D3B
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Reged: 28/11/2004
Posts: 2987
Loc: Ely, Cambs UK
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Almost unusable again....
I pay IPC a lot of money subscribing to three boat mags and others...
I dont think its too much that they can provide one fecking forum that works reasonably well!
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I changed it cos it was too long....to drink and in letters :-)
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sarabande
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Reged: 06/05/2005
Posts: 5379
Loc: Thames valley, or up on the mo...
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here's a little go-round to by pass the main access routine.
1 Into your search engine type "ybw feckin" or "ybw [any other word that you have used in a recent post]" :grin
2 select any of the n 100 items you are offered containing the search word.
3 when the searched-for post comes up, you can naviguess your way round the forum as usual.
Have fun !
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Enlightenment is motor-sailing
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PCUK
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Reged: 29/06/2005
Posts: 1941
Loc: Devon
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I can only get in through the mag pages at the moment and have to use the jump to move between forums.
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bunny
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Reged: 10/11/2006
Posts: 165
Loc: sussex coast
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Likewise. 
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cheers, Bob.
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capnsensible
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Reged: 15/03/2007
Posts: 1237
Loc: Atlantic
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Could it be something other than the forum itself? Its working fine for me, all normal.
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MajorCatastrophe
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Reged: 31/05/2005
Posts: 15885
Loc: ust plague be upon you
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Kawasaki phoned me earlier to say he couldn't get onto the forum at all.
Blessings for small mercies.
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curve
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Reged: 09/02/2008
Posts: 991
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Seems to have gotten better in the past half hour.
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jhr
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Reged: 26/11/2002
Posts: 9361
Loc: al shop for local people
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The problem seems to be with the Main Index page - if I click on that, it hangs until I get a "Page could not be accessed" type message. I'm navigating around, using the Page Jump facility and getting in initially via the "Most Recent Posts" shortcut (itself apparently royally rogered) on the YBW front page.
I have always maintained a discreet silence about the shortcomings of the Forum software, partly because you can't really complain about something that's free and partly because I'm conscious that, by and large, magazine publishing isn't a licence to print unlimited amounts of money and any major expenditure (which I guess is required here to put things right) is not easy to get authorised and even harder to implement, because of lack of resources.
However...... I'm getting really frustrated by the slow and sometimes non-existent speeds of the forum and the constant aggravation of using it. A while back, we gave up the (already clunky) search facility because we were promised faster speeds. We had this for a while, but we're now back to snail's pace operation with the added bonus of a very limited search facility.
Dan: Please would you prevail on your superiors to open the purse strings, not just to authorise revisions to make the system work (you've previously implied that there are things in the pipeline) but also to provide the resources to actually make it happen some time before the next Ice Age? I am a patient man (no, honestly, I am!) and if I'm getting fed up and thinking of walking - which I am - then I suspect many others are as well. Thanks.
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Feeling the need for (Forum) speed. If speeds are slow; I'll go  .
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unit18
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Reged: 28/10/2003
Posts: 3515
Loc: Kent
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Can't get in using Firefox but worked 1st time using Explorer?
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Motorboats never, ever break down.
They just fail to proceed.
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Kawasaki
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Reged: 21/06/2004
Posts: 4468
Loc: Anglesey Wales
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Quote:
Kawasaki phoned me earlier to say he couldn't get onto the forum at all.
Blessings for small mercies.
Snuck behind yer back see 
Thanks to Uncle Brendan.
Dunno if I will remember agin though!
Anyway cop for this Virtual Salute Major.
You know the type 
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Jerk of all trades. Expert in none.
Plus Don,t do serious, lifes too short.
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