Why is it taking forever for forums to load?

It takes about a minute before any of the pages on this forum will load. And whenever I try to type a reply there's a long delay before I even see the letters that I've typed.
 
Oh darn! Not only has it slooowed down even for my
new bff Google Chrome, but when I click on my email
link for a new subscribed post, when the page finally
comes up, it doesn't go directly to the post. It stops
at the top of the page. Maybe I'm spoiled but I really
liked when the link navigated to the post so I know
where to start.

It was working fine with GC just a few days ago. I
wish I could be more helpful as to when this problem
showed up.
 
Dayjoy said:
I'm so glad I came over here. Even though I'm having problems with this site only, I still thought it was just me. It is truly difficult to be on here. I've been clicking pages and walking away to do housework while waiting for the page to come up. Mine has been freezing, taking at least three minutes to load a page, going to back to the first page when I click "View first unread," and going to the first page after I make a post. This has been going on for a couple of weeks and only getting worse. I use IE and after reading about the lack of improvement using anything else, don't want to load anlother browser, as another member stated, just for one site.

To those that mentioned clicking the STOP button at the top, THANKS!
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Where's the STOP button??? TIA
 
Tootuff said:
It truly is very annoying. Have they addressed the issue at all?
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Don't know--I'm going to tag Nikos to this thread hoping that something can be done, some suggestions can be made or let us know what's going on since a lot of us are experiencing the same problem.
 
I'm now not sure if hitting the stop button or the F5 is working for me. It does seem to bring up the page quicker, but old "pm'" and "mention" notifications are appearing even after I've answered. Also my newer post don't show in my post search...
 
I now viewing it in Google Chrome and it's MUCH faster. Between the faster load time and spell check, I think I'm finally going to ditch IE! :grin:
 
topnotch1010 said:
I get it to load faster by hitting F5 three times after I click the page I want to navigate to.

It's still annoying and I don't have this problem when I come here mobile through tapatalk.
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I don't have the problem when I'm on my cell phone. I don't get it.
 
topnotch1010 said:
I now viewing it in Google Chrome and it's MUCH faster. Between the faster load time and spell check, I think I'm finally going to ditch IE! :grin:
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Thank you soooooooooo much for mentioning Google Chrome. I just downloaded it and you're right, the site is lightening fast using Google Chrome.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
 
I thought it was my computer,just saw this thread.
It takes 3 minutes for a thread to load and when I chose any forum to view.
 
Seems like its working better today. Im using firefox, i dont hate google chrome but I dont want to have to download it just FOR ONE website...sucks

ETA: nevermind still taking a lifetime to load. I tried pressing F5 and it made it worse. Tried the stop button and I only get half a page to navigate on lol.
 
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The forum has been soooooo sloooooooow the last couple of days for me . . . it takes forever for pages to load. And don't have a PM . . . you will never get to it. What is going on?
 
This is MADNESS!!! I'm SO frustrated and am going to try to make my comments calmly, even tho I don't have confidence that this will even post.

First, I think it was crazy to go live before you've upgraded and tested 4.x in production mode or something. We're being unnecessarily dragged through this transition and getting lots of bumps and bruises. Not a good look. :nono:

The entire site is moving too slow and it seems obvious to me that it's a javascript issue. I'm having no problems moving between browsers. What's the problem?

And, when I click (expecting a zillion years wait), I go to another browser and visit other sites, spending more and more time away from LHCF, by the way. And because of the short timeout period, I come back needing to login again?? Which means another painfully slow wait?? **UGH!!!!!!!**

Seriously, this is painful. Just thought I'd add my concern to the growing list. I know you're doing what you can but, we are needlessly suffering. And Chrome is not the answer. Why you're only checking in Chrome when most are using IE and FF is beyond me.

***wooosaaaah*** Sorry for the rant. After trying to remain faithful thru this, I think I'm entitled.
 
None of my posts are showing up and I keep getting notifications from yesterday. I also cannot log on.
 
Google Chrome is faster but it doesn't work for me because the text is too small. It's too small using IE too, but at least I can make it larger with IE. I can't figure out how to do that with Chrome.
 
imaccami said:
Google Chrome is faster but it doesn't work for me because the text is too small. It's too small using IE too, but at least I can make it larger with IE. I can't figure out how to do that with Chrome.
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There's a monkey wrench at the top right corner. If you click that, you can select your text size from the list.
 
I'm still frustrated and I continue to use IE8. But until this improves I'd like to share a tip that MIGHT help those not having success using the stop button....

Make sure you keep an eye on the bottom left corner of your screen (progress/status bar) as you navigate from page to page and you'll see it trying to load with words that may say "waiting..." or it may list some kind of URL or gobbleygook.

Once the words at the bottom left corner disappear or say "done" THEN you hit the stop button (red x in your browser). The page should then load. Don't do reload.

Don't do it while it's still loading. I'm frustrated as all heck and I don't spend as much time here because of this problem, but I'm at least able to get around it with waiting the 5 seconds or so before hitting the stop button.

E.g., After you post something and click the submit reply button, if it just sits there trying to load, wait for it to say done or whatever and then hit the stop button. Your page should load (hopefully).

HTH
 
I thought the problem was my computer, I've been on here trying to get a pm for the last 20 mins. and like others say it takes you somewhere else. Man, this is CRAZY RIDIKLES.!!! The name of this site right now should be A HOT MESS.COM
 
Tyra said:
There's a monkey wrench at the top right corner. If you click that, you can select your text size from the list.
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You mean the one that increases the size of everything on the screen? With IE I can increase the size of the text only and everything else stays the same. Is there something like that on Chrome?


Hopefully the new upgrade will be compatible with IE
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New upgrade?!! Is this a rumor or is it actually happening? I would be soooo happy if this upgrade were kicked to the curb and whatever they replaced it with worked with IE.

I hope they get a refund on this and replace it with something that works with IE.
 
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