Forum is over Capacity!

Yep - I just got that, we broked the other site already!

? I am having withdrawal symptoms already!

It is amusing over there, the threads are funnier, but I cant be arsed to "move" over there permanently, seeing as Darren has apologised and the forum speed is better here than it used to be I think I will be sticking

sorry but how long did that take us?? <rofl>

I would really like it if we all just came back over here (assuming the speed thing is sorted out, which for me it appears to be). I did post on the other board but the best things about it were just that people posted more and more chattily. If the speed issue is sorted, I don't see why we can't just continue like that over here- it's the people who make the difference, not the place. It seems to me there's always been a sort of symbiotic relationship between Hitched and Hitchers- we get somewhere free to chat, they get lots of traffic on the site which appeals to advertisers. I felt a bit bad about just upping sticks.

(Having said that, I missed Sweargate as I was away and therefore read Darren's apology before I read what prompted it, so didn't get annoyed about any of that.)

But the speed thing isn't fixed - not for me anyway. Hitched often still won't load at all, and it takes over a minute for the reply box to open.

For me Hitched has been working better than the other forum for the last couple of days. I keep getting the overload message over there and pages are taking ages to load. I don't like having to switch between forums depending on which part of the forum I'm on.

It's weird how it's so different for everyone- real Hitched is much quicker for me now than faux Hitched.

I find that both sites are now about the same speed (Hitched has definitely improved speed-wise in the last few days for me).

I'm now on both sites as there is more action over there but like Knownowt, I wish everyone would come back. I do feel some loyalty towards Hitched (not sure why but I have met some great people IRL through this place) and I can't see the point of being on both really although I know I'm not the only one posting on both. .

This site is far faster for me today than it has been in weeks. I can't keep up with two forums to be honest. So I'm just going to stick here.........if people want to go on the other forum then so be it!

Theres a message on the other site saying it's having a server update over the next few days, quite ironic, and made me laugh, but that said the speed over here is still pants for me, so I have two windows open to click on a thread here, then go over there to read some before this one opens. Sadly I read the whole front page of the other side before one thread opened here this morning.

The forum over capacity thing only happens when using certain browsers eg. Firefox, which is why they're upgrading their server. They've promised no outage during the upgrade though. I've had no error messages, forum capacity etc. when using Safari.

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I have ?

What, here or there? Or everywhere? Or is the internet the scourge of the earth and should we all justgooutanddosomethinglessboringinstead?

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I've had "Forum is over capacity" messages over on t'other site, when using safari, the latest version of.

I'm not technically minded at all but was wondering if the reason real Hitched has been faster is because there are fewer people using it?

Hitched is still slow for me, and TBH, when I'm in a waiting room biding my time waiting between appointments, it's a real treat to be able to log onto the other site and bingo, up it comes. Even on 3G rather than on a network.

Hitched has always been a ball-ache to load on my phone, and even more of a pain to post on. Even on the Mac or on my laptop Hitched is slower.

I don't want to leave - and I probably never will, but I'm posting and reading more frequently over there ... because, I can!!