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  1. pete

    pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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    I'm often getting a blank yellow screen between pages now.
     
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    • Michael Hewett

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      I hope it doesn't shut down completely like Grows-on-You did. The people in charge of it kept saying they didn't have time to do the necessary work, and it got worse and worse until in the end it closed down. This seems to be going the same way.
       
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        Ok at the moment, but not ok 5 mins ago. Maybe the site can't cope with too many of us clicking at the same time. But I don't really know how things work.
         
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        It's not because of too many on here but a matter of waiting for the technician to have time to migrate to another server and also do a lot of upgrades.

        Apologies but I don't think it will be a quick fix.
         
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          That's what they kept saying on Grows-on-You, but they never had time, and in the end it got so bad it was unusable and they closed it down.
           
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          It will be OK on here. :dbgrtmb:
           
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            They said that about G-o-Y :smile:
             
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            @Michael Hewett , do not fear. Our admin team will line the techincal people up by the hedge, advising them in a firm but friendly manner to get this sorted out now. The air will be thick with "Yes Sir"s , "certainly, Sir"s, "won't happen again, Sir"s and so on.

            And the mob of us regulars will be just behind the hedge, tapping our forks and torches on our calloused palms. :biggrin:

            On a more realistic note, it takes time and effort to sort out this kind of situations. I have been enjoying this forum for free for several years, not thinking about the actual people who devote their time to work on the technical side.

            A big thanks to the team :)

            And, can admin folks please re-post the donation link? A lot of unpaid work is going on so I'd like to donate at least something towards a cuppa and a bisquit.
             
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              It's still there, @Selleri. Go to Home and then scroll all the way down. :blue thumb:
               
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              Not too bad here today but oddly enough, the slowest one to load for me is "Slow pages" .
               
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                It's super super slow now ! I could almost make a cup of tea in the time the pages take to change. It's definitely going like Grows-on-You, and soon it will be totally unusable, like GoY was. I'm closing it down now, haven't got time to waste. I'll try again tomorrow :smile:
                 
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                On my computer I can get it by going to Forums and it is top right, just under my avatar.
                 
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                  Mine is slow but not terrible.

                  If there is laborious ‘behind the scenes’ work going on to make upgrades, thank you in advance as we all love this forum!
                   
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                    I'm okay moving between pages once the site has loaded to let me in, but putting a smiley/rating, or looking at my list of alerts, or making an edit is painfully slow.
                     
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                    Found and done, Sir!
                     
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