The chat is back up... I had to write a new caching mechanism so that the Who's Online list would stop pummeling our DB with thousands of requests per second. That's what was killing our server today (one of the things).
We have new firewalls and security monitors on our servers, and that was causing all kinds of false positives and shutting shit down, but now that's all good.
Email notifications are currently down, but I'll be tweaking our mailing system tomorrow and fixing that.
I got our servers communicating together solidly again (East coast and West cost USA), so file downloads should be quicker since the load is now split.
Things are still a bit wonky and there's all kinds of work still to be done, in all aspects of this site and server, but I appreciate everyone's patience. I don't post a lot, but I'm working constantly day and night. I'm watching this thread, but please message me if you see anything crazy and I'll get on it.
The chat is back up... I had to write a new caching mechanism so that the Who's Online list would stop pummeling our DB with thousands of requests per second. That's what was killing our server today (one of the things).
Chat is fine, until you click a link or refresh the page. Then the content doesnt reload. So if i leave one tab open for the chat, and browse in a separate tab then it is fine.
It is confusing people though.
I wish you strength as you continue your epic battles with the back end
RickA said: I am now getting multiple duplication of many notifications...
Same here, just got inundated with notifications, most are duplicates and from a few days old as well. Also noticed that the views don't seem to be working correctly. I have a post that states no views, although it's had a reply and a love?
The chat is back up... I had to write a new caching mechanism so that the Who's Online list would stop pummeling our DB with thousands of requests per second. That's what was killing our server today (one of the things).
Caching handling is one of those unreasonable hard things in IT.
In fact the two hardest things in IT are: 1. Naming things 2. Cache handling 3. Off by one errors
Thanks MM for all your work to make the site better for us all.
I seen to be having the same issue as Scroggle that I'm showing as having new messages but when I click my inbox nothing is there so might be a multiple user issue.
Hopefully all these changes will have all the kinks worked out soon and you'll be able to get some rest MM xxx
Sorry to add to your list MM, but I noticed that the love doesn't seem to be working. I've hit the heart icon on a number of posts and in some pictures, but on looking again, it's not registered as there's no tally number next to the heart.
Also, views are still not working, unsure if they are linked.
i know MM you are so busy trying to sort out all these problems and upgrading as well but i have received no notifications since Sunday and no Email notifications since before the weekend just wanted to let you know
The people page seems to just be showing online people for most liked and most likes given. Id clicked my rank number to get to the top contributors page and its a collection of random ranks in no obvious order.
When i clicked to go to people page it shows the similar group of people in tge online as well as the two other categories on left hand side.
I think notifications and inbox might be broken. I can see wam party things on my profile page within the last day, but have gotten no notifications or inboxes in a day now. Might sound a bit weird, but like there are a few ppl i have some back and forth going with....or i thought i did...
I'm noticing that when I search on the term "mud" in the Forums, I'm only getting less than 20 threads that come up, the most recent ones going back to about April 1st. The same thing was happening when searching in video but started working right about a week ago...