What is wrong with the site? (Please read updated post #1)

josip · 18-02-2021 4:09pm

Site slow to load for me, getting content that I read 4 hours flagged as 'new'.
Firefox 85.0.2 on Win 10.
(Not looking for any help, just flagging it in case the same for others)

Boards.ie: Niamh · 18-02-2021 4:22pm

Thanks josip, something is definitely amiss at the moment we're getting some blank pages when navigating to a new page as well so Dave is looking into it at the moment.

josip · 18-02-2021 4:39pm

Boards.ie: Niamh wrote: »

Thanks josip, something is definitely amiss at the moment we're getting some blank pages when navigating to a new page as well so Dave is looking into it at the moment.

The boards.ie server right now...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc7xF17O-Ck

HeidiHeidi · 18-02-2021 4:43pm

When I'm on the main home page and click on the arrow to go to the next unread post, I'm getting sent to random earlier pages in the thread. Not every time, but enough to notice.

And within a thread, when I click to go to the next page of posts, it just sends me back to an earlier post on the page I was already on. Again not every time.

I noticed these glitches today.

On desktop via Firefox.

Boards.ie: Niamh · 18-02-2021 4:50pm

josip wrote: »

The boards.ie server right now...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc7xF17O-Ck

:D That would be fairly creepy!!

Boards.ie: Niamh · 18-02-2021 4:52pm

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

When I'm on the main home page and click on the arrow to go to the next unread post, I'm getting sent to random earlier pages in the thread. Not every time, but enough to notice.

And within a thread, when I click to go to the next page of posts, it just sends me back to an earlier post on the page I was already on. Again not every time.

I noticed these glitches today.

On desktop via Firefox.

Things should be back to normal now, if you continue to notice these glitches just let me know it's still happening here. Thanks.

18-02-2021 5:44pm

Just getting a bunch of previous pages when going to the next page, looks like the servers are out of sync again.

HeidiHeidi · 18-02-2021 5:55pm

I've got the previous page thing again once or twice since I last posted, and pages are incredible show to load for the last hour or so both on desktop/Firefox and touch site on mobile/Chrome

SuperTortoise · 21-02-2021 2:08pm

Hi, when viewing this site on mobile it only displays text, no images or pictures, it does this on both Chrome and Firefox, deleted cache and cookies and that hasn't fixed the issue, any suggestions thanks.

Boards.ie: Niamh · 22-02-2021 11:16am

Hi Supertortoise, are you on m.boards.ie by any chance? If so, please switch to using touch.boards.ie for mobile browsing.
Thanks!

SuperTortoise · 22-02-2021 6:46pm

Thanks for your reply, yes it's the touch site i'm on.

Idjit · 23-02-2021 7:31pm

SuperTortoise wrote: »

Hi, when viewing this site on mobile it only displays text, no images or pictures, it does this on both Chrome and Firefox, deleted cache and cookies and that hasn't fixed the issue, any suggestions thanks.

I'm having the exact same issue and also on the touch site. Cleared cache and cookies and it's still happening.

Boards.ie: Niamh · 24-02-2021 11:19am

Can one of you please send a screenshot of this issue? Thanks

Seth Brundle · 25-02-2021 1:12pm

Niamh, a different non-priority issue that I've noticed and hopefully might be something small is when you go to edit a post on a PC, even if you can see your post fully before you click the Edit button, the post jumps up and you can't see the top part of what you wish to edit (see the image below).
Not sure if it is to do with the anchor reference on the button click or what but I'll leave it with you guys.
(I'm using chrome)

Tork · 25-02-2021 3:05pm

Is anybody else finding the desktop version of the site slow today? I've cleared out my browser etc. but it's still sluggish. When the homepage page loads, it takes several seconds for the links to become live. Then when a thread loads, the grey bar that tells you what forum you're in vanishes off the screen.

Edit: I discovered it was a browser extension that was doing the damage. Sorry about that folks

:o

Seth Brundle · 25-02-2021 5:46pm

It's working fine for me Tork

Idjit · 25-02-2021 9:00pm

Boards.ie: Niamh wrote: »

Can one of you please send a screenshot of this issue? Thanks

Hi Niamh,

I've taken a screenshot of the issue, attached. The site is completely unusable on my phone at the moment. Currently on my laptop posting this.

I hope the issue can be resolved soon.

Thank you.

The Continental Op · 26-02-2021 11:55am

On the talk to forums is the link that's part of the number of thanks supposed to do something. If I click the first thanks link in this thread https://www.boards.ie/ttfthread/2058120779 then it does nothing. I thought it was supposed to list the people that had thanked the thread?

The Continental Op · 27-02-2021 6:19pm

Am I the only one experiencing really slow load times (like 10 seconds or more) for all pages on the site?

Curse These Metal Hands · 27-02-2021 6:47pm

The Continental Op wrote: »

Am I the only one experiencing really slow load times (like 10 seconds or more) for all pages on the site?

Yeah it's painfully slow today.

The Continental Op · 27-02-2021 6:49pm

Curse These Metal Hands wrote: »

Yeah it's painfully slow today.

Its speeded up again now but just before I posted it was like back in the days of 56k dial up.

JP Liz V1 · 28-02-2021 5:35pm

Yes I'm finding it slow today loading and posting

thesandeman · 28-02-2021 5:49pm

It's crawling for the last half hour.

ShaneU · 28-02-2021 5:51pm

Every site is slow for me. It think it's virgin broadband at fault.

HeidiHeidi · 28-02-2021 5:52pm

Site is working perfectly for me - main site on Firefox (via Digiweb broadband!)

The Continental Op · 28-02-2021 5:53pm

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Site is working perfectly for me - main site on Firefox (via Digiweb broadband!)

OK again now but it dipped out a few minutes back, not deadly slow but definitely left me sat waiting for pages to load.

Spear · 28-02-2021 5:55pm

Looks like a Cloudflare issue, i saw another site with them experiencing the same issues.

28-02-2021 6:07pm

ShaneU wrote: »

Every site is slow for me. It think it's virgin broadband at fault.

Re VM, I tweeted Virgin recently about my broadband having slowed to a crawl, they split the router and now greatly improved.

titan18 · 28-02-2021 6:24pm

It's painful for me alright. Seems to work better on 4g than WiFi but it's the only site that's slow on wifi for me so I still think it's a board issue

Bummer1234 · 28-02-2021 6:28pm

Website is painfully slow for me too on vodafone so i think its not virgin media specific.

Seve OB · 28-02-2021 6:29pm

Painfully slow here in the last half hour or so.
Been slow all weekend.
Both WiFi and mobile network so not a virgin issue.
Actually unusable in the last few mins, took me near 20 mins to post this!

Hotblack Desiato · 28-02-2021 6:53pm

No problems for me at all

(desktop site)

New Home · 28-02-2021 6:55pm

No problems for me, either - Firefox, full site, tethering with 48.

y0ssar1an22 · 28-02-2021 6:57pm

working fine on phone for me. computer...not so much

Bummer1234 · 28-02-2021 6:57pm

Bummer1234 wrote: »

Website is painfully slow for me too on vodafone so i think its not virgin media specific.

Still very slow on Vodafone FTTC (on the WiFi) but don’t have the same issue at all on gomo 3g/4g.

The Continental Op · 28-02-2021 6:58pm

Lost it completely just before 6pm the home page just didn't load for about 5 minutes. Nothing wrong with my fiber connection (Vodafone - is that a trend?) and a speed test showed it was working at full speed.

Tork · 28-02-2021 6:59pm

Site is crawling on my phone when it's on WiFi (Vodafone....) but working fine when on 4G. This is only affecting boards.

ShaneU · 28-02-2021 7:03pm

ShaneU wrote: »

Every site is slow for me. It think it's virgin broadband at fault.

Nope it's the site, wouldn't load the last hour

Bummer1234 · 28-02-2021 7:03pm

Seems to be back to normal on Vodafone WiFi for me now.

fullstop · 28-02-2021 7:04pm

Really slow on wifi and 5G all weekend.

28-02-2021 7:10pm

Touch site is sometimes unusable this weekend

Boards.ie: Niamh · 01-03-2021 12:46pm

Sorry about that guys, it seems to be back to normal speeds today from what I can see but if it happens again let us know.

JP Liz V1 · 03-03-2021 5:42pm

Slow on mobile today

Boards.ie: Niamh · 03-03-2021 5:45pm

Someone else just reported the same on Twitter JP but not seeing any issues here. Are you getting any errors when trying to access anything or is it simply taking longer than it should?

HeidiHeidi · 03-03-2021 5:58pm

Boards.ie: Niamh wrote: »

Someone else just reported the same on Twitter JP but not seeing any issues here. Are you getting any errors when trying to access anything or is it simply taking longer than it should?

The site stopped loading altogether for me for a while in the last hour, other than that it was glacially slow. Both on full and touch sites.

Seems to be ok again now though.

HeidiHeidi · 03-03-2021 6:36pm

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

The site stopped loading altogether for me for a while in the last hour, other than that it was glacially slow. Both on full and touch sites.

Seems to be ok again now though.

I spoke too soon.... slowing to a crawl again.

Full site, on laptop.

Seve OB · 03-03-2021 7:14pm

ive noticed over the last few days it is not bringing me to the most recent new post on a thread
it tells me there are new posts on a thread and i go in and....... nothing new!

The Continental Op · 09-03-2021 1:07pm

I seem to have an issue the last couple of days where I don't get any page loading. Multiple tries and nothing not even a timed out error?

Now it may be a local issue as it happens after I have left a page open for say 30 minutes (DNS records timed out) and then refresh the page or click logo to go back to home page.

Internet certainly working OK (speedtest.net showing 60Mbps) and other pages on other sites left open refresh and link perfectly.

15-03-2021 3:37pm

https://www.ucd.ie/masters/?utm_source=Programmatic&utm_medium=Paid_Display&utm_campaign=Masters_2021_General

Instead of the presumed ad at the top

19-03-2021 2:39am

Weeks and weeks of random slowness. The only website in 2021 that is popular and runs like it's hosted on a raspberry pi.

What is wrong with the site? (Please read updated post #1)

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