➩ ➩ ➩ Noticing significant balky and unresponsive actions on MFO site

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• Crash

  2:27AM

  I ran into that earlier, too.
• Observant1

  2:56AM edited 2:58AM

  "In trying to access the "Discussions" page I just received an "Unable to complete this request at this time... please try again later" error message.
  The second attempt went OK.
  
  I've also experienced the same issue intermittently starting several hours ago.
  Thanks for notifying Chip & David!
• Crash

  6:02AM

  About 5:30 and again about 6:00 a.m. in the East on Thursday: slow, sluggish again.
• rforno

  6:51AM

  
  Yep, at times it's slow to load comments and/or switch between threads. I also flagged a post for blatant commercial spam yesterday if that might be related somehow.
• Mark

  8:13AM

  Same experiences as above.
• hank

  8:23AM

  Yep. A “Something Went Wrong” page popped up a few minutes ago when I first clicked on this thread.
• yogibearbull

  8:39AM

  Refreshing screen sometimes solves blank or error screen issue. There is also delay in loading pages.
  In the last MFO outage, posters were reporting site loading issues before an abrupt outage. So, the site managers and host should start looking at these symptoms.
• Anna

  8:42AM

  Something has gone wrong.
  We've run into a problem and are unable to handle this request right now.
  Please check back in a little while.

  Refresh
  all OK except page loads at top of page and not at pointer to new posts
• Derf

  9:48AM edited 9:54AM

  All seems okay at this time.
  ADDED On second thought, appears a few bugs are still present.
• msf

  9:58AM

  Thanks for notifying Chip & David!
  
  Yes, thank you. I also noticed the same behaviour.
  
  There's a tendency when one sees something to assume someone else has already seen it and acted accordingly. Something to keep in mind when things happen.
  
  Recently posted elsewhere (by Prof. Snowball?) and related to this and to investing, the post went something like this:

  Two economists are walking down the street. One of them says “Look, there’s a twenty-dollar bill on the sidewalk!” The other economist says “No there’s not. If there was, someone would have picked it up already.”

  
  
• Old_Joe

  2:33PM

  The situation seems to have improved, and all of the functions that I've tested seem to be working normally at this time. I've had no reply from either David or Chip, so I don't know if they initiated maintenance/repair or some other action has taken place.
• hank

  2:57PM

  +1 / Been running normally an hour or two now.
• Old_Joe

  4:23PM

  Just received this info from Chip and David-

  Chip is trying to restart the server. In addition, she's created a new server holding our template and is trying to figure out how to migrate content to it without triggering a collapse.
  
  In short: your concern is shared, a lot, by the folks on the inside!
  
  David Snowball
• Old_Joe

  4:30PM edited 4:52PM

  @msf said- "There's a tendency when one sees something to assume someone else has already seen it and acted accordingly."
  
  My last "life" as a radio tech for SF 911 probably triggers a response when I see something not acting normally, so I may be a bit more sensitive to that sort of thing than most.
  
  When we were traveling my wife told me that while everyone else was looking at the scenery I was always observing the local communications infrastructure. And she was quite right.
  
  (Actually she didn't say "communications infrastructure"... she said "wires and stuff".)