Boards.ie intermittently taking a long time to load

WildRosie

Hi. I hope this is the correct place for this. Throughout today, the site has been taking ages to load, or else not loading properly e.g. images etc not in their correct places or not loading at all. While the page is loading, it says connecting to b static at the bottom of my screen. It's not happening all the time but on and off through the day. My internet connection is fine and I'm not having trouble with other sites.

Same problem here, but mine is "Waiting for b.scorecardresearch.com" The image of my avatar in the top right isn't loading either.

Quazzie

I'm having a related problem I think. When I open a webpage on Chrome the favicon doesn't show up until the page is fully loaded. Whe it's loading I have the little blue rotating arc. This usually lasts under 5 seconds for a normal or up to 15 seconds for a page that contains a lot of GIFs for example. When I open Boards the page loads, but the rotating arc that signals a load page never goes and the Boards favicon doesn't appear.

FYI the only thing that seems to be left to load on the whole page is my little avatar that appears beside my name in the top right corner. That doesn't seem to ever load.

Rovi

I'm getting similar behaviour with Boards.ie pages in tabs in Chrome.
No favicon, spinning 'loading' graphic, no mini-avatar image.
The browser is displaying this message in the bottom left corner: "Waiting for avatar.b-static.net..."

Other sites appear to be behaving correctly.

Czarcasm

Well thank feck it wasn't just my phone then. Boards touch site also seems to be very slow to load.

The spinner Alvin put in a while back works fine, but the loading of the page itself then after the spinner is very slow.


Device: Nokia N8
Browser: Opera Mobile 12

Pawwed Rig

I'm getting same as Rovi yesterday and this morning.

Site still works though

loyatemu

same here - b-static.net was causing issues before and the admins said they were going to stop using it...

Tar.Aldarion

it took me about 20 minutes to open this page and complain.

Myrddin

Yeah it seems to be getting worse now

mike65

Ditto that

Opera 12

scoobydoobie

Also having problems opening boards.ie, all other sites are fine.

Everything but the front page is hanging for 2-3 minutes on Firefox, Chrome and Opera. Pretty much unusable.

mike65

I've found that sometimes you can beat the block by slow clicking links, press and.....release.

Scorpion Sting

Having the same problem here, pages taking a lot longer to load.

Fresh Pots

Same here. Thought I'd f'ed things up yesterday when I changed a few settings on my router! Glad to see it only a boards problem.

8kvscdpglqnyr4

Same here - using Chrome.
Waiting for b.scorecardresearch.com ...
Most of the site loads, but the javascript that controls the menus doesn't load.

boards.ie works fine from home, not from work.
Looks like b.scorecardresearch.com is blocked here in work.

8kvscdpglqnyr4

Quick hack seems to have done the trick:

Seems like I can't resolve "scorecardresearch.com" from work ... our IT dept have blocked it.
Edit this file in notepad:
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts

Add these 2 lines to the end:
127.0.0.1 scorecardresearch.com
127.0.0.1 b.scorecardresearch.com

Done.

Myrddin

It's fine for me now, & has been since last night

Rovi

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Same for me.

muffler

Ditto ^