Fix the forums

I keep getting AddPost errors from the AJAX post submission script.

It's irritating and stopping me from posting.

Please fix it.

Otherwise I'll fly there personally and mash your face against your keyboard until the keystrokes generated result in a bugfix.

I'm getting this too, as well as recurring periods where the site is extremely slow or unreachable. It's been going on for a few weeks now.

EDIT: This should be in the site feedback forum though.

I hear ya W3bbo but threats are not cool. I know you did not mean that as a real threat but....  many folks might not know that.

figuerres said:

I hear ya W3bbo but threats are not cool. I know you did not mean that as a real threat but....  many folks might not know that.

Maybe he did mean it.

Sven Groot said:

I'm getting this too, as well as recurring periods where the site is extremely slow or unreachable. It's been going on for a few weeks now.

 

EDIT: This should be in the site feedback forum though.

Ditto. Install PHPBB.

CKurt said:

Yup even double posting thread right now, it's no fun at all...

 

I guess a REVOLUTION 9 needs to be like a real revolution (e.g. the French one) , lets strike and hack the site! (or something like that)

it's definitly seeming to get worse each day now... i am now having to open ie try, then try the site again before it loads.

it's as if they refuse the first connection attempt or tar-pit it to take forever.

figuerres said:

CKurt said:

*snip*

it's definitly seeming to get worse each day now... i am now having to open ie try, then try the site again before it loads.

it's as if they refuse the first connection attempt or tar-pit it to take forever.

I don't get why Ch9 is even in a webfarm. I know plenty of massively high-traffic websites (we're talking top-1000 sites) that don't employ any kind of load-balancing, they just run a single (but high-powered) server for running PHP/whatever and another server for static content and the database (which might be on a third server if DB load is high enough).

So why is Channel9 overengineered?

W3bbo said:

figuerres said:

*snip*

I don't get why Ch9 is even in a webfarm. I know plenty of massively high-traffic websites (we're talking top-1000 sites) that don't employ any kind of load-balancing, they just run a single (but high-powered) server for running PHP/whatever and another server for static content and the database (which might be on a third server if DB load is high enough).

 

So why is Channel9 overengineered?

W3bbo now that is a good question...

I wonder if it might be a good thing to start over on the codebase? that's a big thing to put on the table but....

get back to a basic html based page system - forget AJAX and all that.

it does seem like there are a lot of small issues that together can make this site go into the land of un-usable suckage at times.

BUT i would like to know more about the total traffic and number of servers and server specs; might be a good lesson to learn in that info.

W3bbo said:

figuerres said:

*snip*

I don't get why Ch9 is even in a webfarm. I know plenty of massively high-traffic websites (we're talking top-1000 sites) that don't employ any kind of load-balancing, they just run a single (but high-powered) server for running PHP/whatever and another server for static content and the database (which might be on a third server if DB load is high enough).

 

So why is Channel9 overengineered?

I've got to say I'm with Webbo, even on his first statement. If I had half a penny for the amount of times you get to channel 9 and cannot load webpage, I'd buy a new car.

Maybe it's not so bad for people in America, but it's appalling here in the UK. This has been happening for weeks and weeks. It's the only thing that spoils channel 9 for me. Maybe one day they'll get it right,.

W3bbo said:

figuerres said:

*snip*

I don't get why Ch9 is even in a webfarm. I know plenty of massively high-traffic websites (we're talking top-1000 sites) that don't employ any kind of load-balancing, they just run a single (but high-powered) server for running PHP/whatever and another server for static content and the database (which might be on a third server if DB load is high enough).

 

So why is Channel9 overengineered?

I am also in this camp. I refer you to Dr Herbies ignored thread on the Feedback forum.

I can't comment on the posting bug as I am not smart enough to pass coment on most of the threads. However, I would note that the poor alignment of the sign in/log out links and the fact that the video controls are largely hidden does not reflect well on a site that is supposed to be a flagship developer forum.

On the video note, I often want to to watch the videos to remind myself just how dumb I am, but if I want to watch a video I need to start it, wait for the first word and then pause it for 30 mins so that it caches enough to watch. I dont believe this is just my bandwidth as videos from www.TED.com etc stream just fine.

Life back in 2004 seemed to be much easier!

Yup, I've been experiencing problems posting/replying as well.

There have been days where I was unable to reply or post anything.