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Well, I make it about 3pm in the UK, and there are still two threads on the first page that are 19 hours old. That really has to be a new record.
It is currently a mini-heat wave, tho. So everyone is outside.
The forum is a bag of spanners, but the weather is probably a big part of today's post paucity.
It is currently a mini-heat wave, tho. So everyone is outside.
Fair enough. I spent the day in the garden here as it was nice, so makes sense. Apologies if I don't see 20C as a heatwave though 😉
It's much better than it was. still some annoying issues, especially the mad quoting.
I’m finding the increased percentage of borish posters left ‘contributing’ more of a turn-off than the post count itself.
But then I am a grumpy git.
I don’ think you’re the grumpy one Bear.
Keeps logging me out on desktop Chrome (despite selecting 'remember me'). When you hit the 'log in' link, it doesn't go to the log in page, but just refreshes the index.
Eventually managed to log in using incognito page.
Maybe try clearing the browser cache. A good thing to do every now and again anyway
still logged in on desktop chrome. cookie still has same creation/expiry as my post the other day. calendar reminder set for me to double check that the staying logged in time is 2 weeks and 12 hours.
edit: and there was a browser update in the meantime too. so it survived that.
Mini-heatwave or not. There are now 6 threads more than 24 hours old on the front page of the forum. I simply cannot recall this place ever being so quiet in the 14 years I've been posting here.
That’s quite a memory for detail.
Not if it's been that quiet regularly but he doesn't remember it.
Do I win a prize?
That’s quite a memory for detail.
You'd be far from the first person to make that remark about me
Where is he based?
I’ve forgotten.
hat’s quite a memory for detail.
This is not refuting the claim its merely passively aggressively playing the messenger
Everyone knows its quiet here of late [ the stats have been given ] so I am not sure why you wish to deny it and o so in this way
Its not really your "job" to defend the site and it surely cannot be your job, or anyone elses, to defend it from the truth.
Oh Hi Junkyard, he my well be right but I am staggered him can remember everday for the last 14 years of how busy the forum has been. It’s not my job no but that does not mean I can not support the site like others.
It cracks me up that the team of whiners just keep posting. If it’s that bad, go away.
I am staggered him can remember everday for the last 14 years of how busy the forum has been
He didn't claim he could. So perhaps you could quit the snide comments.
No normal person comes to a forum to read an argument between a couple of wazzoks.
I don’t think that’s a safe assumption at all. Millions of people tune in to watch eastenders three times a week, which is literally just a bunch of wazzocks arguing, as far as I can tell...
Its not really your “job” to defend the site and it surely cannot be your job, or anyone elses, to defend it from the truth.
Indeed.
Drac - you and Cougar have been at lengths to highlight that as mods you don't speak for STW. So don't insult our intelligence and your own by pretending that what we can all see isn't happening. That Comical Ali meme has appeared from the dead for a reason.
And rather than passive-aggressive trolling the forum you're supposed to mod, if you don't have anything constructive to add, please don't. Ta.
New improved meme!!!
It cracks me up that the team of whiners just keep posting. If it’s that bad, go away.
Bit harsh on the mods. They're only doing their job.
Oh give it a ****ing rest Zokes we’re entitled to post on here just like everyone else, I can choose to support the forum if I wish, I can highlight bold claims of the quetiest it’s been in 14 years if I wish. Maybe you should just leave the forum as your highlight seems to coming onto the this thread with you updates of how busy you think it is. Like Cougar says even mods will bite if keeping poking us, probably what a few of you are trying to do to be honest.
He didn’t claim he could. So perhaps you could quit the snide comments.
He didn’t?
I simply cannot recall this place ever being so quiet in the 14 years I’ve been posting here.
Hmm! I guess that means something entirely different.
I can highlight bold claims of the quetiest it’s been in 14 years if I wish.
What you actually did is reject a claim he didn't make. As you say, you're free to do so, just as I am free to take a view on your objectivity.
Hmm! I guess that means something entirely different
Read it again and have a think.
Stop arguing or the kitten gets it.
Noooo! Not the kitten.
He didn’t claim he could. So perhaps you could quit the snide comments.
He didn’t?
No. I said that I couldn't recall a moment in the last 14 years. That's quite a different statement to "I can recall every moment for the past 14 years and I know it has never been this quiet".
Look Drac. I think I can speak for all of us when I say that we very much like STW. It has been a dynamic, vibrant community of many disparate opinions, experiences, and voices. I've met several people through here who've helped me out IRL, and I've also passed on that favour to others whom I could help who made contact via this place. I simply don't know of another site on the internet with such a community. Yes, there have been people I don't like on here, just as I'm sure I'm not everyone else's cup of tea, but the fact is it's a very unique place, and oddly one that's rather dear to me.
Unfortunately the botched upgrade, coupled in part by the apparent intransigence and surliness of ST's representatives has resulted in an awful lot of people posting an awful lot less. This has resulted in a forum that is slow, difficult to use, and lacking in a good proportion of posters who made this place what it was. This is what several of os foreshadowed a couple of months back.
I'm not posting this to thumb my nose at you and say I was right and you were wrong. I'm pleading that rather than the insulting claims of "it's all fine here", something actually gets done that involves fixing the site and rebuilding the relationship between certain members of ST (who appear to have gone into hiding) and what remains of its user base. Or before long, there won't be a user base. That would be sad for me, and probably many other users. I'm sure it would be a lot worse for those who we've been led to believe on multiple occasions rely on the ads from this forum's popularity in order to draw a salary.
well said zokes and I am not sure how mods attacking users is helping heal the rift . Drac people are objecting to what you are saying* not that you are a mod.
* It does happen that you and cougar get targeted/provoked but this is not what is happening here if anything you are provoking him and its not helping.
Thanks Zokes constructive feedback like that is welcome and you’re right this place is great it’s had some real high and lows, I hope you hang in to see these problems through but I do hope you stop the less construtive posts you’ve been making if late which do come across as pointless whining.
Mods respoding to be people attacking them Junkyard I’m sorry but provoking is exactly what is happening Junkyard hence why at times we’ve retaliated.
I hope you hang in to see these problems through
and trying not to sound sarcastic is there any realistic idea when that will be?
I wish I could give an answer Mike but I'm honestly not sure, if I was to give one and slipped by and also not here the end of it.
Maybe 2012 with the new forum.
but I do hope you stop the less construtive posts you’ve been making if late which do come across as pointless whining.
You just highlighted that the forum has highs and lows. It’s at a low right now. I’m sorry if that truth fits uncomfortably for you, but swearing at me as you did before won’t change this.
Most of us provided positive feedback at the start of this fiasco. Much of it was ignored. Other aspects were adopted, some rather grudgingly. We are now where we are.
The absence of more interesting threads to post on instead is at least in part why I suspect several of us continue to pass remarks on this one.
Pub analogy redux: yes, we’re probably the grumpy old codgers in the corner complaining about the new trendy decor, the fact that the beer has increased in price yet decreased in choice, and bemoaning the fate of the old jukebox in which we knew every disc (and knew how to get it to play for free). We’ll probably stay here as we’ve always come here and we liked the other regulars who don’t seem to come here any more. But we might also walk past that pub down the road we never liked the look of and find them all in there.
Morning Y'ALL,
Had this problem trying to access the forum today, couldn't log on for an hour or so....
<h1>Error: Server Error</h1>
<h2>The server encountered a temporary error and could not complete your request.</h2>
Please try again in 30 seconds.
https://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/our-forum/#post-9956488
Server errors explained here - it's happening
it’s happening
2006?
We are now running in the Google cloud. We still have some optimisations to do to speed things up and there may be a few brief outages through the day while we make adjustments. The DNS is still running via our old server but once we are happy with our cloud config we will change our DNS to point to our new home in the ether.
Far out man.
I've one slight problem - I got logged out this morning when using Chrome and can't log back in using that browser but can using Firefox.
Might just need all the STW session cookies deleting and trying again
Yep, looks like it was something wrong with the session cookies, might be time or timezone related as a first guess.
& I still don't have any emoji's or a strikethrough option!
😲
We've just redirected the DNS to point directly at our new server. That could take a day or so to propagate fully.