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Originally posted by Iconic944ss
Hmmmmm....
I couldn't get on for a while last night too....Firefox browser wouldnt even load the home page and just kept saying 'connection reset' ???
But if the server was down too - only to be expected I guess.
I agree that its looking like a solution is needed - but disagree with Henners abit about moving away from XMB. The problems to me seem more to be more to do with the hosting than the software (???) - also if the search functions on here were a little bit better than present that would be good enough for me, I remember having a mootch on the XMB website and noted the DSC implementation seem to be a few releases old.
(have a look on their forum sometime):
http://forums.xmbforum.com/
I like our website and find it freshingly easy to navigate and fast loading (when it does  ) - by comparison have alook at the up-north website which is visually great but I find a bit difficult to navigate - or the ducati.ms site which is again superb but the way the forum threads work simply makes my head ache.
Lets keep the site simple - PLEASE !!!
Frazzled Frank
[Edited on 4-2-2006 by Iconic944ss] |
You'll find that whilst xmb offers a lot of other forum softs ones like vbulletin are much much easier to use for web admin, need little work, provide excellent support and release valuable webteam time. the problem might well be server but more than likely its also to do with stuff like XMB doing refresh searches in todays posts thus keeping connections open and queries on the server database.
Thread views are easily changed as vbulletin offers many user definable options, check the User CP edit options panels to see what you can change and how you view the sites using it.
There is no simple solution but given that the webteam do this in their spare time whatever is decided upon should fit their needs first and foremost, it shouldn't be a full time job for them keeping the site running. Cost is hardly a factor, £100 for the software or £35 a year if you lease it.