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Posted by CMStPnP on Thursday, September 2, 2021 10:20 PM

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.

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Posted by tree68 on Thursday, September 2, 2021 9:54 PM

Still slow loading up topics.  Going back to the main forum page isn't bad.

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Posted by diningcar on Thursday, September 2, 2021 6:34 PM

OK for a while, then back to what it was.

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Posted by BaltACD on Thursday, September 2, 2021 5:23 PM

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Server Timeout seemes to be the most popular thread

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Posted by rdamon on Thursday, September 2, 2021 2:57 PM

Server Timeout seemes to be the most popular thread

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Posted by Flintlock76 on Thursday, September 2, 2021 1:04 PM

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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.

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Posted by Convicted One on Thursday, September 2, 2021 12:19 PM

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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.

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.Smile, Wink & Grin

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Posted by Convicted One on Thursday, September 2, 2021 12:07 PM

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Maybe 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"

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Posted by Backshop on Thursday, September 2, 2021 11:01 AM

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.Big Smile

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Posted by charlie hebdo on Thursday, September 2, 2021 10:16 AM

Erratic,  but mostly very slow.  

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Posted by Flintlock76 on Thursday, September 2, 2021 9:32 AM

Lithonia Operator

Ve ...................ry...................sloooooooooow.................to................day.

 

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.

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Posted by Lithonia Operator on Thursday, September 2, 2021 8:07 AM

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. Smile

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Posted by diningcar on Thursday, September 2, 2021 7:54 AM

Seems to be fixed now.

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Posted by Justicar on Wednesday, September 1, 2021 9:53 PM

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.  :)

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Posted by Lithonia Operator on Wednesday, September 1, 2021 9:08 PM

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.)

???

Still in training.


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Posted by SD60MAC9500 on Wednesday, September 1, 2021 8:58 PM
 

www.trains.error seems to be more suiting these days...

 
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Posted by SD60MAC9500 on Wednesday, September 1, 2021 8:58 PM
 

Delete

 
 
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Posted by Lithonia Operator on Wednesday, September 1, 2021 6:26 PM

Ve ...................ry...................sloooooooooow.................to................day.

Still in training.


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Posted by SD70Dude on Wednesday, September 1, 2021 6:15 PM

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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Posted by Convicted One on Wednesday, September 1, 2021 6:11 PM

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. Bow

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Posted by Overmod on Wednesday, September 1, 2021 6:05 PM

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...

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Posted by diningcar on Wednesday, September 1, 2021 5:52 PM

Same here. Lets hope their tech people work on it. 

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Posted by Convicted One on Wednesday, September 1, 2021 4:56 PM

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)

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Getting a lot of error messages on this site, today
Posted by Convicted One on Wednesday, September 1, 2021 4:52 PM

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:

Sorry, there was a problem with your last request!

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.

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