Is P-F Painfully Slow For Anyone Else Lately?

[Duelist]

To not thread drift too bad, yes it has been running slow for me both on my Pixel phone and my desktop with Chrome. Noticeably slower.

On to the drift. When I was stationed at Ft. Ord in the early 90's a bunch of us would head to the barracks after lunch and watch Days. That seems so funny to me now.

In college, one of our buds would cut classes, sit in the dorm with a case of Genesee Cream Ale and watch soaps all afternoon.

He graduated, and after forty something years I tracked him down and called him this past year. Turns out he became the warden of a prison facility in upstate NY near where he lived in the northern Adirondacks.

"Bunyan" was one of the good guys.

Moral: You guys were okay in my book.

In the 80s, I used to watch Days in the afternoons with my older sisters.

Took a long break from soaps, but when I started going out with my wife, she and her roommates and some of the girls from surrounding apartments would crowd into living rooms every afternoon to watch it. They would schedule classes around Days. I sat there, the lone guy in the room, and shocked them because I knew all of the characters and storylines they’d never heard of from ten years earlier. But the funniest thing for me was that it was like I never stopped watching: the same people were doing some of the same things for the same silly reasons.

Haven’t watched that show since that semester of college. But I bet it’s not very different.

[GyroF-16]

Had a 503 first thing yesterday morning, then slow but functional.
This morning it’s very slow and got my first 503 a few minutes ago.

[revchuck38]

Had a 503 first thing yesterday morning, then slow but functional.
This morning it’s very slow and got my first 503 a few minutes ago.

Got a 503 when I clicked on the link to read this thread.

[Borderland]

Just got a 503.

I hope it isn't a rolling internet brown out.

Maybe server can't find the bandwidth to respond.

Just checked my download speed. Usually runs around 22 and is down to 18. Not just this website.

[Snapshot]

In my experience the big (WAN) internet is one of the few things that dealt with the effects of COVID-19 without significant malfunction or degradation. This speaks well for the people and institutions operating it, and particularly for the people who designed it.

Of course it was designed to maintain data flow under nuclear attack, so COVID-19 be like ... meh.

Individual hosting providers are a different matter, as are all manner of attacks including DDOS on particular sites.

Reasonably good here (Toronto suburbs) today Friday 09, a few slow page loads and one 503. Other sites normal.

[RJ]

Very slow, repeated timeouts, 503s several times today. iPad with Firefox. I’m at a different location with 3ms ping and 80-90 Mbps up/down speeds today.

[BN]

I just got a 404 not found. Is that better or worse than a 503?

[GearFondler]

I just got a 404 not found. Is that better or worse than a 503?

It's 99 better... Or maybe worse.

[Borderland]

It's 99 better... Or maybe worse.

I think it's 20% better, but I'm no scientist. It's like the codes that your cars computer throws when somethings wrong.

You call your dealer and he says what's the code. You say 503. He says don't drive it, have it towed in.

[awp_101]

I just got a 404 not found. Is that better or worse than a 503?

Worse if it looked like this