FlightSim Forum Responding Sluggishly or Not At All

Is anyone else having these issues with this forum or is it just me?

 

For the past week or so, after pressing submit/save on new/edited posts, the system hangs with the message "waiting for flightsim.com." I have personally observed this "hang" state persisting unchanged for as long as 3 hours.

 

*Sometimes, it eventually completes in 1-10 minutes and displays the new post as it should.

 

*Sometimes, it eventually completes but drops to a white screen, requiring that I relaunch FlightSim.com in my browser. When this happens, and I get back to flightsim.com, I find the new post there as it should be.

 

*Sometimes, it does NOT complete but eventually drops to an error screen that says DATABASE ERROR. In these cases, the new post was not saved at all and I have to completely re-do it, or forget about it.

 

*Sometimes it hangs indefinitely. Last night I left it "waiting for flightsim.com" for 3 hours, no change in all that time.

 

 

*About one time in ten :mad: it completes more-or-less instantly without hanging at all and displays the new post.

 

Anybody have any idea what is going on? This just started recently.

I've been seeing it here.. When it does that, I just back page back to the FSX

forum, which comes up at normal speed. Also no issue reading posts. I only see it

when I post a message.

We are aware of the problem and are working

to fix it as soon as possible.

Thank you for your patience and particularly for

the detailed information!

Regards,

Rick

Hi mod,

I use IE. when i clicked 'post' a few hours back, the page took longer to load. Not much, still within a minute the spinning circle stopped. But the page that appeared was blank, as in white, nothing on it.

 

I clicked reload and saw a message pop up saying: "a similar (may have said identical) message has been posted within the last 5 minutes" and then something like: 'do you whish to continue' OK or CANCEL. In the normal flightsim font. Looked official.

 

I clicked Ok and the thread reappeared. My post at the top as it should be. And only once, it did not post double.

This same thing happened once or twice before in the last week or so.

Hi mod,

I use IE. when i clicked 'post' a few hours back, the page took longer to load. Not much, still within a minute the spinning circle stopped. But the page that appeared was blank, as in white, nothing on it.

 

I clicked reload and saw a message pop up saying: "a similar (may have said identical) message has been posted within the last 5 minutes" and then something like: 'do you whish to continue' OK or CANCEL. In the normal flightsim font. Looked official.

 

I clicked Ok and the thread reappeared. My post at the top as it should be. And only once, it did not post double.

This same thing happened once or twice before in the last week or so.

 

that happens to me quite often

We believe we have fixed the problem. If you continue

to have problems, please let me know. Feel free to PM

me with any details.

 

Best regards,

Rick

"Reply to thread" is acting weird for me... I click "post quick reply" and I get the message "You sure you want to leave this page?" when I say yes, it takes me to my response still in the reply box, and when I click on that post reply, it says "Duplicate post" blah blah..

All net forums glitch from time to time, so before hitting the "submit post" button I always save my post to Wordpad for insurance after typing it out in case it hangs..:)