And how much do you contribute to the Freepathons, or donate monthly?
Well dude... donate 100K for a few new servers and a bigger pipe and all will be copacetic. That’s all.
I’m not a tech guy so I can’t offer any solutions, but I do see that it’s not excessive posting that’s causing the problem. That leads me (a non tech guy) to believe it may be an external problem. Whatever it is, it is real.
We hated the slow speed, but posts like this serves no one.
At worst, this is a DNS attack. There may not be anything they can do under this regime.
I’m with you . $ 400K a year + in donations and we can’t use the site on important nights like POTUS debates . Can you imagine election night ? I think more people would donate if the site was up to speed . Even on reg. days it is a lot slower than it used to be . I’ve been here 13 years and remember the good old days when all was copacetic .
More importantly, it is much easier to bring a website down than it is to keep one up.
Any website that allows people to post, is always a hundred times more vulnerable than a we site that allows viewing only (Drudge for example).
In sort dear friends, this may be a situation that no amount of money can totally eliminate.
I don’t even bother coming here when there soemthing big going on. You can bet this site will be down.
Ignore the “shoot the messenger” noise, you are spot on.
Bump.
Having said that, I have always found the live threads extraordinarily interesting and entertaining. To not be able to access them is a great disappointment to me. But that does NOT change the other values of the site.
I'm already dreading inaccessibility on election night. But I do believe the owners are doing everything they can to change that. There would be no motive not to. No one benefits by what has happened in the debates.
Just don't throw out the baby with the bath water.
The limited information that has been offered doesn’t allow for an easy diagnosis. But, what little I have read from Jim makes me wonder if they are over their head.
I think FR needs professional help. It will be expensive, but less expensive than buying more hardware that won’t help. I suggest they start with a database performance consultant, as I suspect that is where the problem is.
Doesn't the left say the same about Limbaugh after every election?
You do know that their is a group of people on FR that will completely excuse stuff like this and bomb you with 10,000 “how dare you” replies.
They think they are sticking up for JimRob when they are just behaving like brown-nosing groupies.
The problems you cite are legit and the last 3 debates showed that this site for whatever reason is not able to deal with major news event discussion even though that is the whole point of the site. Now if the management cares or not isnt all that clear, but if they do then they really ought to look into some creative solutions and not just let the “why dont you donate 10,000,000” sarcasm kiss-up crowd to be the only answer people see.
FR is a great site, but if people dont think it is holding up, lots of those people, paying or not, may take flight.
FRiend,
The site is always stressed when THE NICE GOVERNMENT MEN want to silence the citizens’ VOICE OF FREEDOM., like during a national presidential debate.
Pure and simple. This is what fascist control looks like in Obama’s America. It is a wonder the Obamunist have not closed the site altogether. believe me, they read every word. So we have a choice: diminished responsiveness, during debate times, or none at all, which will be the norm if the commie is re-elected and FR is shut down as a hate site against gays commies and non Christian perverts and terrorists trying to destroy our world... Hang in there, we are in a battle for freedom.
Endure, grin, bear it, and be thankful when we are allowed to exercise 1st A rights, for we may not have them for long.
Did you ever consider, you or family members may one day be civil war veterans?
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A hobby-related forum I visit will give a message that the post you are trying to enter is the same as the post you just entered. It keeps those multiple posts down to zero. Last night there were about 650 posts in what should have been a huge debate thread. About 50 of those were the same post over and over.
Someone mentioned the site works faster if you are logged out and only reading. I tried that last night, took most of the debate to log out and finally got on the debate thread with a few minutes left. Meanwhile, I had several other working options going on from other sites, but this is my favorite. I wish it worked.
You’re always free to leave. This is my home and I’m sticking with it. Does it need some remodeling, yes but I love it. You can list it.
I agree with your observations. It is maddening that FR hangs up at these times. Not sure what the problem is or how to solve it, but I think it is long past time for a professional consultant to come in.
What is notable thusfar on this early thread is that there has not been a single comment from any FR administrator or moderator about what they think is causing the problems and what they are doing about it. Disappointing. But perhaps we’ll hear something later this morning.
Music soothes the savage beast.
Without the snark (and dude, you snarked a lot), I agree on the facts. FR needs load-testing and techical upgrades. I hear that the server is physically present but uninstalled. Might be a mistake to switch that RIGHT now, should have been done a month ago... JohnRob, I hope all is well, personally, with you....Prayers for all, for health and peach in your lives....