PM isn't working. :(

Jrd89 · **on:** January 07, 2011, 01:20:43 AM

I know a few of you have had trouble private messaging tonight.

I had no internet signal for 3 days, finally got it back today, I went to message flipperboidskua about Sierra and why I like his brown color and I got a white screen with "Database error" message on it.

It really sucks not being able to private message. I only hope that i'll be able to pm again soon. What a bummer.

LBTDiclonius · **Reply #1 on:** January 07, 2011, 01:23:54 AM

Well, that sucks.

I hate when I get those things. My computer is really old and restarts itself most of the time. My last one was so old it died when I was working on it. I hope you get to do PMs again.

2007excalibur2007 · **Reply #2 on:** January 07, 2011, 01:38:47 AM

Problem with the IPB servers, perhaps.

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) · **Reply #3 on:** January 07, 2011, 02:25:18 AM

I'm having a similar problem trying to PM Serris. I'm sure once Petrie or landbeforetimelover get on one of them can explain it.

landbeforetimelover · **Reply #4 on:** January 07, 2011, 02:41:44 AM

As I said in the other thread about this issue:

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It's on Invision's end. Most likely server overload. The database can only handle so many queries per second and the limit has probably been reached. It happens quite frequently on large popular forums with 100k+ members. We're not that large, but there are thousands - maybe even tens of thousands of different forums on the z7 server.

It's nothing to worry about and will be resolved shortly.

Jrd89 · **Reply #5 on:** January 07, 2011, 02:54:42 AM

Ok, LBT lover, i'll take your word for it. I hope it does get resolved.

Kor · **Reply #6 on:** January 07, 2011, 01:13:08 PM

I hope it does and is an easy to fix problem. At least we can post on the forum.

Adder · **Reply #7 on:** January 07, 2011, 04:41:22 PM

I noticed this on Farthing Wood.net, I tried contacting a friend of mine about something, and it failed to send, so I had to type it from scratch and send it to him on deviantart instead.

Its probably invision, like LBTlover said. They'll [hopefully] fix it.

EDIT:

Now it says

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PM System temporarily offline. Please check back soon.

when you hit send message. Have the admins shut off the PM system or is it something else?

EDIT 2:

I just sent a PM on my Tremors forum (z15.invisionfree.com domain), it sent just fine. It may be the z7.invisionfree.com domain that is having trouble.

jansenov · **Reply #8 on:** January 11, 2011, 08:56:22 AM

When I send a PM, it says the PM has been succesfully sent, but then when I look in to the "Sent Items" folder there's nothing there. I tried refreshing the page and still nothing. Why is this happening?

DarkHououmon · **Reply #9 on:** January 11, 2011, 09:33:51 AM

Quote from: jansenov,Jan 11 2011 on 07:56 AM

When I send a PM, it says the PM has been succesfully sent, but then when I look in to the "Sent Items" folder there's nothing there. I tried refreshing the page and still nothing. Why is this happening?

You have to check the option to save the sent item in the sent folder. InvisionFree doesn't save sent items by default like ProBoards does.

Jrd89 · **Reply #10 on:** January 12, 2011, 01:38:55 AM

Well, I can send messages fine once again, anyway, even though I can't see what I sent in the "sent messages" section

As long as the message gets sent, that's what counts for me. I'm very happy that the PM is up and working normally again.

Adder · **Reply #11 on:** January 12, 2011, 08:52:51 AM

Quote from: Jrd89,Jan 12 2011 on 12:38 AM

Well, I can send messages fine once again, anyway, even though I can't see what I sent in the "sent messages" section

See those words below the message box that say 'add a copy to my sent messages' and 'track this message'?

You have to check the boxes next to those for them to take affect.

Malte279 · **Reply #12 on:** January 12, 2011, 09:18:35 AM

The problem applies to admins same as for everyone else (so unfortunately we cannot forward any PMs either). We don't know how long it takes invisionfree to fix it so my recommendation would be to add an email address to your profiles. The email address is not shown publicly and even if somebody sent you an email via that link the sender won't know your email address unless you respond to that email (which is not likely to be much of a risk for those who have been exchanging PMs so far).