RPGforums browsing problems

[FrolfFreak]

RPGforums browsing problems

I obssessively browse the SPF at work, at school, and at home. Something that happens a lot is that browsing will be fine for the first, i dunno, 15 to 30 minutes. But loading pages will start to take longer and longer, and then inevitably while trying to load a page i'll get the white page that says this:
"There seems to have been a slight problem with the database.
Please try again by pressing the refresh button in your browser.

An E-Mail has been dispatched to our Technical Staff, who you can also contact if the problem persists.

We apologise for any inconvenience."

At which point i'll have to close my browser and start over again. Anyone else have this problem?

-FF

 

[Pucho]

me :scratch:

but I just wait a minute or two and then I press the refresh button
there was a time when you couldn't acces the forums in an hour or two, maybe more :cheesy:

 

[Sharakorr]

An E-Mail has been dispatched to our Technical Staff, who you can also contact if the problem persists.

We apologise for any inconvenience."

wo what a coincidence, i get that message and then when i can read the forum again i see this thread...

anyways i just had to click on the favorit thingy for the SPF and everything came up fine. I didn't try closing and reopening my browser window tho

 

[FrolfFreak]

What browser do you guys use? I alternate between Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. THe same problem occurs on both.

-FF

 

[General Zod 2]

I run Internet Explorer 6 at both work and home. I run into this once in awhile. But not to often anymore. Like Pucho pointed out, it used to be much worse.

 

[WhiskeyJack]

I forget the technical aspects of it, but it has nothing to do with your browser- when they switched servers over, it happened often, and sometimes for long (hours) periods. Something to do with a server load-balance or something like that (obviously, i am not a network engineer or programmer). Anywho, the fault is server side for rpg, not at the browser side.

 

[FrolfFreak]

So there's nothing i can do about this? No browser config magic solution? <sigh>

-FF