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MacRumors Site/Forums Causing Battery Drain?

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vddobrev said:
Arn, it seems the debug mode helps with battery drain. It also has helped in macOS Safari - scrolling the site was choppy and debug improved it.

Question: what is the persistency of debug mod? Per session, device, user? While it get switched off?
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Well, spoke too soon. It was fine last night... just now ate 5% battery in 10 minutes. Debug is on!
 
No matter if it stays on or not, this is a no go! I am browsing macroumors, a forum site, and watching my battery percentage go down by the minute. I cannot accept this! I have. Just witnessed from 86 to 81% in 5 minutes. And before that, I had a messenger call for 15 minutes, that hardly consumed any power. And as I typed this my battery reduced to 79%. This is unacceptable macroumours @arn !!!
 
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No matter if it stays on or not, this is a no go! I am browsing macroumors, a forum site, and watching my battery percentage go down by the minute. I cannot accept this! I have. Just witnessed from 86 to 81% in 5 minutes. And before that, I had a messenger call for 15 minutes, that hardly consumed any power. And as I typed this my battery reduced to 79%. This is unacceptable macroumours @arn !!!
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Do you have an ad blocker on during this testing?

arn
 
@arn I am willing to become a paid member, is there guarantee that this battery drain will stop? Oh, and by the time I write this, your site brought my battery down to 77%, this is outrageous!!!
 
vddobrev said:
@arn I am willing to become a paid member, is there guarantee that this battery drain will stop? Oh, and by the time I write this, your site brought my battery down to 77%, this is outrageous!!!
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I’ll refund you if it doesn’t fix it.

The debug mode brings us to stock xenforo JavaScript, except for ads.

The ads are always a possibility, but are much more inconsistent. Either contributing or testing an ad blocker would isolate that variable out.

arn
 
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If you want an objective measure of cpu usage you can follow this procedure

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MacRumors Site/Forums Causing Battery Drain?

How savvy are you with Safari and Developer tools? If someone who this happens to consistently can follow this procedure: 0. Make sure ad-blocking is on, as that is harder to measure with consistency and we are trying to pinpoint MacRumors code issues here. 1. iOS Settings -> Safari ->Advanced...
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@arn I mean this is one way to turn off customers like me. I tried debug, no go! I want to visit your forum and sponsor it, but not at the expense of funky behind the scenes scripts that drain battery. What can be done about this?
 
vddobrev said:
Down to 70%.
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I understand your frustration but please follow the steps above if you want the issue addressed. A countdown of battery life doesn’t actually help.

- use an ad blocker to see if that helps
- or contribute to see if that helps
- run the profiler to see what your cpu usage is and if a specific script is causing it.
- ideally with debug mode on
 
If it ends up helping, the next step would be to turn off debug mode and see if it’s still good.
 
Glad it helped. I do think we addressed a major issue with a different script but like I said, ads are a bit unpredictable, and can certainly cause excess battery. I still think there’s a weird iOS issue that is sometimes triggered.
 
Even though I became a paid member this site is still using battery as hell. For the last hour with paid membership it brought me down to 58% from 70% just browsing the forums. I am not sure what to say, this is not right! What on on earth do you guys do on my CPU that it eats so much?
 
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Even though I became a paid member this site is still using battery as hell. For the last hour with paid membership it brought me down to 58% from 70% just browsing the forums. I am not sure what to say, this is not right! What on on earth do you guys do on my CPU that it eats so much?
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Sorry to hear.

If no ads, and debug mode are both on, then we are down to a limited number of possibilities.

- Do you have any further Safari extensions installed?
- Turning Javascript off completely and seeing if it recurs then might be helpful to know. Settings -> Safari -> Javascript OFF -- unfortunately this is a global setting, but you should be able to browse the forums without issue with Javascript off. It's not a long term solution, but would be interesting if it was still happening without Javascript.
- If you are able to do the profiling described above, that might also help.

thanks
arn
 
@arn No, I am vanilla iPad, no extensions no nothing. I don't want a refund, I am proud to be a supporter! But, I want this battery issue resolved!!! So what are my next steps? I want to continue browsing the forums, but hell, even watching a concert for an hour does not eat that much battery on my iPad!
 
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