The Smiley Smile Message Board

I know this was touched on last week, but just who else is having problems connecting to this site? For me its at 50-50 as in one day on, another off, and a whole week off 3 weeks ago. Problem is on 2 computers in various locations, including home. >:(

Infomation may be of use to admin here.

I have very occasional problems - yesterday morning for example, so I just waited for a few hours (and did other, real life stuff, of course) and behold !, it was restored. This is unusual, though - usually a few pokes on the 'refresh' button does the job. I access from home, never had a problem lasting longer than 12-18 hours: 99% of the time, no problem at all.

i aso have this problem. Mostly after 2 or 3 times of trying  i get the site.

For at least a month, there have been days at a time when I cannot get to the site (as recently as about an hour ago and the preceding 2 days or so).

I've been having problems getting this site for the past month or so, especially on campus. The home connection is more reliable, but I still don't get the site every day. Also, the number of times I try to connect makes no noticeable difference.

It really is hit and miss with me...more miss.  I hit refresh maybe 10 times and then just give up.  Try later...no luck...hit refresh...sometimes I access.  I never get the site on first try anymore.

Today is the first time its been available to me in 4 days

 :(

I only access this site from one (home) computer but I've not had a single incident the the past few months in making immediate contact.  FWIW.

I never get it on the first try anymore either. Sometimes I can get it after hitting refresh a few times. If it doesn't work after the 10th try, I wait an hour or two and then I usully get it. I lost an entire day about a week ago.

They firewall this board at my college. Probably for good reason  :lol

Over here, the board was inaccessible for most of yesterday. So I got on with real life stuff.  ;D

Same here Andrew, first time I've ever had any problem getting on the board but finally around 11:00pm it let me on.

It's been hit or miss with me the last few weeks, mostly the latter.  I do find it's easier to get on later at night (it's about 10:40 ET here). 

So... is somone from administration finally going to comment on this problem?

I know as much as you all do. Problem is that the moderators aren't resonsible for the technical side of the board. I've already forwarded this problem to the chairman of the board. Hopefully it'll be resolved soon.

Sorry I can't help out here...

i ran a tracert to smileysmile/net/board. for me the trouble seems to be at this site   216.55.4.22
whatever that is.....





Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Kim>tracert www.smileysmile.net/board

Tracing route to www.smileysmile.net/board [208.68.139.89]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     9 ms     8 ms     8 ms  10.33.192.1
  2    13 ms    14 ms    14 ms  gig11-0-0-1710.clmboh1-rtr1.columbus.rr.com [24.
95.87.185]
  3    13 ms    14 ms    12 ms  pos13-1.clmboh1-rtr2.columbus.rr.com [24.95.86.1
66]
  4    13 ms    12 ms    14 ms  tge3-0-0.clboh1-rtr0.mwrtn.rr.com [65.25.137.45]

  5    23 ms    30 ms    61 ms  ae-4-0.cr0.chi30.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.68]
  6    23 ms    35 ms    24 ms  ae-1-0.pr0.chi10.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.155]
  7    25 ms    22 ms    24 ms  te1-2-0d0.cir1.chicago2-il.us.xo.net [216.156.72
.5]
  8    58 ms    59 ms    57 ms  vb2001.rar3.nyc-ny.us.xo.net [207.88.13.10]
  9    60 ms    61 ms    61 ms  ae0d0.mcr1.cambridge-ma.us.xo.net [216.156.0.26]

 10    52 ms    51 ms    49 ms  216.55.4.22
 11     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 12     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 13     *

I talked to a network guy today, told him about the problems this board's been having, and asked if he had any ideas what might be causing the outages. He thinks the problem could be on the ISP side of things (server outages, etc.).

This site hasn't been available on campus for over a week now.

I played around a bit with the forum to see what's causing problems. The server reported a lot of errors in the forum itself; I corrected them. I don't know if it's fixed the problem, but keep us mods informed.

Well, whereas I used to have next to no problems, now, although the main menus load just fine, the individual threads won't, to the point where I can only read the most recent post. The page is continually loading. The only way around it is to hit reply and try to read the microscopic font.

This is since about 11pm last night UK time.

same problem here

Took me 10 minutes to be able to get on the site.

and here

Ditto...

Started a few days ago for me...

No problem loading site or forums...

But loading individual threads takes up to 2 minutes to completely load...

"waiting for feeds.feedburner.com" is the message displayed at the bottom of my Firefox browser
as its trying to load in the thread...

MD...

I've been having a terrible time since yesterday. When I go into a topic, it only loads one post at a time. It's hard to explain. I can see one post, then it takes about 5-10 minutes for the page to load a little bit more so I can scroll down to the following post in a topic. It does the same thing for the entire topic. So if a topic has more than one full page of posts, for me it's not even worth trying.

See, I didn't know that people in this thread had already said the same thing I just did, because the page won't load enough for me to read every post.

I loaded up several topics in several tabs and they all loaded up fine just now...except this one. It took 7 minutes ( I timed it). Irony is truly ironic...

It was OK for Sunday afternoon, then by evening back to continually loading. Will someone please do something, because this is seriously annoying. Every other site I visit is fine, so not my laptop.

np

It keeps taking ages for it to load for me too.

Well... maybe it's time the Chairman of the Board flexed his executive muscle and got the problem sorted ?

This is eerily reminiscent of how the old Cabinessence board died a death: the tech problems mounted, the board 'owner' couldn't be arsed and in the end, it just rolled over. Don't want this to happen here as there's a HUGE amount of irreplaceable info in here.

i also use mozilla firefox and i get the same "waiting for feeds.feedburner.com" message while waiting for the page to load. i again ran a trace while waiting for this page to load and it timed out at the same location as when i ran a trace for www.smileysmile.net/board. i would check out this site but what do i know. it always times out for me..... fyi....






C:\Documents and Settings\Kim>tracert www.feeds.feedburner.com

Tracing route to www.feeds.feedburner.com [208.68.139.89]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     9 ms     9 ms     9 ms  10.33.192.1
  2    16 ms    15 ms    14 ms  gig11-0-0-1710.clmboh1-rtr1.columbus.rr.com [24.
95.87.185]
  3    16 ms    15 ms    15 ms  pos13-1.clmboh1-rtr2.columbus.rr.com [24.95.86.1
66]
  4    14 ms    15 ms    13 ms  tge3-0-0.clboh1-rtr0.mwrtn.rr.com [65.25.137.45]

  5    24 ms    24 ms    24 ms  ae-4-0.cr0.chi30.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.68]
  6    24 ms    24 ms    24 ms  ae-1-0.pr0.chi10.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.155]
  7    24 ms    24 ms    24 ms  te1-2-0d0.cir1.chicago2-il.us.xo.net [216.156.72
.5]
  8    56 ms    58 ms    58 ms  vb2001.rar3.nyc-ny.us.xo.net [207.88.13.10]
  9    62 ms   106 ms    63 ms  ae0d0.mcr1.cambridge-ma.us.xo.net [216.156.0.26]

 10    51 ms    50 ms    54 ms  216.55.4.22
 11     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 12     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 13     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 14     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 15     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 16     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 17     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 18     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 19     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 20     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 21     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 22     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 23     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 24     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 25     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 26     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 27     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 28     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 29     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 30     *        *        *     Request timed out.

Trace complete.

Ditto...

Started a few days ago for me...

No problem loading site or forums...

But loading individual threads takes up to 2 minutes to completely load...

"waiting for feeds.feedburner.com" is the message displayed at the bottom of my Firefox browser
as its trying to load in the thread...

MD...
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This is what keeps happening to me now and it's been like it for about a week, very frustrating.

This is without a doubt one of my favourite sites but it's getting to the point that it's such a monumental pain in the butt to connect all the time that I'm wondering how much longer I can be bothered with it. Perhaps the Chairman would like to pull his thumb out of his a- hole and sort it out as this has been going on for months now. Do the site monitors have the means to contact him? Maybe we should all en mass to the blueboard and take that over eh?

My feelings exactly.

Yesterday (5/16) I could barely open a thread on this forum but today seems to be a lot smoother. 

same here... but who's to say it's going to stay that way ?

Occasionally I have probs loading it but I put that down to my broadband provider (BT) -  plenty of folk in our little village experience probs getting anywhere on the internet, at the same time periods.

Is everyone experiencing probs at the same time?  A cousin of mine has gone back to using dial-up as there're so few folk using it now that it works faster than our broadband hook-up!

I messaged Chuck earlier today; problem was with the RSS feed like I suspected; it was removed, and things should be back to normal!

Just remember, no-one likes a smartass !  ;D

:lol

No problems at all so far today, everything is as it should be.

Loading fine but still taking many attempts to connect in the first place. If the feedsburner.com issue happens again remember Andrew's tip ,which is to log in and click reply even if you don't wish to post. Then scroll down to view the entire history of the thread in smaller print. Or use Internet Explorer which for the first time in the history of mankind was loading pages faster than Firefox.

Ditto. at home, individual pages load quickly, but at work, getting connected at all is a huge problem.

Maybe clearing your cache will help...I did that after Chuck made the adjustment, and I've had NO problems since.


Well actually I still have problems, they're just not internet related ;)

No smileysmile.net on campus for two weeks now. Clearing the cache makes no difference. Choice of browser makes no difference. The domain does not resolve, period.

Oddly, I've not had issues all day.

First time I've been able to get on the site in a full week, and I've checked from different spots at least once (and usually more than that) daily. Hmpf.

Things were moving remarkably fast for me here. Pages loading faster than I had ever dreamed since the last few days epic slowness.

It seems like all is well today.

No luck for 2 days over weekend but seems well today. Fingers crossed.

Next target. BeachBoysCentral............. :lol

I was able to get on here today- yea! I used to visit this site at least once a day, but I doubt I've been able to access it more than three days over the last six weeks or so (of course, after multiple tries one tends to give up for a few days before trying again). Here's hoping most of the issues have been resolved.

First time in four days - yay! Actually it's a good thing, I had to learn my lessons for a few exams and I certainly didn't get distracted by this board  :lol

Sounds like the "adjustment" needs to be un-adjusted.  I'm on Verizon internet and I've had this problem it seems like for months.  Needs to stop being danced around and fixed.  Cache has nothing to do with it.

I couldn't get in at all yesterday, so this is the first time in two days. Still not getting in via the campus connection.

Is this domain hosted on its own or does it share hosting space with another domain? And please, please don't forget to renew the domain when it expires next month!

Since the RSS fix, I'm just fine.

Sounds to me like some work places/colleges have a block on this kind of site.

Oh wow -  just suppose BBCentral has been being updated regularly with tons of downloads an' stuff, and we just can't access the refreshed homepage...!

That may be, but it's not the extent of it. Today--from home, as usual--was the first day since the 18th I was able to access the site (with daily checking, cache cleared, etc.).

Well I spoke to soon. Unable to connect here for 4 days!

When I can get in, the page works fine. But it still takes about ten tries before I can get into the site. It keeps saying "Page not found". But hitting refresh seems to help sometimes.

Yeah, today was the first day I've had issues in a bit.

I can access via the following ISPs - Virgin/Ntl and BT
For a few months now I've not been able to access via - Sky/Easyet and Orange.
These are in the UK.

This is all most odd. I'm on BT broadband, 99% of the time no hassle (and when there is, I just hit refresh). In fact the only major problem was fixed with the removal of the RSS feed.

I'm on broadband too. When I can't get in, it says "smilysmile.net not found." Still not getting it on campus.

If I could access this site more easily to complain about not being able to access this site, I'd log in and complain about not being able to access this site...

First time I've been able to access the site in about 3 days

Same ol' Taber - bitch, bitch, bitch...  :)

The way this site has been, Andrew, it would take me 8 or 9 tries just to get in ONE "bitch", much less three...

See, I have no problem with doing that: the site likes me.  ;D

First time able to post in 3 days and a pattern showing. Thursday-Saturday approx blocked for the last 3 weeks. Anyone else having trouble connecting during certain time frames? >:(

Most of my problems connecting happen on days ending with "y"...

Hmmm... anyone else with a surname ending in "aber" having similar hassle ? We may be on to something here...

First time in about 7 days (I try logging in 6 or 7 times each day).

Any news on what could be causing the problem and on when (or if?) it's going to be fixed?

For about two months now, I've been limited to a day or so of access, followed by up to a week without. It's really insane--I don't recall seeing anything like it before. (I kind of assume I'm just being temporarily and intermittently banned by the Gods of Internet for being an asshole.)

The only way I can access the board on my home computer is to google "smileysmile.net" and, on the second from the top result,  click on 'cache.' I cannot get there, directly.

Sounds eminently plausible to me.  ;D

I thought so. I mean, we all could use a break from me. I assume I don't miss anything while gone, anyway, aside from: Brian genius; Dennis sexy; Carl angel; Al short-dentist-elf-slow; Mike formula; David finally; Bruce has a weird big smile and is cheese. (Maybe some Melinda bashing, Flame love/hate, and yet another High Llamas reference.) If I missed anything that moved generally outside those parameters, I know you'll let me know.

The 1964 letters... but we cleared that up in, oh, 36 hours, tops.  :)

Been blocked out at home for 24 hours, also intermittent service during the previous week.

I hope that plans are being made to renew the domain and maybe finding a new, more reliable hosting service!

My ISP is one of the last (in France, at least) to grant rotating IP addresses. The address changes every time I reboot my router.  I've noticed that I can sometimes reboot my router and successfully log in to smileysmile.net. Then, if I lose my internet connection or if the router is rebooted, the website might not be reached anymore.

Could this mean that the problem is related to some IP addresses?  ???

This is the first time I could access the site in over a week. It's never been THIS bad for me.

I talked to some more IT guys last night and the consensus is that the problem is at the ISP's end, possibly a bandwidth matter or a full cache. In days past when there was not so much bandwidth available per site, I had one website that would get knocked offline repeatedly towards the end of the month when we exceeded our allocated bandwidth in terms of traffic. Should be less of a problem nowadays, but if the smileysmile.net domain is sharing web space with another domain, that could contribute to less available bandwidth for smiley. On the other hand, our dropouts followed a cycle, and the problem people are having here is intermittent dropouts, some for extended periods, but not consistent for everyone.

Right now, I'm getting this site both at home and on campus (first time in 3 weeks for campus), and that hasn't happened in a long time.

Five days off. Back for my weekly (give or take a few days) check-in.

No access on campus again....  ???

That's similar to how it is for me. Usually three or more days without access and then I usually get one day at the most.

I don't think I buy that, if only because I rarely, very rarely, have any problem getting on, at any time. Absolute longest it's taken me is maybe 11 hours, but normally, minutes... so why is it OK for me, but not for others ? Deeply confusing.

I haven't been able to access it whatsoever in the past few months, but i blame my uni internet. Now I'm back home my regular internet struggles a bit, but you can get on after a while. I have a lot of reading to catch up on!

Still having issues. Couple of days a week unable to get through.