Is it just me or does anyone else find A4A very slow at times? I belong to other forums and don't have any trouble but on A4A it seems to take ages to go from one place to another, then another time it is very quick. I wonder how long it will take to post this message? ;D
i have noticed that quite a lot lately
me too, if I post something or click to another link within A4A I can go and make a cup of tea whilst waiting for the page to refresh, glad it's not my computer!!
Me too - I get fed up waiting.
I have sent a message to SL and hopefully she will let Dan know there is a problem :)
I've found the same. A4A is only one of several tabs open, so while I'm waiting I check the weather or my bank account or something.
Yes - no complaint, but very slow to open up.
Me too - only this site, too :-\ Just pleased someone else has noticed it too, so thanks for the thread. It's why I haven't been around here much, tho I've had a lot of questions to ask....sometimes life's too short . Specifically I can get to one forum when I log on BUT then switching to another? ::) Just doesn't load, so quicker to go somewhere else. Only so much tea I can make/drink ;D
Do hope that Dan can identify the prob I see many of us are experiencing and get a fix.
Thank goodness it is not just me.
It was getting my parannoya going.
It is quick to scour the site unsigned in then only sign in if you want to actually reply.
.........................Then wait
Quote from: betula on January 21, 2010, 12:18:46
I have sent a message to SL and hopefully she will let Dan know there is a problem :)
SL = me? No message come through but I have dropped a line to Dan anyway :)
Well i cannot believe this thread , i have just posted to a friend RANTING how long it has taken me to get to send her a message. I have given up on previous nights. waste of time trying to get on here in the day this last week.
Thank goodness my puter is safe for now i was going to throw it out of the window it annoyed me so much ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D.
Mind you Hotmail is no better this last week either ::) ::).
I will look into it - might need a server type tweak ....
Sam Louise.........I sent you the message re the moderator link so that is obviously not working.Suggest you ask Dan to look at that too.
Seems a lot better today! Thanks Dan.
Thanks Dan.
On second thoughts it's maybe still a bit sporadically sluggish.
Thank you very much Dan. ;D
It does seem much better this morning ;D
Thank you
I don't think that it is any better at all!
It's still infuriatingly slow at times, just as it has been most of the past week!
Perhaps I just hit a good spot, fingers crossed :-\
I haven't had any problems so far this morning so "Thanks Dan". Fingers crossed that it is all right for everyone.
....just for info, in case any more tweaking needs to be done, Dan, after I replied under Grawc this morning, Sod's Law, it took an age to post my reply and then so long to try to post a reply somewhere else I gave up...so, yes, it seems to be sporadic atm. Sorry.
this seems to have started when everyone got those new avatars? (did anyone except me read the disclaimer before deciding to get one?) Loads of info-gathering software add-ons wanted to be installed, do any of these effect the site??
I am still finding this forum infuriatingly slow at times. It's been like it now for over two weeks!
can't use the search, says the server is under severe pressure ::)
Yes sometimes it is ok ,other times really slow,wish it would get sorted.
Quotethis seems to have started when everyone got those new avatars?
Interesting, you may be onto something there. I stupidly didnt read any of the small print (and I work in IT......)
Did notice there was an ad on their front page which went to a notorious spyware site though, which asked you to install something. I avoided this as when I clicked on it my antivirus went mad!
The avatar site names each pic with the email address of the person who downloaded it, which made me suspicious so I renamed mine in case they are searching for email addresses to spam.
Quote from: tonybloke on January 23, 2010, 13:48:11
this seems to have started when everyone got those new avatars? (did anyone except me read the disclaimer before deciding to get one?) Loads of info-gathering software add-ons wanted to be installed, do any of these effect the site??
I'm pretty sure the problem is on the A4A server, you can see how long it takes to do the database lookup at the bottom of the page. The page I'm typing into now for example says "Page created in 0.202 seconds with 27 queries." but I've seen pages report 20 seconds.
My avata, like reddyreddy's, is just a jpeg served from the A4A server like most other avatars, so there isn't any ability in the avatar to be doing anything slow and malicious. It's the browser on the client end that retrieves the avatars anyway, so that wouldn't slow the server down. Chances are your browser has cached the avatars anyways so they're costing you nothing.
More problematic is the advertising. It's context-sensitive so before the A4A server can send you your page it needs a round-trip to the ad agency's server to get an advert - at least I think that's how it works.
I don't think it general to A4A...........the beings are getting clever out there. Try and find me the strategic planning map for Southwater, I obviously get blocked out as I live here and my address is "logged" somewhere. I've tried the Parish Council website and Horsham District Council sites, can I access it...........oh no!
I though it was my uploading Internet 8, but I think it's going deeper than that.
Ninny
Sorry but I do think it is A4A. It is the only place I ever have problems.
I often think it would be a good idea if Dan got rid of the details of all those people that signed in over three years ago and have never been heard from since. There must be thousands of them!! :o
The site would then be smaller and maybe would cope better.
OK at moment but yesterday I gave up when I was trying to go to one thread from another. Quite agree with Pauline.
Quote from: Paulines7 on February 06, 2010, 14:33:23
I often think it would be a good idea if Dan got rid of the details of all those people that signed in over three years ago and have never been heard from since. There must be thousands of them!! :o
The site would then be smaller and maybe would cope better.
It's extremely unlikely that the number of registered users is an issue. In practice a registered member adds a couple of entries to some database table on the server and databases are designed to work very quicly with millions of entries.
It's probably something to do with the advertising, it has to work out what ads to display on each thread (subject linked ads?)
Havent found it slow, but have noticed a lot of folks avatars are away and showing a little red x in a box instead - ????
Mine too LOL
Ooops !! Spoke too soon............. It just chucked me out, forgot it does that sometimes !
Quote from: Hosta on February 06, 2010, 18:31:00
Havent found it slow, but have noticed a lot of folks avatars are away and showing a little red x in a box instead - ????
Mine too LOL
Could this be because you have not logged yourself in and are reading the forum as a guest? Just a thought. :-\
Nope, I am defo logged on - can see some avatars still.
I have also been wondering about the moving avatars they are a bit of fun, but if there are several on one thread I was beginning to think things were going a bit slow.
I sometimes find logging out and rebooting gets things going a bit faster.
Quote from: Digeroo on February 07, 2010, 07:58:45
I have also been wondering about the moving avatars they are a bit of fun, but if there are several on one thread I was beginning to think things were going a bit slow.
Animated avatars are just files like any regular image file, it's just your browser knows that they contain several frames of an animation, so all the work is done by your PC, not by the server.
However, I find the really, really anoying, so I'd gladly see them go.
Only had a problem once with A4A, and it turned out to be a problem with the US-UK link as every other site that is based on a US server was also dead slow.
Some of the animated adds that google serve are a bit of a pain, if I have too, many pages open that have these my computer says it has enough and throws a wobbaly and grinds to a halt.
Isn't it something that happens on here from time to time? I'm sure I recall a few threads on this subject.