EVE General Discussion

Just copy it before posting or sending it to preview.

That way if it gets eaten you can redo it in a matter of seconds.





The old system used to eat them too.

tbh im just sick of the whole you were ganked crap, plus the longer loading times swapping pages.

they also need to fix the bbcode parsing errors too

but maybe the forum devs were on the recently layoffs list

and lets not forget the threads that change position on the front page up to 5 minutes before the newest post gets published to the thread.

I mean I never have seen that in over 20+ years of forum surfing, modding, and admining. The main thread index sees the post but the DB lags behind for an insane period of time before actually posting it to the thread

or the post activity stars on the side that don't seem to relate to anything in particular


Frankly I'm a bit cheesed that you guys fired the web staff while this abomination of a forum is in its current regrettable state.

Ok, valid point, but not very salient. Wait until you write a wall 'o text or decide you need to look up some information to validate what you're writing. The forum apparently doesn't have any function to keep your session alive when writing a new post. So you better get it done in whatever timeout period is involved. But wait, you also have the "ganked" issue to contend with that just compounds the problem. I'm thinking that they're running their forum on an old 486 somewhere and that it can't respond quickly enough to requests and that their proxy, somewhere on their tranquility cluster picks up where that old 486 fails.

The fact is the forum wouldn't last a week if the users were required to pay for access. Oh wait, we do pay for access. Forum software is mature, well developed and in most cases works flawlessly minus intermediate problems that can't be attributed to the coding. This, however, is unacceptable. Why CCP have left it in this state with NO obvious improvements is another blemish in a long line of horrid customer service.

Here, I've taken more than 5 minutes to write this so let me copy it so I can paste it again when the forum fails to post it.

qft

For the record, I'm not anti-Microsoft or anything, but this should have been written in something other than VB or C#.

IIS is a nightmare and slow as sin compared to Apache. And if you're running ASP on Apache, you're doin it wrong.

Yes, I fear that's what the forums are using. :-(

Yeh it's odd that, I've seen people saying that before, but I really don't remember it happening on the old forums at all, and I used to take my time writing posts as well. Well maybe it did happen once or twice, but so infrequently it doesn't stick in my memory.

Whereas this forum ... it's happening to a memorable extent.