[Mark]

Duke4net and the eduke32 wiki have been very slow loading pages and sometimes timing out. Myself and a few others have noticed. I noticed it with the wiki at least a week ago and for the last few days here at duke4net.

[stillTodd]

Just a data point: as of 4:20pm Central, the forum is working nominally.

[Mark]

Yeah, I noticed a big improvement here and the wiki today. If anyone is responsible for the fix, thanks.

[stillTodd]

Having done both forum and systems admin duties (including a ton of performance testing) I also appreciate whomever worked to fix this. I know things sometimes don't remain fixed, and how this stuff can seem thankless but, truly, thank you.

[ck3D]

It's still doing it, here. Seems to be alternating between nominal and slow/broken mode (back and forth) every other minute, or number of clicks. Lots of F5's and post saving maneuvers becoming a habit since there is a 50% chance the next page won't go through.

[Aleks]

ck3D, on 04 June 2026 - 02:05 AM, said:

Lots of F5's and post saving maneuvers becoming a habit since there is a 50% chance the next page won't go through.

The forums are trying to mimick your standard DOS Build behaviour, by now these habits should be in your muscle memory for long!

[stillTodd]

ck3D, on 04 June 2026 - 02:05 AM, said:

It's still doing it, here. Seems to be alternating between nominal and slow/broken mode (back and forth) every other minute, or number of clicks. Lots of F5's and post saving maneuvers becoming a habit since there is a 50% chance the next page won't go through.

Same here. I just had to log in to edit a post I was actively working on. The behavior was weird; no notice that i had been logged out. Did an edit on a post I had just edited before, then when clicking Update, a "loading" message appeared briefly, then nothing - no change to the page & it looked like I was still in Edit mode.

I copied the edit window, did a F5, and lo and behold it looks like I had been systematically logged out a short while beforehand. Logged back in & used the saved edit to successfully update the post.

[Mark]

the delays and non-connects are getting worse

[stillTodd]

At 1pm CT or so: trying to nav to forums.duke4.net results in an immediate server not found. No server error # is fed back to the calling browser, in this case FF

Trying again a short while later works, albeit (at round 1:05pm CT) when going to https://forums.duke4...153#entry387153

a) 38 sec page load

a malformed page is produced: the link to pg 2 of the thread doesn't work - it looks like this is in the page code, since the "2" is not clickable


The malformed page issue seems to be reproduce-able, so this might be independent of performance problems.

[ck3D]

I would be mindful the current Duke4 issues (forums, EDuke Wiki, MSDN...) may impact D3D activity more than meets the eye if this website becomes too slow to be bearable to most. I know Discord looks shiny and busy and noisy, but the real D3D core/scene (including the most tuned-in players) is on here, not there. And as timeless a game as it is, the casual player/user base already has a hard time tracking down and piecing together all of the modding history, technicals and info.

[stillTodd]

Well said. Shiny/busy/noisy is specifically why I'm not on Discord.

Just a note: the process/function that simply fills in the emoticon list in the bboard system is sloooooow and unreliable at the moment.

Without looking at logs or performance metrics (like uptime & virtual memory usage and the like) his looks like a recurring/repeating temporarily catastrophic server problem. I would suggest this gets looked at stat, before possibly even losing data. That said, hoping the bboard db is regularly backed up.

Until this is reliable, I'm saving a copy of each reply before hitting Add Reply, just to be on the safe side.

Edit: anyone with credentials but no time to look at, let me know if I can help via PM.

[stillTodd]

Real brief summary of skills: over 10y Unix (multivariant) + Linux systems admin, over 20y QA, over 7y formal systems performance testing & related debugging. Good, trustworthy and friendly person. Glad to give back to the community in some way.

I don't really do Windows, but ping me anyways if that's the platform involved.