1. It is so damn slow!

2. It has double posted a couple of threads of mine and i dont knwo why.

3. It sends me to the flood control screen yet allows me to post anyway.

4. I am forecd to ctrl + F5 as it never updates any of the pages.

5. It lets me make typing mistakes every other word.

6. The forum moderators can edit my posts without my permission.

7. I can see my house from here.

I think this is a disgrace. I expect much better quality from a free service

For a start there should be policing! I dont want to be part of any bbs that would have me as a member.

Is anyone else having these problems?

I dont see any other people double posts.
I dont see any other people double posts.


[This message has been edited by MorayMackenzie (edited 23 August 2001).]

 

I reckon you'll be joining the muppets soon

 

Funny this.

I posted 2 'jokes' (I use the term jokes, loosely ) to the Muppet Forum, they turned up in 'Members Gallery'

[This message has been edited by DavidLewis (edited 23 August 2001).]

 

I posted some letters earlier and they haven't turned up either.
Very strange.

 

hi Adam, hows it?

BBs fine for me at the mo

Moe

 

It must be the LAWLER settings Simon is now running. Well done Si, there working fine.

Dan

 

I agree that it does seem quite slow.... maybe our network here though... I think it would speed up if people would stop posting.....

EVERYBODY STOP POSTING

problem solved

 

I reckon Simon's deliberately degrading the BBS so that when the new software goes live everyone thinks it's a big improvement

I'm convinced that's what some of these patches that you get from Windows Update do (e.g. make Win 98 slower and slower so you have to upgrade to 2k)

 

Ed,

Removing the 'Muppet Show' forum would help.

 

i've certainly a few probs past week or so ?

does seem slower than usual
and i've having to do a lot of refreshing on threads where its missing the off the last ie newest posting ?

steve

 

It is fine for me.

 

It is fine for me.

 

It is fine for me.

 

It is fine for me.

 

LOL Luke

 

LOL Luke

I am lucky 'cos here at work we have the luxury of three rather fat internet connections and scoobynet is slow on all of them.

As Adam says its not what I would expect of a free service :P hehe

 

Not surprising it's slow the amount of irrelevant info that's posted, getting more like an AOL chat room, not that i've been on one

 

it must be the my00 version of scoobynet, all that hesitation

 

Slow as something very slow from here.

 

Does anyone else find that when they post a reply ,their television changes channel?????
Also iam sure that "Flash messages" are been shown on this BBS trying to convert us to Devil worshiping. If your really quick you can see it pop up for about 10.th of a second.

[This message has been edited by Luke (edited 23 August 2001).]

 

Calling Blowdog, where are you

 

Adam,

We let you continue posting because we know it's just that you are so young.

Moray

 

I also posted on this problem in Non Scooby related yesterday. Have a read. Comment at free will.

 

Hi All

There has definitely been a slow down over the last 3 weeks...

there are a few reasons.. the traffic increases every month (which is great) so gradually things will slow down slightly (but not really enough to notice on it's own)..

also, we've changed back to our own ad software which is perl based about 3 weeks ago and this is the exact time that it all slowed down as it's putting an extra strain on the server.

I've spent the last couple of days writing an asp based one which will help..

but also UBB (the BBS software) needs updating, so the new software will help no end.

LOL re: slowing it down so the new software looked better!

I hope to have the ad software fully operational tomorrow / saturday and hope to have time to finish the remaining few bugs with the new BBS software next week...

I hope to then finally be able to finish the scoobynews cd!!!!

Deepest apologies for the slow down. It's still damn fast compared to the majority of the internet, but is definitely slower than it has been.

A quick question..

on the new bbs, how much more important is speed than asthetics and features?

All the best

Simon

 

Hi Chaps

The new ad software is running now...

see here for details

 

Simon

The amount of info and the design of the site seems fine to me, i've been impressed with many areas. I popped on the SIDC website and all the post answers seemed to be by one person, alot of reading but not alot going on.

Am I missing something

Mark

 

<B>SDB said "A quick question..

on the new bbs, how much more important is speed than asthetics and features?
"</B>

Can't we have both?

I prefer simple layouts and useful features.
Frames are the work of the devil

I think the 'import picture' function we talked about is an essential feature.

I'd sacrifice a slight drop in peformance to have a working and flexible search feature. I think it's up and working on the new software but it seems to be broken now

 

Simon

There seems to be more and more people using fancy emoticons ... does this have much effect on slowling down the pages.

You have to remember that a lot of people who mainly use the bbs through a dial up connection rather than a LAN. I prefer speed to looks (although I don't own a MY01 )

Lunchie

 

You don't have to trade appearance with speed. Webservers don't have any troubles serving out static files so images etc are fine.

Enhanced functionality however normally requires interpreted code, database back-ends - this is where the oomph goes.

A good idea is to follow the route that a lot of the bbs makers are doing now - get people to log in first to provide a tailored appearance. the sidc software allows you to specify an enhanced or minimum (low bandwidth) appearance.

Perl on windows..urgh. Its a bit long in the tooth now from a time where choices were limited and unix was the king. ASP *has* to be the way to go.

Not sure what backend you are using - avoid Access even for adserving. People I know have benchmarked it for overall query performance, concurrency stability etc and its a big bottleneck on a site like this. mySQL is a much better choice but is limited. If funds allow then MS SQL appears to be the choice of many - the bbs makers I watch tend to use MS SQL as their recommended back end and make use of many of the features it provides. Pricey, but hey when you've got the need, you want the speed :-)

 

Sorry should have qualified the first statement. Trading appearance for speed - I am referring to server cpu load.

Obviously if you are on a slow connection then lots of graphics will slow you up. Otherwise serving graphics don't load a machine, just consume bandwidth.