Bugs On Wednesday 20/05

Post count is catching up now...

Our site has basically all the same problems.

One thing not listed... many members are saying things are really slow on my forum. It takes longer to do things than on other sites. I have heard this many times throughout the four months I have had my forum. Some say they can't use my forum at all because their computers have problems with it.

I'm having the same issue with the ViewMark not working, both yesterday and now this morning.

@Breezey :

More than 80 categories.... Wow.

Our site has basically all the same problems.
One thing not listed... many members are saying things are really slow on my forum. It takes longer to do things than on other sites. I have heard this many times throughout the four months I have had my forum. Some say they can't use my forum at all because their computers have problems with it.

-breezey

Not in reference to the recent bug, but concerning slowness. Since I have Dial up I can spot quickly when large images or slow cross links happen. I note that getting your Blog listing to load is very slow because the linked images are large for D/L. and some of the sites respond very slow.

Your Forum Category page and Theme loads reasonable for me though it is a very large. You might want to check that images are stored at Lefora rather than at a image hosting site since this can delay loading if that site is slow to respond. Check to see what format the images are, ie. png, jpg, gif (avoid windows format images) You might also ask those with extreme slow loading what kind of connection they have as well as the system they are running including Browser. People with slow connections like myself can turn off images for faster viewing of a site. (in Firefox preferences: Automatically load images in the Content tab)

I'm with you, Matt. I'm on mobile broadband (which sucks). Breezey, I didn't notice your site being slower than any other. I agree with your users, it's their computers that are the problem.

As a workaround for the viewmark, make use of the recent posts widget. If you have a busy forum, increase the number of recent posts that it shows.

Coloneljack,  lol

I tried having less. It wasn't good! Are you maybe thinking that is why my forum is slow?

It's got to be a factor in the rendering.... but I can't see it having a huge impact. Having large amounts of images and flash embedded will probably slow the pages down...

I tried having less. It wasn't good!

-breezey

15 are empty...

You might want to check that images are stored at Lefora rather than at a image hosting site since this can delay loading if that site is slow to respond.

-mattb4

For my themes, I've found that off-site is better than Lefora - nothing worse than waiting for the BG or buttons to appear. Lefora hosting is fine for in-post images - not fast enough for CSS themes. That's my tuppence-worth.

Fifteen are empty. Good point.  I am working on that.

The problems have been going on since my forum was first started. Some say their computers crash, some say they can't use the site, others say it's really slow when they are on my forum, but not anywhere else.  It has been a constant thing, but seems even worse in the last month or so.

I can navigate your forum just fine - it must be your users' computers, or something on them.

Coloneljack, thank you.
It's good to have someone else say that, besides me. lol
Most of the time, I don't have a problem.

Now 'Move topic' isn't working... it's just duplicating the post in the new category - so the topic admin panel is now totally broked. Someone needs to get a new hamster for the servers. Anyone got a spare hamster?

For my themes, I've found that off-site is better than Lefora - nothing worse than waiting for the BG or buttons to appear. Lefora hosting is fine for in-post images - not fast enough for CSS themes. That's my tuppence-worth.

-coloneljack

That depends on the Off-site image service, some are pretty bad for loading. I tend to stick to Lefora to eliminate that as a cause. However Breezey's site is not impossible even with Dialup. So I would concur that it most likely is a user issue. Nice Animated Header image BTW.

Seems to be getting slower here, too...

And a bad gateway too.

Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamster !

Mattb4, thank you. lol  That header image is always changing!! lol

Today, seems all Lefora forums really are slow.
Could we try something other than hamsters? 

2 hamsters?

I was thinking more on the line of guinea pigs.. you know.. experiment and see how they work out. That's what a guinea pig is for. It can't hurt any, can it?