All of a sudden ... nothing happened

Bard

... but it happened suddenly, mark you!

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Every so often, one of the "top 10" or "top 5" sections on the home page seems to draw a blank, showing (seemingly) that there are no postings in the boards, forums or newsgroups... which is of course ... silly.

Only - just now, it happened on all three...

To illustrate my point, heres... an illustration.



I was just wondering if one of you admin types could explain why this happens occasionally. Usually, btw, it's just one of the areas that shows a blank like this...

This happened... 3 minutes before I made this posting

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Bard

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I've got a plan... and it's as HOT... AS MY PANTS!!!" - Lord Flashheart.

jd

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Bard:
... but it happened suddenly, mark you!

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Every so often, one of the "top 10" or "top 5" sections on the home page seems to draw a blank, This happened... 3 minutes before I made this posting

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Which was just after midnight....
jd

Bard

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by jd:
Which was just after midnight....
jd</font>

That would make some sort of sense as the change of day probably flucks about with it for the first "refresh" of the day... but I've seen it happen at other times also...

.ak

That made my eyes fall out of my head...

Phenomenal.

-Dark-Angel-

WhiteWashMan

you know what bard, sometimes you remind me of when i was doing tech support for IBM and users would call us up and ask us questions.
like why is the default wallpaper in windows 98 blue. or why is the pointing device called a mouse. what is the average airspeed of an unladen swallow etc etc etc.
you certainly like to know 'why' dont you!

dahamsta

African or European?

Bob the Unlucky Octopus

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Bard:
... but it happened suddenly, mark you!</font>

I blame the Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler of Bexhill-on-Sea...it's all his fault!!

Seriously- I think it has something to do with time-settings or something. Or it could just be that no one's posted in a while(ie- who knows? not me...) Refreshing the page usually does the trick for me.

Bob the Unlucky Octopus

amp

One word: Trainspotter

[adopt a higly nasel voice for this bit]
Oh yes the 1231 bug from boards.ie, I spotted that around midnight of 17 July. Very interesting it was too. Yes.

*drinks cocoa out of thermos and adjusts bobble hat*

But my favourite was the pixel defect in the frowning smiley that made it look 10% less unhappy............................................

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Bard

Alright amp, alright

Sorry to be so picky, but I guess it comes from having done tech support a lot myself and also having done QA and bug tracking and fixing on a number of web sites. It's the kind of thing that I'd imagine the people who run a site would appreciate having brought to their attention.

BTW: Should have known you'd pick up on the (small) Goon reference, Occy ... and yeah, WhiteWashMan - I like to know why things happen... I'm a curious fellah...

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Bard

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I've got a plan... and it's as HOT... AS MY PANTS!!!" - Lord Flashheart.

WhiteWashMan

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Bard:
WhiteWashMan - I like to know why things happen... I'm a curious fellah...

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i wonder does the board censor the word 'anal'?

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amp

As ever Bard, I see a post and I think of something I think is a funny response and I reply. It's rarely personal. Except of course when replying to DeV the donkey spanking fascist ogre!
 
 
*runs away laughing psychotically*

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Victor

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Bard:
That would make some sort of sense as the change of day probably flucks about with it for the first "refresh" of the day... but I've seen it happen at other times also...</font>

Dare I say resets and crashes?

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smoke.me.a.kipper

ive seen this happen quite a few time recently aswell.

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i invented '.com'

amp

I'm curious too actually. Something I've always wanted to know is what the boards actually runs on. Is it a Dell Poweredge with redundant PSU's and quad xeons with like 6gbs of ram and a big fibre netcard going into a gigantic rack full of lights and cables.

Or is it in fact a 386 laptop hidden under Clouds bed?

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