Deb4858: That could help people who discover the site but I think a link would be necessary at the end of the registration of the member, because, me, when I came to Brainking for the 1st time, I didn't pay attention to these boards, I was more interesting by the games.

Why not a discussion board for new members? Isn't it beneficial for the site?

coan.net: Ok. Thanks for your answer.

Yea, only Fencer can create new site-wide boards - usually when a topic is warranted or enough interest on a subject.

Bernice: I will but I've noticed that there's always a mod who is a black rook. So, I've few hope !

Mélusine: I dont think so, but ask him.

Bernice: Ok, thanks. Is it a right reserved to black rooks ?

Mélusine: for that you will have to ask Fencer...he is the only one to allow/do that.

Pedro Martínez: Thanks but it's not my question, because I know how to do in my f/s. I didn't explain very well, sorry !
I'm speaking about a general discussion board for everybody, as we have some, like the board for birthdays, or the board for politics, or the board for animals, etc...

Mélusine: Go to your fellowship and click “Create” where it says “Add a board”.

Can someone tell me how to create a discussion board ?

thank-you Fencer, bk.com works damn fine

no, it will just count down to 0 minutes and then add another hour to timer. your vacation hours will start counting down because of this game since monday midnight.

My first to play game says I've 21 hours left, but tommorrow is one of my fixed weekend days. As it times out, would that cost vacation hours?

Fencer: No.. prob. others browsers work.. just I like Firefox

(V): Yes, it happens to me too. I will replace it with some Flash sound player later.

Has anyone found a problem with quicktime plugin (7.6.9.0) crashing re the poker tables through Firefox 4?

Fencer: No.

Fencer: Aye... I reloaded my PC in February as the way the system had been installed was slowing the cores. Much faster now and allows me to overclock ... So much of what software was put in the build was duplicating itself in other software.

Just had to look up the motherboard drivers on the ECS web site

There is always something to learn.
If you want to build a multilayer system, never use Cherokee web server as a front gateway. Especially not on a 64 bit environment.

Luckily, there are always alternative solutions.

Fencer: Brainking.com works great for me now thank you.

Fencer: brainking.com is definately faster now.. faster than the responses from the cz host tracker results.

Fencer: For me yesterday was very sluggish, today it's back to regular speed (=fast).

Fencer:
No underlying differences accessing brainking.com or brainking.cz or other BrainKing domains.

BrainKing.com: http://h-t.co/e5nk
BrainKing.cz: http://h-t.co/e5nv

Anyone still observes differences between brainking.com and brainking.cz average response time?

rod03801: Thanks but there is no need to now as the site is fast today. My friend is now back and able to play his games as normal.

rod03801: Whoohoooo,,, I'm rockin' now. Changed over to brainking.cz

rod03801: You have a good idea !

crosseyed: Just curious if you tried one of the suggestions that others have said worked?

(try using brainking.cz) Others have said it worked better for them.

Of course the site will show up in Czech, so you would then have to click on the English flag over on the right side of the screen, and then click the confirmation button that you want to change languages.

Fencer: I am confirming that are a lot of us who are not able to use this site properly. As when we do tell you how slow the site is, others post saying everything is ok for them. Another site I use if they have problems they extend out membership.

crosseyed: It means that database server has been restarted and it usually takes a while. I don't see a point in commenting every unusual event that happens here, especially after I wrote about it in Server News.

brainking.com is not working for me this morning, but can get in on brainking.cz

I did host tracker on BK.com and BK.cz

The results are that BK.com getting slower 'pings' (and in some cases no returns) than BK.cz

So http://brainking.cz

No improvement today on the speed. I just had 10 rows of the smiley's before I could click to save my move. I keep getting distorted pages also.
Then I got this at:

The site is temporarily down
BrainKing cannot connect to the database server. Administrators have been notified and try to fix this problem as soon as possible. Thank you for understanding.

The page was distorted yet I am still here?

Bernice: And? Big deal... you think that means it's all gonna work at 100% due to that!!

I'd rather be a bit of a "know it all" and know some of the problems that come with that.

(V): DUH! brand new as in HD, MB and everything else....all the old stuff is on another HD, EXTERNAL.....know it all.

coan.net: Yes, I think that image loading could be the source of problems for some people. We will try to tune a couple of parameters and see if it helps.

Out of the 85 moves I've made today, about 5 of them were a little slow with the graphics loading - and 1 of them the graphics did not fully load, but a quick refresh of the page brought them all up. (waiting on the i.brainking.com to load images)

I use Firefox which does start to show the page BEFORE all graphics are loaded - some other browsers will first download ALL graphics BEFORE showing the page, so will be a "white" page since it may be trying to download graphics.

I also use the very minimal of graphics on this site - the "no font" mode, and have most all other features that could cause slow loading turn off, so for the most part - very quick for me overall.

I have two computers I use to get on BK. One is very slow and this one is very fast. If I judged BK only by the slower one, then I'd say the site is slow. Fortunately I have another computer to compare. So I know that the problem is the other computer.

Whenever I have trouble with BK (rarely but it happens) I try other sites. But even this won't tell me what the problem is as it's a long way from the West Coast of the USA to Fencer's server. I have no idea the route that is taken but considering the mileage, even slow is faster than a US Jet Fighter making the trip at Mach Speed. Even dial up could be the fastest jet when you think about it. :)

Still, I understand it's frustrating when things are slow. But likely the slowness is due to the route one takes and not the destination.

cd power: not really, check out the host tracker at the top of this page

It is strange that for some it has slowed, and others it is fast. For me, it seems just as fast as always, maybe even faster. I have always had my cookies/cache cleared every time I exit the browser, and I never have had issues.

rabbitoid: I have asked several players and all but one say that BK is very slow. As crosseyed says, white pages appear for ages. What is going on?

Doing refresh (F5) on the main page is slow. clicking on the "Main page" link is much faster. Why, I can't guess, they should be the same.

coan.net: "Cleaning cache" can mean different things to different people. When I decide to clear cache I have several options which I can choose to delete or not delete.

Cookies for example. I usually keep the cookies of the sites that I more or less trust, such as BK, while deleting the cookies from all other sites.

Today just now I cleared cookies for BK, something I haven't done in many months. The site is now loading much faster than it was before, noting that I am one of the people who had problems with the loading speed of the site very recently.

*edit: I also want to note that I clear my cache every day, at least once a day actually. After clearing what I want to clear, I then individually pick out which cookies to delete.

It could be something else I suppose. I also rebooted, then installed a flash reader update, then rebooted again. I know nothing of computers really, maybe that had something to do with it instead, I have no idea.

crosseyed: Sorry I don't have any suggestions since "everything" has already been done on the users side.

With a site change, when the IP address moves with the site there should be even less issues - but something issues with Cache pointing to the "old" place can cause issues with a site only 1/2 working... but with that already done, I guess that will not work.

Also using different browsers to see if the issue is with the browser and not the site or computer would be another suggestion - but since that was already done, I guess that was not it.

Also having the user log in from a different computer (if possible) to see if the issue is with the account or computer is another suggestion - but since that was already done, I guess that was not it.

And of course the suggestion already made to try to log in to a BrainKing domain they normally do not use (which will hopefully be "new" to the DNS and retrieve all the new & correct information to the computer.)

... it's hard to try to help once everything has already been tried.

crosseyed: Actually, I've got messages from you only and nobody else is complaining. Anyway, if you don't get an instant response, it usually means that I am either too busy at the moment or I don't know the response yet.

crosseyed: When it comes to computers, the difference between moving a site and upgrading a site can make a big difference in where a problem can be regarding access. This is not arguing, it is a fact of the computer age and of the www.

This is why I say "everything?" as sometimes (as I recall from past problems) a simple yet overlooked fix at your friends end could be affecting access.

As to be a know all.. no. Just someone (as with many people here) who knows how finicky computers and the web are.