Forum unresponsive - maybe try Cloudflare to block bot traffic?

[lowwall]

I'm with @tursiops. I use ScubaBoard ALOT. On my laptop, tablet, and phone. Sometimes with a VPN, sometimes without. I never see the kinds of issues some of you are seeing. I doubt it is a ScubaBoard server issue. Feels alot more like an issue specific to your device or network.

I get regular timeouts on my phone (a Pixel 9a) and my home and office desktop computers (MX Linux and Linux Mint respectively). The only things these devices have in common is the Linux kernel, but why would that matter?

Now that I think about it, I do use the Firefox browser with the uBlock Origin extension enabled on all three. Are the other folks having this problem using the same?

 

[tursiops]

I am using Chrome with uBlock on my PC desktop; Chrome without uBlock on my Android phone. No apparent issues with timeouts.

 

[pdwh]

I'm with @tursiops. I use ScubaBoard ALOT. On my laptop, tablet, and phone. Sometimes with a VPN, sometimes without. I never see the kinds of issues some of you are seeing. I doubt it is a ScubaBoard server issue. Feels alot more like an issue specific to your device or network.

I would totally agree with you if it was a single device or one person. But when I have it on four different devices and three different networks so far, it looks less like a device, browser, or local network issue. It is possible it's something not on the server either (something with a particular ISP, for example, or a regional router with a bit of corrupt data - I've seen both of those before).

 

[pdwh]

I would totally agree with you if it was a single device or one person. But when I have it on four different devices and three different networks so far, it looks less like a device, browser, or local network issue. It is possible it's something not on the server either (something with a particular ISP, for example, or a regional router with a bit of corrupt data - I've seen both of those before).

Oh, and I should add, I've tried disabling adblockers to make sure, different browsers (Chrome, Edge, Firefox) on the PCs, 2 different browsers on the tablet/phone, and I am on a lot as well. It's my "clear my head from the work problem for 5 minutes" solution for now, so I probably check new posts 10-12 times a day.

 

[tridacna]

I’ve had similar issues…

 

[therookie]

Oh, and I should add, I've tried disabling adblockers to make sure, different browsers (Chrome, Edge, Firefox) on the PCs, 2 different browsers on the tablet/phone, and I am on a lot as well. It's my "clear my head from the work problem for 5 minutes" solution for now, so I probably check new posts 10-12 times a day.

Ditto on typical usage of SB since I'm sitting at my computer anyway

And I also have not seen any timeouts or similar connectivity issues, other than that major outage some time back...

 

[lowwall]

Oh, and I should add, I've tried disabling adblockers to make sure, different browsers (Chrome, Edge, Firefox) on the PCs, 2 different browsers on the tablet/phone, and I am on a lot as well. It's my "clear my head from the work problem for 5 minutes" solution for now, so I probably check new posts 10-12 times a day.

I timed out trying to click Like on this post, but then no problem posting this reply. It's very much an intermittent problem.

 

[Maolli]

The forum has been borderline unusable for the past few weeks. I run a forum and we went through something similar a couple of months ago.

I think I know why you are experiencing this problem. Look for a label or tag on the front, side, or back of your computer tower and try to find one that says "IBM 486".