Has the Forum been acting up for you too?

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Users are experiencing significant issues with the forum, including database errors during private messaging, login disconnections, slow performance, and frequent 404 errors. LaTeX functionality is also malfunctioning, with users encountering unexpected math displays when previewing posts despite not entering any LaTeX code. The forum administrators, Greg and chroot, are aware of these problems and are actively working on solutions. Overall, the forum's performance has been notably poor, particularly on the day of the discussion. Users are advised to remain patient as fixes are implemented.
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I've been having problems with database errors when PM'ing, logging in and then immediately being disconnected, slow operations in general and several 404's. Seems really bad today.
 
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chemisttree said:
I've been having problems with database errors when PM'ing, logging in and then immediately being disconnected, slow operations in general and several 404's. Seems really bad today.

yes we are working on it
 
I'm also having some issues. LaTeX is barfing bad: I'm entering empty TeX tags, like this:
[$tex][/$tex$] (remove dollar signs)

, and when I click "preview post", math from earlier posts of mine that had TeX is showing up.

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I didn't enter any LaTeX source, but this came up anyway. What's going on here?
 
bigplanet401 said:
I'm also having some issues. LaTeX is barfing bad: I'm entering empty TeX tags, like this:
[$tex][/$tex$] (remove dollar signs)

, and when I click "preview post", math from earlier posts of mine that had TeX is showing up.

1

I didn't enter any LaTeX source, but this came up anyway. What's going on here?
This is a known problem. Greg and chroot are working on it.

Thanks
 
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