Originally Posted by
cblaisd
Now, sending any PMs hangs indefinitely and you don't know whether the PM has actually sent or not.
I've taken now to cc'ing myself on all PMs, keeping a second FT window open, and refreshing it to see if the PM was received.
You probably don't need to cc'ing yourself on all PMs. My "trick" to verify whether my PMs is sent is keeping a 2nd FT window open and directing to the "Sent Items" of my PMs (I believe the default setting is saving all outgoing PMs in Sent Items). Once refreshing the 2nd screen, if PMs are in my "Sent Items", I assume they have been sent (well, sort of "risky", I know). Of course your strategy is a step up and confirm the PM on the recipients' ends.
Originally Posted by
KevinSours
Are you noticing board slowdowns at the same time or just posts and PMs?
I still can't reproduce it on this end. I had something I thought was the culprit logged, but its checked out all afternoon so it has to be something else.
Kevin, speaking for myself, I don't think FT is slowing down when I run into hung screens.
Maybe you can try to send PMs to your IB fellows and have a dose of the hung experience.
Originally Posted by
Mikel at Webflyer
According to one of the lead developers at IB, there are a whole host of people working on this issue at the moment, all of whom he says are much smarter than him
Maybe it's time to have a new lead developer (or more) at IB?
Back to seriousness, I have the same question as
cblaisd: Why is it so difficult to find the fix?