Is the forum running slow again for anyone else??

[crowie]

Is the forum running slow again for anyone else??

Over the past couple of days it's been slow to load on both the iphone and the laptop running windows 10 on firefox...

Thank you!

[Wimmera Jack]

Yes for me too. Earlier this evening, it would not allow me to open links or increase photograph sizes. Gave up, but it seems back to normal now. Still a whisker slow to load, but otherwise OK.

Hooroo.

[BobL]

Yes it was but it seems a lot better now.

[AJ.]

This seems to come and go and has done as long as I have been around. This morning it was not usable, this evening seems fine. Other forums I frequent with the same format work fine.

Cheers Andrew

[rwbuild]

In light of the news I think we may have an answer

[lyricnz]

I think it was down completely last night? Certainly my phone and laptop and tapatalk were not working, even though the rest of the web was.

[Chesand]

I couldn't get on to it last night after teatime. Gave up trying.

[Treecycle]

In light of the news I think we may have an answer

If you disappear we will know why.

[RSD]

I've only been on the forum a couple of months but so far I've only seen two speeds - "mid-90's dial up speed" and "gogettacuppawhileitloads" speed

[rwbuild]

If you disappear we will know why.

Don't worry, lots of people wish I would disappear

[elanjacobs]

Yep, slow on and off here as well.

What I don't understand is that the metalwork forum rarely (never?) seems to have the same issue

[mature one]

slow is an understatement the forum is very very slow I don't envy the person who has to try a fix.

[BobL]

It's VERRRRY SLoooooow this morning.

[verawood]

Yep, I find it a bit slow sometimes.
But I think it's just waiting for me.

While here, do we have any way of requesting someone to make some room in their forum PM Inbox, pls.
I'm trying to reply, but notification says
"???? has exceeded their stored private messages quota and cannot accept further messages until they clear some space.

[ubeaut]

We are being hit with many hundreds of thousands of of times in the last 20 days by 3 IP's that don't appear to be search engines. One didn't resolve to any members and has been blocked (without no appreciable difference to speed) 2 others resolve to members and have hit the forums over 251K times in the last 20 days (that's over quarter of a million times) So it's obviously not the 2 members.

However not sure if blocking those IP's will help. We will see.

While here, do we have any way of requesting someone to make some room in their forum PM Inbox, pls.
I'm trying to reply, but notification says
"???? has exceeded their stored private messages quota and cannot accept further messages until they clear some space.

Can't get anyone to delete messages from their inbox even though they should get a message about full their inbox being full when they log in. Admin can do it but need to know who it is and are reluctant to do so as the messages could contain information that's import to the member.

Your best bet is to click on the users name in a post and in the dropdown see if it say @ Send Email then click on that and email them and maybe suggest that they delete or archive PM's.

Cheers - Neil

PS: We are aware of the problem and definitely working on it but not as easy as it would appear. May also have something to do with the ongoing cyber attacks on Australia, but probably not likely to be that far up the ladder that we'd warrant being included.