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Online Texacon

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DU Sure Seems to be Going Down a Lot
« on: March 15, 2025, 08:17:12 AM »
What’s the speculation for all the outages?

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Re: DU Sure Seems to be Going Down a Lot
« Reply #1 on: March 15, 2025, 08:35:59 AM »
Quote from: Texacon on March 15, 2025, 08:17:12 AM
What’s the speculation for all the outages?

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Seeing EarlG is a DUmmie, I doubt he can be believed, but who knows

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220140876

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Fri Mar 14, 2025, 11:07 PM

Getting bad gateway messages and long wait times for DU to load. Posting a DU mail I got from EarlG (edited OP)
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From EarlG a few minutes ago

I don't think we're being attacked. We have a persistent issue with connections which seems to keep occurring on weekend evenings, but we're not sure why. We're monitoring it, along with our service provider. The temporary fix is to restrict traffic to registered members only overnight, and things are usually back to normal in the morning. But we need to figure out a more permanent solution, obviously.
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Re: DU Sure Seems to be Going Down a Lot
« Reply #2 on: March 15, 2025, 08:52:55 AM »
USAID stopped buying premium Hamster Chow for the hamsters powering their server garden and the hamsters have less stamina?

It's gotta be Musk's or Trump's fault somehow.
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Re: DU Sure Seems to be Going Down a Lot
« Reply #3 on: March 15, 2025, 08:55:06 AM »
I kinda thought maybe they were trying to figure out how to answer their conservative friends pointing out how prices are dropping on just about everything.  :rofl:

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Re: DU Sure Seems to be Going Down a Lot
« Reply #4 on: March 15, 2025, 10:52:24 AM »
Quote from: Texacon on March 15, 2025, 08:17:12 AM
What’s the speculation for all the outages?

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     My guess would be the massive number of bots trawling the internet to feed AI models. I just didn't know that there are two AIs: one, which is Artificial Intelligence, and the other, which is Asshole Intelligence. Only the latter could be interested in webcrawling DU.
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Re: DU Sure Seems to be Going Down a Lot
« Reply #5 on: March 15, 2025, 11:09:50 AM »
Quote from: Texacon on March 15, 2025, 08:17:12 AM
What’s the speculation for all the outages?

KC

Russians. Or the Joooooooooooos!!!

To be serious, message boards have essentially been replaced with instant gratification sites such as X (formerly known as Twitter), Facebook, and Reddit. Amongst others. BFDU also has an excellent point regarding the AI bots. Their spiders are stealing data and scouring the web so that their overlords can claim they possess all information on the planet.

The problem is that spiders and bots are not intuitive and understand nuance and interpret information, other than what it has been programmed to identify.

Personally enjoy the formats that we all enjoy here and at our other former home at CU....hell, even the DUmp has a decent interface (albeit antiquated). I'll be posting here as long as we keep our stock of hamster chow.
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Re: DU Sure Seems to be Going Down a Lot
« Reply #6 on: March 15, 2025, 11:33:08 AM »
Quote from: Ralph Wiggum on March 15, 2025, 11:09:50 AM
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Personally enjoy the formats that we all enjoy here and at our other former home at CU.... ... . I'll be posting here as long as we keep our stock of hamster chow.

The UI here in the Cave is pretty classic, built on a UI that came into use in the late 90s. It's "classic" but very usable, even intuitive. I like that SMF doesn't require a certain order of nesting format tags, e.g. the order in which "Bold", "Italic", "Color", Font "Size" and "Face" occur in nested tags does not matter.

I'm a bit of a UI snob and view DU's UI as dinosaurian, though it's better than some UIs of that type I saw back ca. 1997 and 1998.
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Re: DU Sure Seems to be Going Down a Lot
« Reply #7 on: March 15, 2025, 12:03:25 PM »
Being an old fart I like the ui here, it’s the one I’m familiar with and will stay with it till the end. :-)
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Re: DU Sure Seems to be Going Down a Lot
« Reply #8 on: March 15, 2025, 01:41:31 PM »
Quote from: Ralph Wiggum on March 15, 2025, 11:09:50 AM
Russians. Or the Joooooooooooos!!!

To be serious, message boards have essentially been replaced with instant gratification sites such as X (formerly known as Twitter), Facebook, and Reddit. Amongst others. BFDU also has an excellent point regarding the AI bots. Their spiders are stealing data and scouring the web so that their overlords can claim they possess all information on the planet.

The problem is that spiders and bots are not intuitive and understand nuance and interpret information, other than what it has been programmed to identify.

Personally enjoy the formats that we all enjoy here and at our other former home at CU....hell, even the DUmp has a decent interface (albeit antiquated). I'll be posting here as long as we keep our stock of hamster chow.


I don’t have a lot of social footprint but like you I’ll be at CC as long as I’m allowed. I like it here and the people we have. There are some I’d like to see come back but people have lives. It would be good to know some of them are still breathing though.


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Re: DU Sure Seems to be Going Down a Lot
« Reply #9 on: March 15, 2025, 07:53:17 PM »
Quote from: Old n Grumpy on March 15, 2025, 12:03:25 PM
Being an old fart I like the ui here, it’s the one I’m familiar with and will stay with it till the end. :-)

You may be 100% correct. But I need some more information. For starters, what's a UI?
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Re: DU Sure Seems to be Going Down a Lot
« Reply #10 on: March 15, 2025, 08:02:05 PM »
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Re: DU Sure Seems to be Going Down a Lot
« Reply #11 on: March 16, 2025, 04:59:13 AM »
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I have to confess that every time I see the above subject, the answer that comes to mind is: Yep, faster than one DU dude on another DU dude, but maybe not quite as fast as any DUer on any of their demonrat overlords.
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Re: DU Sure Seems to be Going Down a Lot
« Reply #12 on: March 16, 2025, 08:50:16 AM »
Quote from: SSG Snuggle Bunny on March 15, 2025, 08:02:05 PM
User Interface
Thank you. As far as tech IQ is concerned, my computer still operates on kerosene.
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Re: DU Sure Seems to be Going Down a Lot
« Reply #13 on: March 16, 2025, 08:59:58 AM »
Quote from: RonE on March 16, 2025, 08:50:16 AM
Thank you. As far as tech IQ is concerned, my computer still operates on kerosene.

Sorry 'bout that. I inf..., errrrrr, live in Silicon Valley and my normal English slipped.
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Re: DU Sure Seems to be Going Down a Lot
« Reply #14 on: March 16, 2025, 09:01:06 AM »
Representative of the 'men' of DU.

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Re: DU Sure Seems to be Going Down a Lot
« Reply #15 on: March 17, 2025, 02:14:16 PM »
I feel like "Bad Gateway" might be an appropriate description for DU. Like, one shouldn't go there, it's a 'gateway' to the silly politics of the left.
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