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Very slow for me too. I am getting lots of "Waiting" messages. Hasn't timed out yet. Kind of sucks.
This is on two different computers, one Windows one Mac.
Forums are running ok on my side... so it must be a network issue somewhere in between.
Late in the week we actually finally made some changes that should prevent the forums from slowing down as much as they were... and stop locking out guests.
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Late in the week we actually finally made some changes that should prevent the forums from slowing down as much as they were... and stop locking out guests.
arn
Nope, not just you or your connection. For me it occasionally times out, most of the time it's loading part of the page for minutes on end.
if you open the activity window in Safari, let me know what's taking so long to load.
arn
It changes a bit, but most of them originate from images.macrumors.com...many of the images (e.g. emoticons and editor icons) and some of the js and css files.
edit: the really odd part is that for a few minutes, everything will not load and time out, and then completely turn around and be all nice and fast again, and repeat.
Same here, very sluggish, time outs and then a moment of speed. Thought it was my connection. but all other sites run as usual.
the problem I have is that pages don't load and just sit and timeout, or they work fine. I have to click a like 3, 4, 5 times before it loads. But when it finally loads, it loads fine. But, most links just time out.
And it's not my connection. It's just the macrumors site.
And it's not my connection. It's just the macrumors site.
MR is working fine for me now, but Apple.com won't even load.
Edit: Scratch that. It took me 5 minutes to load this page to edit this.
Edit: Scratch that. It took me 5 minutes to load this page to edit this.
If you can open "Activity" in safari and see what is causing the lag, it can help.
arn
alot of it is .gif images in the /editor folder, and also in the /vb/smilies folder... images all over, mostly .gifs too. I can screenshot it next time if you want, but there were about 21 gifs on this page that timed out.
and then also
http://images.macrumors.com/vb/clientscript/vbulletin_attachment.js?v=367
and then also
http://images.macrumors.com/vb/clientscript/vbulletin_attachment.js?v=367
Exactly what I've been experiencing the last few days... I'll have to click/ re-load the same page at least 3 times but once it goes, it's totally fine. Also made me worry it was my connection but in at least three different physical locations/ networks, it was just MR and not any other site that had this issue.
Hmm...today, too? I've been around for much of the last eight hours and haven't noticed a single problem.
Yup, today, too. Including when (attempting) to submit a reply or even trying to get to the reply page.
(And I've been on a lot more today than the previous three days.):edit: As per Arn's request for geographic location and browsers:
Northern CA; Bay Area (more specifically, south bay-- say, near Cupertino).
Camino 1.5 has been giving me lotsa issues.
Went to Safari 2.0.4 and still some broken images and sometimes the pages hang, but not nearly the inability to access the forum pages as w/ Camino.
no. that's because the avatars are kept on a seperate server and it only syncs up every so often.
arn
yeah its been like this the last few days for me at 2 different locations, on every browser.
Sometimes. Other times, the pages don't load at all. The boards have been pretty nearly unusable all weekend. I haven't noticed any other problems on the net, just here.