forum slowness returned ?

[Pharaoh Atem]

the forum seems slow even with or without adblock plus so i don't think it's ad's related this time.

Has anyone else been having trouble with slowness?? in the past week or so

[mrscopterdoc]

yes I have. It's isn't *terribly* slow but there is a lag.

[ScifigirlSG]

Yes. The blue screen of death shouldn't last more than one minute for high speed internet users.

[jelgate]

I haven't had any problems all day.

[chocolate_muffin]

Me neither, this week.

[Bagpuss]

It seems to be an intermittent lag.
Sometimes it's caused by a sig/image-hosting site,or other ads taking their sweet time to load.

Hard drive refreshes help..and another thing I find works is to switch away to a different site or google for a few moments ,then come back into the forum.

When you guys hit a lag,which site info comes up at the bottom left hand side of your screen ?

( Looking for pointers and commonalities. )

[ScifigirlSG]

It seems to be an intermittent lag.
Sometimes it's caused by a sig/image-hosting site,or other ads taking their sweet time to load.

Hard drive refreshes help..and another thing I find works is to switch away to a different site or google for a few moments ,then come back into the forum.

When you guys hit a lag,which site info comes up at the bottom left hand side of your screen ?

( Looking for pointers and commonalities. )

When navigating through the forum, I get a blank blue screen and it freezes, causing me to restart my comp. Once in a while, I'll get a notice from my security suite mentioning tinyurl. Don't know what tinyurl is.

[Skydiver]

tinyurl is a program/service or something that takes one of those hundred+ character url's (like ever tried to c/p a link to something on amazon???) and turns them into something smaller

long url's can be an issue cutting and pasting when you run into forums or e-mails that truncate the length of a line - putting a hard return in the middle of a link, rendering it unclickable.

what you guys are probably running into is an ad with a dodgy URL. Or maybe a hotlinked sig with a dodgy URL. If a page doesn't load right, once it does load, what all is on that page? if we can find a commonality then we can find the link and do what we can to resolve it

[Mongoletsi]

Under "Options" in your CP, you can disable sigs and whatnot under "Visible Post Elements". This'll speed up forum display anyway, regardless of whether or not there's a logjam at one of the 3rd party sites.

[ScifigirlSG]

Well....It just happened again. I tried to post a reply using the quote button and got the blue screen of death.

[Greg]

Server load hasnt had any spikes for the past 3 weeks or so - so nothing on GW's end.

[Jper]

Well, actually there's one thing I always notice when I need to wait for the page to load, then firefox says:

Waiting for www.clintonio.com or clintonio.com or something.clintonio.com

If that appears I know I'll be waiting thirty seconds instead of the usual five.

EDIT/ Actually it says "Read clintonio.com" most of the time, not "waiting for" if this makes any difference.

[ScifigirlSG]

Sky and Greg.....the page doesn't load, just 'freezes'...resulting in a restart. This only happens on GW. My sig links are from photobucket, but I don't think it's a link issue. The occasional message I get on the bottom right of the screen says 'your computer has been prevented from accessing tinyurl'. I get that after a page has loaded...

[Captain Chaap]

Well, actually there's one thing I always notice when I need to wait for the page to load, then firefox says:

Waiting for www.clintonio.com or clintonio.com or something.clintonio.com

If that appears I know I'll be waiting thirty seconds instead of the usual five.

I believe it is something to do with the loading of rotating sigs? I don't have much trouble with it though

[Jper]

I believe it is something to do with the loading of rotating sigs? I don't have much trouble with it though

Yeah, that and sigs of 150kb (maybe I'm exaggerating a little bit ) but I personally have considered blocking clintonio.com with AdBlockPlus, but then I indeed don't see the sigs anymore.