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Joe Roberts replied on August 04, 2009 00:53 to the problem "ID WordPress plugin causing severe performance issues" in IntenseDebate:

The problem is happening again right now at 8:45 PM ET on Aug. 3rd. I know it's ID causing the issue with my site performance, or at least I strongly suspect it, because the ID homepage itself is returning a 504 error (when it didn't, intensedebate.com site performance was extremely slow).

Also, all of the comments in my posts disappeared during the time of the performance hit.

Joe Roberts replied on July 15, 2009 17:48 to the problem "Comments do not synch from WordPress to ID (but ID to WordPress works fine)." in IntenseDebate:

Thanks - here's the culprit:
http://yoast.com/wordpress/tweetbacks/

Joe reported a problem in IntenseDebate on July 15, 2009 00:46:

Comments do not synch from WordPress to ID (but ID to WordPress works fine).

Comments do not synch from WordPress to ID (but ID to WordPress works fine).

I don't understand why the synching doesn't work both ways, as I have the "Sync WP Comments" option set to "Sync that data back to IntenseDebate" in the IntenseDebate settings.

I have several examples of comments that are input automatically into the WP comments (mostly pingbacks found by the plugin "Tweetbacks") that are displayed in the WP Comments view, but never show up in the ID plugin.

Joe replied on July 13, 2009 17:30 to the problem "ID WordPress plugin causing severe performance issues" in IntenseDebate:

Oh, it's been re-enabled for some time and performance is fine. Word from the provider is that they aren't aware of any server issues during that time. The reason I pegged the issue on the ID plug-in is that the ID plug-in has been confirmed to have caused two issues in the past where the behavior was exactly the same as during this issue, and disabling the ID plug-in seemed to correct the problem.

From what I can tell, if there is an issue with the plug-in contacting your servers, the site performance gets so bad that eventually it times out.

Joe replied on July 10, 2009 00:54 to the problem "ID WordPress plugin causing severe performance issues" in IntenseDebate:

Thanks, man!

This helps me a lot in terms of trying to optimize the site a bit.

It doesn't explain though why the site failed to load at all and returned 500 errors, and also couldn't load the wp-admin pages, when the ID plugin was active yesterday.

Would a connectivity issue between the plugin at my hosted site and the ID infrastructure cause that to happen?

A comment on the problem "ID WordPress plugin causing severe performance issues" in IntenseDebate:

Thanks! I did re-enable, I've also been checking with the hosting provider to see if there were any issues around the same time but you can guess their answer...

I can confirm that performance turned to normal when I disabled the ID plugin, though I'm not sure if that was coincidental or not.

I'd love to know which widgets were loading slowly?

Thanks! – Joe, on July 09, 2009 19:52

A comment on the problem "ID WordPress plugin causing severe performance issues" in IntenseDebate:

Thanks! I did re-enable, I've also been checking with the hosting provider to see if there were any issues around the same time but you can guess their answer...

I can confirm that performance turned to normal when I disabled the ID plugin, though I'm not sure if that was coincidental or not.

I'd love to know which widgets were loading slowly?

Thanks! – Joe, on July 09, 2009 19:52

Joe reported a problem in IntenseDebate on July 08, 2009 22:20:

ID WordPress plugin causing severe performance issues

ID WordPress plugin on my blog (1WineDude.com) is causing sever performance issues. I've had to deactivate the plugin to get the site back on-line. Even the wp-admin interface was impacted.

Joe replied on May 11, 2009 17:00 to the problem "Comments on WordPress Blog are disappearing" in IntenseDebate:

I agree, Kristyn - the comments (especially Replies, but not always) do appear in the ID admin screens, etc., but are simply missing from being displayed on my blog via ID.

Joe marked one of Kristyn's replies in IntenseDebate as useful. Kristyn replied to the problem "Comments on WordPress Blog are disappearing".

Joe replied on May 11, 2009 12:31 to the problem "Comment is in the ID system, but not on my blog post." in IntenseDebate:

Looks like I've got the same issue happening intermittently on 1WineDude.com .

Joe replied on May 11, 2009 12:31 to the problem "Comments on WordPress Blog are disappearing" in IntenseDebate:

It does look like the same issue...

Joe replied on May 10, 2009 12:30 to the problem "Comments on WordPress Blog are disappearing" in IntenseDebate:

Hi - link to the post with the issue is http://1winedude.com/index.php/2009/0...

cheers!

Joe started following the question "Comments not displaying or Comment count not matching actual comments" in IntenseDebate.

Joe reported a problem in IntenseDebate on May 07, 2009 22:18:

Comments on WordPress Blog are disappearing

Comments on my WordPress blog 1WineDude.com are disappearing after being entered by me and by visitors. This is happening intermittently.

Unfortunately, it's happening on a day when my blog is seeing it's highest traffic ever.

The Reply counts for some nested comments is also showing what I think are correct counts for replies to that thread, but often the replies are NOT being shown by IntenseDebate.

Help!

Joe replied on March 12, 2009 02:55 to the question "Intense Debate Causing Our Site To Crash - Is This Service for Real?" in IntenseDebate:

Same issue on my site (1winedude.com). Very slow unless I rename ID plugin folder, then I lose ID but performance returns to normal...

Joe replied on February 21, 2009 20:58 to the problem "Comments not synchronizing back to Wordpress database" in IntenseDebate:

Hi Michael - here is a post where the comments did not synch back to my WP database: http://1winedude.com/index.php/2009/0...

Thanks!

Joe replied on February 20, 2009 22:09 to the problem "4 HOUR DELAY before Wordpress 'sees' ID enabled Comments. Comment Time Stamp issue!" in IntenseDebate:

Actually, it looks like my ID comments for 1winedude.com have simply stopped synching with my wordpress DB *period*.

Joe replied on February 20, 2009 21:58 to the question "wordpress reinstall" in IntenseDebate:

I might be having the same issue, would love to know how this was resolved. Thanks!

Joe replied on February 20, 2009 20:38 to the problem "4 HOUR DELAY before Wordpress 'sees' ID enabled Comments. Comment Time Stamp issue!" in IntenseDebate:

Not sure, I *might* have the same issue. It looks like comments for my blog (1winedude.com) have stopped synching back to my WP database after one day of using ID. I have some comments now not synched for > 5 hours so it might not be a delay for me.