Is it just me, or do others also often find that rt.cpan.org is very slow and/or down ?

I've just spent over 30 minutes trying to submit a bug report. Eventually, after numerous exceedingly slow downloads and Internal Server Errors, I was able to get to the page where I get to write the bug report (the writing of which took me no more than 5 minutes).

Then I click on the "Create" button, wait for a couple of minutes, walk away in impatient disgust, come back to see yet another Internal Server Error, go "Back", and find that the report I had so carefully written is no longer there. Great ... that means I have to write it again ...

This is by no means the first time that I have been frustrated in trying to submit a bug report. Do they want my bug report or not ?

Anyway, I guess the lesson is: "Write your bug reports to a (saved) text file, so that when rt.cpan.org stuffs you around, re-submitting the bug report is as simple as doing a copy'n'paste.

Cheers,
Rob

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