Thanks!

I took me 3 tries to get this page to come up so thanks for letting us know that you are working on.

Thanks for the update Lars...........but I never had any of those problems until this weekend (and today).............same with most of my friends......seems worse now than it was yesterday (Sunday).

But I know we all do appreciate you taking the time to update us:):):)

No change here. Seems very intermittent though. Some times things work 3 or 4 times in a row, then blank pages 10 times. It concerns me as we had 2 members in bipolar in hospital for suicide attempts, and others really needing support.

I do not give out my email, until the misdirected email problem is solved. Don't want my email ending up in the wrong hands. Sigh!

Good point Angela.

Meebo seems to be exempt from the problems. Perhaps if you wish to give your email to someone, you could do it that way?

And thanks Lars.

I have a different problem that has still not been addressed. Ever since that server update (or whatever it was), I have not been receiving email alerts when friends post. Could you relook at that issue, please?

Thanks

Pershu.....I have the same problem as you about emails....and all my "feedback" forms have produced no fixes:(:( Now I have this new issue as well...........I also have people tell me they sent friends requests............but I don't get them:(:(

All in All,,,its ALL screwed up for me:(:(

This may sound weird, but I wasn't getting email alerts .. for over a month. I changed my 'DS' email address to a GMAIL account, and have been getting alerts ever since.

I am told either a Gmail or Yahoo email account works better than any of a different domain.

>>We have been tracking these issues for many weeks, but they have escalated this past weekend.

The HTTP 500 error started (for me), last Saturday .. 3/3/12

I don't get an error message.....my screen just goes blank and up at the very top where my window tabs are........it shows wherever I am at and a couple of numbers............clicking refresh (sometimes several times) finally brings me to the page

As for mail..........DS replied to one of my feedback forms a while back....telling me to get a "free" email server...............I have AOL, its free.....it always worked fine for me before the migration..........I don't want Yahoo or GMail.

I just today sent DS a feedback form (again) asking about the friends requests that I don't get...............I can actually see them in my email alerts when I get them......but the actual friends request never comes through to me:(:( Maybe DS will tell me I need to join Facebook to get them???????? LOL (JK)

I think it would be nice if DS would send a message to members just saying, we have reported problems, working, on it, etc and then provide status, updates etc whenever there are system issues. DS uses the DS message function to communicate DS changes, when there is something new for DS to report so I'm not sure why DS doesn't do that when there are system issues.

Like others, the issues have been going on since the weekend. Also, I haven't received e-mails from DS in a really really long time, like a year or two. That's ok with me; I come out to DS enough to check on my groups and friends, but just wanted to mention that. It's absurd that one would have to change their e-mail account to get mail from DS. You shouldn't have to re do everything that works on other sites because DS can't handle it, for whatever reason.

"We have all of our available resources focused on this"

Just out of curiosity (and suspicion, LOL!!!), what exactly do all of your available resources consist of?

Having been on many different forums in the last decade---- I know that 'problems' do come up. As rmb politely suggested ---- it would seem that common courtesy would dictate that DS send all members a notice of that if the problem continues past an hour or so.

I know that all the other forums do that. Is there a reason that DS doesn't? Perhaps there is---- just let us know, please.

And I've never seen a problem like this last more than 1 or 2 days max. Does this mean that DS is 'being attacked' by a virus and all the members might become infected also?

Although I can't possibly say---- this a.m. I did get a notice from my gmail that an 'unidentified' IP address appeared on my browser---- from Indonesia. It's probably not connected to DS----- but can the members be assured that a virus isn't affecting this site?

Oh, and the problem I'm having doesn't involve blank pages or duplicate content. I receive "Server Problems".

Funny--- it took me two tries to get this posted. LOL

I get the http error 500 server window, and i thanked debbear 3 times for answering a question for me on private message.