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Hi guys, just wanted to give you a heads up that we'll be doing some work on the server and configuration for the next couple of hours as its off peak time so if you notice some hiccups or issues that'll be the reason why.
 
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Hi guys, just wanted to give you a heads up that we'll be doing some work on the server and configuration for the next couple of hours as its off peak time so if you notice some hiccups or issues that'll be the reason why.
Thanks Ash,

It's a small but important change- the move to "https" and SSL encryption will help protect everyone's username and passwords as you enter them here on the site. There are some well-known watch forums that have had major problems with security and hacking of passwords, and while no-one is immune from attack, the work that @dsio is doing will certainly help.
 
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This is excellent news! I can now see the new certificate in action. On behalf of all users... thank you!!
 
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BIG NEWS



calibre11.com is now secure as well (OK, not such big news 😉 )
 
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Morning. We’re aware of problems posting new threads and uploading images. @dsio is on to it and should be resolved soon 👍
 
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…and we’re back. Thanks for your patience and thanks to @dsio for fixing before breakfast
 
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Apologies for the hiccup there we had applied some performance tuning tricks but they caused things to break unfortunately.
 
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Thank you to all of you guys! Great work & keep it UP! 👍
 
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When the forum didnt work I realized I might have an addiction to this place. Will try to bury that thought deep inside and carry on as usual.
 
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When the forum didnt work I realized I might have an addiction to this place. Will try to bury that thought deep inside and carry on as usual.
I hope you didn’t leave sleep over it Jim. All well now, glorious day.
 
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I hope you didn’t leave sleep over it Jim. All well now, glorious day.
No it was fine, spent the evening browsing watch photos on instagram instead
 
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Hi guys we're testing this again with some less aggressive settings, its rather important that we get this to work for google optimisation reasons due to the number of images on the forum making the page bounce around a lot on load so let us know if the attachment or thread creation bug re-appears.
 
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All working just fine over here. And a big finger to gogely googoo
 
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Noticing that the site is quite slow to react and load for me this evening. Not sure if it might be related to the performance tuning work? Or is it just me? Posting seems OK, just some delay on page loading.

EDIT: Noticing the same on OF. All other websites seem fine to me.
 
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Noticing that the site is quite slow to react and load for me this evening. Not sure if it might be related to the performance tuning work? Or is it just me? Posting seems OK, just some delay on page loading.

EDIT: Noticing the same on OF. All other websites seem fine to me.
Thanks- will look into it
 
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Noticing that the site is quite slow to react and load for me this evening. Not sure if it might be related to the performance tuning work? Or is it just me? Posting seems OK, just some delay on page loading.

EDIT: Noticing the same on OF. All other websites seem fine to me.
Are you still noticing this now? It’s pretty quick for me atm but we were doing some work this morning
 
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Are you still noticing this now? It’s pretty quick for me atm but we were doing some work this morning

Working much better now.. looks like it's back to normal speed loading. Was slow earlier this morning.