So slow now

[Bozzlite]

Since the new upgrade, navigation in the forum takes forever. It takes 20 to 25 seconds to go from one page to another.

Whats the deal here? Used to be about 3-5 seconds from one page to the next. One forum to next. One thread to the next. Now, everything takes 20 to 25 seconds.

Anyone else experiencing this?

 

[2mtech]

Yeah, I feel your pain

 

[tyleris12]

Yeah, I feel your pain

+1...me too!

 

[Liv2Ski]

It is like watching paint dry or sloths mate! I wonder if it has anything to with the facebook link crap. For those of us that do not use FB it is most likely looking for some log in info each time a page loads. We should have a disable option!!!

 

[rolygate]

We've done some work today on this. It should be a bit quicker.

 

[Lambo-]

lol, I was assuming it was my crappy connection.

 

[jj2]

I'd still like the FB disable option.

 

[Katya]

It's those f like and Google +1 buttons. They take forever to refresh.... Can something be done about them, please?

Rolygate, thanks for your efforts. I read your announcement re. the update.

However, my F connect button is not disconnected, and the f like and Goggle +1 are even slower than before. It really makes navigating the forum a pain.

 

[tyleris12]

It's those f like and Google +1 buttons. They take forever to refresh.... Can something be done about them, please?

Rolygate, thanks for your efforts. I read your announcement re. the update.

However, my F connect button is not disconnected, and the f like and Goggle +1 are even slower than before. It really makes navigating the forum a pain.

Same thing still happening for me....I realize you all are trying to work on this and appreciate the effort and work you all do Rolygate, just would be nice if it was like it use to be.

 

[Majestic]

The lag seems a tad faster today. Still would like an option to eliminate the "Like" buttons. I could care less about Face Book and Google Likes.

 

[Bozzlite]

Yes, the FB and Google icons seem to be what's slowing down the navigation. Once they get loaded, then I can actually scroll down the page.

The problem is that they have to reload every time I change pages.

BTW, still slow this morning.

 

[Liv2Ski]

Anybody else wish you could give a big DISLIKE to facebook???????

 

[newplague]

Yeah, the FB buttons are a pain. I vote for a disable option.

 

[Kirssstens]

Yep, slow here too. The scroll, page up/page down is the biggest difference speedwise. I remember when something similar to this happened with other sites, never got any better, still the same slow page load. No like facebook!

Pscript: post times are still an hour ahead, DST, its 1:50 here in Calif. right now, but new posts reading 2:50pm. Checked settings and re-clicked DST correction but not self-correcting.

 

[tyleris12]

Mine is still loading super slow!!

 

[tiburonfirst]

i have not seen any improvement, it might have even gotten a tad worse today ......

 

[jj2]

I will never use the Facebook options here. Heck I rarely have FaceBook up at the same time that I'm on ECF.
So, again I ask, at least give us an option to disable it.

 

[rolygate]

There are several issues here so let's go through them one by one.

1. After we do a series of major upgrades, as we just did, it takes time to identify the bugs and remove them. We already made changes to the FB and Google stuff, and the problem has gone for some/many people. It may take some time to work out exactly what the problem is for those remaining - as none of the tech staff have this problem.

2. As reported by one or more members who then installed Firefox, it's fixed for them (they were using other browsers). That leads me to think that it's stuff held within a browser from the first version before the fixes. To remove it you need to:
a. Download and install CCleaner, a junk file remover that cleans out old stuff.
b. Navigate away from ECF, to another site.
c. Flush all cookies and the cache.
d. Shut the browser.
e. Run CCleaner and remove all junk and temp files it advises can be safely removed.
f. Reboot the PC.
g. Try now.

As always, you must create a restore point or run an image creation onto a USB disk with Acronis or Macrium for example, before you do anything to your PC.

3. If this doesn't fix it, install a Firefox plugin that blocks scripts - it is reported that this will fix the problem. Apparently Ghostery is the most successful for this (www. ghostery .com) but you can also try No Script and Adblock. As far as I know this fixes it.

4. You can also make changes to your hosts file on the PC if you are OK with stuff like regedit. You need to make a careful note of what you did, though. Add:
127.0.0.1 connect.facebook.net
127.0.0.1 plusone.google.com
[thanks snork, progg]

All I can say is that no admins or tech staff here have this issue, and we are using a variety of browsers including Opera, Firefox and Chrome (or safe versions of Chrome like Sware Iron). So it's very hard for us to replicate the problem.

Flushing/cleaning everything and rebooting should fix it. If not, add a Firefox plugin and that will.

 

[Jibboolie]

I access pretty much by mobile now, and I have none of these problems. I'm sure that's not a solution for the majority, but just throwing it out there. Oh, and I use the Tapatalk app.

 

[TVC70]

It is like watching paint dry or sloths mate!

I was gonna campare it to a snail on a valium/xanax cocktail crawling uphill through pure VG in winter, but I guess your analogies are okay, too... I'm using IE, btw.