Why is this site so SLOW.

youtube!

As above it takes like 30 seconds to load a page no problem loading other sites ,I don't see any announcements ?

NSAman

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DismissHi all, we apologise for the ongoing issues that are resulting in slow load times and unresponsive errors at times. We are working to get to the bottom of these issues. We understand that this is frustrating, but we thank you for your patience as we deal with this and we are sorry for the disruption.

super_furry

It's the Chinese. They're using up all the bandwidth to spread mind viruses via their 5G infrastructure.

Edgware

So slow and we all have such important matters we want to post

Tokyo

There was an announcement earlier believe.

There's also a thread running in feedback here.

mikhail

Bad wiring. The website's backend server and the owner's shower can't be run at the same time without blowing a fuse. Thankfully, such interruptions are pretty rare.

JeffKenna

mike_ie wrote: »

There was an announcement earlier believe.

There's also a thread running in feedback here.

No use posting a link it takes too long to load.

NSAman

Will whoever is running the servers cycle a little faster ....

ablelocks

NSAman wrote: »

Will whoever is running the servers cycle a little faster ....

if you didn't intercept every post then the site might run a bit faster, Mr NSAman.

iamstop

I thought it was just and something to do with being in Canada. Guess it's site wide.

Poor Uncle Tom

super_furry wrote: »

It's the Chinese. They're using up all the bandwidth to spread mind viruses via their 5G infrastructure.

naw, they're just using the servers to deliver the take-aways.

One More Toy

Using Chrome on mobile, takes about 30 seconds for a page to load, I'm on 3 network. Is it just me? Any ideas?

mikhail

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2058074744

Mam of 4

It'll probably go into total meltdown when Leo speaks....

august12

One More Toy wrote: »

Using Chrome on mobile, takes about 30 seconds for a page to load, I'm on 3 network. Is it just me? Any ideas?

Same here, I'm with a different network but it's the only site I've issues with, it started last night and same all day, I love boards but this is wrecking my head.

Better Than Christ

It's working fine on one of my laptops and really slow on the other. I'm using the same browser (Chrome) on both.

freshpopcorn

Apparently, the staff are busy preparing a TikTok and can't fix it at the moment!

Badly Drunk Boy

youtube! wrote: »

As above it takes like 30 seconds to load a page no problem loading other sites ,I don't see any announcements ?

Everyone in the world is on the internet? (Okay, but that doesn't help...)

branie2

It's annoying, alright!

appledrop

For last two days I haven't been able to use site at all as taking about 5 mins to load a page.

I cleared all cache + opened up in firefox + working good now for me anyway.

Say my name

Better Than Christ wrote: »

It's working fine on one of my laptops and really slow on the other. I'm using the same browser (Chrome) on both.

Is the faster one a Huawei?

ShatterProof

And when it does load you have to press refresh so that you don’t reply to a thread that’s 14 years old.

Vita nova

I think it's a virus.

NSAman

Vita nova wrote: »

I think it's a virus.

Download virus?

Vita nova

NSAman wrote: »

Download virus?

Ok, maybe it was a bad attempt at a joke, as in a knock-on effect of the Coronavirus crisis.

bazza1

Bleedin' 5G masts!

Kylta

I will apologise to my phone now because I know it wasn't its fault for me being frustrated yesterday. Some of the post would've got there quicker in the postal service

rks

Is it just me or Boards.ie really slow for couple of days?

Happy4all

I thought my internet was acting up this morning but soon realised it was only Boards that was crawling

Montage of Feck

The dark web boards site is hogging all the bandwidth.

Mickeroo

rks wrote: »

Is it just me or Boards.ie really slow for couple of days?

Only seems to be affecting the touch site. It's been dog slow for about three days now.

rks

Good to know its not just me.

Who is sucking the life out of Boards? :P

Esel

Current thread:

https://touch.boards.ie/thread/2058074697/1

MOH

Mickeroo wrote: »

Only seems to be affecting the touch site. It's been dog slow for about three days now.

No, I'm on desktop and it's crawling

rks

Mickeroo wrote: »

Only seems to be affecting the touch site. It's been dog slow for about three days now.

Not really, I am on laptop and its the same.

BohsCeltic

rks wrote: »

Not really, I am on laptop and its the same.

Same here. Been like that the last few day's.

Kermit.de.frog

They had faster dial up internet in the 90's than this, i'm told.

NSAman

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

They had faster dial up internet in the 90's than this, i'm told.

I can attest...;)


Feckin hell its slow!

Sarn

Thursday evening and Friday morning it was appallingly slow on my phone. However, since lunchtime Friday it’s back to normal.

Esel

Use the Feedback Forum thread I linked above - see my recent post there (not saying it's the 'cure' or anything...).

Tork

It reminds me of the time I had one of those 3 "broadband" dongles in the mid noughties. It was fine during the daytime when nobody was online but once the evening time came, the contention ratio shot through the roof. Dial-up on a 14.4kb modem was faster than that.

the beer revolu

It's gone off the scale slow today. I deleted my cookies and cache and it's made it worse on both chrome and Samsung internet, on phone.

Pretty much unusable, now.
Farewell!

chooseusername

It's fine on Firefox

bubbles o hara

chooseusername wrote: »

It's fine on Firefox

Not on mine, it takes almost a minute to load the site, and the same for each page I want to view.

Vita nova

For me, it was incredibly slow over the weekend but it's back to normal now.

blueser

Painfully slow on the mobile, but fine on the laptop. Both of them are on the same WiFi in the house. Attachments are slow to load on both laptop and mobile.

*edit* and switching over to 4G on the phone doesn't help.

Atlantic Dawn

chooseusername wrote: »

It's fine on Firefox

Do you have Adblocker installed?

gammygils

Well I'm relieved. I thought me oul phone was getting even more fukked :rolleyes:

Tork

There doesn't appear to be any fixed patterns to what will and won't help view the site. Doing a major clear-out of the cache/cookies on your browser can help, as can trying incognito mode. None of these are foolproof answers though. The boards overlords know there is a problem - they posted on Twitter on 1st May "Hi all, we apologise for the ongoing issues that are resulting in slow load times for pages / unresponsive errors. We are aware of the issues, but unfortunately we don't have a timescale for when a fix will be in place. Sorry for the disruption."

So far there is no obvious evidence that this is being treated as a priority issue or that anyone is trying to fix it. The site has gone to shyte in recent weeks and nobody seems to have tried to fix it. In light of those awful page loading times, being redirected to 20 year old threads on the Touch site is a first world problem. Is boards still part of the same media group as thejournal.ie which is now in trouble? I could be wrong but I have a suspicion that a lot of the behind the scenes people have left and it's now running with a skeleton staff. They don't have a clue how to fix these latest problem. Maybe it suits them to run boards into the ground?

chooseusername

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Do you have Adblocker installed?

No,
I only use Firefox for boards, and suffer the ads,
Chrome is my default browser and have Ablocker on that.

Edit;
All good here now too,on Chrome,
can now get rid of Firefox.

OnYerPike

Everything just returned to normal for me a few minutes ago. Happy days!!!