http://www.macrumors.com/ is loading slowly

[LPZ]

https://www.macrumors.com/ has been slow to load for several weeks. The delay has become frustrating, and has led me to visit less often. What's going on?

 

[MacDawg]

I know there has been a lot more activity around here with the introduction of the iPad, the speculation of a MBP refresh and the anticipation of 4.0 for the iPhone

Perhaps the servers are just feeling the load

 

[miles01110]

I haven't noticed any major slowdowns....

 

[amon91]

Same. I'm new to this site but it definitely loads more slowly than most of the sites I visit.

 

[oacory]

I agree that it has been loading slower than usual but it seems to be coming back to normal over the last two or three days. I was even getting time outs when loading the page fairly constantly before.

 

[arn]

the forums have been under load (forums.macrumors.com) and we've been taking steps to fix that.

The front page, however, (www.macrumors.com) shouldn't be slow. I visit it myself daily and haven't noticed a drop off.

anyone else?

arn

 

[-aggie-]

the forums have been under load (forums.macrumors.com) and we've been taking steps to fix that.

The front page, however, (www.macrumors.com) shouldn't be slow. I visit it myself daily and haven't noticed a drop off.

anyone else?

arn

Everything seems fine to me. I haven't noticed any problems for a long time (since the last time we had problems several months ago).

 

[Bennieboy©]

yeah i've noticed a slowdown on the main forums, some pages taking minutes to load and others loading tootsweet

 

[maflynn]

I've noticed it slowing down periodically.

 

[tooz]

Safari won't even let me load the front page, giving the message the page isn't where it's responding.
Interestingly, I can get to it through Hotspot (what I'm doing now) and it loads fine...

In Sydney Australia if it helps

EDIT: can't even load the forums without it :/

 

[GGJstudios]

A few times a day, the forum completely shuts down for 2-10 minutes at a time, as it did just a few minutes ago. I know it's not just me, as I check with this site (and similar ones):

http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/forums.macrumors.com​

and get these results:

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www.macrumors.com doesn't have the problem; only the forums.

 

[Gav2k]

Was down over for me too. (uk).

 

[kainjow]

The forums frequently go down for me too. Probably a few times every day I'd say. Might be like 15-30 seconds before it comes back again and then it's snappy.

 

[Tilpots]

the forums have been under load (forums.macrumors.com) and we've been taking steps to fix that.

The front page, however, (www.macrumors.com) shouldn't be slow. I visit it myself daily and haven't noticed a drop off.

anyone else?

arn

The front page is fine. It's the forums that won't load for me. It's happened several times lately.

 

[arn]

ya, forums are being addressed.

arn

 

[MacDawg]

ya, forums are being addressed.

arn

Thanks for the update!
I know the traffic has increased exponentially with the iPad, iPhone rumors and MBP update looming

The lag isn't constant... just intermittent
But it will be nice to see it addressed

 

[celticpride678]

ya, forums are being addressed.

arn

And I'm sure that the database running out of space wasn't to helpful.

 

[GGJstudios]

I don't know what just happened, but this is weird!

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The screen cap didn't upload, but when viewing Forum Spy, it suddenly showed:

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/forums/public_html/includes/init.php on line 49

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/forums/public_html/includes/init.php on line 97

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/forums/public_html/includes/init.php on line 101

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/forums/public_html/includes/init.php on line 109

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/forums/public_html/includes/init.php on line 120

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/forums/public_html/includes/init.php on line 124

Then, when I tried to Log Out, I got:

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http://spy.macrumors.com
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[rdowns]

I don't know what just happened, but this is weird!

View attachment 215439​

Looks like you broke it.

 

[SilentPanda]

The forum spy just got borked. Can't... function... properly... *twitch*

 

[MacMini2009]

I don't know what just happened, but this is weird!

View attachment 215439​

The screen cap didn't upload, but when viewing Forum Spy, it suddenly showed:

Are we being attacked by PC fanboys?!?! oh noes!

 

[GGJstudios]

Looks like you broke it.

How clumsy of me! Think AppleCare will cover it?

 

[MacDawg]

ya, forums are being addressed.

arn

Way to go arn!!
You broke the Spy
This isn't exactly what we expected when you said you were addressing the Forums

 

[GGJstudios]

ya, forums are being addressed.

Yeah, but what's the new address?

 

[WildCowboy]

Should be fixed now...let us know if anything's still borked.