Database Error and slow forum

[DiamondCardz]

I've got the same thing going on also. I wonder if it's due to something failing or if it's intentional to reduce the load put on the server.

[mprep]

Had the "Connection Problems" error page just now. No clue as to why the forum's acting up.

I've got the same thing going on also. I wonder if it's due to something failing or if it's intentional to reduce the load put on the server.

I assume failing. IIRC most static assets should be cached and served by Cloudflare, especially for the non-changing SMF forum UI elements. I assume that after the cache expired and Cloudflare failed to load the assets, it just dropped errors for those requests. You should be able to check the network tab on your browser (on Firefox: right mouse button, letter Q, select "Network", refresh page) to see if any of those requests are returning error codes.

[UmerIdrees]

I was having this problem for last 1 hour or so. Anyways i have found a solution to this.  
Press CTRL + F5 and the page will load normally.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

theymos got a wicked hangover after partying all night with the mods from the Russian section

LOL. 

I've been getting the same message for the past couple of hours, though I was just able to post something a minute ago.  Ah well, this happens from time to time--no big deal.

I half expected that when the forum came back online the new forum software would have been rolled out and I'd be viewing a completely different version of bitcointalk.  Sadly, not to be.

I think it's a DDoS.
Maybe attackers are trying to make trouble for the forum on its 10th anniversary.

Hmm.  That could be and if not it certainly is quite a coincidence.

[sujonali1819]

Why this error ? Is theymos making any update?
I have been faced this problem since 2 hours.

[bL4nkcode]

I just got access to the forum again after some tries earlier, seems the distress and maintenance is over?

[TryNinja]

The watch list page shows this for me every time:

Down for maintenance, be back soon (503)
The forum is down for maintenance. Try again in a few minutes.

503 via master1

And I’m constantly getting a Gateway error from Cloud Flare. That’s the first first time I got into the forum in a while.

[BrewMaster]

the number and quality of art submissions were too much that bitcointalk's graphic card blew up trying to process them all.

[theymos]

A hardware issue was degrading performance. The downtime ~6 hours ago may have been due to this alone, or a DDoS attack may have pushed it over the edge; I'm not sure. (I see some unusual traffic in the logs, but it doesn't look that extreme, and it may have been a side-effect of the slowness.) I think that I fixed the performance issue now, at least.

[ronaldo40]

I just got access to the forum again after some tries earlier, seems the distress and maintenance is over?

it seems the MT has over but there is still a few parts that not load properly like avatar, symbols, and others
example:
 

[aioc]

Glad that's it's back I have to use Privazer to check if it is about my cookies and also check various downorjustme similar sites I found out that they are not accurate because Bitcointalk is really down but on their list, it's up all five of those server checkers

[DdmrDdmr]

About an hour ago or so, I did capture an error message that I’ve not seen reported before: Error #2024859659 (it occurred when trying to follow a link to a given thread). Posting it just in case it’s any use.

[DiamondCardz]

I was having this problem for last 1 hour or so. Anyways i have found a solution to this.  
Press CTRL + F5 and the page will load normally.

Neither CTRL+Shift+R or CTRL+F5 fixes it for me, and I don't want to keep performing hard reloads and possibly increasing the strain (even if it's a negligible effect). It's not a huge deal, just looks pretty ugly.

[Heisenberg_Hunter]

Probably should be a bad and stronger DDOS since the whole forum is acting too strangely for quite some time. I don't get either the online status and also the rank coins are totally empty and displaying it as '*****' for Legendary users. The new post icon at the left side of each board is not being displayed but on the other hand the forum doesn't take a very longer time to load each page. Mainly the icons and smileys are missing from all the pages and are being replaced with text.  

[btcdie]

may have improved, and a few minutes ago I could not access at all.

it's just that the current appearance is a little more strange.

[tsaroz]

I got this error (only once twice):

Please try again. If you come back to this error screen, report the error to an administrator.

But I've also seen MY MESSAGES totally empty until a reload, and loading most pages takes quite a while. Does the server need some TLC?

I'm not getting most of icons and images on the forum. Clearing cookies doesn't help. Though I'm not having any other significant issues for navigation.
Externally hosted images display correctly. Maybe the forum is going through some minor upgrades and we are to see some changes on the occasion of 10th Anniversary.

[Kalemder]

I still look like this: http://prntscr.com/plui53

[Welsh]

I'm assuming this is theymos' attempt at art. In all seriousness, I'm guessing this current layout issues is due to editing some code, and temporarily breaking something?

[dkbit98]

Somebody has been playing to much or scary humanrishfoundation rage revenge strikes back 
Anyway it is not funny at all.

[Deathwing]

I'm assuming this is theymos' attempt at art. In all seriousness, I'm guessing this current layout issues is due to editing some code, and temporarily breaking something?

Probably, the performance seems a lot better now. The site is snappy and I can easily change from page to page without any problems. Nevertheless, I think theymos changed a few settings to fix the database load problem which probably messed up some theme settings on the database so... it basically does not load most of the theme settings, as far as it seems.