stu - forum just died

[martin1810]

It's only within threads on VWAF. I don't have any ISP speed problems an more.

As FC has just mentioned - could it be your ISP slowing things down? Do you have a download limit which you have maybe reached and your ISP is cutting your speed? Or is it just VWAF?

[Brycie]

I did notice somebody else on the actvity stream saying they'd been having troubles last night, can't remember who though. They may be able to shed a little more light possibly?

I think I have unlimited broadband & never download movies or music, so unlikely to reach any 'fair usage limit' and yet am having same problems as Mertin. Fair question though.

[martin1810]

If I refresh this page it take about 2 secs to give the little "done" message in the bootom bar but then I have to wait almost exactly 10 secs with the page frozen before I can do anything. This is better than yesterday. Yesterday it was hanging for minutes. It only occurs within threads so it's not an internet issure in general. I can move around the site with no problems. I assume some script or an image is loading slowly but I don't get any kind of error telling me what.

[stuart]

Good job, no real purpose but tidies a post up if there are numerous links

Now added

[Guest 2]

Now added

Just tested it in another post

Thanks

[JimC64]

+1 on the issues as reported here.

I have unlimited broadband and have no issues with any of my other sites at all.

I've noticed more and more recently ( probably since the upgrade was done I guess ) that the forum freezes. I them have to either try and recover the webpage or reload the whole site.

I suggest its becoming a real problem and definitely detracts from using the site.

[MFGF]

Yep. Entering threads in IE8, something takes a whole heap of time to initialise. The thread appears in the browser, then freezes for ten or fifteen seconds. Mostly it recovers, but sometimes not, and I have to close the browser and start again. I have switched to Firefox for now (no issues there) but I think the IE issues need further investigation.

Regards,

MF.

[a8 tech]

I use firefox no problems at all

[martin1810]

I have sort of solved the IE8 issue for me. I've blocked all the background running crap like skimlinks, facebook etc etc. There's tons of it. With that stopped the site is running almost as before.
I understand that firefox includes this type of blocking in the browser so that's probably why FF users don't have an issue. It had reached the stage where my lap top locked and IE8 stopped responding everytime I came on the site. Hopefully I can now fix that. I haven't tried it yet.

[Guest 2]

Get rid of IE altogether!

Although IE8 still working fine on my machine.