Hey there, is there currently something wrong with the PM storage system? I have sent out a few PM's to some people and they have not been saved in my sent folder, to go along with this I have also recieved some messages over half an hour ago (can read them via emaiL) yet there is no trace of them in my inbox. I have cleared my cookies and logged out twice, and used different browsers.. is this a DP issue? Edit: Also I noticed at the bottom that it claimed I was the only active user, so it must be some wierd database issue. The forums went down for approximately 5 minutes for me after posting this thread (and it didn't appear until just now). Lots of problems to go around
Yes problems are still there.I am sure mods and admin are looking at it.It will be done in some time.You are alone in having such problems.I am giving you company there.
I think some of the databases are a bit out of sync. I too am getting delays in marking PM's as read, PM's appearing in Inbox / Sent etc. I'm guessing there is a backlog in the replication of each insert to all servers.
I had a similar issue where I couldn't access the board for a while... was that an internal thing? or individual? (*sorry for the off topicness)
It's the whole site, I've had the problem most of the evening. It was taking around 30 seconds to load my Inbox.
A few weeks back I posted on this subject because I'm a survivor from a huge forum crash after DB problems upgrading software versions over and over without running a DB optimization routine religiously. I really hope DP's database is being backed more often than usual and a parallel solution being worked out as suggested previously. Another good solution would be make of this an only-read archive forum under a subdomain, let's say archive.digitalpoint.com and start over this one with a fresh install linking to the archived version for further reference :rolleys:
I think that would cause a serious loss in traffic from all the indexed SE threads / remotely linked threads etc... Everything would need to be 301'd.
Oh, so that's why I've been having problems with PMing & receiving PMs! It baffled me for a while, but I figured it must have been my browser's cache & so I just switched browsers.