Anyone else finding bt slow lately

Yep just got one

 

Forum went down for me most of the day yesterday, as well. Nothing any more but still seems a wee bit sluggish today, could just be my connection though.

Heck even Facebook was flipping the hell out yesterday, too. Along with most other forums I visit.

 

seems really slow, and I've had a few gateway errors (on Hexus too)

 

Spoke to soon

 

Yeah slow loading again just like the good old days.

 

Yep slower than Tel

 

Teel posts faster than greased lightning for chrissakes.

 

The only thing I do faster than post is drive, I did the whole length of the M4 @ 125mph

 

Yep its been slow all last week also had some links not working on one of the days

 

Well that was unpleasant... I just had the "502 Bad Gateway" error from nginx when attempting to access the forums for about 10 minutes.

 

Yes it has been bad for the last seven days. Of all the websites I visit it is the slowest.

 

Does Bit-tech even have an editor any more?

 

I think he's been edited

 

Oh lol, imagine that. The editor's been edited out

 

Hi All, between Antony, Matt and I we are taking 'editor' duties. The way media and publishing works nowadays (if you want a really boring explanation DM me and I'll try to explain but it is quite boring!) we felt we no longer needed an 'editor'. But we're always reading feedback, working on it, but replying isn't always the first priority, we'd rather focus on content and making site great. Just being honest. Sorry...

Re speed: Sometimes servers fail. Happens to every company, we're in the fortunate position of having an awesome community who notice these things quickly as you all love the site. We're also in the unfortunate position of having an awesome community who notice these things quickly as they love the site.

If it's any consolation, we noticed the problem whilst we were at Computex and had to rally engineers in London and Bath via our hotel in Taipei as they dragged themselves out of bed at 1 in the morning to fix it. It was a fun morning for all concerned, including yourselves it seems!

Hope that clears everything up. Please don't DM me to explain modern media landscape. When we do the bit-tech BIG DAY OUT (stay tuned) I'll explain it over a beer if you really, really want me to explain it

 

Thanks for coming back John, I know you're a few thousand miles away so it's appreciated.

One of the things that this site misses nowadays is a connection between staff/writers and users. When I first started frequenting this site about a decade ago, it was commonplace to see the red and blue names mixing it up all over the forums. Indeed, a handful of the old guard still occasionally prop up the bar in a few less "formal" parts of the forum.

Now I know I can't insist that you all get more involved - it's entirely up to you whether you want to be a part of your own community of just treat the whole thing as a job. We're probably just a bunch of boring b*stards bickering and taking the piss out of one another most of the time, but there is definitely a disconnect where once there was none.

 

I'd second that - the involvement of the writing team in the forums, and the fact that they responded to comments about articles, was part of what made bit-tech stand out from the rest of the crowd.

It's all steps in the right direction though (and, frankly, any step that gets us further away from Dennis is a good thing ).

 

FTFY

 

Bit tech totally borked for me this morning.

In no uncertain terms: You need to sort this out.

 

Yeah, I've had a lot of failed attempts to connect this morning.