Man, this really is starting to peeve me.

I've got a day off work, and a whoooole lot of stuff that I'd like to write on OLO. But the site is just barely operational.

I can access the comments for the new article; 'Asylum seeker policy on the run', but I can't access the article!!

Yeah, the articles are still taking forever to load. The Forum's working fine though. Weird.

Hi GY. The same problems as Forrest Ludwig and CJ outlined have occurred with myself for the past couple of months.

I had assumed it was at my end until a few weeks ago logged into the news and other things, realising that there was a server error with the Forum and it was sluggish in addition to not allowing me into certain threads LOL..GY: thought you must be telling me 'No go WAU on this thread' LOL. This week all fantastic! Ludwig's turn now; just joking Ludwig!

For the record, I love the OLO system and layout. Simple and Easy! About 6 years ago a Forum I visited had undertaken an overhaul resulting in utter pandemonium: most complained as it took far too long to post comments and read others' comments. Sometimes basic simple ways are best!

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Another indicator of Forum activity is the 'Users currently online' display, viewable here:
http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/

When a user logs in to the Forum their userID appears at top left of this display. As other users log in, or, being a user already logged in but having been inactive on the Forum site for more than the 120 minutes indicated but again becoming active on the site (eg. refreshing a page), their userIDs appear similarly. UserIDs thus transit from left to right much as one would read text, only disappearing if the user shuts down the computer, logs out of the Forum, or if either the OLO time limit for the display of any given userID is reached, or the limit of the display space available on the page is reached (presuming there to be such a limit).

I am not sure what the OLO time and/or space limits for this display may be. I get the impression the time limit may not be as long as 120 minutes. Neither am I sure about any space limit, but I do not recall ever having seen more than five lines of userIDs on display at any one time.

What I am wondering is whether there is a perhaps an unintended interaction of that part of the software coding that determines the 'Users currently online' display with that of the red text post-recency coding. Could it be that flags are coming down prematurely on the index pages because one limit or other is being reached in the 'Users currently online' display?

Then again, if a cracker wanted to dumb down the apparent level of Forum activity, interfering with the 'Users currently online' display (or user logins?) might be a way to go about it.

Forrest Gumpp (who became active on the site around 5:00 AM) disappeared from the display between 6:01 and 6:21 AM, although still active. See:

http://twitpic.com/250rir

http://twitpic.com/250s55

http://twitpic.com/250sor

Gday all, just getting involved in my work again.
I organize see.
GY remember has got this up from scratch he is a conservative but will grow out of that.
Can we help?
Yep some can I soon will hit the kick again put a few shillings in the bowl.
Those of us who can should.
Surely?
can you see the need,I for one am grateful we have the forum.

Correction to my last post. The problem seems to be in loading the front page - once that's loaded the links on it seem to work normally.

Hope this helps :)