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It can. Maybe add your voice to the post I made in the Chat Board Usage Support forum a few hours ago Lions Den. If we're not vocal enough as a group, or supportive of those pushing for improvements, the chances of change are diminished. Make a noise here.... https://boards.cgccomics.com/topic/498755-fao-admin-technical-support-ongoing-site-issues-following-the-20th-october-update/ ...in the specific forum dedicated to site related issues. The admins should police that by design.

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That's just about the most florid "+1" I think I've ever seen

I agree. I want the place to succeed, but there are few things in life more frustrating than battling with unyielding IT. You only do that if you have to, and my worry is that members will finally lose patience, give up and go elsewhere. Who wants to sit and look at a buffering screen all day, or fight a loop trying to log in? It's not once in a while either - it's all the time here. I've placed this summary in the technical section just now to try to prompt some action: CGC are employing more staff to manage these types of things, we're told. Let's hope they get here before we've all given up and left

My advice is to take a copy of everything you type, prior to posting, if it would be a big hassle to retype it. If it vanishes, you can at least try again or save it, say, to a word doc. That's a pain, but that's the site at the moment. You can't trust it.

We had a 35 minute outage yesterday, preceded by a few 500 errors, but that thankfully seems to have been a one off since the update a few weeks back. All things are relative of course, and performance is now noticeably better, but if posts are being duplicated and / or vanishing then that could cause problems for those running sales threads. And it's obviously a big annoyance to anyone it happens to, especially if their post took a while to write. I visit a lot of sites regularly and all have performance issues once every so often. But this site is the only one I visit regularly where the owners can't seem to get a stable ongoing environment in place. The update announcement itself cast doubt on the result, saying it may eliminate or at least improve performance, so I guess there is just something about the activity here that is problematic. Whether it's a technical, money related or a competence issue, the fact remains that we haven't had a sustained period without problems here pretty much all year.

I've seen others mention it Torch. I have had, and noted from others, a lot of duplicated posts. I sent a pm last night, the screen buffered, and it then landed twice. So I'm guessing that all these glitches - duplication and posts disappearing - are connected to these intermittent periods of buffering / downtime. Most don't notice them as they only last a few minutes, but I noted three periods yesterday where it happened. The 500 errors seem to have gone, and things have improved considerably, but a problem remains. There is still no consistency of performance on this website.

Yes, I was just Googleating the same. There's bound to be a site all about it somewhere. I wonder how the dynamic worked - Mike could ink an additional page, but Ross couldn't draw one? I get why neither of them might be involved, but not just one of them.

You mean a HB pencil isn't a worldwide thing? Flippin eck, I need to get out more Reggie.

The pencil?

Looks like HB & ME (or F) '77?

And talking of Kool, here's a surprisingly nice copy of the fairly hard to come by 'Marvel Collection' which is a compendium of remaindered UK reprint titles: A familiar Andru cover inside: And because a standard US issue was split across the weekly UK issues, we sometimes get a new splash page... ...before the Andru pencilled story resumed: I wonder if any kids ever spotted the marked difference in art quality? I bought many of the UK weeklies back in the day, and I'm not sure I can recall ever being puzzled...

You might want a stewards enquiry on this one then Galen

I'm more of a cor man Rich. And COR! don't those old comics look good. Albert was a wise man to collect them, and a wiser one to keep them. Wonderful things, old comics. Wonderful.

+1 @vaillant

With so many things going on and suggestions being made it's hard to keep up. We just had a 35 minute outage so it may just have been that. Will we ever see stability here again I wonder....

Actually, quite glitchy indeed. 35 minute outage

Very glitchy today. Intermittent buffering, duplicated posts (see below) and just a few moments ago my first post upgrade 500 error.

Blimey, is it that much now? I'm going to try to pretend it never happened

Evening I just finished reading today's paper and thought I'd post something before I retire. Earlier today, Pat brought me a nice parcel which included a gaggle of L Miller stamped cents Archies which I managed to snaffle off the bay a few days earlier. Here they be, adorned 9d: I'm quite taken with some of these Archie's lately. Very colourful and with some nice hidden dooblontendres. And B&V are always worth the price of admission, cents or pence Eh? Oh. Sorry, girls. They're not the UK Price Variants of the Fred title of course, if you were floundering, but they're in the UK distribution ballpark so I'm allowing it. I'll be doing another bit of 'UK distribution' analysis soon as it goes, once I've assimilated them. A few T&P's in there too. Do pop back for it, won't you? T-ra P.S. Despite some very promising banter, my aforementioned ebay lady failed to provide the requested Archie #109 UKPV evidence. So it remains on the missing list.

I have a love/hate relationship with that book as I purchased it for £12.99 from my local comic shop in the UK when it came out - itself, a bizarre occurrence given what we now know about it - and I then sold it some years later for £500. The love aspect is that, at the time, I was an ASM completist and I had that book that seemed to escape everyone else. And then, when I sold it, I clapped my hands at a £500 profit. I thought the book had peaked, and one day would be available in the £20 bin as so many other 'hot' variants before it did. The hate comes from the fact that I got it so wrong. I should have known what would happen. I had experience. But I did not see that eventual escalation up to new car prices. I hate that I couldn't have bought a new car with the damn book that I probably (being in the UK) had no right to have picked up in the first place. Spidey completists are the most extreme, the most focussed of all completists. Yes, I stopped, but had I been in the thick of it, had the money, and that book had turned up with a $20K price tag...? Well, who knows. There is no logic to it. Only the desire to have it and your ability to afford it. There are people in the hobby for whom $20K is nothing. They'd pay that for the bragging rights alone. And this book is now mythical. Its contents are irrelevant. Story-wise, it has little to commend it. But it's an Amazing Spider-Man book, and it's rarer than hens teeth. I can't see it ever going down now. Look at it. Bloody comic.

Not at all, I really like that one - exactly what I had in mind for the thread - oddly similar