Getting board error messages? Post them here.

[Gary]

[agraceblue]

Yeppers. I get them too. Sometimes when I try to answer an email notification, sometimes when I am onsite and try to view a posting, and sometimes when I try to post. There seems to be no pattern that I can discern; if however I go to the archives of a persons postings and open the original post or a reply then it will open for me straight from the forum. Agraceblue

[Cat Sith]

Got my first error today. Didn't last long but this is what it said:

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phpBB : Critical Error

Could not connect to the database

[Jabberwhacky]

[Gary]

We had a hiccup today; nothing serious but the machine was down today briefly. All servers have to be rebooted periodically. Trying to account for everyone's different time zones (and Ravi's time zone is VERY different), I think you both saw the same thing. I'll keep an eye on it.

[Cat Sith]

[Gary]

Searching - searching is fairly resource-intensive for the board, so it does things that are non-intuitive sometimes. Like if you search for an extremely common term, it will not return results. Not sure how it decides what an extremely common term is...

While this sounds incredibly asinine, and is sometimes inconvenient, it makes a certain amount of sense if you think of it this way - how many posts on this board do you suppose use the word "poem"? So if you searched for that term, you'd get - I dunno - 1,000+ matches? A huge amount of work for the server to perform, and probably a bunch of search results that are useless anyway.

Try Advanced Search (the link below the Go button in the quick search box) for more - advanced searches that may be more helpful in finding a post.

And yes, it does throttle number of searches per user by a time interval. Again, this is by design to keep from slowing the board down too much. I'll see if I can shorten the interval.

[agraceblue]

Hello Gary. I still have ongoing battles with AOL from time to time but this is something new. I do not receive any notification of replies. I checked in my profile and everything is turned on so any idea why no replies are being forwarded from Zeugma to me? Thanks. Michael

[Nacona]

I am with Gracie, I am not getting any e-mail notification for replies, I noticed it last night, but it was working fine two days ago. Thanks!

Cheers!

Shawn Nacona

[Gary]

[Agnes]

[Cat Sith]

[Gary]

[agraceblue]

[Cat Sith]