I was thinking that too Steve

would rather just members had known site addy first though :o( could have been an incentive for upgrades

and noooo server busy screenage!!!

Well Fencer I have been on the New one ALL day, and apart from a few glitches first thing it has been super. Nice One :o)

Doh!

i am at home luckily LOL
otherwise god help Oxfordshire LMAO@you guys

ROFL @ Bumble, maybe he is more of homer than we thought :oÞ

Are you sure that's not your car indicators you're looking at Steve? They work...they don't...they work...

It was, then it wasnt, now it is again LMAO
maybe my pc is a female, and being awkward ;o)

It works for me OK :o)

Of course it works.

I dont think the auto refresh is working on new BK either :oS

Only because he's got four legs.

Oops, BBW is faster :-)

You don't have to post absolute URLs, use relative ones instead. Something like <a href=/game/Board?bc=1>this board</a>. Then it will work everywhere.

When you make a link to somewhere else inside BrainKing, you should always try to use the "short" version.

For example, this will bring people to the BrainKing.com discussion board (and will work for people using the "new.brainking.com, "www.brainking.com", AND "brainking.com")

<A.HREF="/game/Board?bc=1"> LINK <./A>

same happened to me aragon in my fellowship.. I made a link in there and it didnt work so I hit edit to make the change and my post was gone lol that was on the new.bk.com site just a bug but its good to let Filip know about it!

*Gets highlighter and marks that post* I was RIGHT!!!!!!!!

And 99.9% of the time Medic you would be right LOL

Naw, I would just think that you boobooed :)

Making links now within BrianKing sometimes won't work, unless they have an option for both systems currenty running!!

Example, I was in on the new system and pasted some links I had sone on the old one to some tournaments, it chucks you to the main log-in page of the old system then :)

Just incase some of you click them and think they ain't working LOL

Yeah, Aragon's blue! *smack around the head for stating the obvious. Like we didn't know* :o)

Much better Fencer :o)

oh no, all the links are blue again now, what a bright page LOL

LMAO

And hurry up! Or everybody jumps in and the site collapses :-)

Wake the street and tell them, Andersp!

Nice job Fencer! Have to wake my wife and show her!! LOL

bumble: Although I agree with you, it is not possible at the moment. The new version of BrainKing will support redirecting paying members to the faster server automatically.

But it makes sense, as scarey as that is!

Fencer: Does the 'new' brainking kick in automatically when the 'original' brainking is getting full?

I was thinking (always dangerous) that if members were to use the 'new' one and pawns were to use the 'old' one, would that help lighten the load, or more evenly distribute the traffic. A link to the 'new' bk could then be put on the 'members only' board.

I know, I know.... I admit it! I haven't a clue about computers and servers and stuff.

BK is racing!! ;o) Terrific job!

It's doing fine here.

i have not had a blank page or been booted ...

Don't know if its just me? But I have both running, when the original gets booted so does the new??? Although it comes back quicker

I don't guarantee that it will be faster forever. It still needs some tuning :-)

in via new.brainking here - works smoothly ~*~

It's definitely faster !! :0)

Anybody who wants to participate in testing of our experimental configuration, feel free to use http://new.brainking.com. It is not a new version of BrainKing, only a kind of simple load balancer on our current servers.
It could be faster and more stable. If you have problems with that, you can always return to normal BrainKing.com URL.

Hey Felix, I hope Mr. Trice does indeed get your money to you. But it needs to be made clear that this has nothing to do with Brainking.com. I only point this out, because when you brought it up, it was in reference to a player here wanting a refund because of the site problems. And you told him/her to not hold their breath. Just because you have run into problems with the creator of that tournament, in NO way indicates how Fencer would handle this other person's problem.
I FULLY sympathize with you, I just don't think it's fair to criticize the website for a personal matter between you and Mr. Trice.
Good luck getting your money. I would be frustrated too.

Come on in and join our game of Story-Tag!

Tell your friends!

       ~ MS

I am on nights this week, so on here same time as the Americans at the moment. I managed 590 moves yesterday, so even if this was across 16 hrs (960 mins) I would have made a move every 1.6 mins, and managed to post on many boards .So maybe this says the site is not as slow as it seems :o)

A bit slow? That is the understatement of the year. It just took me about 10 minutes and 5 BrainKing.com is temporarily down messages to try and sign back in.

Site's workin' fine for me. A bit slow at times, but nothing to huff 'n puff over :·)

   ~ MS

Try it 05:00-13:00 GMT youll hardly have a problem :o)

6am, noon, 4pm, 10pm, 1am....... It doesn't matter. THE PERFORMANCE OF THIS SITE SUCKS!!!!!

a new default warmup time of 3-5 days is just right.
actually there's a lot of games/replies pending yet,
even from Fencer - he had endless requests for sure.
We helped with patience ...
3-5 days in return for a startover seem appropriate. ~*~

I would have to have over 2 months more vacation days added to my account to take in to account the server "time warp"

... and with the site still going slow (move is waiting in different window as I type this), and I'm now stuck with many more games then I can handle - I would at least like the site to add 3-5 days to each "0" game - then I could use my vacations and stuff to help me play my games without timeing out. Right now, my vacation days would do no good with the games at "0" time - only other games that are getting close to the "0" time while I try to get through all the extra games I have now! :-(

The point is that it is the site's fault that I have too many games now - I planned ahead and got my game count down as I started a new job, but because of site problems, I need a little more help to get going again. That's all i'm asking for... a little more help! :-)

I disagree.We've all had a week.It's time to move on.The quicker we move on the less gripes will be heard about the......well you know.
If I was so concerned about my games timing out that would and should be the #1 priority.Work on them before anything else or use some vacation time.To many people are complaining about slow movers now.I do realize some people have more time to spend here than others.

As you can see by the timestamps I have spent an hour coming back to these messages today. I do not usually have an hour to spend like this. I will stop in here from time to time and see if anything develops.