[Closed] Oooh! It's back!

I have the future

The futures bright , the futures [s]green[/s] grey -ish

Then i stepped back from the looking glass , returned whence i came through the wardrobe and instantly said to myself " I dont think we're in Kansas anymore " , then I woke up and it was all dream .. ... i think

Nothing's changed Jamie, the maintenance was aborted.

I'm sorry to hear that. My condolences.

Nothing's changed Jamie,

Is this how you squander your 45645th post?

If it helps, even when the page opens it loads in stages. Scroll down too fast and and you get a white screen which then fills progessively.

Looking at the developer tools there must be something wrong with the .js files in the background. The rest of the site loads in no time apart from 4 files.

Thank God I've been lost all day without the redirects and fake viruses and prizes

Nothing's changed Jamie, the maintenance was aborted.

Was anyone praying for the unborn forum outside the towers?

I’m finding it “slower” but not slow.

But then, I’m a bit slow myself.

I like the fact that there isn't a like button. I don't like them.

Slow doesn't begin to describe it !
Anything to do with the sheer number of folks visiting the site all at once ?

Finding the site really slow. (Android Tablet)

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Ay, gawd blimey it’s slll.....o........w.....w.....w....w.........

And nothing to do with it being my end neiverz..

Weird. It's perfectly fine for me. What's the difference?

Adverts?

The generators which supply the forum had a reported hiccup hence the speed..

All good here.

Ther used to be 13 ad servers max on thread pages, now 16.

Slow for me too - Safari on mac. Other websites OK.

Oddly it was very slow 15 mins ago (on a chromebook using my OnePlus as a 4g hotspot) whilst the BBC website was quick - but now STW is very much back up to speed.

So what did I manage to view earlier ?

It was all Times New Roman font with green tinge to layout.... didn’t like it at all

Being back the forum as it was way back when I say.

Slow for me on iPhone but has been for months now. Clearing browsing history did used to resolve it.

Edit: I must have entered a parallel universe. No sign of the thread I posted on earlier

Update = I can now see ‘P’ against some people’s names. Privileged, petulant, procrastinator or amazon prime ?

The speed is picking up a bit now in to 4th gear ... 😛

Slow for me too - Safari on mac. Other websites OK.

[quote=Cougar ]Weird. It's perfectly fine for me. What's the difference?
Adverts?

It seems fine on Win10/Chrome/Desktop, slow on Android/Chrome/Mobile. Same network.

I spoke too soon ... very sloooowwwwww ... think it might only been in 2nd gear. 😀

The speed's ok for me, Chrome on Android tablet.
Edit
Hang on, it slowed down when I hit send post.

[quote=chipster ]The speed's ok for me, Chrome on Android tablet.

Mobile view or Desktop view?

30- 120 seconds to load a page here. Win 10 in both ffox and IE

Mobile view or Desktop view?

Flying for me. Was slow for the first few pages - are scripts or images cached locally?

It's pretty speedy on my Macbook (Safari)

I hate to be the IT Guy but, try logging out and back in again? I had some odd cookie weirdness earlier and that fixed it.

Very slow here (iPad safari)… not sure why or where I found the patience for this thread to load, so that I could post this!

^ What kelvin said. Same here. iPad 4th gen iOS 10.3.3 probably recurring.

vereeey slow at work and slow at home, but both probably a good thing!

Hi Guys, so we (myself, Andy and Tom) had big hopes for today that haven't panned out yet. To be honest it's been a massively frustrating day in the tech corner. We started at 4am this morning and it was meant to take just a few hours to bring you an upgraded forum, which is the first stage of a larger plan The challenge and what has got the best of us today is how to build a system that can take the existing 8 million posts and still handle up to 1000 concurrent users. It was a load thing and we felt sure we had it but something in the database wasn't working right and it ground to a halt pretty quickly. We have ideas as to how to fix it and we'll regroup in the morning but to be honest we all went home earlier this evening utterly knackered promising ourselves we wouldn't look at the forum. As it happens we can't stay away. Tom has already been in poking it during these random slow downs and I thought I'd give you an update before I head for bed.

Desktop, Opera, sloooooooow as a sloooooow thing, "Waiting for available socket" message

Thanks for all your hard work, Mark.

Thanks for the update Mark, must have been massively frustrating. Hopefully just a temporary set back.

2008 macbook el capitan safari, took 63 seconds to open a page

iPad mini 2 safari took 17 seconds to open a page

iPhone 5s safari took a few seconds to open a page

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A block thread mode would be beneficial to my general well being!

we all went home earlier this evening utterly knackered promising ourselves we wouldn't look at the forum. As it happens we can't stay away

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🙂

Thanks for the efforts, folks, and fingers crossed you get an easier ride from it soon.

Good luck for the morning...

Good luck Lads and Mark for updating, TBH you should all go to bed..

We’ll be back when it’s all fine and dandy soon enough.

Peace, love and understanding.

Thanks for the update. Spent most of the day on Snowheads instead and now that is down too!

Cheers for the update Mark.

Apologies to tech@ who might have a lot of emails from me to read tomorrow. (-:

Thanks for heads up Mark!

Must be annoying as hell.

We'll survive until it's sorted I'm sure! 😀

[quote=Cougar ]Cheers for the update Mark.
Apologies to tech@ who might have a lot of emails from me to read tomorrow. (-:

I think you'll find yours all go to the Spam folder.

Appreciate the update I was worried sick. Good work and you'll get it tomorrow... won't you?

Does this mean we'll have to do actual work at our jobs again tomorrow?

Good luck with the next one guys.

Have good night tomorrow night and forget about the forum until the new year.

Tried to get on a little while ago, and the site just sat doing bugger-all, so restarted the pad, still a lot of bugger-all, closed it down, re-opened it, and it eventually opened up, now I’m wondering what, if anything, has actually changed.

now I’m wondering what, if anything, has actually changed.

Full changelog here:

http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/oooh-its-back/page/3#post-8903813

It's taking roughly two minutes for each page to load on my iPad using Safari.

This will make witty retorts and snappy comebacks somewhat problematic

No change there then.

So I'm guessing people impatiently smashing F5 as pages fail to load is gaining more in ad revenue than that lost by people that can't be arsed to wait.
Hats off to the owners for actually posting about the "changes" though, unlike when so many users were getting dodgy porn redirects and nothing was said, other than at the same time gloating about the increased ad revenue from the Ling Cars thread.
That was really ****ing classy.
Keep up the good work! 😀

Sure, that's exactly what happened.

Mark get yerself a couple of Exadatas. I look after a number of them and they're [s]the dog's danglies[/s] a royal pain in the bum to manage.

Cougar - Moderator
Sure, that's exactly what happened.

Nice stealth edit there.

Originally said,

You're an idiot. HTH.

🙂

(One peril of the forum being so slow is that it has taken me this long to reply, allowing me the time to reflect your original sentiment.)

I can't ban myself so have to self-moderate. Sometimes it takes a minute for own filter to catch up. Thanks for outing me though.

I don't like the new upgrade. Everyone seems more passive aggressive 🙁

Thanks for outing me though.

It's nice of him isn't it.

Do I spy a new "P"?

"P" for premature perhaps? 😉

P here for a long time now, pages as always take fractions of a second to load.

I still struggle with why there are so few Ps, with the benefits associated, considering they're getting a free forum i'm not sure non-Ps have a lot of grounds to complain.

Support the forum... Get your P.

The non-P people are supporting the forum. Due to the way it is designed, the extra clicks result in an increase of revenue by those with adverts on. This has been done to death...the non-P people aren't getting this for free as the usability of the site is impacted to generate more money from them due to how the forum works (ads in the middle of pages, unable to jump to the last page so having to do an in-between page visit, forum content loading after the adverts, etc.)

No one has addressed the elephant in the room yet. There will be another day when we all have to work or ride bikes coming up shortly. I'm off to book another Samaritans call.

Erm, I (self) logged out last night when Mark stood on the pulpit. I’ve just logged back in...

And..

It seems a helluva lot quicker this morning..

Did they turn it off and turn it on again over night?

DickBarton - Member
The non-P people are supporting the forum.

Not having that.... not for a second.

unable to jump to the last page so having to do an in-between page visit

Err? I'm non-P and getting to the last page or post in a thread is a one-click operation. To get to the last (or any) page of a thread click on the [1] [2], etc links, to get to the last post click on the "xxx minutes" Freshness text.

Dammit, am I supporting this guff?

The non-P people are supporting the forum.

Not having that.... not for a second.

Providing free content that Mark is monetising aren't we?

Unless you think people come to this site just for the ads.

Quid pro quo.

Mark pays for the forum, we talk the shite, people read the shite, people also see the ads, Mark gets paid for people seeing the ads, Mark uses that money to pay for the forum......and so it goes round and round.

Circle of Life innit.

Most productive day ever.

Quite! After the initial shock I ended up quite enjoying the break lol

Mark pays for the forum, we talk the shite, people read the shite, people also see the ads, Mark gets paid for people seeing the ads, Mark uses that money to pay for the forum......and so it goes round and round.

Circle of Life innit.

You're assuming that the advertising on the forum pays for the actual forum, let alone the people who help run it too.

When the time comes and STW towers falls down, all the people will be screaming on Fb. But its all their fault.

You're assuming that the advertising on the forum pays for the actual forum, let alone the people who help run it too.

Do you think there would still be a forum if everybody without a p stopped posting / visiting?

You're assuming that the advertising on the forum pays for the actual forum, let alone the people who help run it too.

Do you think there would still be a forum if everybody without a p stopped posting / visiting?

and more to the point do you thing the forum would still be here if it wasn't publicly available for anyone to find, read, join and contribute too?

When you first found STW would you have taken out a paid subscription just make your first post?

Not having that.... not for a second.

Depending on the % of P to non-P, you might not be the lifeline you think you are.

When you first found STW would you have taken out a paid subscription just make your first post?

10yrs later, and I still wouldn't.....but then I like to think of myself as a content creator 😀

When you first found STW would you have taken out a paid subscription just make your first post?

I'm pretty sure I subscribed to the mag before I found the forum 🙂

Circle of Life innit.

You are Perchysimba and I claim my £500 plus vat

Hakuna Matata.