I’ve never asked this question in my 15 years here. But the last couple of days have been horrible.
Things hang forever, sometimes ‘waiting for cdnvigilink.com’ as well as what I think is an ad site (ping.chartbeat.net), but mostly waiting for the ‘boards.straightdope.com’.
ETA: Seems only to happen in Chrome. I just edited with Safari without delay.
It hasn’t been any slower than normal for me. I run an adblocker and a script blocker so if there’s a problem with viglink I won’t see it.
Chartbeat doesn’t appear to be advertising. See this page for their explanation:
A couple of relevant quotes from that page:
Strange.
No problem with Safari but, if I use Chrome I am now being forced to wait (and wait and wait . . .) for pixel.quantserve.com as well as the Board itself.
My Chrome version is up-to-date and I run an ad-blocker (but no script blocker, mind you).
Thanks for your rapid response!
I run IE with no add ons. It’s been flying since whatever they did to the Board a few months ago.
I have IE11 and have been getting many and frequent
where all it takes to display it is to click the refresh do-hickey.
This has been happening for several days, but was rare before that.
Other wonky little things, too. All on SDMB and nowhere else.
This has been a problem with me in the past, but it’s been working fine for a while now. Firefox.
Well, now that I said that, I’ve been hitting pockets of extreme slowness today.
Every time the board just won’t load, I go and get actual stuff done. It’s a feature, not a bug.
I am definitely hitting pockets of slowness now. It’s like those action movies where the fighting is in real time but then suddenly slows down for a significant kick or punch, then speeds back up again.