New forum MUCH slower for anyone else?

[Bazooka Joe]

I like the new look of the stuff at the top, but it's really slowed down the forum a ton. I can't even scroll on the page without lag. Also some 600 items are loaded when coming on the forums and before every post, which slows it down a lot too.

Is this normal and acting the same for everyone else? I don't think it's my connection, other pages load the same...

[Carpe Diem]

Running fine for me, Very fast actually.

[Derek]

Give it a few hours... the server is trying to catch up to all the new requests for images and new code that's in the header. Once it's been loaded everything should be fine. For the most part it's the images server that's slowing stuff down currently.

[input]

It's fine for me now. I thought the frames were broken for a minute. It's stable now.

[RaTeD]

yea it is so slow...i have to download 400+items to load the page lol

[dmdsoftware2]

I'm shocked there was no announcement etc. The last time - which is a few months ago - there was that thread that had tease pictures of the new look.

[BB88]

same here, every page load with 300-600 items. I hope that will improve when things are settled. Even scrolling up/down the page is jerky. Mind you I'm using IE7 :lol:

[Lone_Prodigy]

Working fine for me. Firefox ftw. :)

Getting used to "My Profile" replacing "User Control Panel."

[bubble.tea]

where the HECK is ctrl panel????

arghhhhhhhh....

or did it return to how it originally was by clicking on ones username?

[Derek]

I'm shocked there was no announcement etc. The last time - which is a few months ago - there was that thread that had tease pictures of the new look.

It's a cosmetic change. Small header redesign, that's all. The other redesign we did was MUCH larger and added a lot of different features. This time it's cosmetic to make it easier to browse and it actually takes up less space too.

[bubble.tea]

ok found.

click my profile.

[dmdsoftware2]

New look is much better.

[Happy13178]

I like the changes, but super-slow for me too. 300-600 items loading on each page, thought my Internet was being slow, but still able to DL at avg 950KB/s, using IE7 fully updated.

[Cospa]

Looks quite cool but it is kinda slow for me as well.

[grant]

crazy slow... why does it now have to download over 300 items per page?? That's not a server issues it's a design issue.

[bubble.tea]

hmmmm...I just got on 40mins ago.

ZERO speed change from my end. Using FF *latest version*.

I even TRIED to overload my browser by opening simultaneously 20 tabs ALL RFD threads....no delay. noticeable or not. Wish I knew what you were talking about :(.

[elty]

my rowser is trying to load 500+ items on every page!

[bubble.tea]

astounding.

take a screen pic pls.

I SEE NOTHING!!! Just click, and it loads. ZAP!

Literally, UNDER 1.5s from the time I hit., POST to when the page reloads, and updates.

[Tha_Doggg]

my rowser is trying to load 500+ items on every page!

Same with mine...it takes forever to load a page...

[Derek]

my rowser is trying to load 500+ items on every page!

What browser are you on?

I have no clue what the items might be but I would suggest you clear your cache or shift+reload the page and give it some time. Server still needs to catch up with all the new requests.

Please be patient.

[soupnazi]

same here, every page load with 300-600 items. I hope that will improve when things are settled. Even scrolling up/down the page is jerky. Mind you I'm using IE7 :lol:

Same here and I'm using IE6. It acts like my PC is running low on ram and is quite chunky/slow. I'll give it a few hours...good to know it's not just me.

[HunkaHunkaBurningLove]

Ditto on the downloading 300-500 items per page is making IE7 slow down to a crawl here.

[bubble.tea]

What browser are you on?

I have no clue what the items might be but I would suggest you clear your cache or shift+reload the page and give it some time. Server still needs to catch up with all the new requests.

Please be patient.

FYI., I did this 10mins ago. and the top banner reloaded properly.
Speed didn't change though....zippy as usual.

[Derek]

If anyone can be more specific about what the browser is trying to download we'd appreciate it. I'm not sure what these items are and it's loading very smoothly over here.

[bubble.tea]

Cuz I love RFD, and want to help., I thought to load up RFD in IE7.

BLOODY HELL. DEREK WHAT THE HELL IS THAT http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/petawawa/smilies/ohmygod.gifhttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/petawawa/smilies/ohmygod.gif1476ITEMShttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/petawawa/smilies/ohmygod.gifhttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/petawawa/smilies/ohmygod.gif that were loading in the system tray????
http://xs218.xs.to/xs218/07355/asdfasdfasdff.PNG
^\-----WHAT THE HECK!!!???

MIND YOU, it only took 30-50s to load it all.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/petawawa/smilies/mod.gif

[JK_85]

Cuz I love RFD, and want to help., I thought to load up RFD in IE7.

BLOODY HELL. DEREK WHAT THE HELL IS THAT http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/petawawa/smilies/ohmygod.gifhttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/petawawa/smilies/ohmygod.gif1476ITEMShttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/petawawa/smilies/ohmygod.gifhttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/petawawa/smilies/ohmygod.gif that were loading in the system tray????
http://xs218.xs.to/xs218/07355/asdfasdfasdff.PNG
^\-----WHAT THE HECK!!!???

MIND YOU, it only took 30-50s to load it all.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/petawawa/smilies/mod.gif


Similiar Experience for me as well :( I'm on IE7 too

[Bazooka Joe]

I'm using IE 7.0. Fully updated. At the bottom of the IE window (the grey bar with information in it about zoom, connection, download status etc) it says:

(XXX items remaining) Waiting for http://www.redflagdeals.com/forums/newreply.php?do=newreply.php?do=newreply&noquote=1&p=5555694...


XXX has been as high as 611 that I've got a screen shot of. Takes a good 5 seconds to download and proceed with the page. It does this every page reload, every new topic, every click on a thread or forum, etc.

I've got screens, but can't access any sites that would host them due to Websense :o

I've cleared all temporary internet files, the cache, browser history, etc. Still same thing.

I don't know how to find out any more information about what it's trying to load, can you tell me what I could do to figure that out?

[Derek]

Okay, thanks. Got it. It's an IE 7 related issue, and only in the forums. Go to the Deals and Coupons pages and it's fine, correct?

[Barayolayosa]

Okay, thanks. Got it. It's an IE 7 related issue, and only in the forums. Go to the Deals and Coupons pages and it's fine, correct?

Does it on those pages as well for me

[Bazooka Joe]

It also appears in every one of the top "tabs" except for "Coupons". They have differing numbers of XXX items remaining, "home" and "deals" appear to be ~300, "Freebies and Features" 400-500.

[Nikita]

Hmm, I'm using IE6 and no problems at all!

[DaVibe]

On the main page, I'm loading over 600 images and on posts, loading 400+ pages ...

I noticed the difference right away ... and the change in speed, that's for sure. I don't know if I'm liking this, it's just running slow altogether and I'm on a high speed connection. I don't even want to imagine dial up.

Edit: I took a screen shot when it's loading the main page ... it's doing this ALL the time now.
Notice what's loading at the bottom left.
http://img104.imageshack.us/img104/2531/slowloadsjf5.th.jpg (http://img104.imageshack.us/my.php?image=slowloadsjf5.jpg)

Edit: It's actually locking my computer as well, in the sense that I can't scroll through the thread without letting it load completely ... before, you could scroll through and read while it loads.

[rubberband]

I like the new layout. Looks clean and takes less space. Good stuff.

I'm using FireFox 2.x - no noticable change in load times here.

[yao416]

damn, after downloading all these stuff it still kinda lags me

[Bazooka Joe]

At the time of this post, page two of this thread has ~750 items to load and page 3 of this thread has ~250.

[yao416]

Anyone getting this problem? After going to "Forum" I download the files then I go to "Forum" again it start downloading files again?! :confused: :confused:

[Lone_Prodigy]

My Profile became My Options.

[matkun]

Using Maxthon verion 1.6.1.22 and IE Version=6.0.2900.2180.

600 items are loaded everytime I go to another page, scrolling up and down is slow.

RFD is extremely annoying to use like this.

[dmdsoftware2]

On the main page, I'm loading over 600 images and on posts, loading 400+ pages ...

I noticed the difference right away ... and the change in speed, that's for sure. I don't know if I'm liking this, it's just running slow altogether and I'm on a high speed connection. I don't even want to imagine dial up.

Edit: I took a screen shot when it's loading the main page ... it's doing this ALL the time now.
Notice what's loading at the bottom left.
http://img104.imageshack.us/img104/2531/slowloadsjf5.th.jpg (http://img104.imageshack.us/my.php?image=slowloadsjf5.jpg)

Edit: It's actually locking my computer as well, in the sense that I can't scroll through the thread without letting it load completely ... before, you could scroll through and read while it loads.

Shocks me people still use IE.

Experiencing absolutely no load problems - using firefox.

[Barayolayosa]

Fixed now for me!

[Bazooka Joe]

Fixed for me too, thank you!

[Bazooka Joe]

Shocks me people still use IE.

Experiencing absolutely no load problems - using firefox.

Some of us may be using computers where we may not have a choice of browsers :D

[Derek]

Should be better... still working out a few kinks.

[matkun]

Using Maxthon verion 1.6.1.22 and IE Version=6.0.2900.2180.

600 items are loaded everytime I go to another page, scrolling up and down is slow.

RFD is extremely annoying to use like this.

Still NOT fixed for me.. Using both Maxthon and IE 6.0

Also worth mentiong, under My Options, Edit Profile, Avatar, almost all of the options give script errors:

Line:214
Char:2
Code:0
Error:Object expected
URL:http://www.redflagdeals.com/user/index.php?action=edit_profile

Also reports same for Line 215, 341 and 380.

Does not happen on Firefox, so it looks like an IE 6.0 issue.

[jonkaho]

it is slow for me with IE7 but good with Firefox.

[Junk Food Junkie]

All is well here.
FireFox
Internet Explorer

[DaVibe]

Should be better... still working out a few kinks.

It was as if it was loading the "images" of the headers and THEN loading the page, because it locked the screen and THEN you could scroll and only 5 items would be left to load (normal updated pages).

It seems to be much better now, just checked back in and it seems to be fixed.

[DaVibe]

Shocks me people still use IE.

Experiencing absolutely no load problems - using firefox.

What's the big difference?

[lapopal]

Using IE and Firefox, noticed the first time when using IE that bottom left shows almost 400 items loading took probably 14+ seconds

[Happy13178]

Fixed for me now, page now loads instantly. What'd you guys change/what was the issue?

I really do like the change now...pages look more polished.

[mr_saturn]

It's still extremely slow for me. IE7 isn't as bad (still has slowdown, can't even scroll smoothly), with Opera 9 it's terrible. Hangs the entire browser anytime I load a new forum/thread. Tested on two different computers.

[abc123]

I'm not having any difficulties with the speed, but while running on firefox, I notice that there's a large white empty space at the top of the RFD website...

[Ryan]

It's still extremely slow for me. IE7 isn't as bad (still has slowdown, can't even scroll smoothly), with Opera 9 it's terrible. Hangs the entire browser anytime I load a new forum/thread. Tested on two different computers.

Try clearing your cache.

[bubble.tea]

I'm not having any difficulties with the speed, but while running on firefox, I notice that there's a large white empty space at the top of the RFD website...

SHIFT-RELOAD!!:) !!

[mr_saturn]

Clearing the cache in IE7 fixed any issues, but Opera still struggles. The whole thing comes to a screeching halt even if I'm viewing another tab while waiting for RFD to load..

I'll just use IE7 + RFD for now, but it used to work so well in Opera :(

[Derek]

Clearing the cache in IE7 fixed any issues, but Opera still struggles. The whole thing comes to a screeching halt even if I'm viewing another tab while waiting for RFD to load..

I'll just use IE7 + RFD for now, but it used to work so well in Opera :(

What version of Opera? I use it sometimes too. Version 9.22 seems to work fine for me.

[matkun]

Working for me now in Maxthon and IE6 nicely

[grant]

Shocks me people still use IE.

Experiencing absolutely no load problems - using firefox.
That's funny, if there was a website that wouldn't work in FF because it uses IE specific "features" (which happens...) then FF users would be demanding that the webmaster "fix" the page.

Here, IE6 loads 600+ items every time a page is loaded. WTF are these 600 items, does the website designer not even know??

[Derek]

That's funny, if there was a website that wouldn't work in FF because it uses IE specific "features" (which happens...) then FF users would be demanding that the webmaster "fix" the page.

Here, IE6 loads 600+ items every time a page is loaded. WTF are these 600 items, does the website designer not even know??

There were no 600+ items. It was a script that was going awry that has been fixed.

[wnuk]

still sluggish here............
ooops i take that back
i refreshed while shifting, and its decent now!
only loads a few images on each page, as opposed to 600+

thanks!

[Nikita]

Shocks me people still use IE.

Experiencing absolutely no load problems - using firefox.

Hmm, I'm using IE6 and no problems at all!

Don't fix what isn't broken...;)

[Bell Rep]

Wheres the User Option (forgot exactly what its called) where by clicking on it it shows the thread that we are subscribed to and has been replied ?

[yao416]

Wheres the User Option (forgot exactly what its called) where by clicking on it it shows the thread that we are subscribed to and has been replied ?

My Options?

Top right corner

[Bell Rep]

My Options?

Top right corner

Ohh I didnt know that showed the subscribed threads thanks, thats a must have

[mr_saturn]

What version of Opera? I use it sometimes too. Version 9.22 seems to work fine for me.

I'm using 9.23. It hangs up while loading images, but I'll try messing around with the configuration settings and see if I can fix it on my end.

[grant]

There were no 600+ items. It was a script that was going awry that has been fixed.
Great troubleshooting derek, thanks!

[stevelam]

That's funny, if there was a website that wouldn't work in FF because it uses IE specific "features" (which happens...) then FF users would be demanding that the webmaster "fix" the page.

Here, IE6 loads 600+ items every time a page is loaded. WTF are these 600 items, does the website designer not even know??

any webmaster that makes a website using IE specific 'features' has no idea what they're doing.

FF users WOULD demand that a webmaster "fix" the page because FF uses a much more standards-compliant rendering engine.

[kleptodathief]

how come this forum doesn't allow imbedded pics
i mean were all on fast cable/dsl here?

or is it my settings???

i keep asking this question lol

[Ryan]

how come this forum doesn't allow imbedded pics
i mean were all on fast cable/dsl here?

or is it my settings???

i keep asking this question lol

That would be your settings.