yesterday.

That said, Proboards is deeply and sincerly fucked, as far as I can see.

Julia, stupid "we don't need a fix button because it won't break any more"

[anne_d]

Oh, I restarted. I restarted good and proper. We run Window Washer on startup (thank you Shawn) and it cleans out everything - cookies, IE cache, Windows temporary files, history... Then I opened the browser and went straight to S3. I got "Server not found", and fairly quickly, at that. Deeply and sincerely fucked, it is. Well and truly pissed, I am. Anne, humph

[anne_d]

Interestingly, Emily's forum on server 11 was loading slowly yesterday, but it's fine now, and Kitty's forum on server 55 has been just fine, thank you.

Anne, and where did my paragraph breaks go, I want to know?

[yorick28.livejournal.com]

Onjel tells me that she and other folks are able to get online just fine. Yet I still can't even get the damn page to load. *rolls eyes*

I posted about it at Proboards Support; it'll be interesting to see what kind of feedback I get.

[anne_d]

Yeah, I just read your journal entry about it. Let's see, I'm using IE, you're using Firefox, is it? So the browser probably isn't the problem.

Pooh. Now I have to actually commit usefuls, on the one day this week Emily's gone for the morning.

[julia-here.livejournal.com]

I'm using Safari, but Mr. Space says it's common that a computer will go back to a 404 screen or a redirect from cookies/cache and that restarting should help (it dod me yesterday, only then I was stuck in load-time hell).

Julia, and I hates Probards, for they is hubristic

[harper47.livejournal.com]

I've had an on and off morning but the last two posts I made went through fine. But no one else is on there right now.

[anne_d]

The zero people on could be the latest Proboards "fix" - it says:

While the performance improvements were made to the server, an issue was discovered in the user activity logs.

In order to keep the server running effectively, these features have been temporarily disabled. This will result in the users online today, and users currently online areas to be empty.

This was done as an immediate resolution to the slow loading, and TMC messages.

For whatever that's worth.

[anne_d]

I almost got into the Thrall Room. I was able to sign in, get to the most current page, and then when I hit "Post", it hung and the next time I tried to access the front page, I got the too many connections message.

Oh well. It was nice while it lasted.

I've done a wee mite of research and testing, and whatever the problem is, it's with server 48, not my computer. I draw this conclusion based on the fact that my daughters' Proboards forums, which are on two entirely different servers, have had little or no problems since the upgrade.

And now it's back, and it looks like my post went through. I am not, however, going to get comfortable.

Anne, Proboards Upgrade 4.5: The Curse of Server 48... be annoyed, be very annoyed