Most of the day I've been getting a default error message when trying to load a page here, 20 plus different times......anybody else experiencing difficulty?
the error message reads:
Either the site is offline or an unhandled error occurred. We apologize and have logged the error. Please try your request again or if you know who your site administrator is let them know too.
Same exact error message as when trying to upload an avatar, except now it's happening when trying to navigate a multi page thread,.. such as from page 3 to 4 (etc) using the navigator utilities (the small numbered boxes)
Same here. Lets hope their tech people work on it.
Since the beginning of the week I have seen amazing delays in most functions -- some apparently involving the old issues with advertising not loading and hanging display -- I notice there is no delay when one of those jump ads springs up and opens a new page, and I have no trouble accessing many other sites while the Kalmbach forums are balky.
One consistent thing is that the random page reset every few minutes is still faithfully occurring. Except now it might take 10 minutes or longer to get back to letting you start retyping...
Thanks guys, although I am not "glad" that you are suffering too, it is at least comforting to realize that nothing is broken at my end.
I've been getting the error messages and pages have been very slow to load for the last day or two.
It has been very slow to accept new posts for weeks or months, often I've hit the 'post' button repeatedly only to be greeted with a "duplicate reply already exists" message.
I haven't been able to log out normally for months, but that's not a big deal, just emblematic of the greater IT issues here.
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www.trains.error seems to be more suiting these days...
Also, the little logo icon that goes with my bookmark for the general discussion forum changed to a logo for Food & Wine magazine today! (The words did not change, and the link still works.)
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Lithonia Operator Also, the little logo icon that goes with my bookmark for the general discussion forum changed to a logo for Food & Wine magazine today! (The words did not change, and the link still works.) ???
Those are called Favicons. :)
Seems to be fixed now.
Justicar Lithonia Operator Also, the little logo icon that goes with my bookmark for the general discussion forum changed to a logo for Food & Wine magazine today! (The words did not change, and the link still works.) ??? Those are called Favicons. :)
Thanks.
I fixed it by clearing all browser history.
Yes, site loading normally today.
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Yeah, I had the same problem yesterday. I was going to post an "Anybody else?" message but decided not to. I was having no problems with any other website.
C'est la vie. At least I don't work for Kalmbach and have to live with their ropey IT system on a professional basis. Imagine what they go through.
Erratic, but mostly very slow.
yeah, same problem here. The homepage comes up quick, then the forum page slower and individual threads very slow. Maybe Kalmbach is doing it intentionally, to drive us last 20 regular posters away, so that they can shut it down.
BackshopMaybe Kalmbach is doing it intentionally, to drive us last 20 regular posters away, so that they can shut it down
"We are pleased to announce that we expect this problem, along with others, to be resolved when the new software roll-out is completed after the first of the year"
Flintlock76C'est la vie. At least I don't work for Kalmbach and have to live with their ropey IT system on a professional basis. Imagine what they go through.
Where I once worked my "standard issue" PC was a 486-66Mhz, and whenever I put in for an upgrade I invariably got put through the wringer to "justify" the expenditure....which never quite managed to clear muster. Wasn't too bad when first issued in the early mid 1990s, but by 2003 had become a joke.
So, in retaliation when I eventually quit, I installed MS DOS and made that the default boot partition on the machine. Seemed fitting.
Convicted One whenever I put in for an upgrade
Hey, at the place I used to work upgrades would come through unbidden, and at the worst times.
I lost track of how many times I heard a salesperson wailing "NOT NOW!!!" when they were trying to put in a sale and an upgrade popped up. They'd go screaming to our IT guy (Who was a good guy by the way) only to be told "Sorry man, there's nothing I can do to stop it, you just have to wait!" It could take anywhere from twenty minutes to a half-hour. There was nothing to do except grab a cup of coffee and a smoke and wait it out. Happened to me too on occasion.
Server Timeout seemes to be the most popular thread
rdamonServer Timeout seemes to be the most popular thread
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OK for a while, then back to what it was.
Still slow loading up topics. Going back to the main forum page isn't bad.
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Page rendering is slow. When you click reply after writing a post it does happen almost immediately, just that the page does not refresh. So I close and relaunch the website and go back into the topic and my post is there without sitting and waiting for the page to refresh.
The site is still pathetic.
Ridiculously long and seemingly random delays to load pages, and an increased number of the page resets that lose typed replies without warning.
Meanwhile the PM failures on phone or Firefox above v.60 remain utterly unaddressed, as does the inability to see profile data of other members. I have the suspicion some of the loading delays are related to advertising messages locking up, as happened a few years ago for a while.
If this is part of a supposedly coordinated 'stage 3' reworking if the forum system, someone better take the binky out of Captain Eastwood's hand and warn him the ship is not going where it's supposed to...
Speculation: For myself noticed these problems just as IDA approached New Orleans. Could it be that the longer packets for this site is / was routed thru New Orleans ? "IF" rerouted thatmight be a very limited capacity line ? BTW my access is somewhat faster but still not previous last week's speed.
blue streak 1Speculation: For myself noticed these problems just as IDA approached New Orleans. Could it be that the longer packets for this site is / was routed thru New Orleans ? "IF" rerouted thatmight be a very limited capacity line ? BTW my access is somewhat faster but still not previous last week's speed.
Nothing more or less than Kambach IT strikes again.
blue streak 1 Could it be that the longer packets for this site[are/were] routed thru New Orleans?
Now, if Kalmbach had reduced its forum server presence to a couple of ancient Xeon boxes in a corner of its Texas customer-service outsource, then perhaps ISP or local connection might have been 'storm-related'. But long experience says to me Kalmbach IT would never tell... either to confirm or deny.
Kalmbach probably doesn't have any tech-savvy teenagers on hand to fix the problem.
Hey, you think Harrison might like a trip to Wisconsin?
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