Link creation window is slow on blog with lots of posts
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Thank you for trying it on your end. It feels like we could be going down a rabbit hole continuing to troubleshoot this, and if you can’t reliably recreate the problem I have to wonder if it’s some condition of Chrome on Windows that contributes to this. If so, it’s probably beyond your ability to fix.
I’m going to see if I can adjust to the desktop app, which does not seem to have this trouble.
Thank you very much for working with me on this!
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We actually tried setting up a windows environment like yours and still couldn’t duplicate it. :/
So, for now, I’m glad that will do. Cheers!
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Thanks again! I will say that if this were happening only on one of my machines I’d write it off as environmental, but that it happens on both a Win 7 laptop and a Win 10 desktop, both only on Chrome, I’d say there’s a thread there. But it sounds like you pulled it with all your might and couldn’t unravel the sweater. So moving on! Thanks!
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This happens to me as well on my blog, http://storiesfromipswich.org. In the new visual editor, using Chrome, it takes up to a minute for a link to appear after typing it. I cannot see what I type or paste into the link block and the page freezes until it finally appears. This does not happen in Firefox or Explorer using the visual editor. The problem also does not happen in the traditional visual editor that I access through WPadmin. I’m using Windows 10, but the previous post has the problem in Windows 7. This renders the “new improved editor” useless in Chome.
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I should also mention that the problem occurs on both of my Windows 10 computers. I tried clearing the cache, which temporarily relieved the problem, but it came back. It’s also a pain to have to clear the cache to use WordPress. I don’t have a similar problem in any other application.
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@supernovia Yes, it is still happening to me in Chrome. I’ve switched to the app for creation/editing and its link box is starting to slow down now too. It’s not as bad (yet?) as what I experience in Chrome but it is ~10 seconds before I can interact with it.
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@supernovia A few weeks. Is the app just a wrapper around a browser? Is there a way to clear its cache?
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It runs on Electron: http://electron.atom.io/
Did the link creation get slower over time or did it get suddenly slow a few weeks ago?
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It seemed (seemed) to slow over time.
Looks like Electron is a way to wrap Web app code for non-browser presentation. Ok, I was wondering if Chrome was at the app’s core and if there was a common thread there. Doesn’t look like it.
I’m going to switch to writing in my main blog using the editor in Firefox and see if after a few weeks I start to see the link box slowing down. That will tell me that there’s something inherent in the platform, not related to the browser. I’ll update this thread in a few weeks as I get results.
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Hello! I’ve been creating/editing posts in Firefox since we last corresponded about this. I am experiencing a slowing of the link window. Initially, when the link window opened it responded immediately. Now, it’s taking several seconds after it appears for me to be able to interact with it. This screencast shows what I mean. I opened the link window and immediately clicked the “open link in new window” checkbox. It took six seconds for the checkmark to appear; the entire window was nonresponsive during this time.
https://www.screencast.com/t/BW3Jfk80UM
I’m happy to test this on one more browser if you like (i.e., Edge), but I think what we’re seeing here is that platform doesn’t matter; on a blog with lots of posts, the link window simply slows down with time.
One thing I do notice about this link window is that it contains stuff I don’t understand or recognize. See this screen shot:
https://www.screencast.com/t/WCShV2JkV
I don’t know what that “Leah Singer” entry is, but it surely isn’t one of my posts. You see lots of these as you scroll through the list.
Also, searches struggle a little. Also, search results aren’t sorted by relevance, but apparently by most recent. Check out how in this screencast search kept bogging down as I scrolled through results looking for the post I had in mind.
https://www.screencast.com/t/N12mOEBRqd
When I use the old editor, the same search returns a much smaller set of results and the one I want is the second one listed.
https://www.screencast.com/t/9LIaL26zVz
I share all of this info not to try to “pile on” more than one bug report here, but to try to provide some evidence that the way search is implemented in the new editor appears to be a lot “fatter” than in the old editor, and that this might be a root cause of the performance problems I’m experiencing.
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the link window simply slows down with time.
Can you give me an idea how much time it takes for that to slow down? And is it slowing down with time spent editing an individual post, or does it slow over the period of several days while composing and editing other posts?
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I started using Firefox on 1/20 and the slowdown began within a week. It took until about 2/10 to slow down to the point I showed you in the screencast.
This is not related to editing an individual post — it is related to composing and editing posts over time. If I start a brand new post, type one word, and try to create a link today, it takes this much time for the link window to be responsive.
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Hmm. I would have expected we’d notice this by now considering how many posts our team creates every day. Do you always use the search-for-links option in each post you make?
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@supernovia, when your team makes posts, are they doing it on a blog that’s been in operation for 10 years and has more than 1,600 posts?
When I work in my other blog, which has probably 30 posts, I can create links lightning fast all day long.
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We communicate via blog posts here, so yeah we have some older sites that are very large indeed (tens of thousands of posts). I did realize though many of us use the P2 post screen rather than wordpress.com/post , and since we use multiple sites (and the search box only uses one), we may not be using the search feature as often.
If it is something where the local database builds up and gets clunky over time, I should be able to duplicate this fairly quickly on my older laptop. I’ll try that for a week or so. In the meantime, can you confirm clearing the local database still helps for a while?
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I just cleared all history to the beginning of time in Firefox … and to my surprise, it did not improve the link dialog’s performance.
When I tried the same in Chrome at the beginning of this thread, it *did* restore that dialog’s performance.
So I’m puzzled. This breaks my mental model of what’s going on.
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