Forum running slow... ad related

Forum running slow... ad related

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thebraketester

Original Poster:

14,191 posts

137 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

2,811 posts

144 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 .

8,849 posts

100 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

3,273 posts

111 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

3,550 posts

127 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

25,732 posts

172 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

1,533 posts

156 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:

14,191 posts

137 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

352 posts

150 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

145 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

13,883 posts

179 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

2,242 posts

220 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

199 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

28,320 posts

245 months

Wednesday 5th December 2018
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Been fine all evening for me

brickwall

5,192 posts

209 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

30,191 posts

159 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

1,012 posts

191 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

712 posts

83 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

3,107 posts

178 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

18,981 posts

258 months

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