Re: Forums Slow Loading Lately?
 

It looks like the issues have not abated as hoped. We are going to have to go back to diagnosing the issue. Can you give feedback as to which browsers seem most affected? Any other datails about site behavior could help.

Thank you,


Paul

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I'm using Chrome, but I've had it happen on Firefox as well. Typically I open one forum page and then open a bunch of threads from that forum back to back in new tabs, probably 6-10 at a time. Then 2-3 of these tabs will fail to load. They almost always load if I refresh. This happens pretty much daily and has for at least a couple of months. Sometimes a forum page will fail to load, usually when clicking on the Politics subforum from Other. It will also load when refreshed. Often the browser reports that it's waiting for yui.yahooapis.com as noted above.

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It's been slow for a couple of months, almost daily there are timeouts, but I haven't noticed any patterns as to when it gets slow. I visit this site with Firefox primarily, but it seems about the same from Safari (on my iPhone and iPad), and IE8 on my work PC.

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Using Chrome here and it's been awfully slow, especially at start up (the Other forum is my home page). I can click on any other sites and they will load immediately, then go back to DVD Talk and wait some more.

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It's been worse the past two days. Many pages have to be refreshed several times to load. Often only the header and review links will load, with the posts not showing up until pages are refreshed several times.

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never had issues before, but using chrome and it's hanging like crazy now.

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I've been having this problem lately also to the point where it's either just plain slow or pages won't load at all.

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It hasn't been as bad for me the last 2 days, but I did go back to using IE instead of Chrome. However it still randomly hangs up.

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I am still not able to reproduce a slowness or hangup issue. I've tried with IE, FF and Chrome.

Is this occurring when posting or when viewing or both?

Paul

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My issues are viewing, primarily using Chrome. It happens at all hours throughout the day, regardless of my internet connection (home, work, and now in a different city entirely and still have loading issues sometimes.)

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For me, it happens when I try to open a thread. It hangs, and won't load until I refresh it.

It was pretty bad at one point weeks ago, then was fairly minor for awhile, but now it happens with about one out of every five threads I try to load.

Using IE and a T1 connection now.

Edit to add: And what Fumanstan said. All hours of the day, multiple browsers, multiple computers, multiple connection speeds.

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It has happened during posting for me, but I am on DVDTalk a lot during the day, and it seems to be completely random to me. Perhaps you aren't seeing because you aren't as addicted to this message board as the rest of us.

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I honestly haven't noticed the slowness for a few days now.

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A few brief hangs had me wondering if it was back, but then if I reclick the link, it loads fast. Seems to be mostly OK now.

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I've had the same thing happen and have reported it to the IB tech people.

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Nevermind. I have already had quite a few hangups today.

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It's the ad servers.

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Damn, I keep reading "sad" servers.

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It's been almost unusable at times over the last few days, requiring multiple refreshes to get pages to load.

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super slow for me as well. IE9 on Windows 7.

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Oddly, it seems to be working better in Firefox than Chrome today. I can't even get most pages to load in Chrome.

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Bringing it up in the tech que.

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This happens to me somewhere around half the time, if I had to guess.

First attempt at opening this thread:
http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/image...10515402_2.jpg

Second (where I guess the CSS load timed out):
http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/image...10515402_1.jpg

Traceroute #1:
Traceroute #2:

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Forum links and posts loading slow in IE8 on XP SP3. -kd5-

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I haven't had one failed try since using Firefox today and yesterday, but Chrome fails to load almost every page now. There's nothing different about how they're set up (i.e. no proxies, no separate DNS servers, etc.).

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Last couple of days have been awful for me

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I've had to completely abandon using Chrome. The waits are awful on DVD Talk. Firefox seems moderately faster.

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Me too. I've been using Chrome for everything else and Firefox for DVDTalk. I may have to switch back to Firefox if they don't get this fixed.

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Chrome is still barely working. Hope they are looking into this.

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I believe that this has been "escalated" within IB but cannot speak with any authority as to the likely actions/results that will flow from said escalation.

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Going to try to get a close look at this today. Fear not, I feel your pain!

Paul

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I was just coming here to report the same issue. I've been having a lot of delays today, much more than usual, using Chrome. Seems to be doing better, though. Thanks for looking into it!

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Also coming to report, since it's been erratically consistent for a few days now. I've seen it worse, but there's a noticeable delay from clicking on anything to when the page displays. I'm using Firefox.

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I've been talking to IB about that exact behavior. Posts generally take a while to commit as well.

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Things still load just a little slow in Chrome, but it's been much better. Nothing seems to be timing out tonight.

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I'm still having lots of problems. CSS sporadically won't load, only a certain percentage of images in reviews will come up, it'll take up to five or six attempts to get a thread or forum listing to load....

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I take it all back. Everything is timing out. I'm back to Firefox today.

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i too am getting slowness, and just got this error:


vBulletin datastore error caused by one or more of the following:

1. You may have uploaded vBulletin 3.6 files without also running the vBulletin upgrade script. If you have not run the upgrade script, do so now.
2. The datastore cache may have been corrupted. Run Rebuild Bitfields from tools.php, which you can upload from the do_not_upload folder of the vBulletin package.

Fatal error: vBulletin datastore cache incomplete or corrupt in [path]/includes/init.php on line 214

Re: Forums Slow Loading Lately?
 

Any time I click on a link or make a post, it takes several seconds to complete. This forum was always very fast for me (XP SP3, IE8), click on a link and I'm there, submit a post and it's done. Now when I submit a post it's 7 to 10 seconds before the post makes it, a good 5 seconds (or longer) after clicking a link to change destinations. This has been going on for at least a week (probably longer). There is no quickness about the forum anymore. I wish vBulletin would resolve whatever issues they're having. -kd5-

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Again, we're very sorry for this. We've been working on tracking down a resolution to the site issues we know you've been having. I promise I will update you as soon as I can.

Is it at least possible to go to Firefox and perform some basic functions?