Marathon Messageboard Thread is it defunct??

January 26, 2005 3:14 AM from

I can't get to the Chocolate Planet anymore - is there a problem somewhere? It's time the inhabitants of that thread to squeak up! What the error message reads as----------------

[SqlException: Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server is not responding.]
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.ExecuteReader(CommandBehavior cmdBehavior, RunBehavior runBehavior, Boolean returnStream) +742
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.ExecuteReader(CommandBehavior behavior) +45
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.System.Data.IDbCommand.ExecuteReader(CommandBehavior behavior) +5
System.Data.Common.DbDataAdapter.FillFromCommand(Object data, Int32 startRecord, Int32 maxRecords, String srcTable, IDbCommand command, CommandBehavior behavior) +304
System.Data.Common.DbDataAdapter.Fill(DataTable dataTable, IDbCommand command, CommandBehavior behavior) +28
System.Data.Common.DbDataAdapter.Fill(DataTable dataTable) +88
SDNetLib.DAL.ExecuteQuery_sp(String StoredProcedureName, ArrayList _param, String DataTableName, String ConnectString)
SDSArticles.Articles.ArticleFactory.GetArticleCommentsByArticleID_Paging(Int32 ArticleID, AccountType AccountTypeID, String SortBy, Int32 CurrentPage, Int32 PageSize, Int32 AccountID) +434
Wincustomize.UC_ArticleCommentsList.DoDataBind()
Wincustomize.UC_ArticleCommentsList.Page_PreRender(Object sender, EventArgs e)
System.Web.UI.Control.OnPreRender(EventArgs e) +67
System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() +62
System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() +125
System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() +125
System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() +125
System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain() +1499

Sorry if I'm inconveniencing anyone-really.

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Reply #1 January 26, 2005 12:32 PM from

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It's still there, but this new site is so damned slow it's impossible to open it

Reply #2 January 26, 2005 1:00 PM from

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Yeah I noticed the combo of being on dial-up and how fast the site times out makes for some rough browsing.

....sometimes

Reply #3 January 26, 2005 1:01 PM from

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What if you were the SQL database? What if you had to boot every morning thinking of the 12,000 posts you have to output for one thread? Think about the servers guys, think about the servers.

Reply #4 January 26, 2005 3:14 PM from

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Developer DoctorNick
If i am not wrong, a server is in business to make money..So if it is to hot in the kitchen the leave.

Reply #5 January 26, 2005 3:38 PM from

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Think about the servers guys, think about the servers.

I'm thinking about the servers at Hooters right now

How's that

Reply #6 January 26, 2005 8:38 PM from

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Even though I don't post there (out of respect) ...the Chocolate Planet thread is tradition.

It's been running for years. It'd be a shame if it was lost forever, imho.

Reply #7 January 26, 2005 8:40 PM from

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I tried to bring up the Marathon thread. Thie site timed out. As much as people say this new WC is faster I sure don't think so. And it's getting worse. Last night at 3 AM I coun't even connect to these forums without timing out. And I am on a 3 megabit connection.

kona0197 misses the old site

Reply #8 January 26, 2005 8:44 PM from

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Speed seems to be hit or miss. Just like right now at 8:30PM EST, the forums all of a sudden just got really really fast. Like "Wow that's fast" fast.

Reply #9 March 27, 2005 3:51 PM from

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*sigh* the chocolate planet is all the way on the sixth page now. I haven't been able to open it in a long, long time. Maybe we can start the chocolate annex here. I always thought OC should have a thread of his own.

goodmorphing hasn't been around much due to serious out-of-shapeness and learning to walk all over again (at least enough to beat old ladies across the street again).

I also miss these fellows. They were my buddies and i feel a twang of sadness when I reach for one and find him banished. Sorry... I'm just the loyal kind of girl.

Reply #10 March 27, 2005 3:54 PM from

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Reply #11 March 27, 2005 4:04 PM from

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I've not been able to open it for weeks. Even then, maybe only a few times this year. That thread is so full of happy times. I miss it so much

Reply #12 March 27, 2005 4:07 PM from

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awwwwwwwwww fuzzy, we'll just have to make new happy times again in here until we can go back home. Anyway, it's OC's thread so it's bound to have magic in it.

Reply #13 March 27, 2005 4:09 PM from

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Someone will have to round up feline and OC again.

... that feline has a knack of filling out a thread.

Reply #14 March 27, 2005 4:34 PM from

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Here's a idea, a server just for the thread

Reply #15 March 27, 2005 4:39 PM from

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There you go... a marathon chocolate server with feather sprinklies!

Reply #16 March 27, 2005 4:42 PM from

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By the way, happy birthday Weaksid!

Reply #17 March 27, 2005 5:14 PM from

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Yes, Happy Birthday

Fuzzy Logic had a quiet birthday, no-one noticed, sob

Reply #18 March 27, 2005 5:16 PM from

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We'll have to get OC to edit the thread title

Reply #19 March 27, 2005 5:27 PM from

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.... Happy Birthday, Fuzzy. (he's so big because he's so late. Seems he's been scarfing down birthday cake in secret).

See, we lost lots of our history. Our beloved emoticon pals, our threads that helped keep track of birthdays.

my birthday got missed too.. I think a couple of years in a row. I was kind of glad.

Reply #20 March 27, 2005 7:07 PM from

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Hi GM

Reply #21 March 27, 2005 7:21 PM from

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I hope you guys find a way to get the old "chocolate planet" thread to function again. I tried to open it with no success.

Keep in ming though if this thread is the new marathon thread it will suffer the same fate once it gets bigger.

Reply #22 March 27, 2005 11:14 PM from

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Thanks GM

Fuzzy, I didn't keep mine quiet. I made myself a thread

Reply #23 March 28, 2005 3:50 AM from

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When you 'get to my age'(tm) birthdays go by without mention

Reply #24 March 28, 2005 5:21 PM from

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feline slowly wanders in, and lies down for a rest in a quiet corner for 20 minutes

Reply #25 March 28, 2005 5:28 PM from

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finally feeling able to continue, and that i wont fall asleep en-route i trundle up to fuzzy wuzzy and present him with a scroll to read. it is a royal proclamation! *awe struck expression*

To whom it may concern

the present, past, future and for all time rulers of all of the known universe and beyond have noticed that fuzzy wuzzy has engaged in devious and underhand activities in an attempt to avoid people knowing it his his birthday!

since such acts are clearly quite wrong, this state of affairs is not to be accepted! so by royal decree we hear by announce that for this year only fuzzy wuzzy will be celebrating his 21st birthday on 1st April, since this gives us the time and warning to prepare for the presentation of the organized 5,000,021 birthday spanks that he so clearly deserves!

signed and sealed with the royal seal
*cat paw print*

feline peaks at the scroll as fuzzy wuzzy reads it

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