Getting very frustrated with this site!

[scbwr]

Why does this site continually have server problems???? Twice this morning, I've typed replies and lost them due to server issues. It seems as though this forum is dying a slow death and that is a shame. It used to be a very good forum, but I find myself spending more time elsewhere. IMHO, just another indication of Good Sam Enterprises continuing to decline on so many levels. Is the management concerned at all about their apparent demise?

[2oldman]

Admin wrote:
I only get the error once every few weeks so I just hit the F5 and go on with my life

Nice for you.

I see where Mr Lemonis is selling many CW stores that do not also sell RVs. Perhaps he just doesn't care if his website works very well.

[Admin]

2oldman wrote:

Admin wrote:
I'm unable to duplicate the problem when I do have one. That means I have nothing to forward as an example to the IT folks.

Have you forwarded this to them: ?

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Yes but since it's a random error and I can't duplicate it for them to trouble shoot. I occasionally get the error and I go over and do the exact same thing again and no error. I got nothing to send. I only get the error once every few weeks so I just hit the F5 and go on with my life :E. I have more important things to figure out like which beer to have with the steak on the bar-b-Que tonight. :B

[BB_TX]

Campfire Time wrote:

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Also they used to show anywhere from 5-8 pages of recent posts. Now only 2 or 3. Even though people are still replying to posts it's made to look like it's not as busy as it used to be. Purposely discouraging posting.

Clicking NEWEST brings up new threads started in the last 24 hours. Check the times and dates of those and you will see that there really are only 2 or 3 pages of new threads in that time frame.
Clicking ACTIVE brings up any thread that has had recent replies. And that does bring up 5-8 pages. A reply to a post does not return it to NEWEST though.
There was a time a number of years ago when NEWEST had 6-10 pages and ACTIVE even more. So yes, participation has truly fallen off. Not a game they are playing to make it look so.

[1968mooney]

If they would eliminate all the naysayers it would free up space for the posters with something to say that matters. :h

[Sam_Spade]

2oldman wrote:
Have you forwarded this to them: ?

Service Temporarily Unavailable!
The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.

That is a "generic" error message that wouldn't help find anything.

HAVE YOU CHANGED PORTALS LIKE WE HAVE SUGGESTED THAT YOU DO ???
Or are you just going to keep cluttering up the forums with useless complaints ??

[T18skyguy]

camperdave wrote:
as to a slow death, the actual forum mechanics of this forum has been horrible for as long as I can recall. I've gotten to where I ctrl-C every reply before hitting post message just to be safe...

Sadly it seems like many folks have gone elsewhere, but for me I keep on keeping on here. I don't do any of the social media things, so my options are limited.

I do a control C before every reply too. It has always seemed to me that the server times you out too soon, especially with a longer reply.

[2oldman]

Campfire Time wrote:
I think they are letting it fall apart. One day it just won't be accessible and that will be the end.

I think that too. A stitch in time saves nine.

[Campfire_Time]

I had so much trouble with rv.net timeouts that I switched to http://forums.trailerlife.com/ probably a year ago. For the past few months that's been horrible too. I'm under https://forums.goodsamclub.com and it's working just fine.

I think they are letting it fall apart. One day it just won't be accessible and that will be the end.

Also they used to show anywhere from 5-8 pages of recent posts. Now only 2 or 3. Even though people are still replying to posts it's made to look like it's not as busy as it used to be. Purposely discouraging posting.

[2oldman]

Admin wrote:
I'm unable to duplicate the problem when I do have one. That means I have nothing to forward as an example to the IT folks.

Have you forwarded this to them: ?

Service Temporarily Unavailable!
The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.


Jakarta/ISAPI/isapi_redirector/1.2.40
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Windows10, Chrome browser, Verizon hotspot

[opnspaces]

Does anybody have a concise list of all the portals that we can use to connect to this forum? It might be helpful to list them possibly even in a sticky so we can try different portals if we get the errors.

[opnspaces]

It seems like different people from different locations are having problems with different portals. For instance, there are a few posts on here where people have reported no problems with RV.net. I used RV.net exclusively for years, probably since I started on this forum. Then this year I started getting the errors when using RV.net to a point the forum was almost unusable. I was getting errors and others were not. So I switched to the trailerlife portal and the errorsms went away. A month or so later I started getting the errors on trailerlife and switched back to RV.net. So far I'm not having problems on RV.net.

My personal belief is that one of the forum servers has a problem and the other server(s) do not have the problem. It's just the luck of the draw what server you get when you sign in as to whether you will have a problem or not.

[Admin]

I use RV.net exclusively and I'm logging in the same as you.
Very rarely do I have a problem and I'm unable to duplicate the problem when I do have one. That means I have nothing to forward as an example to the IT folks.
I do have GoodSam portal as a backup however, I don't remember the last time I used it.
I have used F5 every once in a while as being suggested here but again I can't duplicate the problem on the same thread/post.

Admin

[BB_TX]

larry cad wrote:

MURPHY55347 wrote:
I use RV.NET and don’t have any issues.

X2

X whatever

[camper_ron]

scbwr wrote:
To clarify, my problems today were that I typed responses to two threads, hit the post message command and got the error with server response.

On numerous occasions, I've gotten the same result when opening the home page via trailerlife.com, but it usually corrects itself.

I'll try using rv.net portal and see what happens.

Thanks for the responses!

NEVER HAD A PROBLEM USING rv.NET... NOW LETS SEE IF I DO?