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That's cute.

Normally when I click on the Forums page, I get the list of forums with about the last 5 of the latest threads beneath each forum. About 5 minutes ago, the list of the latest threads vanished, so you only see the list of forums and no threads. (You would have to click on each individual arrow button (i.e., the > ).

I hope this is only a temporary glitch, lol...

Avatar of Martin_Stahl
EscherehcsE wrote:

That's cute.

Normally when I click on the Forums page, I get the list of forums with about the last 5 of the latest threads beneath each forum. About 5 minutes ago, the list of the latest threads vanished, so you only see the list of forums and no threads. (You would have to click on each individual arrow button (i.e., the > ).

I hope this is only a temporary glitch, lol...

 

I have asked about it but it's very likely it was temporarily done to decrease the number of DB queries on the main forums page as one of the steps to decrease load.

https://www.chess.com/blog/CHESScom/chess-is-booming-and-our-servers-are-struggling

Avatar of EscherehcsE

It's back to normal now. Hope the problem doesn't come back. But if it does come back, I'll know it's just staff trying to stay ahead of the snapping alligators. ;-)

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Yep, it's back again. This one might be on the same frequency as the 502s, lol

Avatar of Martin_Stahl
EscherehcsE wrote:

It's back to normal now. Hope the problem doesn't come back. But if it does come back, I'll know it's just staff trying to stay ahead of the snapping alligators. ;-)

 

I'm not sure it was planned, but may be a side effect of the 502s. I'm getting that consistently on mobile web on the mobile optimized site (desktop mode loaded as normal). 🤔