Forum running slow... ad related

Forum running slow... ad related

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thebraketester

Original Poster:

14,345 posts

140 months

Tuesday 4th December 2018
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Anyone else finding that the performance of the forum is making it almost unusable?

Ads seem to be taking ages to load.


Coincidence?


mintybiscuit

2,820 posts

147 months

Tuesday 4th December 2018
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Yup.
The same here. I only came here to see if anyone else was having issues.

MDMA .

9,032 posts

103 months

Tuesday 4th December 2018
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I've tried to reply 3 times and each time it has taken me to a different sub forum. It's borked again frown

craig1912

3,412 posts

114 months

Tuesday 4th December 2018
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Yep- on an iPad it isn't useable- tried three different browsers and same on all.

On my Mac it is slow but not too bad

bazza white

3,590 posts

130 months

Tuesday 4th December 2018
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I thought my phone was borked.


Its laggy as hell and opens the wrong clicks.

Doofus

26,444 posts

175 months

Tuesday 4th December 2018
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Whatever they did for a hour and a half yesterday has completely fked it more/again.

maxdb

1,542 posts

159 months

Tuesday 4th December 2018
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It's really slow here and laggy plus when I click on a thread a different one to what I want opens?

thebraketester

Original Poster:

14,345 posts

140 months

Tuesday 4th December 2018
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maxdb said:
It's really slow here and laggy plus when I click on a thread a different one to what I want opens?
It’s like lucky dip.

Tebbers

358 posts

153 months

Tuesday 4th December 2018
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bazza white said:
I thought my phone was borked.


Its laggy as hell and opens the wrong clicks.
Exactly the same here. iPhone and iPad. What have they done?!

ruhall

506 posts

148 months

Tuesday 4th December 2018
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Painfully slow.

It's also doing strange things with text; specifically missing text in a post (although showing before originally posted), but when trying to edit, missing text is shown, but still not showing in text again after submitted.

kiethton

13,967 posts

182 months

Tuesday 4th December 2018
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Yes, horrendously slow, basically unusable here

Not sure if it’s ad related - running Adblock plus

fat80b

2,325 posts

223 months

Tuesday 4th December 2018
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Glad it's not jut me then, but PH elves, please fix it.

Jasper3.0

652 posts

202 months

Tuesday 4th December 2018
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kiethton said:
Yes, horrendously slow, basically unusable here

Not sure if it’s ad related - running Adblock plus
Same here on an iPad. Sooooooook slooooowwwwwwww

B'stard Child

28,602 posts

248 months

Wednesday 5th December 2018
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Been fine all evening for me

brickwall

5,263 posts

212 months

Wednesday 5th December 2018
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bazza white said:
I thought my phone was borked.


Its laggy as hell and opens the wrong clicks.
Same here on my phone. When you click a thread you get nothing....nothing....nothing...then a different thread opens (often one about 3-4 lines above where you wanted)

Once you're in the thread it seems fine.

Butter Face

30,653 posts

162 months

Wednesday 5th December 2018
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I thought it was just me hehe

It’s terribly slow, makes the forum completely unusable!

johnoz

1,028 posts

194 months

Wednesday 5th December 2018
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Yep me too, just keep getting the beachball, taking forever frown

Is this the start of things to come now its sold.

GR_TVR

721 posts

86 months

Wednesday 5th December 2018
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Just keep getting the beachball on my Mac with Safari - with or without adblock enabled.

Tried it on Chrome, seems a lot better from a quick look.

eltawater

3,125 posts

181 months

Wednesday 5th December 2018
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Key javascript culprits appear to originate from:

stats.g.doubleclick.net
sb.scorecardresearch.com (38 requests!)
images.outbrainimg.com
widgets.outbrain.com

Looks like there's some page shifting involved somewhere (trying to resize to put some big banner ads in?) which ultimately leaves you tapping / clicking on one thing, but the delay in loading the page means that by the time it's worked out you've clicked, the page has shifted down downwards, so you end up at a topic 4-5 lines above where you've clicked.

NomduJour

19,249 posts

261 months

Wednesday 5th December 2018
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Pages only part-loading, long delay to all link clicks and attempts to post.