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Actually, that usually gets most people's attention, come to think of it...

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I'm thinking about it now, thanks to you. The pictures are not pretty.SandChigger wrote:If you can shoot ping pong balls out yer butt that usually gets his attention.
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Actually, that usually gets most people's attention, come to think of it...
merkin muffley wrote:I registered with T(A)U a couple days ago, but haven't been activated. So, I'm just trying to inquire with the administrator.
Omphalos wrote:Heavy load. Actually. We set it again for more users. Worm's was down at the same time. I thought it was my connection for a while.
SandChigger wrote:Let's see, it's Wed 00:58 EST right now.
The board has pretty much been unresponsive for the last three hours or so. (I logged in over on Facebook and Irulan commented about it as well.)
Was it something with the server, or another DOS-type attack from somewhere?
Shaitan wrote:I wonder if it might be more than just getting hit by heavy user traffic bursts....maybe you guys might consider various tools available for throttling the rate at which search engine spiders can "slurp" the site's content?
Omphalos wrote:Shaitan wrote:I wonder if it might be more than just getting hit by heavy user traffic bursts....maybe you guys might consider various tools available for throttling the rate at which search engine spiders can "slurp" the site's content?
We can do that with this software if needed. I'd rather not though. We have a ton of other blogs and boards on this server, so just be patient when it happens, and we'll get it fixed. We come to this board all the time, and use it as a weather vane for the rest of the server.
Omphalos wrote:Hi all. We figured out why the boards have been slowing down so much during the daytime. There was some buggy code in the search page at Omphalos Book Reviews that was doing it. We found it and took it out, so surfing should speed up, or at least shoud not get so slow again.
Talos Aquinas wrote:I'm not getting the Poll creation tab in either of the subforums I moderate. (It does show up if I try to start a thread in the Test Forum, though.)
Also, I'm not getting the options to mark new threads as announcements, stickied, etc.
(Oh, and could you also remove all moderator privileges from the SandChigger account? I'm not sure what (sub)forum they're good on, but I see the Moderator link when I log in.)
Eyes High wrote:I have a question maybe one of y'all can answer. It's 05:31 where I am but the board says it's 06:16. Why the 45 minutes difference? I thought time zones were marked off in hour increments?