The Autopian’s website was running reasonably well before, but every now and then it’d struggle under heavy load, and the idle wasn’t exactly steady. So a few days ago we unbolted our carburetor, sent it to some experts for a rebuild, and popped it back onto our intake manifold. At first, it seemed like The Autopian was running like a champ! It sounded smooth, it’d respond quickly when we stomped on it, but now a few days later, it’s clear that the rebuild only made things worse, and for that, we apologize and want you to know: We’re working on it!
Right now we’ve got our Carter WCD sitting in a Chem-Dip bucket; we’ve got the finest, highly chlorinated can of carb & choke cleaner on hand; and we’ve purchased the best carb rebuild kit we could snag at the swap meet. We’re going to get this old flathead motor that is The Autopian singing. We know that you, dear readers, just want the damn engine to get you to those sweet, sweet car blogs, and it will. We apologize for the inconvenience.
[Matt took over writing this here, which is why you see his face above]
Please use this thread to tell us if you have any problems, here are the things we know are an issue:
- Random timeouts [STATUS: Resolved]
- Article truncations [STATUS: Probably Resolved]
- Logging in [STATUS: The monkeys have been given pizza and seem happy]
- Sending every 98th member to an alternative universe where Jeep never stopped making the YJ [Status: Beef Limousine]
We will keep you updated.
Yesterday the site would log me in as Guido, but every time I opened an article, it logged me out. I gave up after about 15 frustrating minutes, and went to “the old site” where I gave up again after about 15 minutes because my favorite writers no longer work there. Today, I am happy to be able to read those writers once again on the site I am happy to support as a member. Cloth member if you must know (OK I’m cheap, but proud to be a member).
As a man of the cloth, we’re grateful to have any contribution you can make.
Well, at least I can bow log in without it sending me an email each time, so that is an improvement.
I got a timeout earlier, but since I was not in a good location, it could have been my service.
I have only seen a couple of articles that were truncated, but refreshing the page helped.
When reading long articles, they will often fail and reload, putting me at a different location on the page. Sometimes multiple times per article. And zooming on a section of the story (like trying to zoom in on Torch’s unknown Suzuki K12 knock off engine) will immediately crash the page.
Also, The Autopian makes my phone phone run very hot and burn through my battery. Writing this comment used 5%. Other websites do not have the same issue.
What problems?
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