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Still very slow. As slow as I've seen it in ages.
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It seems to have returned to more normal speed for me, but a prior post of mine either disappeared or never got posted or I was half-exhausted and viewing it in "Preview Post" mode instead of submitting it.
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Seems OK to me too now going in via the normal URL
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Its so slowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
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The problem occurred when a member tried to search for the term "miles" on FlyerTalk. With nearly 5.5 million posts on this board, you can imagine the shear number of pages it was trying to load at once per this search request. Actually as it turned out, several members were doing the same. While we're not sure why anyone would search for such a generic term on this board, it nonetheless wrecked some havoc. We've discovered the reasons it happened and have now written in additional filters to try and alleviate similar things in the future. Most techies will tell you that open searches such as this are the real bane of a bulletin board.
Hopefully members will use the search function is a more logical way to find information, that or simply flag down a volunteer moderator for help. |
Originally Posted by Randy Petersen
The problem occurred when a member tried to search for the term "miles" on FlyerTalk. With nearly 5.5 million posts on this board, you can imagine the shear number of pages it was trying to load at once per this search request. Actually as it turned out, several members were doing the same. While we're not sure why anyone would search for such a generic term on this board, it nonetheless wrecked some havoc. We've discovered the reasons it happened and have now written in additional filters to try and alleviate similar things in the future. Most techies will tell you that open searches such as this are the real bane of a bulletin board.
Hopefully members will use the search function is a more logical way to find information, that or simply flag down a volunteer moderator for help. |
Wow. Hard to understand what anyone searching for "miles" was trying to find. You indicate that several were trying the same thing. It almost sounds like a concerted effort to make the site crash.
That said, as of 12:30 p.m. PST today the site has been verrrry slow whenever I've tried to access it. |
Last night everything was fine, normal. Today... let's just say it took a r-e-a-l-l-y l-o-o-o-o-n-g time to get here and post this. Anyone else?
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I'm having trouble right now, 3:30-3:45 EST. Pages aren't loading; just get blank pages.
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Everyone stop searching for things like "miles" and "the"!!
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For any further posts in this could you please indicate if you are a FT Premium user or if you are not? This will help me looking into what may be the cause of this... Thanks,
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Originally Posted by Randy Petersen
The problem occurred when a member tried to search for the term "miles" on FlyerTalk....
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Originally Posted by cblaisd
Does this mean I shouldn't do a global search on "points"? :p
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For any further posts in this could you please indicate if you are a FT Premium user or if you are not? This will help me looking into what may be the cause of this... Thanks, I enter via http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ from a Verizon DSL connection here in the Los Angeles area. I'm a Premium member. Windows XP Pro, latest version of IE 6.0. I have black receding hair with grey sidewalls, hazel brown eyes that melt the ladies' hearts........ ;) |
For about the last hour, it's taken 3-4 minutes for any page to load.
Yes, I'm a premium member. |
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