Hi sorry to moan as you all do a great job but i cant load the site very well today and this happens most days.
Is there a topic on here that I've missed where one of you has told us whats the status? feel free to sink if so and point me in the right direction.
Is it time to for us to start contribuing funds as its getting really frustrating to even log on these days and so its losing its fun to me. I've found myself loggin on to the dark side.
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To give you and others a bit more information. You all would of noticed that the set up and functionality of our forum is very different to most others you will come across, which in design and function terms are largely indentical.
Balancing the fact that we are using newer, more cutting edge technology, is the fact that it has by and large been pretty untested. What has been discovered by various other forums using this software around the world is that it starts to slow down the longer it exists and carries increased information.
Its not unique to us, or fully linked to the servers we run on. There are hundreds of 'extensions' that make up the site, some use the database far more heavily than others. That is why we had to turn off the 'Who's Online' extension for example, and a few others.
Lots of geeks around the world are currently looking at the problems, and i'm hopeful something will be resolved. We're discussing our options in the next week on what we can do to try and take things forward, because something definately will have to change. It would break my heart to have to move to another style of forum and lose all our history, but we cannot continue for much longer with a forum at this speed IMO.
I know from what people say to me, that dozens of people would be happy to contribute towards the running of the site, which is fantastic to hear and something we will have to do at some stage. But I remain reluctant to go down that round all the time these issues remain.
Hope that helps, and appreciate everyone's fantastic patience.
the buzz words are"we are listening" " we take on board what people are saying"
still think its the guy swaning about in the Bahamas fault tho mate. Think you should pop over and have a word, ill carry your bags.
Keep up the good work, I know it must drive you nuts but if the site wasn't so good people wouldn't mind not being able to get on it. And because it is so good more and more people joining which I doubt helps. The way it looks and operates is also so much better than other bog standard sites so having the new software/whatever is worth it. I certainly think so.
Victims of your own success but it is still a huge success. It's growing all the time its just that it's going thru that akward teenage growth spurt stage right now.
The solution sounds far to technical to me to grasp but if financial help is needed I'd glady put 50p in the meter or buy a Charlton Life badge for no more than £2.50
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It's even worse than yesterday!!!
Lookout can you add anything further to AFKA's post?
just aquick query. anyone else having alittle trouble with the site on sunday morning;
everything seemed to be going well 'til 9;40am when everything slowed up.
probably just me.
Its clear that there are serious problems with Vanilla - its not just this forum but others that seem to have no end of grief with it (mainly due to extensions that cane the database something silly rather than the 'vanilla' (excuse the pun) basic forum). The Lussumo framework is pretty robust, but the extensions developed within it are often sketchy performance-wise, buggy and have security holes in them.
FWIW, my suggestion would be to move to phpBB - much more stable & robust and fixes seem to be faster & better tested. Of course, since it has a much bigger user base than Vanilla, there are a far larger number of turds out there trying to find exploits in it, but provided you keep on top of the explots when they are published (or use a hosting provider that will do it for you) you would be fine on phpbb. There are tutorials out there on migrating from vanilla to phpbb as well, so it wouldn't be a complete leap in the dark for you.
BTW - I think there may be a routing issue inside Global Net Access's network - I often see timeouts during traceroutes to the IP that this site is hosted on when hopping through their routers. You may want to take this up with them
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Still no word from LOOKOUT. think there should be. Remember anytime netaddicks went down trevor would be straight on giving us the heads up, think the silence is poor.
Just repeating what i have said to afka. He is just as frustrated as we all are and i feel sorry for him that all his hard work is getting jeopordised.
If i dont say it no one else will and we will all put up with mediority.... and surely if our team can put in a chapmpionship winning performance than surely we could hope the number one fans site can?
On you go AFKA know your doing your best.