Slow Discussion Board

[landog]

Ever since the 'new' discussion board went online, the wait time for response from this site makes for a poor end-user experience. There is a delay in opening the site, and delays in navigating the site. I find it frustrating, so I have been just not coming around much.

I have used this site from multiple computers and locations with very good internet connections, so I can reasonably conclude that this issue is not on my end.

In general, one might suspect that some computing resource on the web server / database server / back-end storage is inadequate or over-subscribed.

This is a plea for someone to look into the problem and address it. I think that this forum is a valuable resource that may be under-utilized due to these problems.

Thanks,
-dog

[f1jim]

I can assure you not only are the people that manage the website aware of the issues but they are working on them as we speak. I don't think it will be much longer before the differences will be noticeable.
f1jim

[RAS]

Oh,I thought it was just my computer,or my poor computer skills.

[viv]

I have no problem with wait time, it's fast for me. I'm on a macbook. Could be your internet connection?

[dynodan62]

I HAVE noticed the new forum pages take longer to load.

P.S. Anyone out there who is more savvy with iPads have any tips re: how to insert/post a web link on the forum? Only way I know is to send it to myself in an email, and then go to my desktop iMac to drag it.

[docscience]

I quite often have 5 to 15 second waits for a page to open. When I read this topic, I decided to count the seconds to time my page openings. It dose not bother me now. At one point, a couple months ago, it was taking more than 30 seconds on average, to open a page, but that only lasted a couple days, and I never really knew why.

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--- What I do now, is leave one window open on the lounge topic headings.
--- I choose a topic to read, and right click it, and choose "open in a new (2nd) window" .
--- Before looking at that page, I go back to the "lounge topic headings" window and check if there is another topic that I want to read. If so, I right click that one, and open in in a new, (3rd) window.
--- I do not wait for it to open, but go back to my first topic, which is now opened in the second window.
--- It only takes a fraction of a second to switch windows, so I seldom am ever waiting for a topic to open in a window.

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[theresam]

I'm not very tech saavy, so pardon if I'm incorrect, but does the site need a better host, or more bandwidth, lol, or whatever its called?

[docscience]

Quite often, if one wants to get more band width, or a different provider with faster access, the price to run the website starts to become much more expensive. More band width can get quite pricey. "I would prefer to have the existing delays, being as I can manage them reasonably well, as i wrote about, just above, rather then having to have fees needed for users, to cover costs.
Some boards have started adding advertising to cover costs for faster access, but so far this one has been able to not do that.

[VeggieSue]

I quite often have 5 to 15 second waits for a page to open.

That's about the wait I have, too. It's longer if I click to "read first unread post" and it's on page 45 or whatever, quicker if it's on the same page.

--- What I do now, is leave one window open on the lounge topic headings.
--- I choose a topic to read, and right click it, and choose "open in a new (2nd) window" .

I first click the "unread posts" link when I get to the forums and choose which of those I want to read. I use Firefox or Chrome and just click to open each one in a new *tab*, not a whole new window. Uses much less resources. My son cringes when he walks in and sees me with 30 or more tabs open at times.

[olindaspider]

Has the discussion board speed gotten faster? It seems better to me.

[f1jim]

It's still being worked on.
f1jim

[landog]

Has the discussion board speed gotten faster? It seems better to me.

I would agree! I've had good response the past couple of days.

[astronaut23]

It seems real slow today not slow to come up but slow as in no body is posting anything.

[danarmstrong]

I hope you will now find the site performance consistently beyond satisfactory.

[VeggieSue]

I noticed it was down for a bit early this morning. It still works great in Chrome, and it's now faster in Firefox, as fast as it was prior to the upgrade.

Thanks, IT guys!