Subscription e-mails for posts seem to be random

[simonswords]

Dear UKBF people,

It seems to me (although I could be wrong of course) that update e-mails from the UKBF site for posts I'm subscribed to are quite erratic.

Sometimes they seem to work, other times I'll stumble across threads that I've replied to that have since received other replies and I haven't been updated.

Anybody else experience the same thing?

Si

 

Hi Si,

Yes, but I've noticed it's only started happening of late.

 

[simonswords]

Excellent! Good to see I'm not going crazy

I should stress though it is random, for example it worked on this post.

 

Yes, I can agree - it is completely random.

 

[simonswords]

My point was proved today, I checked back on this thread using the link in the notification e-mail received from deayme's first post to find another post that I had not been informed of. Even though I replied to first response.

 

[stugster]

Ahh dear. This is what happens when people who don't know what they're doing become Administrators.

You wouldn't get a Shopkeeper Administrating an Oracle DBA...

Or maybe you would

 

[Darren Falkingham]

All,

Firstly, please read your notification emails - I'm pretty sure they say:

There may be other replies also, but you will not receive any more notifications until you visit the forum again.
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It notifies you of only the first reply to a thread you're involved in - this is to stop your inbox being crammed with notifications if you're subscribed to multiple, busy threads.

It's always worked this way.

If you're still convinced that something isn't working correctly, please double check that your subscription list is set up to feed you emails for your subscribed threads. If they're genuinely not getting through, that could be a different issue (mail server, spam filter, etc) and we can find out what's going wrong.

Ahh dear. This is what happens when people who don't know what they're doing become Administrators.

You wouldn't get a Shopkeeper Administrating an Oracle DBA...

Or maybe you would

Thanks for suggesting that we don't know what we're doing. :|

 

[stugster]

It wasn't a suggestion I don't think you guys do. Since the take-over, these forums have been up and down more than a jumping kangaroo on speed.

Give me reason not to believe that.

 

It wasn't a suggestion I don't think you guys do. Since the take-over, these forums have been up and down more than a jumping kangaroo on speed.

Give me reason not to believe that.

From what I recall they've been 'down' 3 times:

1. When the forum got moved to new servers after the handover of the forum.

3. When the new skin/additions got installed.

3. 2 Weeks ago due to the 123-Reg DNS issue which could have happened when Ozzy had the forum.

Apart from the DNS issue which affected several thousand businesses, the downtime has hardly been that bad.

My forum notifications are working fine.

 

[ken_uk]

They were down last night for quite some time... Lemon.farm and melon.farm (or was it marrow? cant remember, something like that) error pages.

 

[estwig]

Come on Ken, we luvs ya really!!!

Say something positive about UKBF, go on 'dare ya'!!!!

 

They were down last night for quite some time... Lemon.farm and melon.farm (or was it marrow? cant remember, something like that) error pages.

I can't say I saw that error and I was here until the early hours of the morning :|

 

[ken_uk]

ERROR

The requested URL could not be retrieved

While trying to retrieve the URL: http://www.ukbusinessforums.co.uk.farmukbf.farm.sift.co.uk/forums/
The following error was encountered:

• Connection Failed

The system returned:
(113) No route to host The remote host or network may be down. Please try the request again.
Your cache administrator is [email protected].

Generated Sun, 25 Nov 2007 01:26:11 GMT by lemon.farm.sift.co.uk (squid/2.5.STABLE10)

I emailed them a copy of the error last night, obviously its sorted now

 

[RayB]

From what I recall they've been 'down' 3 times:

1. When the forum got moved to new servers after the handover of the forum.

3. When the new skin/additions got installed.

3. 2 Weeks ago due to the 123-Reg DNS issue which could have happened when Ozzy had the forum.

Apart from the DNS issue which affected several thousand businesses, the downtime has hardly been that bad.

My forum notifications are working fine.

I'd agree with all the above and would add that the Forum is much faster for me nowadays

 

[Darren Falkingham]

It wasn't a suggestion I don't think you guys do. Since the take-over, these forums have been up and down more than a jumping kangaroo on speed.

Give me reason not to believe that.

The only times we've had to take UKBF down are when:

1) we migrated from Ozzy's servers to ours; and
2) when we implemented the latest vBulletin software and redesign. We gave members prior notification of both of these events.

The 123reg problem recently was nothing to do with us, and we've now moved the domains across to our own registrar.

I really don't see what you're getting at, nor for what purpose - you just seem to aggravating a non-existent situation. If there's a problem you want to air, please do let me know and I'll do my best to resolve it.

 

[ken_uk]

Still love the forum you know negative or not, or I would not be here

 

[Darren Falkingham]

I emailed them a copy of the error last night, obviously its sorted now

Hi Ken,

Thanks for this info - I'll speak with our Ops guys to get a reason for this happening.

Cheers for now,
Darren

 

[RayB]

have been up and down more than a jumping kangaroo on speed.

Reminds me of one of my ex's........................