Complaints about the forum being slow

wrencher said:
With all the people having the same slow issues , has anyone got a fix ? GOC loads instantly then anything after that is so slow I could make a sandwich in between. I don't hear any more complaints so is everyone solved the issue ??
This is a awesome site and would like to continue reading but not like this.
Thanks
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Completely agree with the bolded part. Also S Ont here with Rogers. Sticking with Firefox since it works the best for me, for all other sites.
Just installing Chrome the other day for something to try, I was alarmed at its built-in intrusiveness. I will never use it.
Took Boolets' advice and installed Ublock Origin. Using the simple settings I disabled java on this site and pages load a bit faster.
Not much, but a bit. Not to say all pages load x% faster...
Curiously I can reload the same pages and occasionally they will load fast, it's like playing the slots, but there is a definite difference.
The formatting is still missing on the Whats New search, and that's the only page so affected that I've seen.
Also reply with quote works for the first time in weeks. Quirky though. I have to hit the button twice or the browser just goes into a 'waiting for goc' state. Manage Attachments loads now, kind of; it's only available as a full size tab where it used to pop up as a frame within the edit function. Also it is formatted strangely. I can upload an image but the button to insert it is missing.
 

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Well that was different. When I refreshed the first time, there was a placeholder "Attached Images" but no image.
Clicking on it caused the image to display. Now that was unexpected since the Insert button was missing from the Manage Attachments window.
Is this a new feature?
Hopefully my ramblings are providing some clues for the IT guys.
 
LB303 said:
Well that was different. When I refreshed the first time, there was a placeholder "Attached Images" but no image.
Clicking on it caused the image to display. Now that was unexpected since the Insert button was missing from the Manage Attachments window.
Is this a new feature?
Hopefully my ramblings are providing some clues for the IT guys.
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It's a feature of uBlock and Firefox. If firefox can't get the image, it displays a little square for the image. uBlock is blocking images over 50k in size, until you click on them.
[Old Internet Explorer used to have a "display image" pop up menu item, rarely used]
 
MarkR said:
Deadly slow today.
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Slow for me as well. Southern Ontario (Toronto)

Also, I'm having an issue with the editor. The little editting buttons aren't showing.

I normally use the enhanced editor (WYSIWYG). I toggled to the standard editor in my settings to see if that would work. No dice.

Was there an upgrade to vBulletin?

At the bottom of my screen, my settings are listed as:

Posting Permissions
You may post new threads
You may post replies
You may post attachments
You may edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
code is On
[VIDEO] code is On
[B]HTML code is Off[/B]

Could it be the "HTML code off"?
 
Some strangeness tonight. Slower than a three legged turtle all night, and toolbars aren’t showing up or aren’t working correctly. Switched the Wifi off (Shaw) and everything is 100% and fast as ever with Rogers mobile.

* Switched back to Wifi and all is well. Maybe some sort of weird issue with my provider, but everything is top notch now.
 
Shoe said:
Slow for me as well. Southern Ontario (Toronto)

Also, I'm having an issue with the editor. The little editting buttons aren't showing.

I normally use the enhanced editor (WYSIWYG). I toggled to the standard editor in my settings to see if that would work. No dice.

Was there an upgrade to vBulletin?

At the bottom of my screen, my settings are listed as:

Posting Permissions
You may post new threads
You may post replies
You may post attachments
You may edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
code is On
[VIDEO] code is On
[B]HTML code is Off[/B]

Could it be the "HTML code off"?[/QUOTE]

That just is stating what the user is allowed to use for their post.
HTML is turned off for every user to enter into a post.
It's always been like this
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holy crap, it's fast again. and 'whats new' looks normal
whatever you did, keep doing it
 
I was having troubles on the phone as well, all I did was restart the phone. all good now.
 
If in Tapatalk try Me/settings/clear cache.

Sometimes that cleans up sluggishness.
 
I didn't mind the slowness and when the page rendered it is in text format but as long as the link works it's fine with me. Today I log in and was fast and pages rendered quickly and correctly. What changed between yesterday and today. And no I did not restart my phone.
 
Glad you're feeling better.
It's still no problem on mobile. Not using tapatalk, or Chrome. just the phone's built in browser. At the desktop it's still hit or miss, no matter the time of day. But installing that browser extension did help some.
 
It's still slow as all get out for me. I have tried on both Chrome and FireFox. I have cleared all my caches and cookies, rebooted, and everything else I can think of. It's so slow that I can play solitare between clicks of the mouse to go from page to page, or forum to forum. It's very maddening because this is my favourite gun forum and I used to be on here every night. It's so agonizingly slow right now that it's making me not come on because it takes about 2 hours to go through the forums...
 
I made a post that was a formatting disaster.

Got fed up with the speed and turned my phone hotspot on as I've read of others in this thread having good results.

I don't know whats going on but the full editor appeared with all of the little icons and such.

WYSIWYG editor worked reasonably well. Site loading speed of course was average as others have said.

Hardline ISP is Teksavvy via DSL (Bell)
Cellular is Telus

I'll rock the hotspot as much as I can as it's pretty much only for this site but realistically, it can't last indefinitely.

Admin, I'm just tossing in feedback to help resolve this issue for all of us. Take your time and rest. There's some kind of respiratory crap floating around. I've picked it up as well so I feel your pain.
Fix the site when you're able to. Enjoy a "pleasant non-denominational winter solstice".
 
Cellular, I’m fine. On cogeco cable it’s hit and miss. Don’t have any problems with any other sites.
 
This is my second complaint regarding speed. Each page takes at least 45 seconds to 1.5 minutes to load. Its truly ruining my expierence on this site. And I love this site so I'm toughing it out.
 
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