+Eclectic Penguin Posted July 13, 2008 Posted July 13, 2008 I'm in the process of publishing 4 new caches at the moment - and the web site is giving response times of over 5 minutes each time I submit something. Is this normal for a Sunday evening? I'm only grumbling - not complaining. It's just taken me nearly 3 hours so far and I'm still a long way before getting the pages in a fit state to publish. At least the forum is as fast as ever... Quote
+Eclectic Penguin Posted July 13, 2008 Author Posted July 13, 2008 (edited) Sods law... within a minute or so of posting my last post, everything sped up to near normal speeds. Spoke too soon - I'm about to give up on the fourth bonus cache in the series - I've got other things to do... I'll have to post that tomorrow now, and the other three don't have waypoints attributes or images, things I usually like to complete before submitting for review. [edit: It's now nearly 10:30 and I've made absolutely no progress whatsoever. If the first three do get published tomorrow and someone goes for the FTF, I hope they forgive me for not being able to get the bonus cache online - it's utterly hopeless trying to get anything done on Geocaching.com at the moment] Edited July 13, 2008 by Eclectic Penguin Quote
Izzy and the Lizard King Posted July 13, 2008 Posted July 13, 2008 just taken me 18mins to load a page How come your managing to get them loaded that quick? Quote
+HazelS Posted July 13, 2008 Posted July 13, 2008 Anyone remember Wobbly Wednesdays and Slow Sundays? Deja Vue! Quote
+Eclectic Penguin Posted July 13, 2008 Author Posted July 13, 2008 Well, I got the 3 regular caches submitted at least. If a reviewer reminds me about attributes and waypoints tomorrow before I get a chance to put them online, I may bite... Quote
+mumbo jumbo Posted July 13, 2008 Posted July 13, 2008 I found one cache today and still haven't managed to log it mj Quote
+Gushoneybun Posted July 13, 2008 Posted July 13, 2008 I found one cache today and still haven't managed to log it mj Logged two in the last 1/2 hour only 13 more a DNF and a maintenace trip needed. I might still be sat here waiting when the 300,000 forum entry is due to be posted Whoops got to go my last log has updated. Quote
+hiho9 Posted July 13, 2008 Posted July 13, 2008 just taken me 18mins to load a page How come your managing to get them loaded that quick? i've worked out if its going to load or not and keep hitting f5 Quote
+Delta68 Posted July 13, 2008 Posted July 13, 2008 Grrrr! It's dire! We've spent hours trying to log today's finds. It's a joke! M Quote
+Eclectic Penguin Posted July 13, 2008 Author Posted July 13, 2008 (edited) I've now asked the moderators to refrain publishing the three new caches that got through as I wanted them all to be published at the same time, completed with all waypoints and attributes complete. Sad to say I've been very disappointed with tonight's response times - not even an explanation on the front page page that there's even something wrong. I only managed to tag the message onto one of the new cache - they're now starting to time out on me. Sadly, this is a sour note to end a fine mountain walk to place new caches. Edited July 13, 2008 by Eclectic Penguin Quote
+mollyjak Posted July 14, 2008 Posted July 14, 2008 EP Is that an up mountain walk or an UP MOUNTAIN!!!!!!!!! Quote
+ayepee Posted July 14, 2008 Posted July 14, 2008 I am having the same problem again tonight. Perhaps someone has posted something that one of our mods doesn't like so they have pulled the plug Or maybe 200,000 is the maximum number of replies. ps only joking Quote
+ayepee Posted July 14, 2008 Posted July 14, 2008 (edited) Wow, after trying to reply for 15 minutes, I get a double post. Edited July 14, 2008 by ayepee Quote
+Eclectic Penguin Posted July 15, 2008 Author Posted July 15, 2008 Getting database errors tonight while accessing the forum - maybe Groundspeak need to upgrade their servers... Also, I've 4 caches awaiting moderation now for the longest time I've ever seen between submission and publishing. I guess this could be more down to new mods being trained / our single current mod taking a break? Quote
SlytherinAlex Posted July 15, 2008 Posted July 15, 2008 Getting database errors tonight while accessing the forum - maybe Groundspeak need to upgrade their servers... Also, I've 4 caches awaiting moderation now for the longest time I've ever seen between submission and publishing. I guess this could be more down to new mods being trained / our single current mod taking a break? mods don't review caches. Reviewers do that. Quote
+Eclectic Penguin Posted July 15, 2008 Author Posted July 15, 2008 mods don't review caches. Reviewers do that. That's what I meant. Quote
+hiho9 Posted July 15, 2008 Posted July 15, 2008 been getting errors on the forum for a while now Quote
Deceangi Posted July 15, 2008 Posted July 15, 2008 Getting database errors tonight while accessing the forum - maybe Groundspeak need to upgrade their servers... Also, I've 4 caches awaiting moderation now for the longest time I've ever seen between submission and publishing. I guess this could be more down to new mods being trained / our single current mod taking a break? Sorry it's down to me having some family affairs to deal with, meant I've spent the last 2 days in Manchester.Without a spare minute to pop down the road to McD's [free wifi, sat in the car with a coffee]. Normal business will resume in the next 24 hours. Quote
+kennamatic Posted July 16, 2008 Posted July 16, 2008 Whatever the family affairs have been they're a lot more important than plastic boxes in ivy clad trees. Hope they turn/turned out o.k. Quote
+Eclectic Penguin Posted July 16, 2008 Author Posted July 16, 2008 No worries - I'm quite relaxed about when these get published anyway and with the burden currently on one person it's understandable that we see some delays from time to time. I hope family matters were OK. The four caches are pretty remote ones out on a mountainside so apart from a couple of FTF attempts, I expect this series to be found relatively infrequently so I wasn't pushing the speed of publication - to be honest I though the delay was down to the fact that the reviewer was subject to the same down time on Sunday that everyone else was and that's what I implied in my post. Quote
+scottpa100 Posted July 16, 2008 Posted July 16, 2008 Also, I've 4 caches awaiting moderation now for the longest time I've ever seen between submission and publishing. I guess this could be more down to new mods being trained / our single current mod taking a break? Hmmm - I can see that you've done the smiley so that is the defence 'I didn't mean anything by it' but geocaching.com itself says a cache may take up to 72 hours to publish. Perhaps on the submission page there should be a financial consultants terms and conditions. "Previous performance is no indicator of possible future performance." Also moderators are subject to the same website performance issues that you are too. So if Deckers was able to publish caches at that time, he wouldn't have been able to have done anything anyhow to the website performance (which to be fair once it was reported on the website forum rather than the UK forum, the performance issue was resolved within about 90 minutes) Quote
+Eclectic Penguin Posted July 16, 2008 Author Posted July 16, 2008 Sheesh - I wish I hadn't made my remark now. It was purely a remark about the slowness of the web site and at the time I figured we'd all been affected by it, be it regular cachers or reviewers. I'm fully aware of the 72 hour possible delay and wouldn't have even made a direct query to Groundspeak until at least Friday at the earliest. Quote
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