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Forum is slow and glitchy

Discussion in 'Everything Else (off topic)' started by Redneck, Apr 29, 2026.

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  1. billb3

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    This is true. But I also wonder how much of the issue is also time and maybe even expertise.

    So many sites have ads to help defray at least some of the cost. And then they also will offer membership of some sort to shut the ads off and/or have other perks. This must also be more of a time suck administering it all.
     
    billb3, Jul 17, 2026 at 6:45 AM
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    This is a huge issue, one that we will discuss and work on figuring out. We are literally "outgrowing our britches".....

    On another note, the site seems blazing fast here for me today, how does it seem for yinz?
     
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    Fast!
     
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    Working fine here.
     
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    Yeah complete 180* from the last couple days
     
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    Another forum I used to frequent had a similar issue with pics taking up space and decided to just dump stored pics when they aged to 5 years or so . It meant any old threads visited had a bunch of sad broken file image instead of a stored pic but old threads really didn't float to the top very often. It wasn't a firewood forum. Maybe not a welcome idea on a hoarder forum but sometimes ya gotta do what ya gotta do.

    Site seems very responsive today.
     
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    Thanks for the update!

    I know enough about HTML and whatnot to be dangerous. Is there a way the software could automatically resize the pics? I know there are some other forums that do that.
     
    Skier76, Jul 19, 2026 at 3:47 PM
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    May I ask just how large our britches are? How much space does this forum take up on the hard drives?
    One million photos at 8mg equals 8tb.
     
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    It's glitchy here this morning.
     
    Jeffrey Svoboda, Jul 21, 2026 at 6:16 AM
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    In and out all morning so far.
     
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    Yeah, I was just blocked out for a while. Crazy.
     
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    The Slow and Glitchy thread started April 29 FWIW.
     
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    Are we taking bets on when/if it'll ever get fixed?
     
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    It's obviously not important
     
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    Same time the swag shop gets fixed! :eek:

    EDIT: my apologies for the rude comment. No disrespect meant.

    Thanks to all behind the scenes that make this happen!!!:salute:
     
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    LMAO!!
    Swag sales could help pay for fixing this mess.
     
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    Its my understanding the swag shop was there to help offset the cost of keeping the forum up and running. Once I had a little better understanding of what it takes to run something like the FHC (all free) the swag shop had closed. Id be glad (as I'm sure many other FHCers) to buy some swag to support our great forum.
     
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    She's been a whipped puppy today.
     
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