For crying out loud..........

[stepwilk]

CR2, I'm sitting 50 miles north of you, up the Hudson, and I've been on and off the site all day with nary a problem.

Maybe you guys are all using Internet Explorer or some other Microsoft crap, rather than Macs...

[empacher48]

Don't worry its not a European problem either, I had that same issue last night from here in Fiji.

I gave up and went to bed, hoping that someone out there in the interweb might have figured out something was wrong..

It must've worked because I woke up this morning and all is well.

[Avtrician]

I was just reading this, went to page two, and got a "cannot Connect"



Something is broke some where.

[treadigraph]

Purley, UK - had an intermittent problem "cannot connect to database" (or similar) Sunday morning at 8am, got home again at 8:30pm and got the same message and no access when I tried to get in a number of times over an hour or so.

This morning at 8:30am, all is well so far as I can tell.

[BEagle]

Nope - it was still intermittently tits-up with a 'could not connect' page earlier.

[henry crun]

The "could not connect" outages are getting longer and more frequent in the south pacific.

[Say again s l o w l y]

So does anyone actually give a monkeys about this? Or are the techies just not bothered?

[spekesoftly]

Feedback?

"Could not connect" more often than not over the past few days. Constant this morning until about 09:00 GMT.

Any feedback from the Moderators?

(With such intermittent connectivity, I may easily have missed an earlier announcement etc)

And as soon as I tried to post this, the buggah starts playing up again!

[Mike-Bracknell]

(With such intermittent connectivity, I may easily have missed an earlier announcement etc)

And as soon as I tried to post this, the buggah starts playing up again!

I tried posting a reply when we were still on page 1 - this is the first time i've managed to get into the site since!

[green granite]

If I come in through the back door I can always get in, then, sometimes I can switch to the full version and sometimes not.

[Mr C Hinecap]

I only got in by using pprune.com instead of pprune.org - somehow that worked.

[hardhatter]

I would just like to hear from tech support what is wrong and how long we can expect this problem to be around before solved: that is all I ask.

It is very annoying, not knowing if anyone is solving this!

Please, mods, anyone, have you read the messages and are you working on a solution?

[Mike-Bracknell]

I only got in by using pprune.com instead of pprune.org - somehow that worked.

Co-incidence. They both resolve to the same IP address.

[Keef]

I've not been able to get in since Sunday morning, apart from some time during the night when Firefox sorted it. I couldn't post till now.

Looks serious. Perhaps it needs the last rites?

[Mike-Bracknell]

I would just like to hear from tech support what is wrong and how long we can expect this problem to be around before solved: that is all I ask.

I can't speak for the mods, nor for the site owner (if the mods and he/they are connected in any way).

However, as a rule of thumb, this sort of problem could be fixed with anything from a 5 minute bit of code/tweaking (which may or may not work) to a month's worth of site migration planning and execution.....so as you see it's not easy to set expectations.

I think we've isolated the group of issues which could be the culprit. it's just time to get them to sit down and plan their action.

[treadigraph]

Yep, I'm having probs again now, though it is better than it was last night.

[WHBM]

Getting the message when trying to view a page is just one of those things.

Getting it after entering a substantial reply and losing all the effort is on a different scale altogether.

[Lister Noble]

WHBM,
Do the reply in Word ,save,then paste it onto forum reply.
Saves all the hassle and exasperation.
Lister

[gpuk]

I have been getting intermittent "Could not connect". errors all day (accessing from France via France Telecom).

"Could not connect" probably points to a MySQL problem imho.

[frostbite]

Regarding losing your post, you should be able to click the back arrow on your browser, highlight it, and ctrl-c it for later posting.

That's what I've been doing anyway.