IMO, it's been that way for at least a month, possibly longer. 

melissa lynnette wrote:

IMO, it's been that way for at least a month, possibly longer. 

I agree.  It's been slow for quite some time.  Factor in ancient topics being bumped, the same questions getting asked over and over (despite active topics on the same subject), people having trouble viewing topics properly, and duplicate threads because of errors, and you've got some VERY slow moving forums 

Looking around, I see a lot of the frequent posters, over here. The level of quality in the posts also seems to be higher. There's also a dearth of "DB ERROR" here. LOL

Anyone up for a nice game of Curveball?

dwade wrote:

Lumigraphics wrote:

IB just posted a note that they found the problem and fixed it. Those forums will be back up to speed any time now...of course, since many of us are playing here now, that will slow things down

When I was writing server code (and often doing the hardware and generally acting like an IT guy since mostly it was small team stuff) I'd have been fired so many times over making the mistakes they made just rolling out this one set of changes.  Even the message saying they found the problem is very revealing - points to all kinds of underlying problems both with the code base (not IBs fault) but more importantly their whole approach to development, revision control, etc. etc.

I'd love to hear from somebody who's actually seen the Tyler/Brian codework (and I know few people have).  I'm betting the whole thing is a big seriously cobbled-together mess.  Maybe the IB guys are having a hard time fighting their way through it.

I could be wrong.  I haven't done a lot of programming, so it's just a guess. 

I used to write a lot of LISP programs though (my eye still twitches).