Forum awful performance

[pawRoot]

Is it just me or since a couple of days this forum is hard to use? sometimes i have to wait 2 minutes to load a page or refresh it multiple times.
I don't have a problem with any other website.

[GarryRicketson]

Works just fine for me,

I don't have a problem with any other website

Neither do I.

[Bulkley]

Yeah, sometimes it can be slow to react. I find that it often helps to go to the Board index and then back to whichever thread you want. This is not the only site that can be slow. I wonder at times if there is a geographic component in this, if my connection goes through a node that gets overwhelmed. I know it's not my machine because I can immediately navigate other sites without a holdup.

[pawRoot]

Yeah, sometimes it can be slow to react. I find that it often helps to go to the Board index and then back to whichever thread you want. This is not the only site that can be slow. I wonder at times if there is a geographic component in this, if my connection goes through a node that gets overwhelmed. I know it's not my machine because I can immediately navigate other sites without a holdup.

I noticed that too, and as i said this forum is the only problematic website for me, so it can't be on my end i guess.

[Head_on_a_Stick]

I have found the boards to be very bad for the last week or two, I need to refresh the page twice sometimes and I am finding that I have to preview a post immediately before applying it for real or it just stalls

[Bulkley]

Something that puzzles me is the differing URL for the same forum. For example: View active topics can look like either of these.

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"http://forums.debian.net/search.php?search_id=active_topics"

"http://forums.debian.net/search.php?search_id=active_topics&sid=921098fbe9cc4c19325f57d37486d257"

Why? They show the same stuff as I'm typing this.

Interesting. I had to edit these lines to make them stay the way I see them.

[debiman]

^ sid means session id in this case. i guess it means you're logged in, but otherwise it's the same link.

i see these sort of inconsistencies on ALL the forum sites i use.
also varying loading times.
that said, the differences are largest here on fdn: sometimes a reload is near-instant, sometimes as op describes it.

[Lysander]

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, forum-admin@forums.debian.net and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Apache Server at forums.debian.net Port 80

More issues, I've had to resubmit quite a few times today.

[IzayoiFlandre]

I came across that issue a few times, as a matter of fact. It has also been a little bit slow occasionally.
Just got a white screen when submitting this post...

[spartrekus]

Is it just me or since a couple of days this forum is hard to use? sometimes i have to wait 2 minutes to load a page or refresh it multiple times.
I don't have a problem with any other website.

strange, this forum (webpages) is light, and not bloated like 99.999999 pct of the whole web...

[pawRoot]

^did you look at thread date ?

[spartrekus]

^did you look at thread date ?

oh man, so old, it was resurrecting old threads, from age of bigbang of computer sciences,...