grant said:
Not really surprised that Kaal got himself banned, he seems to have a habit of really going off. No idea about Rabe.
And currently the site appears to be sorta down. Not that the lag is so bad it can't be reached (or at least it doesn't seem like that).
No, you go to the site and you get this message.
"SB is turned off?? Say it ain't so! If only I had something, ANYTHING else to do but SB is my life!" is how I picture your reaction right now.
How accurate was I? Be honest on a scale of 1-10 with 1 being "not at all" and 10 being "totally accurate." Just go ahead and post your resp.... oh, yeah, forgot about the whole SB being turned off thing.
-TO
Not sure if it's been hacked or what.
Nope, this is scheduled maintenance. Something regarding fucked up forum account permissions that screwed around with available user options (such as the ability to delete posts).
More specifically, a botched account(s) import from the vBulletin days that resulted in one fucking mess that required a clean sweep/reset of said permissions (and the forced downtime to do so).
That being said, it's one more band-aid on the whole server lag mess (the server is reportedly just too damned old, hardware-wise, and couldn't keep up with the meteoric growth of new registered users, and thus sheer post count that needs to be regularly indexed and backed up).
Lastly, the only guy with the full/complete means to resolve this,
Kier Darby himself, has no free time whatsoever to get involved, in spite of SB's admin team's efforts to contact him.
I can't help but feel a
tad very bitter about it all, even though Kier is pretty much lead developer of all XenForo development (and thus fucking busy is one damned understatement).
EDIT:
Back up again... for now. Spoke too soon. Third time's the charm?
OTOH, today's lag was considerably reduced compared to the last few
weeks months; guess a lot of people
finally got around to disabling e-mail alerts (one more feature that contributed to the lag).