forum page loading excruciatingly slow

timethief · Member · Dec 1, 2010 at 5:31 pm
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For the past 4 days the forum page loading time has been excruciatingly slow for me. This is NOT happening on any other site – it’s only happening here in the forum. I’m on a PC and using Firefox 3.6.12 – no amount of logging out, forced browser and cache clearing is correcting this problem. In fact, it seems to be getting progressively worse for me.

Are other Volunteers answering forum questions experiencing this as well?
Do we need to report this to Staff?

I waited 6 minutes for this to load and then I got an error message:

Whoops!

There was a small systems error. Please try refreshing the page and if the error is still there drop us a note and let us know.
thesacredpath · Member · Dec 1, 2010 at 6:29 pm
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It’s happening for me as well and like you only the forums seem to be slow. It takes forever when I hit the submit button till it actually posts my reply.
auxclass · Member · Dec 1, 2010 at 6:56 pm
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Slow here also – makes molasses in the winter or watching paint dry look quite fast
airodyssey · Member · Dec 1, 2010 at 7:01 pm
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It’s been happening to me as well.

I suspect that’s why it’s been duplicates galore on the forums for the last few days… People wait and wait, and decide to click Submit a second (or third…) time.
timethief · Member · Dec 1, 2010 at 7:20 pm
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I created a duplicate unintentionally myself that way.
thesacredpath · Member · Dec 1, 2010 at 7:42 pm
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I’m wondering if the wikileaks stuff has anything to do with this since they are using Amazon’s servers as well, just like wordpress. There are serious DOS attacks going on against the wikileaks stuff since it was released.
raincoaster · Member · Dec 1, 2010 at 7:42 pm
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Yep, same here. And I’m sure none of us have that snow feature activated!
timethief · Member · Dec 1, 2010 at 7:45 pm
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SNOW – disabled
timethief · Member · Dec 1, 2010 at 8:47 pm
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Have all the forum Volunteers disabled SNOW?
thesacredpath · Member · Dec 1, 2010 at 8:50 pm
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I don’t know about all, but I think there are now 4 that I know of that have. On CSS questions, it drags FF and Firebug down to a crawl and if I’m too slow, FF crashes or freezes and I have to kill it.
thesacredpath · Member · Dec 1, 2010 at 9:02 pm
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You know, I just decided the hell with it. Until they can get this site back to the point where I don’t have to wait for 30 seconds for a forum page to load, or for a post I made in a thread to actually post, I’ll just go off and do other stuff.
timethief · Member · Dec 1, 2010 at 10:10 pm
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Well all the crashing killed my computer and my husband has taken it into the repair shop. He needs this one so I am now offline.
timethief · Member · Dec 1, 2010 at 10:12 pm
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Well all the crashing killed my computer and my husband has taken it into the repair shop. He needs this one so I am now offline.
timethief · Member · Dec 1, 2010 at 10:13 pm
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Well all the crashing killed my computer and my husband has taken it into the repair shop. He needs this one so I am now offline.
thesacredpath · Member · Dec 1, 2010 at 10:15 pm
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Bummer about your computer.
timethief · Member · Dec 1, 2010 at 11:15 pm
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I begged for a loaner computer and I got one. I’m so down about this. Hopefully it won’t be costly to repair it. :(
theradiocrytic · Member · Dec 3, 2010 at 12:38 am
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I haven’t had much problem on the forum page, I posted two new topics, one worked fine and the other took forever to post. However, the wordpress.com main page has been very slow for me.

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