Quote from: Richy_T on Today at 02:28:26 PM

Quote from: OutOfMemory on Today at 11:35:30 AM

There's only one true Wall Observer thread Grin

That's the original. There were some concerns once the page count got high that the software might not cope too well (might have been from me based on lies told by a different forum's owners using the same software) so Adam closed it and opened this one. This one has been trundling along just fine with about 30x the pages.

I wouldn’t call it “just fine”. A few years ago, posting in WO became quite slow and unreliable. It was a forum-wide problem, but much worse in WO: Mildly noticeable elsewhere if you paid close attention, whereas WO became almost unusable sometimes. I heard that theymos then changed something with the database setup; I don’t know what, but the problem seemed to go away.

Recently, I have sometimes had slowness, timeouts, and even Cloudflare errors of inability to connect to the backend when trying to post in WO. The problem is sporadic, and I can’t seem to reproduce it in any way useful for troubleshooting; but it is ugly when it rears up. Sometimes, wrestling with it has resulted in double-posts where I had to delete the duplicate post after everything finally showed up.

I notice that ChartBuddy missed some recent updates. Is the problem on Buddy’s end? Or did Buddy experience a timeout as I sometimes have, with the inferior robot^* being too dumb to retry? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

^* This statement is intentionally ambiguous. I neither admit nor deny the allegation that I am a robot. I do habitually refuse to click the “I’m not a robot” box like a trained animal. Robots are too smart to play that game! WTF do does Google think I am, a piece of meat? Roll Eyes