Interesting, this went through although slow. In the Religion subforum I have been trying to post a new thread for an hour and it doesn't work...
Well, it never got posted. I got back an error that the server is not available... But everything else was working fine... Edit: I have just tried again, and I simple can't post a new thread in the Religion section. I tried and succeeded posting a reply, so it looks like if I am forbidden to post a new thread there...
You may not be the only person having this problem. Could anybody who is getting an error message when you try to start a new thread please post the details here? Tell us what error message you get (if any), what happens etc. Also, please include what operating system and browser you are using.
No error message, just a blank screen, but url says http://www.sciforums.com/newthread.php?do=postthread&f=62 Using Firefox on MAC OS X.
No problem here - http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?p=2734165#post2734165 Using firefox with Windows XP
Below is my notification to Plasma, I guess at the time no one else had complained yet. I have a new HP windows 7/64 machine and I practice safe computing.
From another thread (that will probably be deleted soon): Bear in mind that I am a moderator so your OP's will be scrutinized.
This is really annoying, but I still can't start a thread in Religion. I saw that Sam was able to do so. I am using the newest Opera, this was updated just a night ago, I will try another browsers too... Edit: I have just tried with Chrome and got: Server error The website encountered an error while retrieving http://sciforums.com/newthread.php?do=postthread&f=22. It may be down for maintenance or configured incorrectly. IE9 didn't work either.....
I have just posted a new thread in Computer science. This is getting weirder... I don't want to post a test thread in each subcategory, but whatever it takes... Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
I tried to start a thread two or three days ago, and it didn't go through. I just got a blank page Windows 7 64 bit Firefox 4.0
There are a number of potentials, one of them is this site might well be under a type of attack involving session hijacking and injection, (I haven't seen the logs myself, so I can't confirm this.) I don't think it really matters what the title actually is, since threads don't us the canonical term for referencing them (or posts for that matter). One suggested reason was that the servers interpreter environment is perhaps running out of memory causing it to stall during thread creation, this can be caused by any number of reasons. It could be because of other processes run by other users in a shared server environment, or even be caused by the large number of bot's and spambots that are constantly indexing the website. Better methods at deflecting rogue bots might well be required to bring the memory footprint down. There is usually also server configurations that deal with limiting interaction based upon CPU usage which might also be responsible. It's just odd currently that it's only Thread creation that seems to be suffering it, if it's CPU or Memory issues, it would effect posting and searches.
But Stryder, some thread titles fail incessantly while others, even if just a little different, do not at all. For example, the thread title gustav couldn't get posted: "Google - The State of Search" It just does not let you post a thread with that thread title.
