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Great stuff.
All back to normal over here.

Cheers ... McBie
 

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Again - Thank you for your patience and understanding. But please do let admins know if you notice anything not functioning as it should.

And we should extend our thanks to you, as new owners, for listening to and responding to our difficulties. Things are back on track and the fun quotient is returning.

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And even Ian's posts above get posted twice, just to make sure they get through I guess!!! ;) :D
 

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With anything in particular? It's been pretty solid here and it might help if we knew whether or not the issue was specific to any one part of the forum.
 
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It's still erratic today.

It all seems to be working well this morning from this corner of the world. At least for me. Touch wood!! ;)
 

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It's still erratic today.

In what way Jake? I haven't seen or experienced anything out of the ordinary since yesterday when things returned to normal.
 

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Its been fine for me as well. I did get a database error a few minutes ago which resulted in a double post but that was the first one in a while.
 
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Still not working here. I click on the View First Unread and all that happens is that it disappears, you don't get moved to the first unread post. Happened twice this morning already. It's like the database thinks the first unread post is the FIRST post in the thread. Annoying. How long does it take to replicate the database?
 
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Also, that post just now didn't update, and when I tried to navigate away from the page, it warned me my input would be lost, so I cancelled it, selected the input and use CMD-C to copy it, then left the page and came back to it and the post appeared. That may be why pm-r had one thread with four duplicates...
 
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Well I just double posted on the "Free up space / missing hard drive space" thread. I hit "post quick reply" and got a "database error - wait 19 seconds to post" message. So I did tried it again and got the same messages. I refreshed the page and found I had double posted. Beware - there still be issues here!

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We're still under attack. We will notify our contact but I suspect we won't be able to get it fixed until tomorrow.


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I'm getting emails about posts that I then cannot get to. I've gotten two emails about two posts here, one from lclev and one from vansmith, both in response to post 210 from me, but when I click the link, I'm taken to page 14 and cannot get past that point. I've also tried just opening the thread and still can't get past post 210, page 14. I'm posting this to see if it will post. I was getting the same error as Lisa before, about a database error and wait 19 seconds to post again.
 
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If you guys get that 'database error' message just ignore and click on 'Leave Page' and your message will post. Clicking 'Save' again causes the duplicates.triplicates et al!
 

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I have all sorts of problems posting here, primarily database errors causing duplication and i notice we have a lot of new posts with no replies, are we under attack from?? We have had a few bogus posts lately.

Sorry duplication again. I refreshed the page after Data Base error and ended up posting twice, lets see how edit works.
 

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In post number 212, chscag says that the site is still under attack and that a solution is unlikely before tomorrow. Quite apart from the frustrations experience by we members, there have apparently been bogus postings, and who knows what other skulduggery.

Perhaps we should all be careful in our use of the Forums. I'm not a prophet of doom, merely suggesting caution.

I hope my remarks are not misunderstood or seen as an intrusion.

Ian
 

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Well i'm using a VPN now but thats probably unnecessary. Just for a laugh, if I can post it sucessfully, this is what I got when I logged in just now:
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If things are taking a while, please try to refrain from hitting submit more than once. I'm guessing that frustrations with speed are causing many of the duplicates (not a judgment - I don't sometimes have patience with slow network speeds) and given that a DDoS will inevitably slow a site down, I'm sure that this is the cause.

Yes, the database is getting (or was) hammered. I'm hoping that this subsides soon.
 

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If you guys get that 'database error' message just ignore and click on 'Leave Page' and your message will post. Clicking 'Save' again causes the duplicates.triplicates et al!

As Harry mentioned above. If you make a post...get a database error…and don't see your post...don't hit submit, reply, etc a 2nd or 3rd time. The reply will show up in the thread after the first submission…and…after the thread is refreshed (or backed out of & re-entered).

- Nick
 

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Seems to be working now for me at least.:D
 

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