Hope I have the right section here. I have a really fast PC with Quad core i7 processor 16 gigs of ram ssd for operating system etc. Usually I cant click on things fast enough as it happens instantly. This is why I built the fast system. I am a member of several other forums for cars/bikes etc and all of them are lightening fast on my PC. Unfortunately on the MX5 owners forum it takes up to a minute to load the initial page and if I try to make a post it can take ages. Indeed this is my second attempt at this post as when I clicked post it sat waiting for a response from the server for a minute then came up error 44 . Surely I can’t be the only person suffering from this. I would love to spend more time on the forum having just become the owner of my first MX5 but it’s like working with dialup on a zx spectrum in the 80s.
Unfortunately Squidger, slow loading times, and often the dreaded ‘404 NOT FOUND’ messages are a feature of this forum, and to be frank, have been off and on, since I joined in November 2016 - perhaps even before then !
Sometimes the site behaves itself for weeks on end, and we think the problems have been solved, but sooner or later they return. At the moment, we are going through a bad patch.
There have been many many posts about this over the time I have been a member, and if you search the archive, you will find them I’m sure. I’m a self-confessed ‘techno-thickie’, and have no idea why this should happen, or what the answer is. So, like every other member, I wait patiently (!) for the tech boys to achieve a lasting solution…
Double trouble today. After taking a minute or so to load, I find that all the section headings and thread titles are appearing twice. Always something new.
Ma5da’s comment about possibly not renewing his membership because of this forum problem should be a wake-up call to the powers-that-be at MX-5 OC Towers.
Whilst not the only benefit of being a member of this club, the forum could well be the main reason some pay their membership fee each year, so the possibility of losing members en masse should be a warning sign perhaps, and encourage the administrators to get this problem fixed once and for all !
It has just taken over a minute for me to reply to Mal’s post, it may well be on the agenda but that will not solve anythting, it needs whoever runs the forum to sort it out.
Doing what I can, but as has been explained previously there isn’t a quick fix, unfortunately
decision needs to come from forum admin, or committee in agreement about next steps. But at this stage it isn’t going to be me that makes those changes
There have been some changes made on both servers yesterday and earlier today which may help. But ultimately these are tweaks to eek out lifespan more than a “fix”.
Will continue to do what I can to improve things, rest assured.
From my experience of multiple errors and inadvertently posting quadruple answers to another members question earlier today, I’d say whatever software was “tweaked” might be better off “un-tweaked”. The forum now seems to be extremely slow at best, unstable and getting worse.
As a fully paid up member of the club I’d be very interested to know what the club actually pays for this forum. I sincerely hope it’s not costing us very much!
I’ve recently been invoiced for the forum I run elsewhere and it’s just been paid up for the next 12 months - it costs a total of just over £50 p.a. (renewing of club domain names cost about another £20). It runs far more rapidly than this one and it’s error free. The software we use is available free of charge, we only pay for the webmaster to host it on his private server. I’m not saying it’s a suitable front end for this larger forum but it’s an indication that we should certainly be able to improve on what we have now.
The website/forum is the main communication the club has and it needs to be put right. It’s time we just bit the bullet and paid up for a decent service. I’m led to understand we belong to one of the largest car clubs in the world… almost 7,000 members, each paying £35 per year = almost £245,000 per year in subs alone.