Considering the large number of people with the same exact complaint, I find this highly unlikely. Posters have been complaining for years about this exact same issue, through every software upgrade and tweak, and every single time one of the mods or admins comes in to suggest it might be on their end. Can we finally admit that 99.999999% of the time it is not a problem with the user’s computer or connection and hang up this tired excuse once and for all?
I ignore the friday when reporting this. Pages have been slow loading at times, and I’m recieving errors of no respose from the server.
Buses?
Stick to our furry friends I say
Heh. I suppose if TPTB decided to go deluxe (ha!) we could try Thoroughbreds, although Jerry might object to the output maintenance requirements.
Musicat, I think the answer is “yes.” You nailed it.
Since the problem seems to happen sporadically, you don’t suppose the root cause is bandwidth? Perhaps the SDMB needs a bigger “pipe”? I dunno, just throwing out ideas here.
One way to have only a couple of occasional “somewhat slow” experiences would be to have a limited number of experiences combined with luck. If, for example, just for example, say — if a person logs on three or four times for a few minutes each, reads a few threads and doesn’t post much, then that person stands a chance of getting his page or two to read while the server is zippy, with only occasional somewhat slowness.
On the other hand, posters who are online for hours at a time, reading and posting copiously might tend to have a better grasp of the reality of the situation. One might argue that they are also a possible cause of the situation by virtue of their activity, but if that argument were true, it would imply that the server/communications specifications are inadequate.
Are there any mods or admins who spend a lot of time on the board reading and posting without experiencing more than one or two occasions of somewhat slowness?
Given that it either seems fast or very slow, and those two states can rapidly alternate, that seems unlikely. If it was the size of the “pipe” then it seems to me the quality of the response should be more consistent; uniformly fast when not many people are using it, uniformly slow when a lot of people are using it.
Not to worry. Posts are supposed to editable for only five minutes after being posted. After that, we still have to scrounge up virgins to offer to the mods.
Is there any chance that some of the slowness we attribute to the board is actually the fault of our own ISPs? (Mine is fond of occasionally giving me the boot for “inactivity”.)
Not unless we all use the same ISP or all ISPs use the same software.
But they’re in Chicago. How will we find any there?
What about Oprah?
I got nothin’.
I would imagine that in these early days when there is still tweaking to be done that it will not be a perfect experience for a while.
You might consider this more testing while it all gets sorted out. We do ask for your patience while we move towards improvement.
I fixed my problem, I had cookies blocked from 208.100.26.199. My apologies to the capybaras and other miscellaneous rodents.
Tuba Diva
Was that copied and pasted from 2006? Or was it 2005? 2004? 2003? The Renaissance?
Tuba,
Does it help any if we continue to report problems as they come up, or do you want to get through the shakedown first?
If Jerry is still actively working on the server it might just be an irritation to see the same reports over and over, but maybe he wants them to help track things down?
For what it’s worth, I’ve been seeing the same kind of thing as others have reported. Very good speed (virtually instantaneous) on 9 out 10 clicks, then a complete stop for anywhere from 1 up to 3 or 4 minutes. Then everything is fine again, lather, rinse, repeat.
Changing forums does seem to hit the stall more often than not, but searching seems fast all the time so far.
Let is know if we can help, and believe me when I say I appreciate all the work a transition like this can take. Tell Jerry THANKS! for me.
For my part, I’m not noticing any improvement in speed. Nor in accessibility – I must have gotten a “Network Error” message at least half a dozen times today.
That is my experience also. I would say 6 out of 10 times I try to access the message board, after a long wait I get a “server not responding” error.
(DSL, Mac OSX, browser Safari 2.0.4)
The new server is significantly worse. Significantly.
The upside is my house is clean, taxes are done, painted the office…