UA Board access
 

For the past couple days, my ability to access the UA section has been sporadic, while all other areas have not caused any problems whatsoever. Anyone else?

Me too. Netscape 4.7 if that makes a difference.

Thought it was my imagination. Glad someone mentioned it. Access via the "Hop To" pulldown menus is very long, compared to other forums.

I'm using IE5 on both my office computer (near T-1 speed) and at home (28.8Kb), both connections result in delayed access to the United Forum. This evening at home the Forum opened up and there were no active threads at all (I use the "Last 2 days" setting). When I manually refreshed the browser, everything appeared normally.

Also Netscape 4.7, and similarly when I get to the United forums. Extremely slow, and often lately, locking up completely, requiring me to log-off-default to continue.

bj-21.

me too (for 24 hours now) Netscape 4.7 (Mac version)

My theory is that this is due to the verbosity of you UA flyers!! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

metoo. Tonight, no access to UA forum at all. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/frown.gif http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/frown.gif http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/frown.gif
Netscape 4.08 / Compuserve / 56K dial-up

this (european) Monday-morning: no access to the UA forum with Netscape (4.7, Mac-version) - at the same time no problem with Internet Explorer 5.0 (Mac-version)

at this very moment, three attempts to open the UA forum failed, even when using MS Explorer 5.02 (Mac-version).

IE5.5 works fine it seems! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

So far! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif

With T-1 access, all others come up blazingly fast. The UA board took 15-20 seconds to load, but did come up. Using IE 5.0

My experience with both Netscape 4.7 and IE5.0 is exactly the same as Shadow's. All other forums "load" fast as usual, but United takes about 15 seconds to come up. Seems United delays have spread to FlyerTalk!

I gave up trying to load the UA board tonight--started to load very slowly, and I didn't want it to lock-up as before. Just stopped the loading, and went down to the next forum of interest.
No other thread or forum on this site is causing this problem for me, only the UA board.

bj-21.

Now also can't post a reply. It just sits there counting down to nothing.

I'm looking into this matter good people and I appreciate the fact that you've brought this to our attention. Doe's anybody have any other observations to make?

I've viewed that area of our site through several different browsers and have been unable to recreate the situation you seem to be encountering.

Thank you for your help.

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ThanX...
Michael at WebFlyer

I use Netscape at the office and IE at home and both have been giving the periodic fits.

So far this morning, no access at all. Other boards work fine.

I had problems too today. I could not access the United section at times. When I could access, I could not see the latest posts - I could see that the timestamp on the post had been updated, but when I clicked on it I did not get the most recent replies (even when I refreshed). T1 access and I.E.

Other people are having the same problem - you will see multiple (almost empty) posts by others in the United forum.

[This message has been edited by PG (edited 09-27-2000).]

Still major problems with the United forum. At best a minute wait to be let in, at worst not at all. Hellllp!

Just to update--

Tried again tonight. Very slow getting there, but it made it--finally.

Also noticed tonight on other forums and boards, many duplicate and triplicate postings. These don't seem to be intentional duplication, but appear to be a technical problem today.

bj-21.


[This message has been edited by blackjack-21 (edited 09-28-2000).]

The United board is empty right now! Maybe some maintenance is underway?

Ditto for me, PG. I'm on a T-1 right now.

Interestingly, you can still search on the United site, and find a post and reply to it. But through the FlyerTalk main page, the United forum comes up empty.

Or do a search for all posts since yesterday (leave all fields blank except the date field - since yesterday, and forum field - United)

[This message has been edited by PG (edited 09-28-2000).]

Empty for me too using the AOL browser.

You can access the threads if you switch to "Show All" (ie not just last day or last five days).

It appears there are some (1?) posts that have "locked it up". They have a weird time/date stamp which has no date and a 12-

It looks like the -- 12: AM time/date stamp is the problem as the blank date keeps getting pushed to the top even after new posts that should supercede it.

The software then interprets "--" as beyond 1 day and even beyond 1 year. That is why only "Show All Topics" brings the latest (and all) topics forward.

Thank you all for your support and feedback. I "think" we're under control again. Pleae hit the United area for me and let me know if you continue to have problems. You can email me directly at mailto:[email protected][email protected]</A> with any and all comments.

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ThanX...
Michael at WebFlyer

Still having problems ....

Totally off line now -- not even "View all Posts" works.

From the most populated threads to the sparsest portion of the board http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif

That's sure strange. I'm seeing everything. Have you guys tried clearing your cache and all that? Try holding your shift key down and hitting the reload button. Let me know if that helps.

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ThanX...
Michael at WebFlyer

Yup, did that but problems persisted (also mentioned in one of my earlier posts).

[This message has been edited by PG (edited 09-28-2000).]

Can't get on UA board, two tries, 5:25 pm ET

Update ten min later - got on, unbelievably slow.

[This message has been edited by violist (edited 09-28-2000).]

Michael, this is not a cache problem. Almost everyone seems to be having this problem, and it seems to be getting worse. I was also having the same problem of finally getting into United and then it showing no posts. Later that problem seemed to be gone, but still can't enter the forum most of the time. And when I can, it usually takes several minutes of waiting before the forum loads.

Could it be something related to the high number of posts in the United forum? Perhaps it has become so large that the "cookie" that looks for posts "in the last 2 days" and such, is taking too long to search through the data base?

Working for me now.

Buzz is even larger but was not slow when United didn't work.

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Still slow loading, perhaps because of its size, but no problems beyond that.

bj-21.

I notice that this Monday through today (Friday) the problems for me accessing the UA board always start at about 15:45 hours swiss time (that is 07:45AM Colorado Springs time). Only minor access-problems from 07:00 to 15:45 swiss time (11PM to 07:45AM mountain time).

It is getting slower, even on my fast connection. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/frown.gif

Is there a fix in the works?

I believe that the problems are possibley related to the increase in traffic in this particular forum. I'm seeing all of the postings but even on the very fast connection that I have it seems all too slow. Please continue to help me keep an eye on this situation and give me feedback about your experince as I feel this will help me pin the problem down.

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ThanX...
Michael at WebFlyer

Today I can enter the UA forum quickly, but no topics are posted.

Unable to view anything at all on United board. No posts exist, now.

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