Temporary front page

Archmage · Aug 7, 2008

Noticeably faster now. Previously, switching pages would be 10-20 seconds, often timing out. Haven't seen any of that with the temporary front page.

rgard · Aug 7, 2008

Much faster. We're cooking on gas now.

Knightfall · Aug 7, 2008

It does seem faster but it still freezes once in a while. I lost an entire post about half-an-hour ago.

I'm using IE7, BTW.

Elodan · Aug 7, 2008

Was much faster but I got a time out message for two or three minutes about five minutes ago. I did get the timeout message much faster than previously.

Now it's speedy.

Mouseferatu · Aug 7, 2008

Eh. Still having a lot of problems. I'll get a few minutes of good speed, then a while of "it takes several minutes to load a page," then a while of good speed, and so on.

And I frequently lose posts. (This is not my first time trying to respond to this page, for instance.)

Running Firefox 2.something, for what it's worth.

DaveMage · Aug 7, 2008

Mouseferatu said:
Eh. Still having a lot of problems. I'll get a few minutes of good speed, then a while of "it takes several minutes to load a page," then a while of good speed, and so on.

Same here.

weem · Aug 7, 2008

Been playing around for about 5 minutes to test (heading places I have not been, moving around a lot, etc) and it is much much faster (running at what should be normal speeds now).

Charwoman Gene · Aug 7, 2008

LAg spike at 11:00pm est

Intrope · Aug 7, 2008

I'm still seeing transient slowdowns--but they're better (it actually loaded the pages during the slowdown, just took ~60 seconds). In the fast bits it's doing fine.

Also, with the full front page (before this test) I had noticed that the front page was always much slower than a forum to load (I open front page, general and rules in a tab set--the front page was always last to finish, often by a lot).

Edit: I saw the same lag spike as Charwoman Green, only it took me longer to write my reply.

More: Once the page had loaded after the lag spike, I've been able to post quick replies and do edits all but instantly.