Posted on 07/29/2017 3:33:27 PM PDT by djf
Sorry I have to say this. But FR has become nearly unusable these days.
You used to have a feeling that within 30 seconds to a minute, your page would be resolved and loaded.
But no more. I don't know how many times lately, I have hit refresh or picked a new thread only to wait and wait and wait and then I give up and go to another site.
The powers that be recommend limiting your window options to twenty. My reply is, if that's the problem, the just taking the option away and making it twenty should be the solution.
And I know about DOS attacks - they can easily be filtered by a front-end server - so that shouldn't be a problem.
Anyways, whatever it is, it's getting series. And Hugh!
It seems to be sporadic. I wanted to post a thread this morning, and gave up and went and did some errands. I was able to easily post the thread when I returned.
But for most of yesterday, FR was slower than Mitch McConnell advancing a conservative agenda.
Have problems on and off. As one FReeper put it “Slow Function Junction”. Some days it works, some days it’s like a Sid and Marty Krofft puppet..it barely moves!
I can just imagine what it is like for some of the very rural users on dial up. And there are more of these rural dial up conservatives than one would think.
As slow as it gets on high speed...It would indeed be completely unusable on dial up.
Yep.
>>Consider running on AWS or Azure.<<
Changing the color of the number doesn’t make the runner run any faster.
Thanks very much for the advice.
Just went over to another browser, still had no luck.
When I came back a moment ago, FR loaded properly and even showed the helpful sidebar.
Love FR and appreciate all the helpful hints.
Thanks again.
Other web pages not associated with FR are also slow for me.
I’m finding it Fabulous!
Are You log in?
What did you write?
I think so too. from how it is acting.
It used to be wonderful, and now it isn’t. It’s bad, period. After all the times it has broken, and after all the money asked for and given, it should be bullet proof by now.
All your refresh are belong to us.
We have to be the last site left on the planet that doesn't have ads. Why not I ask, are we not Capitalists? Daily Kos (shudder) has ads. If this site loaded faster than ad filled sites, FR might have a case for relying solely on donations. Look at how fast Instapundit loads, for instance.
I find myself on the FR facebook page more than I do here.
It is not a herd of turtles. Nor is it a gaggle or a brace.
A group of turtles is a bale, nest, turn, or dole.
Let me also say that it took just over 2 minutes for the above post to go through.
Could be your ISP.
Early bird Finally apologise ,180 posts into it..
I wouldn’t care if they bothered to update us, at least on Facebook.
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