Getting lots of server busy messages!

**Finda** · January 8th, 2022, 07:42 PM

Originally Posted by MusicalSpoons

Ooh yikes.

So if it were something to be considered in the future, it would need a very long time to plan and to make sure everyone had chance to backup their albums and blogs - though lots of users are inactive so we'd just lose their stuff, unless there were any way of mods/admins being able to restore which in itself would be a collossal extra task and doesn't exactly sound feasible even if it were technically possible (which it may not be anyway) :-/

One of the things I love about this place is the 'heritage' (for want of a better word); that some of our most active threads are from 2008 and that the accounts and contributions from members long inactive are still there. I especially love that even with closed accounts their comments are still there on the whole, so their contributions remain. I know we can't live in the past but the wisdom and experiments from years past still help people today, and it's a wonderful thing to be part of such an established community and see how much of it was shaped. (It is sad those first 5 years were lost, but it makes me value what we have now even more tbh.)

That's very well said. I feel the same way.

**AmaryllisRed** · January 8th, 2022, 08:34 PM

Yes, the heritage! Well said, Spoons! I don't do this as much anymore, but during the first year or two that I was here, I spent a lot of time reading old threads and older posts on threads that are still active. There's such a wealth of information, and besides that, it really gave me a sense of the community I was entering into.

**lapushka** · February 17th, 2022, 02:52 AM

It loads slowly for me, no server busy messages as such, but I had a "time-out" page once, and it is super slow on the whole, loading and posting responses.

**foreveryours** · February 17th, 2022, 02:57 AM

Slow this morning and last night was horrible here. Site even was "DOWN" and not just me before turning in, at least according to the internet

**lapis_lazuli** · February 17th, 2022, 05:59 AM

I got database error and session time-out for a couple hours last night. It fixed itself before I went to bed and still seems fine now *fingers crossed*