It dies? (everything locks up for about half a minute or so)

[Robin]

Seems like for about a week now, five minutes into a session on this site everything locks up for about half a minute or so, nothing functions. Its' kind of annoying and I can live with it if this is the new norm, but I am just curious as to what is going on. Is that when big brother taps in?
Ah, I see I hit the bold key by mistake, I'm typing this meekly.
Robin

 

[spb1122]

It is not doing that for me. Must be a local problem.

 

[HEX]

I don't mean to bag on you personally here Robin (this is very common from a lot of people) , but these kinds of things are generally kind of pointless without details and I have to say some variation of this every time. Of course there are occasions where something is a general site problem (like the saturday morning backups/cloudflare problem that we continue to have an issue with) , but far more often it's going to be a local issue and if you take any 20 different members you're almost certainly going to have 20 different variations of device, browser, OS, plugins, etc and so on. So, when something is posted with no details like this, we're left to respond with that this either is an overall site problem for everyone or it isn't, and then what else can we do with that ?

That said, as an admin there are certain things I can see which would lead to to make an assumption that you're using a mobile device pretty much exclusively (which could be an incorrect assumption, but probably not). I can't necesarrily even say in this case, given the information at hand, whose side the issue is on, because "locks up" could mean different things. I'd need additional information as to whether your browser is "locked up" in general, or if you're just getting a long load time between pages here (which could potentially be an issue on our end, but might also not be), or a number of other possibilities.

Side note: Also, I do wish people would stop responding to things like this with jokes and such. I'm all for joking around and having a good time on the site, but this just isn't the right section for that (and yes, I did pull some posts). I understand the OP here sort of set it up with the 'Big Brother" thing, but all this "Feds in your computer" sillyness is a bit disruptive in this 'official' section for actual site help and feedback.

 

[Robin]

Thank you Hex. It really isn't a big deal, more curious than anything else. By 'mobile device', do you mean phone? I use a Mac, full size, desk top, computer, I need the screen size these days. If you knew how ignorant I am about these things you would probably take it away from me.
Robin

 

[Robin]

I forgot to mention, when it locks up, it is the NYGF only. I can go up top and create new windows and other stuff.
Robin

 

[Uninformed and Compliant]

@HEX, what's the refresh interval on that little notification bell?

Packet loss will stall a tab instance while the TCP stack waits, especially if the ajax call isn't async.

@Robin , is your Mac on a wired connection? Or wifi.

 

[Robin]

I am assuming that the Mac is wired directly to spectrum and the box next to it sends Wi-Fi throughout the immediate area. But I guess the box could be wired to spectrum and the Mac picks up Wi-Fi from it. I don't really know exactly how it works.
Robin

 

[Steal2B]

I believe I too see the issues @Robin describes. Most Saturday mornings, and randomly yesterday it seems that the forum is oos or having traffic. This forum is the only site I see with issues at those times. When I message a friend or two, they also can not access the forum or get any response past saved screens. I usually assumed that maintenance was being performed since service returns less than an hour later.

 

[Robin]

WTF is with this site?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?! slow, delay's, kick outs, Database error?!?!!?!? WTF!
Langley running this place now?
Robin

 

[Robin]

I started a new posting titled "Another Outrage" and it is gone. what's the story?
Robin

 

[Willyone]

I started a new posting titled "Another Outrage" and it is gone. what's the story?
Robin

Might not be the site?... I don't know. But I do know that my internet connection has bleeped out a couple of times over the past 3 days. I call Spectrum and it gets fixed... that's all I know. Sorry, I ain't very tech savy.

 

[Robin]

I'm about as ignorant about these things as the Amish Willy! Could be, the last couple days I have had to turn off and turn back on that Motorola thing that splits everything up.
Robin

 

[kev74]

Hillary was right. Russian hackers!

Damn you, Putin!!!

 

[Robin]

Well, you ain't going crazy.....

View attachment 229092

I was reading your post then it disappeared when I refreshed the page, so I grabbed a screenshot.

Maybe someone didn't like your title and something happened during editing.

Thank you!!!!!!!
Robin

 

[Robin]

Who has the power to delete that and why?
Robin

 

[Robin]

Must be the CIA, NSA, FBI, or the BSA.
Robin

 

[HEX]

Who has the power to delete that and why?
Robin

Site staff. Forum rules.
Honestly this constant stuff about the agencies on the site and all that is really starting to aggrivate me. (This is not personal to you Robin)

I started a new posting titled "Another Outrage" and it is gone. what's the story?
Robin

Look at your notifications for the deletion reason. I probably don't even need to look at the reason though in this case, because a thread titled "Another outrage" is a clear rule 7 issue / non-descriptive/generic title.

7. Make sure to post in the proper forum with a proper descriptive title. This keeps everything organized neatly and saves the moderators time. If your thread is not posted in the proper section, or does not have a descriptive title, it may be renamed or deleted. A title like "You've gotta see this !" is an example of a non-descriptive title.

Odd how these things sort of go in waves, but this has been a big problem again lately. Many of them site-staff renames, but that's not always a simple option unless it's a news article with a title or something to copy/paste.
We've discussed it before in these threads, but It's also weird to me how people don't get that it's an issue, and such a simple thing. Everything is monkey-see monkey-do around here, so if we allow one non-descriptive title then tomorrow there's 5 , then 10, and the forum is nothing but a mess of random titles that have nothing saying what the content/topic of them is and we'd have a useless forum not worth going to.
Imagine if every thread that was about something to be outraged about was titled something like 'Another outrage'. How would anyone navigate the site or find a thread on a topic again ?

Yes, yes.. I know, expecting people to follow truly the simplest of rules so that the forum can actually operate.., I'm "LITERALLY HITLER !".