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sweepbjames on There seems to be no way to access the postings by DaveM entitled "Anyone making Water Keifer?"

Tue, 21 Oct 2025 16:38:51 -0700

Yes, It"s working now.... Thanks Noel.

John S on There seems to be no way to access the postings by DaveM entitled "Anyone making Water Keifer?"

Mon, 20 Oct 2025 15:27:19 -0700

I had exactly the same problem. I told Noel and it works now for me. For you too?

John S
PDX OR

sweepbjames on There seems to be no way to access the postings by DaveM entitled "Anyone making Water Keifer?"

Sun, 19 Oct 2025 16:14:08 -0700

Ive tried everything I can find to click the links from the list of unread posts to the profile page and postings list, still nothing... crickets. Everything returns me to the list of topics. Please look into fixing it..

sweepbjames on Page loading is discouraging/frusterating

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 01:51:43 -0700

It's been happening for a while now. I thought I noticed a brief respite when you had posted your medlar query, for almost 15 minutes. I checkin mostly every day.

Rooney on Page loading is discouraging/frusterating

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 12:26:16 -0700

Idyllwild said
Hey folks, thanks for reporting the slowness. Did this just start happening today? I've opened a ticket with our web host about this issue. I'll reply back when I have more news.

It isn't only today. It's built up to this all this month. My suggestions as to what I think these problems are will be disclosed via PM (messaging services) to Idyllwild.

John S on Page loading is discouraging/frusterating

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 06:42:52 -0700

I have also noticed the slowness. It can be frustrating. Thanks for your attention to this issue, Noel.

John S
PDX OR

Idyllwild on Page loading is discouraging/frusterating

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 03:16:34 -0700

Hey folks, thanks for reporting the slowness. Did this just start happening today? I've opened a ticket with our web host about this issue. I'll reply back when I have more news.

JeanW on Page loading is discouraging/frusterating

Tue, 16 Sep 2025 18:39:22 -0700

Sweepbjames, I agree and have the same experience on a brand-new HP laptop with Windows 11 using Edge and also my 9-year-old Dell desktop with Windows 10 using Chrome. The site is incredibly slow to load and often times out before loading even now in the middle of the night. I am not having trouble with any other sites. I also hope someone is aware and working on this.

sweepbjames on Page loading is discouraging/frusterating

Tue, 16 Sep 2025 17:26:32 -0700

Pages hang in the loading so-o-o long it's quite off putting. Much of the time, after serious waiting, there will be a message: the server has too much traffic or something...try later. What's the deal? Are we overrun with AI bots mining for information/sources creating the traffic jam, or what?

If the page does happen to load or a log in actually occurs, the next selected topic window is sure to processi in a similar fashion, ...s-l-o-w and maybe.

Using a safari browser version 18.6 on a Mac OS 15.6.1 if that has anything to do with it.

Thinking, I have a lot of tolerance, and I get close to clicking away. Figure a lot of folks may have not near that amount of tolerance toward the loading 'problems' and just leave, what a loss! Probably we lose incoming experiential expertise, and outgoing, the opportunity to share that what we have to share.

Might be it got better for a minute and then back to the same old... Are anyones working on it, or aware even of the problem, or has every one who knows about such things just clicked away to enjoy other sites?

John S on Captcha broken

Mon, 10 Feb 2025 02:18:15 -0800

Thanks DaveM,

I forwarded the info to Noel, our web master.

John S
PDX OR

davem on Captcha broken

Sun, 09 Feb 2025 14:18:39 -0800

There is something wrong with the "Drag the xxxx into the circle" captcha. When I drag the image, it floats way above the circle, thus I am unable to save my post. If I click/fiddle with it for a while, it sometimes goes a bit lower, enough for me to save. But I bet most people aren't doing that. I'm using Chrome 133.0.6943.60.

Also several times now I haven't been able to save because I put the topic name in the topic description field. Having the topic name greyed out really throws me off when I'm not reading carefully.

Rooney on Barriers to entry, new members may have trouble posting

Thu, 28 Mar 2024 03:36:25 -0700

Who devoted and mastered the 'unanswered topics' section at the top should make some additional changes for us. For example if we deem it important to escape new bots or potentially troublesome 'off-topic posters' (another after midnight), then another tag at the top should be created as 'screening box for new posters' as sort of a screening box where new applicants can apply to us before we agree they have something useful to us as a forum of 'fruit tree favoring like people'.

'unanswered topics' (created several years ago my moderators as a better way to help answer questions)

'screening box for new posters' (for a resume IE. 'where are you on other forums or what do you like')

This screening should be enough to 'scare' the bots away for a couple more years.

John S on Barriers to entry, new members may have trouble posting

Tue, 19 Mar 2024 04:48:36 -0700

They are definitely keeping us busy, and you all are definitely helping.

John S
PDX OR

jafar on Barriers to entry, new members may have trouble posting

Tue, 19 Mar 2024 01:34:05 -0700

I think you are right Larry. I've become cynical about new posters. We've been interacting with generative AI a lot more at work and it makes me fear for the future of information sharing 🙁

I've noticed here that some of the spammy new posters have taken to generating posts that incorporate information from a previous post. That makes it harder to single them out.

Larry_G on Barriers to entry, new members may have trouble posting

Fri, 16 Feb 2024 03:30:25 -0800

I came upon a list of recently registered usernames on the forum a couple of weeks ago, and most of them

were AI or spammers that had entered one post and were then deleted by moderator(s).

I am wondering if these appear to be "lost reach" registrants, as the offending usernames had not been removed from the list.

4+8=12 for this post.