Yeah, Offline Opinion on Friday started around 8.30pm. Given previous experience, I just did other things. I hope it's not a sign of things to come - internet filtering as is proposed will slow things down bad enough.

See ya'll later.

I'd emailed Graham on Thursday about the problem. He replied early last night saying it had been rectified.

I replied later on, when I had trouble again, that he'd spoken too soon! And he's replied this morning to agree that indeed he had!

So they are onto it.

I guess our frustration just goes to show the extent we're addicted to this little 'virtual world' we've created for ourselves!

Oh the OLO yoyo!

On again, off again. Very frustrating indeed.

It was working, so I wrote a post...and then it was down and I couldn't post it.

Then lo and behold, exactly the same thing happened later on!

Yes Bronwyn, it is a bad sign of addiction when one feels at a such loss when our little cyberworld drops out ( :>/

ps. I'm not implying criticism of OLO. I'm sure Graham is feeling the frustration much moreso than any of us and is striving hard to overcome the problem.

Yes same problem here. It took a few failed attempts and some time taken to access OLO but once in everything was okay.

This phantom OLO glitch has occurred for a number of days now.

I wonder how many regulars emailed Graham or OLO concerning these 'outages' - I didn't at 1st, but then I did on Friday after he asked for them. How many emails did he receive, one would have thought heaps. I do not expect a reply though.

If I was an OLO advertiser (given its wide audience) I would want to know why the problem is so recurrent now, and to be assured how things will be resolved.

I don't think it would be remiss if someone from OLO kept the readers/contributors informed as to what was/is going on, even if they are doing everything they can to rectify what is obviously a frustrating problem.

It is the nature of the beast, no way I or most blame OLO for it.
Today not for the first time page loading was slow and again not the first time on opening up it was a shadow of its normal colors, red and blue in places.
On select all it came good.
I have seen forums much worse one totally destroyed by faults it was an offshoot of the old Australian politics.
It seems to have been reborn and now run by one who posts here.
Another got bombed by viruses and I do not know if it still exists.
I think sending e mails as asked for by Graham Young is the best bet but maybe keep it short as we will never know how many he gets.
better too many than none maybe.
A reminder we can contribute if we can afford it, we all show our commitment to the forum when its down maybe a few dollars could make it better?