It is easy to get from one thread to the next but you are right it has slowed back down some from a little while ago...

Rita:

 I don't know what just happened but the forum is moving along quite nicely right now. I have been to many threads and posted on some. They may have figured something out..or this is a good glitch

 A glitch ! It is still very slow to refresh, and to post.

 I don't know what just happened but the forum is moving along quite nicely right now. I have been to many threads and posted on some. They may have figured something out..or this is a good glitch

 Hi Jayelle,

Thanks for your feedback and suggestions. Starting the new thread does not resolve the problems. There are several factors the Tech Team is taking into consideration to get everything back on track. It  just take time and your patience is appreciated.  

Take care,

Mary

I have now  been unable to get the S&S thread to load for 25 minutes using either browser (Firefox or Safari).  Since other threads on the forum do manage to load, though sluggishly, it seems clear that the software just cannot handle threads with as many as 42,678 postings.  Can't we please archive the S&S thread and start a new one?

Since my last posting in the S&S topic, I have been trying endlessly to get back there, with absolutely NO success! SIGH !

Cleaned all the temporary Internet files, browse history, cache and what have you . . . Did not help one bit, both Firefox, my standard browser and IE7 can not load the S&S pages. The "Sorry error" message keeps coming. That log must be huge by now . . .

This topic took 43 seconds to load. The Index page takes between 35 and 58 seconds (timed today a few times).

I keep getting the error message while trying to get into S & S. It is impossible to use this forum. I have a  high speed cable broadband connection. I am sure that most people who have DSL or dail-up have given up on this forum. It is a sad state of affairs for NG to be losing so many posters. Please fix this.

Hello, another FYI 

I have been trying for nearly 1/2 hour to get on the S&S forum latest postings with NO success :(  Hope y'all can get it fixed!!

I'm still getting the Sorry error on almost every attempt to refresh or post or to open a thread. The forum is as slow as ever.

It just took 1:46 for the Sightings and Sounds thread to load, and 48 seconds for this thread to load.  Though it doesn't make much sense, it appears that the speed is slower and the error messages more frequent during the night when fewer people are accessing the Forum!  The "Sorry" error message says that the error has been logged.  If this is true, can't Melia look at those logs and see when and why the errors are occurring?

 Hi Dutch Eagle Fan,

Thanks for the feedback regarding the forum issues. The Tech Team is troubleshooting the problem to get all up to speed as soon as possible.

Thanks for your patience.

Mary, NGS

Maybe it is the software of this forum? Maybe NG should try it with phpBB, that has proven to be working excellent! Most forums on the Internet are in this "language".

I managed to post on the S&S topic, but have not been able to get back there since . . . the same error message again and again and again and . . .

I really can't understand why it is so hard to get this forum working properly. IMHO it's not a server problem, it's the software and/or the amount of topics and length of topics.

It is certainly ruining my pleasure in watching the Pond. One can not watch all day, every day, so reading the S&S topic is so important for all of us to keep in touch with what is happening.

People responsible: PLEASE FIX IT !

At this point I consider it miraculous when I do get on the forum and am able to refresh without getting the "Sorry Message"

Hope you are able to do something :) I am sure that you are working on it :))

I am still getting this error message and the forum is still very slow.

 Yes the same here, 15 error messages before I could open a page. This is not just happening on the S&S thread but in the entire forum..Kakadu and grizzlies too. I have also lost my profile and get the No Resource found

This morning has been very frustartating trying to participate on the "Sighting and Sounds" thread. Not only the standard "error" message but trying to reply to a topic I had my this for the first time:

 I can get the Sightings and Sounds from the main Forum page, but it opens at page 1 - if I try to get the LAST page, I get the ERROR message.  Could there be too many past pages to upload???

Mary

 I am still getting the 'Sorry' message when I try to get the Sightings and Sounds Forum.  Hope this can be fixed!  Luckily the Pond is still there, but at the moment without sound - anyone else got no sound?

Mary

Edit: After posting this message I got the ERROR, but when I finally got the page again, the message is there!!

I'm still having major problems getting into the forum S & S. I have checked my internet speed and it is 11154 kbps. Please do something to make it load faster. TIA

 Ok yes I get the error message. If I post then get the message and reload the forum I see my post has posted. This also happens when I post but it keeps 'connecting' but does not post. I reload the forum and my post is already there

Still slow but better than the worst of times...Hang in there, you will figure it out...we have faith

I tried several times today to get on to the Sightings thread with NO luck. kept saying there was an error.

Just now I tried again and WOW, I got in! After 1 minute 47 seconds . . . . . .

The work on the server didn't help much, still think a thorough clean-up of the complete forum would be a better plan.

EDIT: Second try to go back to "Sightings" failed again. SIGH ! This isn't fun anymore.

sandra getgood:

 

 

Sorry, there was a problem with your last request!

Either the site is offline or an unhandled error occurred. We apologize and have logged the error. Please try your request again or if you know who your site administrator is let them know too.

This morning I have been able to get to any thread I want, but at extremely slow speeds. Also, I have gotten the message above, at times, when I am trying to refresh. Thanks for working on the problems with the forum.

I have been trying for twenty minutes to get on the Sightings and Sounds thread.  I keep getting The Message:

It just took me 1:56 to open this thread (though the reply form took less time than that).  Though frustratingly slow, it is an improvement over the past few days when it has often been impossible to get a thread to load at all for hours at a time. 

I thought I'd mention something that I discovered a couple of days ago.  I discovered that I could get a page to load sooner if I used Safari instead of Firefox.  Safari reports on its status line the number of page elements that were successfully loaded out of the total number to be loaded.  AND, most significantly, Safari does not wait indefinitely for a graphic to load - it times them out and goes on to the next item.  When the page was finally displayed, ALL of the user avatars had failed to load, as well as many of the other NGM-provided graphic items such as the buttons for star ratings, change view, previous and next.  The page was sprinkled with little question marks where graphics had been timed out and not loaded.  ALL of these were NGM graphics - those linking to photobucker or tinypic images loaded promptly.  (Safari also offers the user the ability to open an "activity" window in which it lists all of the loading errors and the reasons for them.  "Timed out" was listed for all of the missing NGM graphics.)