I’m sure this question has been asked before but when I tried to do a lookup I sat there for three minutes waiting and nothing was returned. This is the only board I pay to post on and it is by far the slowest I have ever experienced. Sometimes the pages take more than a minute to load. I use another board that gets 500-600 posts an hour yes hour at peak periods and they do it with banners. Pages load in a second and a half.
Shouldn’t paying members at least get bandwidth priority? And yes I have broadband.
People will jump your shit for asking, but I agree with you. It is faster than it used to be, but still the slowest board I post to. It’s frustrating. And forget about doing searches or anything, then you’ll be waiting all day.
I think we have a right to constructive criticism, especially now that we are paying for the privilege of posting here.
I’d say if it’s very old and someone is still bringing it up then it hasn’t been dealt with.
In any event, if this is the case I guess no one will be doing anything about it.
In my defense, I did try see if anyone had posted the question and kept timing out.
I’ll consider the case closed.
By ‘dealt with’ I mean a satisfactory answer is given. Asking it again is just ignoring the answer. But if you did look for the answer before asking then that’s ok (ish). I am just saying why people might ‘jump your shit’.
Actually, ever since we’ve moved to pay and they’ve done some more enhancements I’ve only timed out a couple times and loading had been good. Compare that with the state of this board when I first met it two years ago and it’s amazing. I guess I’m feeling lucky that my posts haven’t been gobbled lately.
Basically, the server is overloaded, and there’s not much that can be done. No one’s profiting off the board–the registration fees just offset the loss that the Reader incurs running this. And since they’re already losing money on it, they don’t really feel the need to throw more money at it.
We’ve had a couple server upgrades, and upgrading to the current version of the messageboard software definitely helped, but every time the boards become faster, the traffic rises enough to slow them back down. What’s to be done?
I don’t know how or why the board loads faster for some than for others.
I’m one of those for whom the system is slower than it was before it sold memberships. Often it times out–that is, if it isn’t taking as long as ten minutes just to open a page. Never does it run fast for me.
How does one get to be one of the lucky ones for whom it loads fast?
To get to the bottom of this, we need to be scientific. We should put everyone who has fast load times (the SDMB “haves”) in a room and see what they all have in common, beyond the obvious (e.g. devastating good looks, unparalleled brilliance and wit, etc.) Maybe we all have a vestigal tail or something.
Alternatively, we could just seal the door of the room and see if load times improve for everyone else…
For me, the board seems to be loading much better than when I first joined. And that was when I still had cable modem. Now I’m stuck with dialup (where’s the massive raspberry blowing smilie?, or the valley girl sticking her finger down her throat smilie?).
At any rate, it’s now slow, but only because of dialup, it’s very steady and reliable, and I haven’t lost a post to hungry hamsters for a long time.
