Forum is murdering itself

[myke]

The last thing we were told by Jin is that he needs to get a friend or two together with him so they can optimise the server together and ensure that it is running at full capacity. It is naturally concerning for all involved that it hasn't been sorted already and also incredibly frustrating that it is taking so long - we can see the immense amount of damage it is doing to the forum but are not in a position to do anything about it.

All I can do is apologise profusely for the inconvenience and implore you to remain patient until such time as we get it fixed. I could also mention to Jin that it might be worth potentially having someone else to be "on call" as it were, ready to fix the server in emergency situations. I am sure there are people capable!

ask Jamesy, he's clever.

it is ruining it because im slowly merging onto other forums because this is getting boring and annoying now

[Jamesy]

ask Jamesy, he's clever.

Oh dear lord no, if you want the entire server to go completely do that!

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I'm being patient but it is pissing me off. Can people post? Can my staff do their jobs? Can I do mine? No, no and no. I'd like to think Jin has been emailing and phoning non stop to get people together. I'd personally like some form of ETA from him for when it can be sorted instead of just a long silence filled with questions we can't answer (we would love to be able to but we're in the dark here).

[Chippiewill]

This thread is pointless, nothing can be done. Why bother complaining?

[Robbie]

This thread is pointless, nothing can be done. Why bother complaining?

As is your post.

[Nixt]

This thread is pointless, nothing can be done. Why bother complaining?

In fairness when it is made clear that the situation is becoming pretty dire - to the extent that Management are clearly saying that they have been pushed to the boundaries too - it is perhaps enough to make those involved think "Oh blast, actually this is a little more urgent than I originally thought".

This isn't even urgent, this is bordering on a crisis. It does need sorting promptly, but of course there are issues outside of our control / knowledge that I am sure Jin will expand on when he comes online.

[Inseriousity.]

If it was only on one site, it wouldn't be that bad but it's all 3! Can't do anything without worrying whether it'll be there at the end.

[Recursion]

Maybe its time to direct him to such threads so he realises the forum is dying.

He won't take much notice of them. I'm also still annoyed about why he wouldn't allow the use of Tapatalk on the forum, it takes no effort at all to setup and provides a far nicer user experience than the mobile skins. It took 8 months to get a simple "No" out of him.

[Storking]

This should be the top priority thing to be sorting out as everyone elses posts clearly show it's irritating/people and gonna start leaving for other fansites = r.i.p habbox

Surely jin can sort it sooner rather than waiting weeks and weeks for these 'tech buddies'

[Apple]

Because the amount of crap in terms of software the forum has to go through on the server is rediculous. Get some Nginx up and running to replace Apache, that'd be a start.

Here's lookin' at you Jin.

It actually gets harder to moderate posts, when I edit a post and then go to PM someone about it and it doesn't work it just makes me wanna leave it at that, you can't expect staff to do their job properly.

I agree with this. Usually when the forum starts to die and won't load things I tend to leave my computer for a while and do something else. However when I am part way through dealing with a rule break I have to sit and wait it out which frustrates me. This problem is now becoming pretty serious, it could really have some long term effects such as loss of current members. It may also be preventing new people from joining, if they are browsing the forum and it's being slow and always freezing; are they going to join?

[scott]

Yeah I'm quite shocked that it's taken so long, normally when something goes wrong with the forum it gets sorted asap. It is a pain in the arse and obviously not helping anything like Tom said when trying to moderate sometimes takes about 10 minutes to do one thing while you wait for it all to load! I'm sure it's been about 4 weeks or more now so hopefully Jin will get it sorted prettyyyy soon!