Is MR Forums "unbearably" slow for anyone else?

[Doc750]

ssssooo slow ........

 

[r.j.s]

Been slow for me all evening, thought it was just my temp internet, but other sites load quickly.

 

[wirelessmacuser]

I'm getting this almost every time...

I have to refresh at least once to get the thread to display.

My experience is exactly the same.

What came to mind is heavy traffic with the release of new products.

 

[S.B.G]

Starting to show intermittent slowness to me now. Earlier I was fine all along while on my office fiber. Now I'm on my Sprint MiFi and I see the difference.

I'm confident once they get through the upgrade and server work all will be fine again.

 

[SkyNite]

It's been intermittently slow for me, too. Things zip along for a minute or two, then slows way down for several minutes at a time.

 

[arn]

I've made some adjustments just now.

So let me know how it goes.

arn

 

[spinnerlys]

I've made some adjustments just now.

So let me know how it goes.

arn

Thanks, right now it goes just fine.

But there is still the Problem Using tags[/URL], as you can see in this thread: [URL="https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1042922/"]GetVideoArtwork is down :( Anyone have the cover for Terminator 2?[/URL].


Btw, can and would you disclose the nature of the adjustments, or is that too technical?

 

[redwarrior]

I've made some adjustments just now.

So let me know how it goes.

arn

Wow. Pretty impressive. arn, would you come tune up my car and tweak my computer?

 

[spinnerlys]

Wow. Pretty impressive. arn, would you come tune up my car and tweak my computer?

Hi,
just out of curiosity (and ignorance on my part), how did you change your profile page to red?

 

[redwarrior]

Hi,
just out of curiosity (and ignorance on my part), how did you change your profile page to red?

Are you stalking me? That's OK, I like it.

See here....


Edit: Oh, that's right, it's part of the "contributor's perks"
so i guess it's safe to say that i paid for it

 

[Theclamshell]

Hi,
just out of curiosity (and ignorance on my part), how did you change your profile page to red?

if you have a color in your user name it changes it to that.

 

[redwarrior]

if you have a color in your user name it changes it to that.

Yeah, yeah, that's it.

Seriously though... much faster.

 

[arn]

Thanks, right now it goes just fine.

But there is still the Problem Using tags[/URL], as you can see in this thread: [URL="https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1042922/"]GetVideoArtwork is down :( Anyone have the cover for Terminator 2?[/URL].


Btw, can and would you disclose the nature of the adjustments, or is that too technical?[/QUOTE]

I'll look into the timg thing.

The forums were loading images off of the forum servers rather than our image server, resulting in dozens of extra http requests from the forum servers than necessary. It's possible these extra calls may have overloaded the forum servers, especially since we are down one server at the moment. I've moved them off to our image server again which is optimized to deliver static content.

arn

 

[spinnerlys]

Are you stalking me? That's OK, I like it.

See here....


Edit: Oh, that's right, it's part of the "contributor's perks"
so i guess it's safe to say that i paid for it

Yep. Graduated from Сталкер - Академия in 1997 or 1979.

Hmm, as you seem to be able to use HEX numbers for colours, I could get orange. Does the whole forum appear in red for you or only your profile page?

if you have a color in your user name it changes it to that.

Then mine should be bright as that spinning binary star system in Cepheus.

I'll look into the timg thing.

The forums were loading images off of the forum servers rather than our image server, resulting in dozens of extra http requests from the forum servers than necessary. It's possible these extra calls may have overloaded the forum servers, especially since we are down one server at the moment. I've moved them off to our image server again which is optimized to deliver static content.

arn

Thanks.

Does that mean, if one hosts images, one links to via IMG or TIMG tag, on external servers (Tinypic, Flickr, ...), it would not reduce the load?

 

[arn]

Does that mean, if one hosts images, one links to via IMG or TIMG tag, on external servers (Tinypic, Flickr, ...), it would not reduce the load?

Nah, these are vbulletin images and scripts. So they load on every page.

arn

 

[redwarrior]

Yep. Graduated from Сталкер - Академия in 1997 or 1979.

Hmm, as you seem to be able to use HEX numbers for colours, I could get orange. Does the whole forum appear in red for you or only your profile page?

Nah, it's just the profile page; everything else is the same.

 

[SkyNite]

Hmmm... it sped up for a while, but it's back to being dog-slow for me (there are worse things; I love my dogs )

Other sites remain zippy.

 

[jav6454]

I think it's time for MR to obtain a new server; seeing as one of them died.

 

[ImperialX]

Insanely slow regardless of what machine or browser I'm using. This needs to be fixed...

 

[SkyNite]

Well, the forums are very responsive now. So maybe it is load-related; fewer people are viewing right now.

 

[athand]

Still slow for me and sometimes it even timeouts.

 

[roadbloc]

It was slow last night. Not anymore.

 

[R94N]

For me, it works perfectly fine in terms of speed, but I do get the occasional complete grind to a halt, but it's probably my Internet connection as it doesn't happen very often.

 

[SkyNite]

Happy to report that the forum's been speedy for me all day today.

 

[Firestar]

Seems fine for me.

Not a big deal, but when I click a "Edit Post" button, it won't load on the first time, so I have to click it again, and then it goes to the Advanced Edit. Might be my computer, but it just started happening today....