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Yup, seems to be running fine, though there was a slight hiccup a few minutes ago. Didn't last very long though.
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I can confirm there are still hangs. Specifically around 13:30 Singapore time [fixed time] the system had "loading" for a few minutes. However all requests (3 or so) from me ultimately resolved within 2ish minutes.
I still find EnWorld usable btw.
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...disquieting...
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It hung again starting around 13:52 Singapore time [fixed time].
Partial resolution of one request (this thread) started at 13:55
Everything else came back around ~13:57
Not sure if this sort of info is helpful. But 5 minute hangs every ~20 minutes sounds about right to me.
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I am in an interesting period of my life; I will post in games that I run three times a week (M,W,F); and try to maintain obligations in existing games.
...disquieting...
There was no end to his patience and endurance. He played day and night, his obsession was somewhat disquieting. It was less as if he were playing to dispel gloom or beguile tedium than as if he were giving himself up to the fangs of gaming devils."
Kawabata Yasunari - The Master of Go
Same issues mentioned by Ari. While the temp front page loaded relatively quickly the first time, getting to this page, and getting a reply window took considerably longer.
Page was laggy for me and the forums slow, but I never lost a post.
[strikeout]Now everything seems superslick. But I have good connections. 10bps at home and very fast back bone here in work (college). I'm based in Dublin, not sure where these servers are hosted.[/strikeout]
EDIT: Okay looks like I've lots and lots of lag posting..
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I'm gonna leve it up for a day at least, and look at the stats on Google Analytics. If they jump up, we've found our answer. If they don't, we haven't!
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Uhm, the server still has to process all the front page articles even if they aren't being displayed.
For once, EN World loaded fast. That's the one problem I've always had with this site; it loads so damned slow. Still, I'd rather see all the pretty lights than that temporary page. I thought it was some kind of error page!
The site is much faster for me, and the front page loads nearly instantaneously. The forums are still a little bit slow, but they are very much improved over the previous month or two.
Forums are still slow, though maybe a tiny bit better. Posting is still a bit of a pain, though it does seem to be a little bit better (haven't been timed out yet!).
Edit: Scratch that. Posting still hurts. Ow.
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I still get very large periods of lag. EN World usually chugs along fine for me, but it's at the point where I know once one page becomes slow to load that EN World will be pretty much unusable for 5-10 minutes, and at that point I usually move onto something else.
I don't think the front page has changed much for me, personally.
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I looked into what was actually done for the temp page and I was wrong - there is no database processing involved for that page since it is an html file as opposed to a phtml file. So it will naturally load faster.
Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to go moderate some threads.
The home page just slowed down for me this last time i visited. Before the adds and were not there, now they are. Not saying that's what it is, just only saying that was the biggest difference I noticed.
Edit: submission still took too long... but was MUCH faster.
Still at "not dead" speeds, but we're back to a lot slower than we were earlier -- around 7 seconds (poor baby!) to load the forums from the front page. And actually, it took even longer for the thread status icons to load.
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