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DeepHour
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04 Sep 2014, 11:23 am

Just an advance warning for anyone thinking of accessing the above feature via the Personal Page:

I did so this morning, and found that each page took an eternity to load, and even when it did, it wouldn't scroll for a good while.

This might not have been such a big deal, if I could have gone directly to the page I required by entering its number in the small box in the bottom right corner, but I found that this didn't work either (it sent me to page 1, whatever number was entered). I only wanted to see page 7, but I really feel for anyone trying to get to page 800!

When I returned to the forums, I found that the pages here had also become almost impossible to use. So I immediately logged out, switched off the computer, rebooted and got back into the site, and the forums worked fine again! I imagine that some sort of bug from the "Browse Users" section had become lodged in the RAM, and needed flushing out.

This may only be a transient or intermittent problem (I seem to recall using the above feature before with no glitches), but I just wondered whether anyone could shed some light on the issue?



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04 Sep 2014, 11:39 am

It works fine for me; I'm in and out of that section all the time as part of my moderator duties. The site is definitely becoming more and more flaky though with all manner of weird errors. You certainly shouldn't have to reboot your computer though! At worst I've seen browsers leak memory and eventually need restarting as they grind the machine to a halt.


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