I agree that the problems don't seem to be getting any better. I suffered another crash today when I tried to post a new thread on the Visual C++ forum and (once again) it was several minutes before I could access CodeGuru again.
This really sucks Brad. CodeGuru is so unreliable now as to be near unusable. We've all been patient but the problems have been going on for far too long.
"A problem well stated is a problem half solved.” - Charles F. Kettering
I've just made 3 attempts to edit my previous post (above) but each attempt failed.
I just wanted to add that the only obvious improvement is that we can now find old (i.e. historical) posts when searching. Nothing else has gotten even remotely better AFAICT.
"A problem well stated is a problem half solved.” - Charles F. Kettering
I pushed hard again this past week on teh developers and techies. I'm going to keep pushing until we get things a lot more aceptable. On VBForums, theings are running smoother today. Hopefully we see the same here.
The member list is currently disabled. As a Mod, you have other options, but the public member list is currently disabled until we resolve all of the speed issues.
Update: We've added more servers, so let's see if that helps performance and such.
Such as what? Advanced search for posts from "Igor Vartanov" still finds my posts not earlier than June 21st. I don't think the extra servers could help with this. I believe my message history has become lost for ever. This is not funny anymore. I cannot express the degree of my disappointment. Now really, does anybody care how many times this was reported since June 21st? It's October coming, come on guys...
Igor - I can't remember exactly what's needed but there's a way to make each forum search earlier than June 21st. However, searching is still pretty slow, even with the new servers. The rest of the site isn't too bad though. I think that searching back to the earliest available date should be the norm (like it used to be). Very few users would actually want to exclude those early posts from their searches IMHO.
"A problem well stated is a problem half solved.” - Charles F. Kettering
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