# New Thread on Board Performance **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 30, 2014, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-on-board-performance/694442 "2014-07-30T19:59:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-on-board-performance/694442/201 "2014-10-08T04:38:50Z")
> [@bldysabba](#): > > I’ve noticed something that may(or may not) be pertinent. On my browser(chrome), the User CP page never stops ‘loading’, even after the page is displayed. Says it’s waiting for [ping.chartbeat.net](http://ping.chartbeat.net). Just thought I’d point it out. FWIW, I use Ghostery to shut off most of the analytics, trackers and beacons. I’ve not experienced this zapping thing, also, the page finishes loading and doesn’t sit there spinning indefinitely sometimes like on my cell browser (which doesn’t have Ghostery). ---
**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2014, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-on-board-performance/694442/202 "2014-10-09T01:27:12Z")
Zapped just now. It’s not the worst problem ever, but it does suck and makes reading and navigating the site super frustrating, especially since it’s at least once a week. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2014, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-on-board-performance/694442/203 "2014-10-09T08:28:34Z")
And zapped again, for the second time in two days. Yesterday I was zapped at home using Firefox. Right now I’m on a friend’s computer, and he doesn’t even have Firefox, so this time I’m zapped on a different computer and using IE. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2014, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-on-board-performance/694442/204 "2014-10-09T08:34:08Z")
> [@SiamSam222](#): > > And zapped again, for the second time in two days. > > Yesterday I was zapped at home using Firefox. Right now I’m on a friend’s computer, and he doesn’t even have Firefox, so this time I’m zapped on a different computer and using IE. Actually it’s been several times this week. The frequency is definitely picking up, and on different computers and browsers. I just don’t believe the problem is on my end. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2014, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-on-board-performance/694442/205 "2014-10-09T14:31:27Z")
And zapped again. Second time today. Back home now and back on Firefox. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2014, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-on-board-performance/694442/206 "2014-10-13T02:43:09Z")
And zapped again. First time in four days. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2014, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-on-board-performance/694442/207 "2014-10-13T16:08:20Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > I’ve not been paying attention to when the board says I last logged in but I have noticed that, on occasion, every single thread is greyed out as if there are zero new posts anywhere. When I haven’t been here in at least 8 hours. > > Doesn’t happen to me frequently enough to be a problem so I never thought to report it. Just happened. Went from MPSIMS to IMHO and my last visited reset itself to today at 12:01 PM. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2014, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-on-board-performance/694442/208 "2014-10-13T17:08:50Z")
New problem: I cannot subscribe to the **We need more than 5 minutes for edit!!!** thread in ATMB. I’m supposed to be subscribed automatically to any thread I post in, but that didn’t work this time. And I tried going into Thread Tools and clicking on Subscribe to This Thread, but still no dice. This has happened to me once or twice over the years. Very rare but here it is again. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2014, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-on-board-performance/694442/209 "2014-10-13T17:16:05Z")
> [@SiamSam222](#): > > New problem: I cannot subscribe to the **We need more than 5 minutes for edit!!!** thread in ATMB. I’m supposed to be subscribed automatically to any thread I post in, but that didn’t work this time. And I tried going into Thread Tools and clicking on Subscribe to This Thread, but still no dice. > > This has happened to me once or twice over the years. Very rare but here it is again. When something really weird and out of the ordinary happens like this it tends to be a browser issue. And in a lot of cases – like in almost all cases where this kind of wacky thing goes on, rebooting your system usually fixes the situation and things go back to normal. Did you try that in this case? Is this situation still persisting even in the face of a system reboot? ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2014, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-on-board-performance/694442/210 "2014-10-13T18:40:08Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > When something really weird and out of the ordinary happens like this it tends to be a browser issue. And in a lot of cases – like in almost all cases where this kind of wacky thing goes on, rebooting your system usually fixes the situation and things go back to normal. I agree. It’s generally not even worth asking the question until you have rebooted. As for the larger issue, I think we can merge Sam’s accounts back together. That isn’t the issue. I’d wait for a consensus before doing it though. ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2014, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-on-board-performance/694442/211 "2014-10-14T00:04:24Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > As for the larger issue, I think we can merge Sam’s accounts back together. That isn’t the issue. I’d wait for a consensus before doing it though. Agreed. I was thinking about posting this the other day - I think we’ve learned what we can from this experiment, which is that it isn’t tied to the account itself. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2014, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-on-board-performance/694442/212 "2014-10-14T15:03:09Z")
Somewhere between the Pit and MPSIMS, my last visited went from yesterday at 7:21 PM to today at 10:46 AM, then when I tried coming to ATMB to report that I started getting 503 errors. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2014, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-on-board-performance/694442/213 "2014-10-14T15:22:48Z")
Everything seems really slow this morning… ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2014, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-on-board-performance/694442/214 "2014-10-14T15:24:00Z")
Same slowness here, coupled with “503” reports for both the board and the main site. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2014, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-on-board-performance/694442/215 "2014-10-14T16:06:22Z")
Did **SiamSiam22** get a new username because he was getting zapped so many times? And people wouldn’t open threads anymore because at least on that topic his posts began to … fail to grip, shall we say. I thought getting new usernames was an unspeakably impossible thing here.\* Unless it’s a different guy, with different eggs. In which case, howdy. \*If so, never mind. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2014, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-on-board-performance/694442/216 "2014-10-14T16:11:07Z")
Page sat spinning it’s wheels loading on Safar/iPad this morning. Switched to minimal internal browser of 1Password, in like Flynn. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2014, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-on-board-performance/694442/217 "2014-10-14T16:23:47Z")
> [@Leo\_Bloom](#): > > Did **SiamSiam22** get a new username because he was getting zapped so many times? And people wouldn’t open threads anymore because at least on that topic his posts began to … fail to grip, shall we say. > > I thought getting new usernames was an unspeakably impossible thing here.\* Unless it’s a different guy, with different eggs. > > In which case, howdy. > > \*If so, never mind. Ah. It’s discussed and announced in a different thread. (Cite needed.) Hard to keep track of the players without a scorecard. I don’t mean to be a pain, but I think that action, and the relevant back story, should have been posted by the Mods as a unique thread–the same way administrative announcements are made about who gets banned, etc. Particularly considering the enduring interest/importance of the topic in so many threads–such as this one–and that mods and Jerry Himself, I presume, took made such a rare action. I mean, it was a drift even in that thread. Good luck with your new persona, **SiamSiam**. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2014, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-on-board-performance/694442/218 "2014-10-15T02:57:01Z")
> [@SiamSam222](#): > > New problem: I cannot subscribe to the **We need more than 5 minutes for edit!!!** thread in ATMB. I’m supposed to be subscribed automatically to any thread I post in, but that didn’t work this time. And I tried going into Thread Tools and clicking on Subscribe to This Thread, but still no dice. > > This has happened to me once or twice over the years. Very rare but here it is again. > [@TubaDiva](#): > > When something really weird and out of the ordinary happens like this it tends to be a browser issue. And in a lot of cases – like in almost all cases where this kind of wacky thing goes on, rebooting your system usually fixes the situation and things go back to normal. > > Did you try that in this case? Is this situation still persisting even in the face of a system reboot? Yes, I not only tried once, I’ve tried several times in several sessions. But I tried again just now, and now it works! Weird. But it only worked once I posted in it again – clicking yet again on Subscribe to This Thread under Thread Tools didn’t work. > [@Leo\_Bloom](#): > > Ah. It’s discussed and announced in a different thread. (Cite needed.) It’s discussed in this thread too, from about post #79. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2014, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-on-board-performance/694442/219 "2014-10-15T07:56:46Z")
Zapped again. This time I am at a different location in Bangkok, I am using a different computer, and I am using IE instead of the normal Firefox that I use at home. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-on-board-performance/694442/220 "2014-10-16T14:42:03Z")
Zapped again. This time at home on my regular PC and using Firefox. I did not get zapped this morning my time, so that’s two zaps in three times over two days, using different browsers on different computers at different locations. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-on-board-performance/694442.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-thread-on-board-performance/694442.md?page=12)