Complaints about the forum being slow

Inability to edit posts.
Same here. Last week I couldn't edit with Internet Explorer, but could with Firefox. This week neither works.

Reply with Quote
Doesn't work any more. Just hangs. I've been cut-paste to create quotes

Last week Firefox was faster at somethings than Microsoft Edge. This week Firefox has slowed down to Microsoft Edge speeds, including opening new threads.

I haven't been adding Laugh meme's because adding new posts is too slow.

The "What's New At GOC" is still badly formatted.
 
In Post #82 I incorrectly wrote "Internet Explorer" when I mean Microsoft Edge.
I can't edit that post with Chrome, Firefox, or Microsoft Edge.
 
The "Edit Post" button works, but the SAVE button doesn't.
 
magnumsmith said:
My provider is Shaw and I have tried IE, ME with Windows 10 and Safari with ios. Initially when I log in I get a vBulletin Message saying "Invalid Redirect URL". If I log in again it goes to the GOC webpage. I have also tried my iphone with Tbaytel and I get the same results.
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I have that issue with old bookmarks, if it's the same as me, you don't need to log in again just click one of the links at the top like "forum" or "what's new" and then when it reloads you'll show as logged in.
 
Complaints about the forum being slow

jwirecom109 said:
your starting at http not https thats why
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No, at least not for me. Entered https://gunownersofcanada.ca in the address bar directly and then logged in and got the “Invalid Redirect URL: https://gunownersofcanada.ca/“

I notice that the site links are all www.gunownersofcanada.ca vice gunownersofcanada.ca. Could there be some issue there? The vbulltin redirect on login needs to point to https://[B]www[/B].gunownersofcanada.ca?

EDIT: just tested. If I go to https://www.gunownersofcanada.ca (vice https://gunownersofcanada.ca) and log in I do not get the error.

Oh and this was at work which even though that would be Halifax, our Internet on the WAN comes from Ontario.
 
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Been slow loading pages in the last 12 hours. Took a while to load a reply with quote window about 10 hours ago.

On high speed connection with Chrome. No recent system changes.
 
Nothing has changed for me. Same issue(s) I posted about and provided screen shots for above. Messed up "What's new..." formatting and VERY slow page loads.

Southern Ontario on Rogers. Doesn't matter what browser I use (Chrome/IE/Edge/Firefox/Safari) or what platform (3 different computers, iPad, Pixel 2 XL). Same issues.

Battle Beaver
 
K guys, if you have more or new information please present it, but repeating the same things doesn't help.
it just makes it take longer to review the post issues.
 
Also those posting issues note what area of the country you are in.

As it stands it's almost exclusively Ontario that has the connection issue.

If its other places I need to know, because it maybe location access filtering or something else.
 
SW Ont. Android phone using Samsung Internet. Virgin=Bell's network. Right now no problems. Will update this post in 3 hrs from home...

Still no problem using the Bell cell network.
Back home on Rogers.
Firefox still showing the slow loading and loss of formatting on Whats New.
Downloaded & installed Chrome just for giggles.
Same results as Firefox, with an additional wrinkle:
Tried to update this post in Chrome and the Save button hung me up.
 
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Not so much a complaint but an observation,
when I do a Post Quick Reply what used to happen was it would be added to the current browser's page (very little http data sent/received),
whereas when I do a Post Quick Reply today the entire page is being refreshed/resent from the server.
Where this is observed most often is in the running live commentary threads at GoC (we haven't had one in a few months), and the Laugh thread -- where as you're adding replies the page in the browser can temporarily have a hundred posts scrollable rather than the usual 10 max per page.
 
RangeBob said:
Not so much a complaint but an observation,
when I do a Post Quick Reply what used to happen was it would be added to the current browser's page (very little http data sent/received),
whereas when I do a Post Quick Reply today the entire page is being refreshed/resent from the server.
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Good point! I was noticing that too with the Like button. But not today here and now in this thread.

Site has been working well for me this morning: FF on Win10 in NS.
 
For what it's worth I'm in Montreal on Bell Fibe. Had a few small issues but nothing big enough to bother about.

When the site went https was a bit buggy but I just deleted my old favorite and added the new https and not a single problem. Speed seems fine, and everything seems to work ok.
 
Right now, the forum is perfect.
Fast.
"What's new at GOC" formats correctly.
Edit's work.

I've had Microsoft Edge open for hours on GOC, doing nothing.
 
RangeBob said:
Not so much a complaint but an observation,
when I do a Post Quick Reply what used to happen was it would be added to the current browser's page (very little http data sent/received),
whereas when I do a Post Quick Reply today the entire page is being refreshed/resent from the server.
Where this is observed most often is in the running live commentary threads at GoC (we haven't had one in a few months), and the Laugh thread -- where as you're adding replies the page in the browser can temporarily have a hundred posts scrollable rather than the usual 10 max per page.
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This is now working normally/correctly as well. :)


Also "Reply with Quote" is working again too.
 
Pushed "Like This" and the telephone rang.
Might have been a coincidence.
 
RangeBob said:
This is now working normally/correctly as well. :)


Also "Reply with Quote" is working again too.
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FALover said:
....and GOOD MORNING!!! All seems to have been reborn as a sequel to The Fast and the Furious. No more slothing around!:Beer time: (6:15 Eastern but it is a time to celebrate)
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I have not nothing to the site to be honest.... so this is good news to hear there isn't anymore issues, but i'm still confused to the issues, besides the possibility that its a localized issue
 
Well, that didn't last.
Slow again.
"What's new at GOC" badly formatted again.
"Reply with quote" hangs again.


I closed Microsoft Edge for the previous hour.
 
My best guess is that it is related to the server move to the LightSpeed platform. Not proven technology in that it does not have market saturation and usage history even close to IIS let alone Apache or NGINX.
 
I’ve been occasionally unable to view new pictures or YouTube videos posted by some users at random since the most recent round of issues started. Others can see them judging from the responses. This morning, whole strings of photos/videos disappeared. Seems to be linked to certain users, for example all FALover’s videos in the Great Cover Thread have vanished for me. I can still see posts from other users.
Tried logging out/back in, clearing browser, wifi and mobile data, makes no difference.
 
kennymo said:
I’ve been occasionally unable to view new pictures or YouTube videos posted by some users at random since the most recent round of issues started. Others can see them judging from the responses. This morning, whole strings of photos/videos disappeared. Seems to be linked to certain users, for example all FALover’s videos in the Great Cover Thread have vanished for me. I can still see posts from other users.
Tried logging out/back in, clearing browser, wifi and mobile data, makes no difference.
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
kennymo said:
I’ve been occasionally unable to view new pictures or YouTube videos posted by some users at random since the most recent round of issues started. Others can see them judging from the responses. This morning, whole strings of photos/videos disappeared. Seems to be linked to certain users, for example all FALover’s videos in the Great Cover Thread have vanished for me. I can still see posts from other users.
Tried logging out/back in, clearing browser, wifi and mobile data, makes no difference.
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Even with the persisting problems we are having in Ontario, FALover's Great Cover posts are still visible to me. Wait, we're both in Ontario, would that be a factor?
 
Doug_M said:
My best guess is that it is related to the server move to the LightSpeed platform. Not proven technology in that it does not have market saturation and usage history even close to IIS let alone Apache or NGINX.
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The forum has been on the same type of server for 2 years now, the recent move was to an upgraded server with the same tech.
So this is not the issue
 
If it were a server issue, I have a checklist of questions to diagnose that.

But it's not a server issue, because that's a single point of failure and lots of people aren't experiencing a slow down.
 
RangeBob said:
If it were a server issue, I have a checklist of questions to diagnose that.

But it's not a server issue, because that's a single point of failure and lots of people aren't experiencing a slow down.
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Isn't it curious that the Whats New search is consistently affected, while other searches aren't.
While at the same time, I have no problems on the cell, just with the home service
Where is our content being throttled. If that's the word for it. Slowness I could just blame on traffic. Formatting points closer to the source.
 
LB303 said:
Isn't it curious that the Whats New search is consistently affected, while other searches aren't.
While at the same time, I have no problems on the cell, just with the home service
Where is our content being throttled. If that's the word for it. Slowness I could just blame on traffic. Formatting points closer to the source.
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I noticed this too

Multiple home computers no joy
 
What’s New has never acted up for me.


Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Pro
 
Firefox, Chrome and Explorer on PC are all slow with "whats new" not formatted. On Ipad the same and a google phone the same.
 
Same here...

Formatting is all messed up and slow as hell.

Reply With Quote seems to be broken as well...
 
Okay I brought this up in another thread, doesn't seem like anybody here mentioned it so far but there's a bunch of stuff running in the background that's unnecessary and wasn't here before. Depending on the page of the forum there's other domains that show up. I'm running Firefox with it's security settings turned to max and it throws alerts about that stuff depending on what page I am on.

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4896/...5dc957e8_b.jpg

If you don't know what all this is, basically the internet of today isn't like that of 2003; you connect to sites now and you actually have 5, 10 sometimes 15+ random sites connected in the background raping your computer. The typical trackers, Facebook/Google widgets and such that let Facebook track everywhere you go on the net even if you don't log into your accounts, ad serving domains, content delivery networks, "code libraries", etc. The site seems to be browser finger printing people now. I'd recommend turning all the extra crap off. Don't see why the website wouldn't run with just the scripts from the first party domain.
 
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jwirecom109 said:
Doing Several Load tests, it seems that the results are the browsers, users are using for the most part are the issue with load time.
See results below:

These are test sites that use multiple access points from around the world, to record the high, low and average access time, I'm posting the Highest of North America.


Test site 1: Load time - 2.142s Chrome - No errors

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Test site 1: Load time - 5.805s - Firefix - Several Errors

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Test site 1: Load time - 2.960s - Opera - No Errors

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Test site 2: Load Time - 2.1 sec (Chrome) No errors
Test site 2: Load Time - 5.8 sec (IE browners) Several errors
Test site 2: Load Time - 5.4 sec (Firefox) Several errors
Test site 2: Load Time - 1.7 sec (Opera) No errors
Test site 2: Load Time - 2.1 sec (Android operating browser) No errors

Results are saying that if your using Firefox or EI, there are errors that are stopping from loading the site quickly.
These are not errors with the site, but compatibility of the browsers to the site.

You have have had good access before, as browsers change settings in their software this can affect some of the sites you use.

GOC has always recommended using Chrome for using our site. Users are welcome to use whatever they want though.
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In case you didn't know the whole "works best on Chrome" idea Google pushes gets a lot of hate in the circles of people who are technology inclined/care about the way the internet is supposed to work.

If any site ever required Chrome/only worked on Chrome I would stop visiting it, actually it's happened before and I stopped going. Same thing with sites that are inoperable unless you let them browser finger print you. The site should work on any major browser that follows modern Web Standards/W3C, pushing "just switch to Chrome" is a half baked solution.

Also does this site use real HTTPS? As in end to end, client to server HTTPS. Reason I ask is that some websites use a hack of a solution, their site is served up by some CDN e.g. cloudfare through HTTPS but then from the CDN to the real server it's all HTTP plain text.
 
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