EN2 very much slower

[Darkness]

i know nothink about computers.

but i do know i saw some strange address information popping up on the bottom of my browser (IE 7.0.5730.11) as it was trying to connect to a thread or post yesterday. unfortunately i know nothink about computers. so i couldn't capture it. i do remember it had some x's and y's and d's though.

edit: it read something like waiting for http://xkcd.... even though, i was posting or reading a thread here. very bizarre.

Hm, xkcd is a web comic. Maybe someone posted a picture from that site.

 

[starwed]

They're aware of the problem. There are a few other threads about it... one just above (or below, once I post) this one.

Sure, people are aware the site is slow... but do they know that enworld would welcome knowledgeable volunteers?

@Sammael: Hide that block of death in a spoiler tag!

 

[Morrus]

Maybe it's time to hire a diagnostics firm/freelancer or MySQL programmer for a few hours/days to fix this issue? I'm sure the money spent on this expert will be made up from keeping lots of subscribers who might be fed up with the slow loads

I'm sure it would; unfortunately we don't have any money.

 

[Michael Morris]

I'm not sure if this has anything to do with the slowdown (it probably doesn't, since it's on the client side, but there may be something similar on the server side as well...), but I'm getting loads and loads of JavaScript memory leak warnings on ENWorld. Here's one report (from the main forum page):

And here's the response from the prototype website:

We also don't accept patches that change our code simply because it generated warnings from JSLint or Firefox's strict checking mode. Code linters check for idioms and constructs that might be problematic; as a result, they generate scads of false positives.

Every error you cited is in the framework, not my code. Prototype is one of the most heavily used and heavily tested AJAX frameworks on the net and it has been tested for leaks and problems repeatedly.

 

[stonegod]

It seems to have been a better today and yesterday, especially after midnight Central time US. Might be usage pattern related then.

My computer expertise is no where near what is needed hear, but I think a general announcement may help. Maybe (or just invite attacks... ))

 

[Nifft]

Yes! Today EN World is delightfully snappy!

Thanks, -- N

 

[Sammael]

And here's the response from the prototype website:

Every error you cited is in the framework, not my code. Prototype is one of the most heavily used and heavily tested AJAX frameworks on the net and it has been tested for leaks and problems repeatedly.

Shows how much I know - I'm a WinForms programmer, not a web programmer, so I didn't even know prototype.js was an AJAX framework.

 

[stonegod]

Shows how much I know - I'm a WinForms programmer, not a web programmer, so I didn't even know prototype.js was an AJAX framework.

Yup. I'm going to assume EN has local prototype copies and is not trying to get them offsite for every call; that'd be a slowdown potential (unless their on google: but I've had google ads cause a site load slowdown before....)

 

[stonegod]

Just a note: Good performance again today for me. Hope these datapoints help.

 

[Runestar]

On a side note, has anyone encountered a problem where the new page fails to load, causing you to lose everything you typed in your replies? I get around that by saving my answers before hitting "reply", but sometimes, I still forget...