The site keeps crashing. And in between full-blown crashes, getting odd messages on blank pages along the lines of "access denied" or "page does not exist."

Was just down... now back up... anyone else?

Really slow. Think dialup.

Yes. Repeatedly last night.

Not quite that slow, but close.

Yeah, I think it was something wrong the FT today. Its has been very slow but, its doesn't get faster the Internet connection. I think they are fixing the solve problems from FT today. So otherwise, you should be patience where tech support are fixing the Internet server.

It seems to be faster today, but that could also just be that it's early AM here and very few people are online. :)

Right now, it was very slowest with the Internet connection. Its doesn't gets fastest the Internet connection. I knows it was something wrong with FT. I tries to typing the DL Forums but, its has been very slow. So I think tech supports should need to get fixed ASAP.

Tech Support,

I have been problems with FT today. Its wasn't faster today. I knows it was something wrong with FT all day long. Can you please reboots the Internet conection for me, please? I knows FT doesn't have faster connections. Can you please find out something is wrong with FT forums today. Is that your weather in CO does not good situation due to snowstorm. Can you please give it chance to fixed the Internet connection by FT. I'm tries to get posts but, I am trying to typing the message boards but, it was very slow. So However, if you guys try to get reboots with your Internet connection. Thanks for your concerns to me.

Regards

Just gotten used to it being slow. I don't think a reboot will help it, I think the database backend is the slowdown, it is fast right now with less traffic but during the daytime goes very slow.

FT has been slow today :(

What's it to ya?
 

I wonder what "...System Generally Slow" means to you.

Do you experience the following? In any particular combination?

To me it means, sometimes:

• not getting email alerts re new posts for a half a day, sometimes a day, then getting a slug of them, bunched up over about a 20-minute period
  
• the FlyerTalk window takes a long time to open from the the email alert's link
  
• the content takes a long time to populate (usually associated with an active video advert panel that must finish filling before the content arrives)
  
• lately, typing away in the message box, but no letters appear until I stop typing, then they catch up
  
• getting the Database Error window
  
• (rarely) the IE window saying that it cannot display the webpage

"Sometimes..." because these don't always occur at once. When they do, they usually are obviously associated with the site. But when it's not obvious, I'll go over to another window to see if the symptoms are there, and clear the cache. Then if it's still happening in FlyerTalk but not in other sites, I at least have some boundaries on the problem, and will go back to real life, or to play on TripAdvisor, or post on this thread. :D

Again, any of this familiar?

What happened? FT suddenly went slooooooooow.

I guess the site has a cold.:D

DB server went down.

Speed is back again.

crawling along and getting numerous database errors today at 12:34pm pst

Same here. More database errors.

Hi everyone,
I've got a report from the tech team. This morning’s outage was caused by a hardware failure between our core switch and central storage system. We worked closely with our hardware vendors to diagnose and resolve the problem. We are working with our vendor to add redundancy to this system in order to prevent this problem from occurring again. We will be scheduling a downtime in the next few weeks to implement this fix. Thank you for your patience.

crawling along and also getting database errors at 9:56am pst :(

Very slooooow the past half hour or so.

Very slow. Multiple Database errors.

database errors are happening at 5:03pm pst :(

We are looking into it. Thanks.

Got the Database Error once when clicking from p.1 to p.2 on the Southwest Rapid Rewards board, this afternoon.

crawling along with database errors at 10:20 pst

Just glacial right now. :(

I am experiencing that right now.....

It's moving for the most part, but I've had multiple database hours over the past hour. :td:

A few database errors and general slowness the past few hours here.

General slowness and, of greater concern replies to threads not showing in views. For example, every post after GoingAway's does not show in the thread view from the forum. Not good. :td:

Not seeing the latest post updates in forums or via 'New Posts' (last post is 11:53 GMT). They're only visible by going into individual threads.

I can't remember the last time we had a day without some database related error.

Yes, here we go again. The "new posts" page hasn't had a new post in 50 minutes.

Also I tried 3 times to unsubscribe from a thread and I'm still subscribed.

Right now only 6 posts are showing up in the New Posts view, and they are an hour old.

ETA: Looking at the Current Active Users at the bottom of each forum, I’m the only one on FT right now, not even any guests.

Said another way... I think...
 

I just posted a comment in a Southwest thread. It's there in the thread (whew - cuz I didn't "Copy" it all) but not on the list of threads. Not noticing other slowness. But my computer may not be speedy enough to show a difference.

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Also, in the "Currently Active Users" box, I see only me. I've tried this on several boards just now, and it's the same.

I was just going to report that I'm the only active user but somehow you beat me. How could that possibly happen when I'm the only one here? It's my own private forum. Go away!!!

:D

FT is moving at a snails pace for me today.

Anyone else having problems?

Same here, you can make a coffee while waiting between clicks.

More :td::td::td: from me.

"ditto" :(

I'm getting a bunch of "database error" messages too.