this website has gone ballistic.

For the amount of content ( posts ) on this forum, I'm surprised this site works as well as it does. Nothing these days seem to stay in one place for very long ( except the status bar after clicking the post button ).
Just looking at how the html / javascript source has changed over the years I've been here, indicates to me that maintenance alone, much less a server switch / migration could be full of pitfalls or worse.
So far most of the glitches I've noticed are rather minor and not too hard ( for me anyways ) to adjust to with a little help from others making suggestions.

 

It's definitely worth the subscription fee.

 

Would be really frustrating if subscription option commenced, and nothing changed.

 

I use an old machine ( more than 10 year old ) to browse the inner-webs, so I get first hand experience of pages and site that are so poorly put together that they start hard disks thrashing and freeze the keyboard / mouse completely, except ( luckily for me, so far ) for the magic reset keys that reboot the machine. It doesn't help that I've been running the bleeding edge of updated Operating System versions for almost 20 years and find the stable version way to boring to bother with. So when an old machine becomes unusable I get another newer machine that has what it takes to run the newest stuff in the pipeline, at least for a few more years.

My phone is also old comparatively, running Android Oreo ( 8 ) and also has issues running newer apps. so I don't load new apps without thinking long and hard about what to expect from any new app I load up on it.

I also like to keep up with what's new on the bleeding edge of hardware. Thing like wifi 7 mesh, just released earlier this year and god-smack things like the rate of growth predicted for data center sq footage, cooling requirements and data throughput expected for / in the next 5 years. Much less many of the other techs in between the two extremes.

In my mind, this forum works better than a lot of others I've experienced over the years as well as recently. And as @ETC(SS) posted above, can't beat the price of participation. as well as the availability of @Tideland when needed just by clicking on the report button.

 

I'm in a similar situation to you running on a late 2000's vintage Dell desktop. I am going to be forced into an upgrade because the machine freezes and just isn't able to run effectively anymore.

Want a new iMac All in One but being a cheapskate may settle reluctantly for a Dell All in One this Black Friday at 1/2 the price of an iMac.
I haven't even done the deal yet and am regretting the decision to stick with windows - but am too cheap to spring for an iMac.

 

I got a used Latitude E7270 i5 2.4 14 in screen - 2 years ago, dedicated for techstream only. It was a decent by used with already upgraded 16 GB memory and a 512 GB m.2 nvme drive / win10 . I'd have to jump around some MS hoops to load 11 on it. but I have no interest in Win 10 or 11 other than to run techstream.
If I were interested in upgrading it to win 11 I'd buy a 2 GB m.2 nvme drive and go to town using a USB system backup of 10 to reload the original win10 than find out how much MS want to allow me to upgrade from 10 to 11 with all that implies.
In my experience with Win 10 on my Lattitude i5 lappy, I'm not at all impressed with startup / loading time and 10 functionality is no better than XP used to be 20 years ago. Still can't believe how many people buy into paying for MS software so called improvements, or jumping through the reloading hoops of running the free version in whatever mode it currently gets offered on / out.

I'm not thrilled with OS 10, i0S either. I'd at least have some experience with both, had my older brother not warned many many years ago, not to touch any of his stuff. referring to apple products.

 

Anybody else notice tapitalk is (right now) working much more reliably than std web pages? often it's the opposite
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Our pc's were middle-of-the-road clones circa 2011. I get the sense software developers take advantage of faster/newer systems, relax their concerns for lean/fast, and older systems struggle.

Still, something is broken here. It's broken thus many times before, and gotten repaired. This time it's dragged on a month and a half. Posting for the uninitiated is a gong show. For the initiated, a tiresome exercise.

I look on this thread as a log. If something breaks, and stays broke, I figure post. LIke the old song "How long, has this been goin' on...".

 

Something I'm noticing too (might'a mentioned before, not sure): I'll post (eventually...), and then think of something, go to "your content" in the pulldowns, and it ain't there. Yet...

 

End stage server loading caused by a misbehaving application. Other longterm forums have archived their old stuff to solve the issue.

 

The URL for that post gives it out as post-3406345. Three and a half million things really doesn't count as so big for a modern database system, but I'd think it quite possible that something about the setup, like an index that hasn't been created or is corrupted, or a strange way of doing locking, is causing contention in the process of adding new posts. All the retrieval stuff is working fine (except searching, lately, but I think that problem is probably on the posting end, new posts not getting added in the structures used for search). I would not be surprised if some pretty easy change would make it a lot better ... but it would take somebody diagnosing the issue and figuring out the change.

 

When trying to post to a thread I've recently posted to, the "your content" list seems to miss some. Case in point:

Check PCS system / Check Hybrid System message | PriusChat

Posted there this morning, wanted to add something later but couldn't find it in "your content". Did find it by hunting, and yup, the post had gone through. So, posted a second time in the above. Then checked "your content" again, and still nothing:

 

Lot of 522s this morning.

Treat every day as though its your last one....

 

Lot of 522s this morning.

Treat every day as though its your last one....

 

It seems that my replies that 'hang' while posting, thus susceptible to multi-posts if I hit the Reply button again, are the ones not appearing in the 'your content' list.

 

I notice too, if I post something (patiently), then notice a typo or whatever, go back in and edit, and try to post, wait out the scrolling timing icon, hit refresh: I'm still in the edit window, and my edits have gone. Refresh the page several times, and the edits "reappear". At that point if I click the post button again, it never seems to double post, and goes through quickly, saying "your changes have been saved", in a banner across top-of-page.

 

Now I also see that posts such as this, not showing up in the "Your Content" list, can still show up in the "Likes You've Received" list.

Also, at least some such hanging posts missing from mycontent list, are not appearing when I search for them by keywords I included in them.

When the post seemingly hangs, I'm guessing that the posting operation works (thus attracting multi-posts), but the indexing fails.