Is It Just Me?

[i-love-my-sheep]

Is anyone else having issues with the forum tonight, or is it just me? I'm having trouble getting messages to load, I keep getting 'webpage not available'. It seems to be sporadic.

We had a direct lightning hit on Saturday and I thought it may have fried the router. I got it working again by replacing the phone cable between the router and the wall (the strike blew the surge protector board up.....literally). It seems to have been working fine since.

Tonight, every other page I look at is working fine, except these forums, so wasn't sure if it was just me having router issues, or whether it's a site issue.

[aps1080]

cq

Likewise, only on discussion boards.

I tried to post this last night but wouldn't work, kept timing out.

I even started a thread on it in Community Spirit.

http://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Do-any-of-you-find-Community-Forums-within-slow-to-...

"These continuous site problems with eBay are getting really old and my patience is wearing very thin at the moment. I'm having to save every post before sending it in case it times out and I lose it. So far I've had to resend the same message several times and I'm really starting to wonder about the competence of eBay's techs. "

I couldn't have said it better.

[clarry100]

Yes I had similar troubles last evening too. Just with the community boards. Rest of eBay seemed fine.

[clarry100]

Having problems again here this morning.

[cq_tech]

Attempts to view messages on the Discussion Boards were still timing out as late as 0700 AEDST when I finally gave up in disgust after having tried everything possible (changing browsers, etc.). Came back on line at 1000 AEDST and things appear to be back to normal.

I've no idea what the problem was and will likely never know, but it's simply not good enough and unless eBay do something to prevent these far too frequent site issues their already stuffed reputation will suffer even further. I've already given up buying on eBay and I'm only one step away from giving up selling as well.

It's not as if it would make much difference anyway as my sales have fallen to an all-time low over the past few weeks, when at this time of the year they should be through the roof. I genuinely believe that eBay is a lost cause and it's now simply a matter of who intends going down with this rapidly sinking ship.

[aps1080]

What was going on a few minutes ago - 6pm Melbourne time.

Could not get onto the forum at all.

[i-love-my-sheep]

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@aps1080 wrote:

What was going on a few minutes ago - 6pm Melbourne time.

Could not get onto the forum at all.

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I've only just sat down now at 7.20pm (Sydney/Melbourne) time. Maybe they were breaking something again because it seemed to be working again. Nothing would surprise me.

If it ain't broke.....lets break it!