Forum DB Issues

[Castellon]

See the post above you, we had a major update, and are ironing out the bugs.
Look for a stead improvement, and once we get the basics back to 99% we will look at adding more features.
Lots of good things in store for the future.

 

[Kallocain]

We had a few hours of downtime friday night (CET). It was some kind of issue with the server. Every bad thing have to happen at once you know? Besides the upgrade, that was a good thing, but still caused a few hours of downtime as well.

 

[Castellon]

Thanks for the answers.

I guess it all boils down to the question why scheduled downtimes have not been announced on the main page. Maybe that could be one of the upcoming improvements you mentioned?

You assume bugs don't create their own timetable.

If it is planned and known far enough in advance we do post announcements.

 

[Kallocain]

A humble request for Paradox from a long time customer and forum member: in the future when you tout a forum "upgrade" please dedicate the testing time, server horsepower and internet bandwidth so that said "upgrade" does not actually degrade the forum experience.

I wish we could have done that, but I'd have to simulate 3k+ people logged in to the forum and posting, refreshing, searching and what not. I'm not sure how I would have done that, and I would probably not have had the time if did know how.
We are still working on it, but we can't just get a super computer to have the forum on, because we already have several powerful machines to handle it, we need to figure out how to optimize the forum software instead. I have a discussion going with several other to figure out how to do that best, and I get the "server busy" too, so I assure you I won't forget or delay this process.