Does anyone get the feeling someone logs on every few hours just to spam f5 to crash the site?

[AngelNoire]

Cuz i'm starting to get that feeling.

[BlessedWrath]

Anything is possible. Given what I know of humans, it seems rather likely.

[The Fated Fallen]

7pm in Britain tons of people will log on. So that could be something associated with the fact this site doesn't exactly have the largest budget

[XxFellsingxX]

What does f5 actually do?? Because I just tried pressing it twice to see why it causes so many problems on this site and nothing happened.

[DELETED324324]

Is this news?

[BrobyDDark]

Enalais said
Is this news?

Not at all. People seem to have forgotten, after that whole "RPG is dying" bullshit, that the news section is specifically for news about the site.

This should have been posted in off-topic or spam.

[Feigling]

XxFellsingxX said
What does f5 actually do?? Because I just tried pressing it twice to see why it causes so many problems on this site and nothing happened.

Refreshes the page. Press it quickly enough and your computer asks to access the site before the server is finished processing the previous request to access the site by your computer. Press it too many times in a short period of time and the site crashes.

It's been getting in my way. Three days in a row, I tried to access RP guild and it kept telling me the servers were down.

[XxFellsingxX]

Ah okay. Well, I hope this thing gets fixed. It's been getting me down that the site crashes so much.

[XxFellsingxX]

Ohoohohoo! I try to write a post about how the site is crashing and directly afterwards, gueeeeesssss what happens? XD

[Missy]

BrobyDDark said
Not at all. People seem to have forgotten, after that whole "RPG is dying" bullshit, that the news section is specifically for news about the site.

Seems rather foolish then to have it be public access and not just Admin post threads only.

[The Fated Fallen]

Missy said
Seems rather foolish then to have it be public access and not just Admin post threads only.

Yeah I didn't realise sorry.Thank you BrobyDDark

[Aristocles]

Is there a way to circumvent the F5 weakness?

[Missy]

Aristocles said
Is there a way to circumvent the F5 weakness?

Not spam F5?

[Aristocles]

Well, any way to prevent a crash or something if there is a lot of F5? Maybe we could all just agree to hit "reload" fewer times, too?

[The Fated Fallen]

Aristocles said
Well, any way to prevent a crash or something if there is a lot of F5? Maybe we could all just agree to hit "reload" fewer times, too?

Only refresh pages every 5 minutes max maybe?

[Jurassic Weeb]

Methinks this should be moved somewhere else. The news forum is for mods only to announce important stuff.

[Frizan]

The mods closed that "other" thread, but not this one, which has literally no relevance? GG.

[HeySeuss]

We closed the other thread because it was the same four people repeating themselves at each other with the intent of winning points against each other -- at that point, it's a derpbate in a deathspin, and we closed that thread down reluctantly because we were hoping to get more useful feedback. But hey, useful feedback was being smothered by an argument between extreme positions bickering with each other over who had the biggest e-peen.

Several of us even said we weren't closing it down until immaturity pretty much forced us to close it down.

I'm not a big fan of a public explanations of moderator actions, because I tend to feel that the rules themselves are a sufficient explanation of how and when we act, but I feel that since certain people *ahem -- ^* seem hell-bent on misrepresenting us in public, I'm going to break silence and say something in our defense, rather than let people self-anoint themselves our spokesman and really hose it up, something that also happened in the aforementioned closed thread.

[The Fated Fallen]

HeySeuss said
We closed the other thread because it was the same four people repeating themselves at each other with the intent of winning points against each other -- at that point, it's a derpbate in a deathspin, and we closed that thread down reluctantly because we were hoping to get more useful feedback. But hey, useful feedback was being smothered by an argument between extreme positions bickering with each other over who had the biggest e-peen.Several of us even said we weren't closing it down until immaturity pretty much forced us to close it down.I'm not a big fan of a public explanations of moderator actions, because I tend to feel that the rules themselves are a sufficient explanation of how and when we act, but I feel that since certain people *ahem -- ^* seem hell-bent on misrepresenting us in public, I'm going to break silence and defend ourselves for once.

You are a King amongst men

[HeySeuss]

Also, as indicated on facebook and is known in IRC, mahz is aware of the problem bottlenecking performance and has identified the cause. I'm sure I'll hear shit for this, but here goes: no promises on when he will have it solved.

I know that infuriates people, but it's more honest than setting a deadline and having people go ballistic when it passes.