Slow boards help!!!... check here

I don't think it's just this site. ever since the chinese fucked about with google a few weeks ago the whole internet seems to have slowed (on various machines and connections that i've tried).

It was probably the slowest it has ever been for me, earlier in the night....
The only logical reason was Sammie Pennington was doing the 9-11 nightshift

Unsuprising, I suppose with 182 members and 559 guests online

Seems to be painfully slow this evening/tonight (701 Users).

It's been running slow all day 625 users 445 guests

Yep, I've noticed a considerable jump traffic over the last week, as the number of members logging on has gone up.

So does this mean that an upgrade of the server bandwidth is on the schedule, or do we just have to put up with waiting five minutes to finalise a post, only to have it time out on you, and you have to start again?

P.S.

I've also noticed that the invisible list has suddenly jumped up as well. Now I can understand the moderators doing this, so the can do there job in peace, but the other night there was 56 invisible members online. Have you guys suddenly increased the number of moderators? or are you guys breading like rabbits in the background (although how you do it invisibly, beats me).

(18-02-2010 22:52 )aceman65 Wrote:  Yep, I've noticed a considerable jump traffic over the last week, as the number of members logging on has gone up.

So does this mean that an upgrade of the server bandwidth is on the schedule, or do we just have to put up with waiting five minutes to finalise a post, only to have it time out on you, and you have to start again?

P.S.

I've also noticed that the invisible list has suddenly jumped up as well. Now I can understand the moderators doing this, so the can do there job in peace, but the other night there was 56 invisible members online. Have you guys suddenly increased the number of moderators? or are you guys breading like rabbits in the background (although how you do it invisibly, beats me).

It was very slow last night. I do most of my forum browsing and posting before midday when there are no problems. (like now )

Regarding invisible users, quite a few of them are the girls from the shows. In the past I have seen posts reporting that certain girls have been viewing a rival companies section of the forum. This has led to speculation about them leaving their current employer. I have advised some of the girls to make themselves invisible.
They are also less likely to be pestered with posts and PMs if they cannot be seen to be online.
The mods can obviously see who the invisible members are.

(19-02-2010 12:22 )TheWatcher Wrote:  It was very slow last night. I do most of my forum browsing and posting before midday when there are no problems. (like now )

Are you telling me I gotta start getting up earlier in order to get the optimum forum time for speed????????

Aaaaaaaaaaawwww maaaaaaaaaan!!!!!

Really slow today, so slow i managed to thank a post 23 times

23 times! That's a bloody record!
Slow for me to.

590 users active in the past 20 minutes (159 members, 30 of whom are invisible, and 427 guests).

Damn that was my 1000th post!