Fix the Forums...

from Sins Forums
...please :)

Forums are performing as they are hosted on ZX Spectrum hooked up to 28k modem. This setup is perfect for killing online community and i am sure noone here wants this to happen...

So please consider performance of Forums / Forum Server as URGENT fix :)

Over & Out
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
Yeah, apparently (according to Stardock personnel) some folks have decided to start DOS'ing the forums.

We think it's NERD RAAAAAGE as a result of the 1.03 changes. :D
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
I am always puzzled when i see "custom" made forums - its becoming a trend with developers and is beyond me why bother at all when there are things like VBulletin out there that pwn to the ground all this dev / pub "custom" made stuff...

No offense but even freeware PHPBB is better than this...

But anyway lets hope things are fixed soon :)
Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
as a result of the 1.03 changes
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Ya, apparently someone doesn't like the changes
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
I concur. I can almost finish a game of sins before I can navigate to the next page :P
Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top
I don't like the forum layout :(
Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top
I am always puzzled when i see "custom" made forums - its becoming a trend with developers and is beyond me why bother at all when there are things like VBulletin out there that pwn to the ground all this dev / pub "custom" made stuff...

No offense but even freeware PHPBB is better than this...
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Neither would be any better against a DDOS attack as we've been experiencing since Friday night. And neither is even an option--they'd have to be completely rewritten anyway to achieve the level of integration with the SD.net/registrations system as we have now. Not to mention the fact that all the existing stuff is ASP.NET/MSSQL, not PHP.
Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top
Sorry to hear about attack :(

Hope things are getting better!

:)
Reply #9 from Stardock Forums Top
Sunday 1:30 PM (Eastern) :

I just tried to enter the SINS forum by the usual path, and the process failed : it hung for 10 minutes before I terminated the attempt.

But it was very easy to enter by the forums.stardock.com path.

FYI : to report that the situation i have been experiencing since Friday still endures.
Reply #11 from Sins Forums Top
yeah it's definitely running better for me
Reply #12 from Sins Forums Top
Yeah I'm sure Stardock didn't know about this.

And if they did, they are just watching and laughing gleefully at you people not able to whine as often as before from them being intermediately down.
Reply #13 from Sins Forums Top
well the subtext is 'good job' or 'thanks'

No I was actually trying to inform them that they successfully fixed it....
Reply #14 from Sins Forums Top
Oh no sorry i was replying to the original poster, not you.

Them working fine is why this guy got to post this whine thread.
Reply #15 from Sins Forums Top
DOS has been owning this forum for a while now, it's making it irritating to keep my thread bumped. :(