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Dear community,

UT99.org is having connection problems for several weeks now. I want to let you know that I am still trying to solve it.

I am very proud of what UT99.org has become over the years, of how much knowledge and continuing effort is lying in this community. Therefore I am very sad about the current situation, believe me.
I am sorry for the inconvenience and looking forward to happier times. UT99.org stays up.

Regards,
Shade

Good to know that! We hope once this will fixed. Thanks Shade!

Thanks for letting us know.

Thanks!

what does your web host say? this is kind of ridiculous.

I already wondered why it's lagging and often giving "500 Connection Time-Out" errors.
I was already blaming the shitty internetz haha.
Thanks for the heads up

Thing that was really buggy about the forum's issues was the message it often put on the screen.

Just before the 500 error thingy it read: "Contact your server administrator [address not shown]".

Was toying with calling a psychic to reach Shade on the astral plane. 1 more week of downtime and I would've

I keep getting logged out every few minutes, so I wonder what is going on with the cookies.
As it seems most problematic while being logged-in I have no way to test some of what is going on.

Yslow shows a load of cookie related problems but I don't think they are the problem. It does reveal a bunch of other errors worth investigating.
http://yslow.org
Use the plugin for your browser of choice and run the tests.

he guys

the problem should be solved for now.

unfortunately, the wiki needs to stay offline for some days.

if you experience any further issues, please report them.

cheers
verticube

Everything is loading super snappy now! I could tell a major difference before I even saw this thread.

Tim-_- wrote:Everything is loading super snappy now! I could tell a major difference before I even saw this thread.

same here.. ABOUT TIME!! lol

MUCH better. Thanks verticube & Shade! I was quite worried.
BTW, what WAS the problem?

UnrealGecko wrote: BTW, what WAS the problem?

^This

As verticube said, the problem is finally solved! :)

There was a project some time ago, a UT99 wiki, which came to nothing at the end. So it seems like the software degenerated to a playground for happy robots, which pushed the server performance down. I just lost sight of the wiki... lesson learned.

....So it was sort of a database related problem in the end.
We have a few bet-winners! Shame nobody started a book of odds.

verticube wrote: if you experience any further issues, please report them.

cheers
verticube

OK. but...... where ?
If the site breaks, it shows a useless email address, and none of the admin use the official IRC.
Even when we the users, can communicate with Gen or Paper, we cannot actually count on them receiving a reply, leaving them in a awkward position.
You expect that run-around trying to deal with Epic, but not a small community site.

That is the most important fix I would like to see
So the next official post in the announcements section I want to see, is the announcement that the contact details are fixed.