Posted on 09/27/2026 10:25:38 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th
Suspicion
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It’s not polite to make fun of those who stutter.
But it is fun.
“I used a smart phone, but the site is very slow lately.”
Yes. It is
And of course you use a smart phone like probably 98% of posters hee because it’s not 1998
is the bieber set to tuned?
Since you don’t realize the site’s been slow lately, causing folks to hit the post button again, how about you prove that you’re right?
He who squeals loudest should be the one to demonstrate the problem is as he claims it to be.
This desktop computer does it too.............
“The site is significantly slow. Posts are placed, notification the tge post took takes 4-5 seconds longer than the usual immediate response time. Reflex is to push send again. The temptation is to push send again even twice. That’s what I think it is
“
That’s it for my double posts lately. I usually don’t post from a phone, but from a tablet or laptop.
It could be a DOS Attack..................
It is delayed on the computer also. If it hangs up, just wait because if you click it again and again, it will post multiple times.
This was an issue many years ago also.
When I hit “Post” the last few days there was an abnormal lag - though I am on a desktop connected via Ethernet with almost 1GB speed - which is likely the reason for double posts.
“The site is significantly slow. Posts are placed, notification the tge post took takes 4-5 seconds longer than the usual immediate response time. Reflex is to push send again. The temptation is to push send again even twice. That’s what I think it is”
Yep. Many of us learned that long ago.
it acts like it probably needs an index built on a database table to speed it up ...easy stuff to try ... if it works, great ... if not, look deeper ...
There was a 13 post Friday night.
I think it was a NEW record.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4396863/posts?page=54#54
There have been some mentions about the site's response time being slow lately, and that surely contributes to people being impatient and hitting "Post" more than once. I'd give it a 99% probability.
As to why it's slow, my own speculation is that with the FReepathon contributions being horribly low this quarter, the admin(s) may have reduced the compute (# of CPUs) in the virtual machine at Linode that runs the site, to save money. Compute in a VM scales directly with cost. I do the same thing for my company when funds for a project are running low. Better to have slower response than to have to shut it down entirely.
But that's just a hunch on my part.
Woody Woodpecker at your service. You want me to hit Post for you? No problem, Jack...
People just need to be patient and quit hitting ‘post’. This isn’t the first time there’s been a lag.
LOL
Double click of the Post button always causes multiple posts. Try it out.
Back in the day delays and even FR crashing and going offline was a common occurence. A deliberate method used to coerce more donations to the FReepathon.
Are we seeing the same thing happening these days? I don’t know since the owners seem not to care whether Freepathon goals are met or not.
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