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I've seen the best performance I can ever remember seeing for the last few days. The one or two slow posts that occured always ended up with the duplicate message, so there is still some issue with that, but otherwise the speed is really zippy, for me.
It seems slow again. Many good days, and this morning it started slowing down. Now it is worse.
Been off vbforums for a while (since the upgrade - couldn't stand the performance issue back then), came back today and I don't notice any improvement. Still slow. Still having database errors. Still double posting. Every post I posted today received "This forum requires that you wait 30 seconds between posts..." message. Is it only me or does anyone else experiences the same?
There were times when the performance was back to normal but it has been sporadic. It seems every week it switches between poor and good performance. Last week performance was superb.....for the most part. I haven't seen a db error in a couple weeks but I got that wait 30 seconds message just yesterday.Quote:
Originally Posted by stanav
Yesterday when I first logged in it was very slow and then the first post I tried to view generate a database error after that it seemed fine. This morning there seems to be an issue with typing where the text is very slow to appear at times. I am not a very good nor very fast typist but this morning I am able to get ahead of the text display while typing. Sometimes when I hit a key it is taking up to 1 second for the character to appear in the window and other time it appears quickly. Sometimes as I type I will complete a word and none of the characters have appeared then they all appear at once. Strange ....
As of right now the speed is phenomenal.....Sadly, I expect this to last only a few hours.
I might have asked this before...
When you find the speed to slow down, please let me know what browser you are using. For example, I just had IE take a bit of time to load the page, but FireFox loaded a lot quicker.
Thanks,
Brad!
(I just refreshed the page and Firefix is twice as fast as IE.)
I use FireFox only.
Most of the time I am using IE8 but I also use Firefox sometimes depending on which computer I use to log in. I have saw issues with both of them though at first it did seem that firefox was doing better.
I use only Firefox... And yes, performance is a lot better today... Haven't got any database errors or double postings yet. Slow loading still happens once in every while, but I can deal with that.
Sloooooooooooooooooooooooooowww
It's been absolutely dragging this morning (UK time). I'm using IE8. It's been taking upwards of 20 mintues to open a page sometimes (at which point I've generally given up). In fact, I've been trying to post this all morning.
vps port speed needs upgrading , to many connections to the site is lagging it out.
The forum has been well behaved for me in the last few days. Speed is reasonably OK. Still got a hiccup once every while but it could be issues with my LAN or internet connection and not VBF entirely. No database errors. No double postings.
I haven't been on much the past several days, but it has been slow when I was. Is this ever going to be fixed or are we going to have to learn to accept mediocrity?
I haven't had any issue for a couple weeks. The performance has been excellent for me. I would say this inconsistency for different people is probably about as maddening as the slowdown itself.
If I start at the page with all the sub forums listed and page-up/down or key up/down all is fine.
The following is, sometimes happens and other times does not.
Enter into a posting with say five average size replies and the original message is a couple of sentences, page down via key press or mouse and the page acts like it is still loading even thou it is completely finished loading, get to the bottom of the page, go back up, same thing.
That happens may be 10% of the time.
There is too much script and too much garbage in general.
Can we do away with "today's birthdays" at the bottom of the home page? This is a huge load of crap, especially considering that most of the thousands of members don't even post here anymore.
As a general rule, pieces of software add features with each new version, which leads to progressive bloat. The same appears to be the case with the forum software. The new stuff is flashy, but performance seems to always ride the back of the bus....and when it comes to computers, how you ride the bus is really important.
In my case it's mostly Christmas that has caused the progressive bloat.
Everything's running lickety split for me on the forum at the moment and has been over the whole festive period. That might be because there's less folks using it though.
Well, things should be back to how they were two week after Christmas because unless I am mistaken the northern hemisphere users have two weeks vacation over Christmas.Quote:
Originally Posted by FunkyDexter
I don't think anyone can take a vacation from VBForums :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Nightwalker83
I haven't get any issues with VBF for the last 2 weeks, I'd say... Seems almost back to where it was before the upgrade.
Well, yeah. That's how it is for me, too, but what does that have to do with the forums?Quote:
Originally Posted by FunkyDexter
I've forgotten how it was before the upgrade. Performance has been quite nice for several weeks for me. Oddly, I have still gotten the page about needing to wait some number of seconds between posts (I don't remember the number because I never read the thing anymore), but the incidence has dropped WAY down. It's probably around one in 30, or less.
Recently I lost a hard drive on one of my systems and when I reinstalled the OS I just went straight to the latest version of Firefox and have not bothered with IE on this machine. I have noticed that this site has been working fairly well under Firefox since before Christmas\ but I have not been online using IE for weeks now. I also noticed that on some other web sites I am seeing much better performance and fewer errors with Firefox so I would think at least some of the problems I was having and likely others are having may be related to the browser as well as the site.
The issue described above when posting has happened to me only once in the last 3 weeks.