Snoopy: I don't know either. But after that last addition I have wait an extra bit for that column to load.

TarantinoFan:
im still at a loss trying to understand how having red numbers next to a list that already shows up on your page makes it longer to load

And just a note. The site has been working fine for me over the last few days.

Still annoyed about the delayed load on the right hand column after the last "upgrade" (I think the numbers after Friends Online was a nonsense piece of addition that no-one really needed but that is just my opinion)

But apart from that I have just managed to get through all of my games. I haven't seen a 0 in my game list for quite a while and it is rather pleasing to me!

TarantinoFan: I didn't find it funny.

Foxy Lady: Chill chicky. It was a joke! Relax and have a laugh.

nametoolongtofi: If you think you can run this site better ask Fencer for a job.

pauloaguia: lack of questions could have something to do with the problems people had in accesing the site, they might be still catching up on games

nametoolongtofi: I would say you would be 100% correct there......... too funny

nametoolongtofi: I thought it was SQUIRRELS!

nametoolongtofi: Probably :D

nametoolongtofi:

I bet you think the internet runs on fiber optic cables and wireless transmissions. No. It runs on child labor. Little children on bicycles ride through underground tunnels delivering emails and web packets. They work very hard in the hope that, someday, they too will be allowed to live among the surface dwellers. The trouble is, you have to pay bribes to the syndicate in order for your website to run properly. Fencer fell behind in his payments, so some portions of the syndicate stopped delivering web packets for him. But these payments are very important. They pay for the food that the little children eat, and without them the children starve. So the real reason for BrainKing's problems: Fencer hates chidren.

Hrqls: you seem to be right on the money - i had only that one day of problems as well....

I was planning to arrange Bubbles Pbarb2 's interview next weekend. However I still have only a handfull of questions, mostly from the people who voted her in. I'm guessing people are leaving it to the last minute because now I've been setting a deadline to collect them, but if you have some questions for her then please send them soon, so I can decide the best line of action before the weekend.

In the meantime, I'm arranging a list of the most voted people to send to Bubbles Pbarb2 so she can pick the next interviewee. If you want to influence her decision you can still vote on the next person to be interviewed...

Thank you.

Tulip: the problem is that it works for most people
it doesnt work for some people

if it would have been a problem with the site then it should work with noone

if you cant connect to the site via the brainking.com or similar urls but you can connect to the site via the ip adres 89.187.130.22 then its a problem with your ISP which hasnt been updated

the site is working for me (except sunday 28 october) when the harddisk failed. at that time everyone had problems connecting to the site so it was clear that it was a problem with the site

anyone correct me if i am wrong

Tulip: It's still here and working properly. Should I go into technical details?

i dont need a sarcastic reply,just an answer?...is this site ever going to work properly again?
i get fed up trying to get here & to tell you the truth it's getting so that i don't try often now!
it's a shame because you had a good site here,where did it go???

Stardust: and Poo i bite my tongue i'm having trouble tonite,but after i'm on BK.

Foxy Lady: I have been having same problem and i'm with MSN.
change s to x in Foxy

Foxy Lady: I am with Aliant (Bell) and I have the same problems that Mighty Orion spoke of. I can only access the site using the ip address and have timed out over 30 games as a result of the boards not loading for me when I am able to log in.

Dolittle: Your lucky a few players complained about it,

Foxy Lady: I am with AT&T and it works just fine.

Mighty Orion: That explains your trouble it's with AT&T.Glad to see the site is working for you at home.

Eriisa: at&t
I am at home tonight and access from here is just fine!

Mighty Orion: Who's your ISP?

jryden: I did see your prior post and did follow your suggestions:
1) I could not get in through brainking.com
2) I could not get in through the brainking.x,y or z sites
3) I could not get into brainking.info at all
4) I could only get in through the ip address 89.187.130.22 and only able to see the postings and none of the images (as explained in my prior post)
My post was more of an informational post in response to a recent post stating that everything was running just fine.
I am accessing the site today for the first time in 2 weeks through brainking.com and all appears to be working ok. (finally!)

wetware: ....it does make it hard trying to play the game but there is no way I would be checking out the HTML...Gosh I can remember the days when everybody checked out "view source" to try and find how somebody did something in particular on a web page, but on a game site???.....I couldnt be bothered

Bernice: I had fun with that last week playing Backgammon--it was like a new BrainKing puzzle!  Figuring out where in the HTML code would one find the names of the image files that would dictate which die faces would be displayed...in the hope that those filenames would provide a clue.  (And they do.)

joshi tm: no icons for me this morning...

also just went to play triple dice poker and havent any die :(

The site is running perfectly for me tonight...

alanback: I find the site goes down on a regular basis.  I'm not a hard core player very often so I just go do something else for a couple of hours and usually it comes back.  I noticed this for a while before the move and now again after the move so...whatever.

There are definately still DNS problems.  Mighty Orion, I posted a while back how you get around the problems.  Please take a look.  Also, I tried fencer's suggestion about connecting via brainking.cz and that seemed to work however, I don't know if that will fix your image problems.

Check my post and try out that solution.  It is up to us to help each other connect.  If more people start getting pissed off, they'll all cancel their subscriptions and Fencer et. al. will go broke.  Then we will have no site!  Can't have that.

Fencer, you really should re issue your DNS update commands.  Clearly something went wrong somewhere and I don't think it is going to fix itself.

Mighty Orion:  Well, at least using the URL eliminates DNS as a possible source of the problem ... I just got "cannot connect to 89.187.130.22"  for the first time ...

Mighty Orion: It means that your ISP does not know the brainking.com domain for some reason, but the site IS working.

Mighty Orion: It's working fine for me,now last week is another story.

nodnarbo: I was only able to access the site a couple of times in the past week and none the week before. And access was only by entering the ip address. I wonder if internet access speed factors in or if it is something else. I'm on dialup. How about you? btw... your sign might be #1 for you but that position (as it relates to me) is just about how many times I was able to get on and play here in the last 2 weeks. Not good. :>(

Mighty Orion: I don't know what's wrong, it's fine for me and has been ever since the new hard disk.

Again, I can not get into "brainking.com."
I can get to this board via http://89.187.130.22/

I have not been able to get to "brainking.info" at all since almost 2 weeks ago.
Game boards and images are also not showing up so I can not see any games and therefore am not able to make moves.
I am using up vacation days as I type. :>(
A few posts ago I saw that the site is supposedly up and running and is fast!
Well, not for me.
So, any information (and help) about what the heck is going on would be appreciated.
Thanks.

TarantinoFan: I just noticed that we don't even have the hide feature on that.

Thad:  Let Fencer know.  ;)

Dolittle: You can't delete the main things that appear in the second column on the main page.

I believe it would be possible to have the option to turn these things off because you can turn off "Tip of the Day" and "Tournament Tips" (which I have done) but we haven't been offered the option to turn off Friends Online or Favourite Boards or Fellowships. (I may be wrong because I am not a computer programmer)

I find that after this last addition that right hand column is taking much longer to load for me and it is also a distraction which I don't like.

If I had a choice I would turn off the lists for Friends Online and Fellowships and only have the Time and Date and my Favourite Boards displayed in the second column.

I can see if my friends are online by green dots on my main page or at the Friends page or by using the Filter and I can access all of my Fellowships in my Profile or on the Fellowships page. I don't feel the need for 4 different ways to access one item on this site.

Thad: Surgery.

I want to give my Brains to a particular user. How do I do that?

It would be nice if those numbers were moved to the drop down list of opponents on our main page. 

Tuesday: Still water runs deep.

rod03801: Oh, I agree 100% - like TarantinoFan said - just a way to turn if off. So for those who do like it can just simply not turn it off.

For me, any time I can get the page to not do another database lookup (like to see how many games against friend is waiting), the happier I am since I look at things like that as extra time for the page to load. (along with my original thought of it also being distractive to myself)

But yes, optional of course.

Dolittle - if you delete a person from the friends list, they will no longer be in any friends list.

rod03801: Maybe it's kind of a duplication but it sure does no harm.

rod03801: I like it too and for those that don't, can't they delete the friends on line list and those names would still be on the Friends list?

If anything, it should be an option, and not just taken away. I, personally, like the red numbers there.