Why are the forums always overloaded!

[image] Forums are getting a new potato! Configuration TL;DR - Forums will be read-only for an upgrade later, December 17 12am Pacific/9am CET, opening back up at 3am Pacific/12pm CET. We’ve grown a lot here on the forums, and Month of WTH this year highlighted…

Is it because it’s the month of WTH?

My plan was yesterday to create the same topic, but due to connection issues I was not able to do so :see_no_evil:

WTH is it so overloaded that I can’t even vote for this…

+1 Wait…I think this is on me… >.> <.<

So, yes and no. LOL. Higher traffic is causing the issues, very likely due to WTH. :sweat_smile: But as we’ve all seen in the past (I’m sure), these issues crop up occasionally. We have a bandaid in place - it will not resolve all the issues but it means that you will be less likely to see forever…

@MissyQ I have lots of potatoes you could use, let me know if you need more hosting capacity if you are setup for horizontal hosting.

My crews are going to look at me funny tomorrow when I start saying, “Get the potato out of your a**” instead of, “get the lead out of your a**”.

It is because Discourse sucks so hard. It is probably one of the worst forum platforms ever developed. Most of the time if I see that a forum is hosted by Discourse I just don’t participate (personal choice and opinion) but with Home Assistant there just isn’t another forum. Why does it suck? To…

[image] AaronCake: Relative time stamps. Topics are posted “1H” instead of a specific date and time. So inaccurate. Not that I’m defending Discourse, but you DO know you can hover over that “1H” and get the actual timestamp, right? Sure, you need to be using a mouse, but it does work.

WTH do the forums run on a potato?

Month of "What the heck?!"

petro (Petro) December 16, 2024, 4:27pm 15