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What the hell just happened?!?

#1

Dave

Dave

Today I got a message that we were almost out of server space. Our max is 50 GB and we were in the high 40's. So I did some cleaning. Far and away our most wasted space was our test forum that we didn't really need until we had to test something and since I'd have to duplicate everything at that time it would be no more work to do it then. So I blew away our test forum.

That's when I found out the following:

  1. We did not, in fact, have hourly backups.
  2. Since February when we moved to XenForo version 2.0, we have been running on the Test database. *I* forgot to switch everything back when we went live. Which didn't really matter unless I were to, oh I don't know, completely blow away the test db! Which was actually our live db.
So here's the fallout. We lost almost 3 months worth of posts and threads.

I'm sorry. I broke my own rules about how to run things like that. ALWAYS rename and see what happens before you delete anything. And now we're going to have backups because I'm going to do them.

Again, sorry about the problems. You may now call me all sorts of names.


#2

Cog

Cog

Vero says dont worry about it. I accidentally erased all of Gabys pictures when she was two and she forgave me.


#3

GasBandit

GasBandit

My memes! My precious memes! All gone!


#4

MindDetective

MindDetective

I have a sudden and powerful urge to go start my own forum! With blackjack. And hookers.


#5

bhamv3

bhamv3

Eh, it happens, don't sweat it.

For punishment, you are now no longer to ever say the words "rat toes" and "intolerant" in the same sentence. For ever.


#6

Dave

Dave

I will not be shackled!


#7

AshburnerX

AshburnerX

I just noticed something else... Supervillainous on the home page is ALSO back 3 months. Is this going to be an issue?


#8

BananaHands

BananaHands

This disturbance has awakened me.


#9

Dave

Dave

AshburnerX said:
I just noticed something else... Supervillainous on the home page is ALSO back 3 months. Is this going to be an issue?
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@Zappit will have to upload each one. I'm sorry, man!


#10

BananaHands

BananaHands

Just admit it, you went all Thanos on this forum.


#11

Dave

Dave



#12

Frank

Frank

Aww fuck, now what will we do without 3 months of posts in the politics forum? I miss my endless cyclical bickering.

That's it. I quit.


#13

sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

Frank said:
Aww fuck, now what will we do without 3 months of posts in the politics forum? I miss my endless cyclical bickering.

That's it. I quit.
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Trudeau has a weaker handshake than TRUMP!


#14

PatrThom

PatrThom

Shouldn't this thread be stickied?
Also, now you're going to have to rejigger all the go-to-new-post stuff, adding "new" to the menu bar, all that sort of stuff.

Someone probably should've written all of this stuff down, or something.

--Patrick


#15

Frank

Frank

sixpackshaker said:
Trudeau has a weaker handshake than TRUMP!
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Man, Trudeau pioneered the counter to Trump's jerky crazy person handshake.


#16

blotsfan

blotsfan

Dave has been Joe Keatinge this whole time!


#17

blotsfan

blotsfan

Also does this mean any new members from the last two months lost their account?


#18

Dave

Dave

blotsfan said:
Also does this mean any new members from the last two months lost their account?
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Yes.


#19

Bubble181

Bubble181

Man, that's three months worth of NSFW pictures gone, gone forever. In 5 years' time, I'll think "huh, I feel like looking at that one specific set of boobs again", and I'll go half crazy KNOWING I saw it here and not finding it.

Um, yeah, kind of a big oopsie there, Dave :p But we'll survive. I don't quite get why or how we *did* keep our changed avatars, though, I changed this less than a month ago.


#20

Dave

Dave

I'm not sure, either.


#21

Bubble181

Bubble181

Also, I don't know if it's just on my end, but this version is SLLLLOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWW


#22

Dave

Dave

I think it's on your end. I'm having no issues.


#23

strawman

strawman

Bubble181 said:
Also, I don't know if it's just on my end, but this version is SLLLLOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWW
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Probably caching all the pieces and parts again, new server, new ip, if I understand correctly.


#24

GasBandit

GasBandit

Bubble181 said:
I don't quite get why or how we *did* keep our changed avatars, though, I changed this less than a month ago.
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It's because your avatar is a file that gets overwritten when you change it, the DB entry for your user account just points to the same file name.

I wouldn't be surprised if all the attachments from the last 3 months are still floating out there in the server's folders with no entries pointing to them, still taking up space.


#25

Gared

Gared

What am I gonna do, go find new friends? No. Find a new admin? Hell no - Dave just learned a very embarrassing lesson, he'll never make this mistake again.


#26

blotsfan

blotsfan

Gared said:
What am I gonna do, go find new friends? No. Find a new admin? Hell no - Dave just learned a very embarrassing lesson, he'll never make this mistake again.
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I wouldn't be so sure. They say memory goes with age.


#27

Dave

Dave

:stfu:


#28

Covar

Covar

There was a dark theme we had with a pure black background. Any chance we can get that back?


#29

GasBandit

GasBandit

This... is the forum of amnesia.



40 years ago, something happened to make all the users here lose their memories....


#30

Dave

Dave

I'll find it.


#31

GasBandit

GasBandit

Still getting that SQL error when I try to post a new thread, too.


#32

evilmike

evilmike

Is everything stable going forward?


#33

Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

LETS DO THE TIME WARP AGAIN!


#34

Dave

Dave

Covar said:
There was a dark theme we had with a pure black background. Any chance we can get that back?
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Updated

GasBandit said:
Still getting that SQL error when I try to post a new thread, too.
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What's the error?


#35

Squidleybits

Squidleybits

@Zero Esc we have some Monster Hunter posting to catch up on :D


#36

GasBandit

GasBandit

Dave said:
What's the error?
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From discord:


#37

MindDetective

MindDetective

Try as you might, Dave, you cannot erase the last 3 months. They happened. I'm sorry.


#38

drawn_inward

drawn_inward

Well, since the history got erased, let me remind you all a bit about me. I jump out of airplanes for a living. I am devilshly handsome. I am nicknamed Doc.


#39

Dave

Dave

@GasBandit - Fixed


#40

Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

drawn_inward said:
Well, since the history got erased, let me remind you all a bit about me. I jump out of airplanes for a living. I am devilshly handsome. I am nicknamed Doc.
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FALSE PROPHET!


#41

GasBandit

GasBandit

Dave said:
@GasBandit - Fixed
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That seems to have done the trick.


#42

GasBandit

GasBandit

I'm working on correcting the reaction icons.


#43

Dei

Dei

Also it's not just Bubble, the forums are sluggish for me too.


#44

GasBandit

GasBandit

I can't remember where the new/improved hug icon was... or if indeed we ever got around to getting one at all.


#45

Squidleybits

Squidleybits

Are you still playing, @Far ? I finally got plus.


#46

DarkAudit

DarkAudit

There was a DDOS attack against the host this morning, right? Still feeling the aftereffects, I'd reckon.


#47

Far

Far

Squidleybits said:
Are you still playing, @Far ? I finally got plus.
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I hit a wall at Nergigante a few months back and haven't picked it up since but would like to again. Currently playing through God of War and Ni No Kuni 2 so maybe after those.


#48

GasBandit

GasBandit

XenBlue and Shades of Grey styles should now once again properly configured to not smush menu elements on tablets. Let me know if that's not the case, or if another style needs tweaking.


#49

drawn_inward

drawn_inward

Ravenpoe said:
FALSE PROPHET!
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Heretic!


#50

GasBandit

GasBandit

drawn_inward said:
Heretic!
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Did somebody say..



HERESY..?


#51

jwhouk

jwhouk

Did the option to hide signatures disappear somewhere along the way?


#52

strawman

strawman

jwhouk said:
Did the option to hide signatures disappear somewhere along the way?
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It's there:

https://www.halforums.com/account/preferences

"Show people's signatures with their messages " is the fifth checkbox on that page.


#53

Gared

Gared

Does anyone remember where the setting was that had to be changed to get the forums to fit widescreen monitors on Shades of Grey (blue) 2.2?


#54

Covar

Covar

Dave said:
Updated
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My OLED phone screen and I thank you good sir.


#55

GasBandit

GasBandit

Gared said:
Does anyone remember where the setting was that had to be changed to get the forums to fit widescreen monitors on Shades of Grey (blue) 2.2?
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That's something that has to be done by an admin. I'll get on it.


#56

LittleKagsin

LittleKagsin

drawn_inward said:
Well, since the history got erased, let me remind you all a bit about me. I jump out of airplanes for a living. I am devilshly handsome. I am nicknamed Doc.
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#57

GasBandit

GasBandit

Augh gawd, Kags' signature... got me thinking...

If a "halforums edition" playthrough thread had gotten deleted I might have decided to flush myself down the toilet.


#58

LittleKagsin

LittleKagsin

GasBandit said:
Augh gawd, Kags' signature... got me thinking...

If a "halforums edition" playthrough thread had gotten deleted I might have decided to flush myself down the toilet.
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I would've cried! Those are some of my favorite threads on here!


#59

PatrThom

PatrThom

GasBandit said:
I wouldn't be surprised if all the attachments from the last 3 months are still floating out there in the server's folders with no entries pointing to them, still taking up space.
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Don't worry. Dave will find and delete them for you.

--Patrick


#60

drawn_inward

drawn_inward

LittleKagsin said:
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:whistling:


#61

GasBandit

GasBandit

LittleKagsin said:
I would've cried! Those are some of my favorite threads on here!
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IKR? I'd come to terms with all my blog posts being gone with the move to 2.0, but that would have been a bridge too far.


#62

PatrThom

PatrThom

GasBandit said:
I can't remember where the new/improved hug icon was... or if indeed we ever got around to getting one at all.
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We didn't get around to it.
GasBandit said:
I'd come to terms with all my blog posts being gone with the move to 2.0, but that would have been a bridge too far.
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I didn't realize the blog posts were gone.

--Patrick


#63

@Li3n

@Li3n

MindDetective said:
Try as you might, Dave, you cannot erase the last 3 months. They happened. I'm sorry.
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Maybe if he get more infinity stones...


#64

Dave

Dave

PatrThom said:
We didn't get around to it.

I didn't realize the blog posts were gone.

--Patrick
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They aren't. They are still in the DB.


#65

GasBandit

GasBandit

Dave said:
They aren't. They are still in the DB.
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But for everybody but you and me, they're inaccessible.


#66

PatrThom

PatrThom

jwhouk said:
Did the option to hide signatures disappear somewhere along the way?
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You will also have to opt back into any optional fora.

--Patrick


#67

jwhouk

jwhouk

Yeah I saw that.


#68

@Li3n

@Li3n

GasBandit said:
But for everybody but you and me, they're inaccessible.
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If a tree falls in the forest, and only GB and Dave hear it, is the tree real?


#69

Bubble181

Bubble181

@Li3n said:
If a tree falls in the forest, and only GB and Dave hear it, is the tree real?
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It's probably half a tree.


#70

Jay

Jay

Shit happens Dave.


#71

blotsfan

blotsfan

Is there still a way to hide forums, besides the NSFW ones?


#72

Dave

Dave

blotsfan said:
Is there still a way to hide forums, besides the NSFW ones?
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Just changed them all to Optional. But the NSFW ones will NOT show by default where the others WILL show by default.


#73

AshburnerX

AshburnerX

Someone just switched two-step verification to mandatory...


#74

bhamv3

bhamv3

Yeah, good thing I could remember the email password for this account, otherwise I'd be SOL.


#75

GasBandit

GasBandit

AshburnerX said:
Someone just switched two-step verification to mandatory...
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Dave was screwin around again. Should be fixed now.


#76

Zappit

Zappit

I shall reload those lost strips later. They will return.


#77

PatrThom

PatrThom

OMG a @Jay sighting.

--Patrick


#78

DarkAudit

DarkAudit

Halls of Meh and Shame are missing and not in the optional list. Did you decide to just let them stay nuked?


#79

Cheesy1

Cheesy1

DarkAudit said:
Halls of Meh and Shame are missing and not in the optional list. Did you decide to just let them stay nuked?
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Well, so are all of the other forums other than General at the moment.

Edit:
Never mind, had to opt into them on the optional forums.


#80

DarkAudit

DarkAudit

Cheesy1 said:
Well, so are all of the other forums other than General at the moment.
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Those need to be reenabled from the optional forums list in your preferences.


#81

Cheesy1

Cheesy1

DarkAudit said:
Those need to be reenabled from the optional forums list in your preferences.
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Yeah, I JUST caught that. :p


#82

Squidleybits

Squidleybits

Far said:
I hit a wall at Nergigante a few months back and haven't picked it up since but would like to again. Currently playing through God of War and Ni No Kuni 2 so maybe after those.
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I’d be more than happy to help starting Friday after I turn in my drawings to the art show :)

You can have a good laugh at my hot mess fighting style and we can destroy him!


#83

PatrThom

PatrThom

Aww, man. Even the PMs got reset.

--Patrick


#84

Bubble181

Bubble181

PatrThom said:
Aww, man. Even the PMs got reset.

--Patrick
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In which case, we might want to restart the depression outreach etc thread.


#85

PatrThom

PatrThom

Bubble181 said:
In which case, we might want to restart the depression outreach etc thread.
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That's right! That means @Officer_Charon and @Chad Sexington might wish to rebroadcast their info, if they still want everyone to have it.
(I haven't deleted the notification emails I received, so *I* still have their info, but dunno if anyone else was just counting on the PMs to hold it for them)

--Patrick


#86

GasBandit

GasBandit

I still have the database of contact info.


#87

GasBandit

GasBandit

Indulge me for a moment, I got a wild hair.

When I was
An admin
Our founder
Went into his cpanel
to free up some drive space

He said "Oh man,
There's too much
space usage
I'll free some by deleting
the "Test" SQL database.

He clicked it
Deleted
the DB
but then the forum seized up
and horror masked his face.

Because as it
turns out, see
Test DB
Was actually what was "live."
Our post were all erased.

Sometimes I get the feeling
That all I do is gripe
And other times I think that I should go
And through it all, the rise and fall
The posts that all got wiped
And though they're gone, we want you all to know

We'll carry on, we'll carry on
And though your posts got wiped, believe me
Their memory will carry on, we'll carry on
And in my heart I can't contain it
The error logs won't explain it

A site that sends you reeling
From decimated threads
A lack of timely backup protocol
So paint it black and roll it back
Let's post it loud and clear
Defiant to the end, we hear the call

To carry on, we'll carry on
And though the posts are gone, believe me
Their memory will carry on, we'll carry on
And though truncated and deleted
We weary users marching

On and on, we carry through the threads
(Oh, oh, oh)
Disappointed friends and relatives
(Oh, oh, oh)
Take a look at me
'Cause I could not care at all

Do or die
You'll never make me
Because the world
Will never shut my trap
You can try
You'll never break me
We wanna all
We want to post this crap
Won't explain
Or say I'm sorry
I'm unashamed
I'm gonna show my scar
Give a cheer
For all the broken
Listen here
Because it's who we are
I'm just a man
I'm not a hero
Just a mod who had to sing this song
I'm just a man
I'm not a hero
I don't care

We'll carry on, we'll carry on
And though your posts are gone, believe me
The memory will carry on, we'll carry on
And though your posts all got deleted,
The weary users marching on

Do or die
You'll never make me
Because the world
Will never shut my trap
You can try
You'll never break me
We wanna know
We want to post this crap
Do or die (we'll carry on)
You'll never make me (we'll carry on)
Because the world (we'll carry on)
Will never shut my trap
You can try
You'll never break me
We wanna all
We want to post this craaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaap (we'll carry on)


#88

PatrThom

PatrThom

I just had to:

davesnothereman.jpg


Yes, of course I'll eventually relent, but that day ... is not today.

EDIT: Thanks, Gas. I don't feel like I'm the only one now.

--Patrick


#89

Dave

Dave

So you can sing along.



#90

blotsfan

blotsfan

GasBandit said:
Indulge me for a moment, I got a wild hair.

When I was
An admin
Our founder
Went into his cpanel
to free up some drive space

He said "Oh man,
There's too much
space usage
I'll free some by deleting
the "Test" SQL database.

He clicked it
Deleted
the DB
but then the forum seized up
and horror masked his face.

Because as it
turns out, see
Test DB
Was actually what was "live."
Our post were all erased.

Sometimes I get the feeling
That all I do is gripe
And other times I think that I should go
And through it all, the rise and fall
The posts that all got wiped
And though they're gone, we want you all to know

We'll carry on, we'll carry on
And though your posts got wiped, believe me
Their memory will carry on, we'll carry on
And in my heart I can't contain it
The error logs won't explain it

A site that sends you reeling
From decimated threads
A lack of timely backup protocol
So paint it black and roll it back
Let's post it loud and clear
Defiant to the end, we hear the call

To carry on, we'll carry on
And though the posts are gone, believe me
Their memory will carry on, we'll carry on
And though truncated and deleted
We weary users marching

On and on, we carry through the threads
(Oh, oh, oh)
Disappointed friends and relatives
(Oh, oh, oh)
Take a look at me
'Cause I could not care at all

Do or die
You'll never make me
Because the world
Will never shut my trap
You can try
You'll never break me
We wanna all
We want to post this crap
Won't explain
Or say I'm sorry
I'm unashamed
I'm gonna show my scar
Give a cheer
For all the broken
Listen here
Because it's who we are
I'm just a man
I'm not a hero
Just a mod who had to sing this song
I'm just a man
I'm not a hero
I don't care

We'll carry on, we'll carry on
And though your posts are gone, believe me
The memory will carry on, we'll carry on
And though your posts all got deleted,
The weary users marching on

Do or die
You'll never make me
Because the world
Will never shut my trap
You can try
You'll never break me
We wanna know
We want to post this crap
Do or die (we'll carry on)
You'll never make me (we'll carry on)
Because the world (we'll carry on)
Will never shut my trap
You can try
You'll never break me
We wanna all
We want to post this craaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaap (we'll carry on)
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This is the best post ever made on this forum and will never be topped.


#91

General Specific

General Specific

blotsfan said:
This is the best post ever made on this forum and will never be topped.
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So, there's a man crawling through the desert...


#92

Bubble181

Bubble181

Not to want to be too annoying, but I've now checked it on two phones and three PCs, with different networks and different DNS'es, and the forum still has horrible slowdowns since the change. Any page I open loads 10-15%, then hangs for 10+ seconds, then suddenly loads fully.


#93

GasBandit

GasBandit

Lord Rendar was saying something similar in discord... I wonder if it's something specific to our european users? Hrmmm.


#94

strawman

strawman

After using it for awhile, I agree that it's horribly slow. I'll run a few quick tests to see if I can provide more info than that.


#95

strawman

strawman

Well, first the website is simply slow - server response times are 0.66 seconds - which is pretty abysmal.

Second, a lot of items, like the rating icons, are not marked as cacheable with an expiration time, so they are loaded every single time.

There are a number of items which aren't compressed very much, and while image quality suffers, this combined with the above two means that things like the forum banner images may be a big part of the slowdown.

Those were the top three recommendations from google pagespeed insights:

https://developers.google.com/speed...happened.32656/page-3#post-1395203&tab=mobile

Even if you don't have much control over server response time, fixing caching of items that will rarely change but are always present could be a big improvement.


#96

GasBandit

GasBandit

The odd thing is I'm not noticing these performance issues, either at work or at home. But the issues Bubbles and Rendar are reporting are way more than 0.66 second load times.. Bubble's talking major 10+ second hangs in the middle of loading, and Rendar was saying sometimes it would take minutes to get a page to load at all.

In any case, this seems like things that need to be brought to the host's attention.


#97

blotsfan

blotsfan

I haven't had any speed issues with the forum on mobile or desktop.


#98

Bubble181

Bubble181

I just did some timing and testing. Opening a thread I've visited our haven't visited since the Big Event doesn't seem to matter much, nor amount of gifs or media to display. I opened four threads, And they took 17, 24, 4 and 22 seconds to open (on my phone). The fastest one was Gared's PTSD one, the slowest the MCU one.


#99

Denbrought

Denbrought

I had noticed the forum seemed slower to load threads lately, thought it was just hiccups but... In case it helps: I'm in GA with a 120mbps-ish down connection. From doing a few sample hard refreshes, they all look roughly like this:
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... Where the green bar is the first request (i.e. the html page, 60KB in the example above). The wait times vary but are noticeable. Could something be causing the server to choke/idle when generating the pages prior to sending them?


#100

Bubble181

Bubble181

On my desktop, I openend four threads simultaneously. Load times were 34, 62, 67 and 68 seconds.
In case this helps pin down a problem, the "loading" icon in the tab header stays on the grey circle going coutnerclockwise for almost the entire time, changing to the blue, clockwise one maybe half a second or so before it loads. In contrast to some other slow websites, where it's the blue clockwise one that's spinning for seconds. Sadly, I have no idea what that icon actually *means*


#101

GasBandit

GasBandit

Bubble181 said:
On my desktop, I openend four threads simultaneously. Load times were 34, 62, 67 and 68 seconds.
In case this helps pin down a problem, the "loading" icon in the tab header stays on the grey circle going coutnerclockwise for almost the entire time, changing to the blue, clockwise one maybe half a second or so before it loads. In contrast to some other slow websites, where it's the blue clockwise one that's spinning for seconds. Sadly, I have no idea what that icon actually *means*
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The former is "attempting to reach the website," the latter is "webpage requested, waiting for data."

This smells like DNS propagation problems.


#102

Bubble181

Bubble181

Well, according to this question and answer it means the slow-down is coming from
  • Resolving hostname
  • Connecting to server
  • Waiting for response (before first byte being sent from server?)

And not the actual forum itself.


#103

strawman

strawman

GasBandit said:
The former is "attempting to reach the website," the latter is "webpage requested, waiting for data."

This smells like DNS propagation problems.
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I dismissed it at the beginning for that reason, but it's been a week, right? Shouldn't be an issue any longer.

That said, I wonder what DNS's are being used by those with slow times vs those with fast times.


#104

GasBandit

GasBandit

stienman said:
I dismissed it at the beginning for that reason, but it's been a week, right? Shouldn't be an issue any longer.

That said, I wonder what DNS's are being used by those with slow times vs those with fast times.
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I'm using 129.150.35.251, NTT America's DNS server, which has served me pretty well since switching to it.


#105

PatrThom

PatrThom

FWIW I have this happening at home as well, initial request starts loading, progress bar sits there a while, then finally...bang, page arrives all at once. And I’m still using a server in my house and on my LAN that caches DNS requests, so DNS resolution really shouldn’t be an issue, at least not after that first page loads (unless what, the TTL is 12 seconds or something?)

EDIT: TTL for A record is 4 hrs.

—Patrick


#106

jwhouk

jwhouk

All I've noticed is that the ratings icons are not showing up right away when you click the thumbs button. And when they do appear, sometimes they close right away if you don't have the mouse on the toolbar when it scrolls out.


#107

Gared

Gared

jwhouk said:
All I've noticed is that the ratings icons are not showing up right away when you click the thumbs button. And when they do appear, sometimes they close right away if you don't have the mouse on the toolbar when it scrolls out.
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They open on hover now, instead of on click, and click closes them.


#108

Tinwhistler

Tinwhistler

I haven't been having any slowdown issues


#109

Celt Z

Celt Z

I'm having slowdown issues on both my pc and phone since the change.


#110

DarkAudit

DarkAudit

Is the host still getting attacked? IIRC there was a DDOS attack a few hours after the cockup.


#111

Tinwhistler

Tinwhistler

pageloads.png

This is pretty typical of the response time I've been getting.

I was using the new 1.1.1.1 DNS (which was faster than my Comcast's DNS servers), but it completely died on me a couple days ago, and I switched back to Comcast DNS.


#112

figmentPez

figmentPez

I've been getting random bouts of slowdown, too.


#113

Dave

Dave

I'll message the host and let him know. Maybe there's something he can look at.


#114

PatrThom

PatrThom

Tinwhistler said:
I was using the new 1.1.1.1 DNS (which was faster than my Comcast's DNS servers), but it completely died on me a couple days ago.
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AT&T explains why it blocked Cloudflare DNS: It was just an accident

You might be on Comcast, but as it says later in the article, Cisco equipment apparently likes to snap up the 1.1.1.1 address for its own use.

—Patrick


#115

PatrThom

PatrThom

Oh hey, I just noticed that when I load forum pages, the lock icon in the address bar isn’t always there. Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn’t. This might be related. Cert issue?

—Patrick


#116

Dave

Dave

Interesting theory. I'll forward it on.


#117

GasBandit

GasBandit

It won't be there if there's content embedded that is from another side.. IE, imgur.


#118

PatrThom

PatrThom

Here, maybe this will be of help:
timetoload.png

Yes, that's ~13s it just sits there, waiting for a response from the server.

--Patrick


#119

Thread Necromancer

Thread Necromancer

I didn't read this thread. I just here to say "It's ok Dave. we still love you" But of course I'm late and not paying attention. That's kind of my thing.


#120

strawman

strawman

PatrThom said:
Here, maybe this will be of help:
View attachment 26786
Yes, that's ~13s it just sits there, waiting for a response from the server.

--Patrick
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My guess is SQL stuff. Some query or another is badly optimized (maybe indexes are broken and need to be reindexed) or the SQL server is separate from the web server and isn't responding quickly.


#121

strawman

strawman

And going to the main page and the forums page, both are pretty quick. It's when I go to a forum like general or hit new posts that it slows down.


#122

Dave

Dave

There are things in the ACP that let me reindex stuff, but I don't want to do it until traffic is down a bit as it'll slow stuff down.


#123

Bubble181

Bubble181

Dave said:
There are things in the ACP that let me reindex stuff, but I don't want to do it until traffic is down a bit as it'll slow stuff down even more.
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FTFY :p

(also, *posting* or reacting in a thread *is* quite fast.)


#124

Dave

Dave

I went ahead and started the indexing. If it works, it'll be done soon enough. If it doesn't I can update the ticket.


#125

Bubble181

Bubble181

Not to be a bother, but entering a thread is still slow as molasses. The forum pages are OK, reacting/posting is fast, but New Posts and actually going to the page of a post are still in the "go get a coffee while you wait" category.


#126

Dave

Dave

I'll send something to the host, but don't expect anything today thanks to a US holiday.


#127

Dave

Dave

Okay, I've unstuck this. Looks like everything is basically back to normal. There are a few things I still have to take care of, but they are on the server side.


#128

Dei

Dei

So it's a super minor thing, but as of this morning, on my phone, some things in my UI layout randomly changed, such as not having a what's new hotlink button without turning my phone sideways or opening the sidebar.


#129

Dave

Dave

The UI.X styles were throwing up a billion errors and I believe one of the things that were helping slow things down. I got them fixed this morning. So if there are issues, please document them and we'll see what we can do to fix them.


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