Frustrated

**jenae** · 06-14-2009, 05:01 AM

Hi, there is obviously so much talent given freely to this forum, I have been in business for 40 years and have always seen quality rise to the top, this forum has so much to offer yet it seems to frustrate those that would help. I cannot tell you how often I have not been able to access the site, and in frustration I have given up. Often even posting I have waited up to 10 minutes for a submit to take. A quick post is not possible so I have given up on it. The problem is not my end, I have instance access to almost every site and certainly no problems with the dozen or so forums I frequent. On most other forums I know who the admins are on this one I have no Idea, is this a good practice?

**koala** · 06-14-2009, 06:59 AM

Have you read any of the threads in the staff room about the problems we're having with servers and software upgrades? It's a known problem, and is being worked on.

TSF admin: Jason and Horse

**simpswr** · 06-14-2009, 07:00 AM

I am having the same problems . . very frustrateing! Jason seems to be working on it.

**WereBo** · 06-14-2009, 07:24 AM

It is frustrating and I realise that it is urgently being worked on - I hope that our newer members show some patience and don't just give up for other pastures.

**Done_Fishin** · 06-14-2009, 07:28 AM

Unfortunately the latest effort to try & speed things up has resulted in a major headache that made things worse rather than better. Patience is the golden word until things improve .. we have seen better times believe me, But Good Old Murphy is sitting on the sidelines having a laugh at us whilst proving his theory of evolution .. "any minor change requires more minor changes"

**carsey** · 06-14-2009, 07:31 AM

Only time I get any slowness is when i load the home page. Any other page after the first connection is fine.

**WereBo** · 06-14-2009, 07:37 AM

Mine seems to be 'time-related', the 1st 5-10 minutes are nice 'n' speedy, but it slows down drastically from then on.

I found that closing my browser (both I.E. 7/8 and Mozilla Seamonkey) then re-opening it speeds things up, but not for long....

**WereBo** · 06-14-2009, 07:39 AM

Edit: - No 'Edit' button

It's also 'thread-size' related - New threads with very few posts load almost instantly, whereas threads with loads of pages take a helluva lot longer....

I hope this helps with the diagnosis

**Glaswegian** · 06-14-2009, 08:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by carsey

Only time I get any slowness is when i load the home page. Any other page after the first connection is fine.

I'm the same Chris - you must be on the same special Scottish server as me...

dai · 06-14-2009, 10:31 AM

i am sure admin are just as frustrated as the rest of with the current problem and are working like beavers to correct it as quickly as possible

**WereBo** · 06-14-2009, 10:58 AM

Yep, just offering words of possible help and hopeful encouragement

**Jason09** · 06-14-2009, 01:48 PM

Make sense. I also noticed that things were slow, almost every other website I go to is faster than TSF.

JohnthePilot · 06-14-2009, 02:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by koala

Have you read any of the threads in the staff room about the problems we're having with servers and software upgrades? It's a known problem, and is being worked on.

TSF admin: Jason and Horse

Don't forget Midnight Tech

**koala** · 06-14-2009, 02:23 PM

Oops! Sorry, Midnight.

**manic** · 06-14-2009, 03:22 PM

Been with tsf for awhile now. Never can remember a time when things
were this laggy, or times out as much as it has. Although today the site
seems pretty snappy. Im sure the powers that be are working on it.
But I will say that TSF is the best tech forum out there, if not for anything
else but the courtesy factor/knowledge. I would rather be slow and
laggy than fast and insulting, cant stand that. It will come around,
patience is a virtue,,,

**jenae** · 06-14-2009, 04:22 PM

Hi, when you get to my age patience is about all you've got. Thanks for the heads up on the admins. My concern is for the forum (I agree it is one of, if not the best). Many times I have not responded to threads where I could have helped either I respond then "submit" just hangs or I cannot get past the main thread page, when I do get on I notice quite a number of OP's have probably moved on since you do not hear back from them. Pity you guy's aren't located here in Aus my tech's would have this sorted.

Mcninjaguy · 06-15-2009, 06:06 AM

This is strange for me because TSF has never been faster for me.

odd?
I used to get what you guys were experiencing all the and now I don't. The only thing I do get with regularity is how its says I should wait 30 seconds between posts, but it did post correctly. I back to the page and refresh and my post is there.

**Done_Fishin** · 06-15-2009, 10:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jenae

Pity you guy's aren't located here in Aus my tech's would have this sorted.

Offer your assistance to Jason .. So much can be done these days using networking tools and maybe a few more "Heads" throwing ideas in the basket might help .. he wisely put the task of getting the load balancer working into someone else's hands and maybe they could do with some fresh blood

**WereBo** · 06-15-2009, 12:06 PM

Well, someone's doing something right, TSF has been a lot more responsive today

dai · 06-15-2009, 12:13 PM

it thinks it's a dance server from here
it doing the slow foxtrot

06-14-2009, 05:01 AM	#1 (permalink)
jenae Mentor Hardware Team Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 1,303 OS: XP & Vista	Frustrated Hi, there is obviously so much talent given freely to this forum, I have been in business for 40 years and have always seen quality rise to the top, this forum has so much to offer yet it seems to frustrate those that would help. I cannot tell you how often I have not been able to access the site, and in frustration I have given up. Often even posting I have waited up to 10 minutes for a submit to take. A quick post is not possible so I have given up on it. The problem is not my end, I have instance access to almost every site and certainly no problems with the dozen or so forums I frequent. On most other forums I know who the admins are on this one I have no Idea, is this a good practice? __________________

06-14-2009, 06:59 AM	#2 (permalink)
koala Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: UK Posts: 12,307 OS: XP/7/Ubuntu My System	Re: Frustrated Have you read any of the threads in the staff room about the problems we're having with servers and software upgrades? It's a known problem, and is being worked on. TSF admin: Jason and Horse __________________ New members: Subscribe to your thread (Thread Tools) to receive an instant email notification when you get a reply. TSF Folding@Home Team 85015 - details here

06-14-2009, 07:00 AM	#3 (permalink)
simpswr Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: May 2007 Location: Houston, Texas Posts: 12,157 OS: XP, Vista, Win 7	Re: Frustrated I am having the same problems . . very frustrateing! Jason seems to be working on it. __________________ Rich MemTest86 \| BenchTest \| Virus/Trojan/Spyware Help How to post a Screen Shot \| PC running slow?

06-14-2009, 07:24 AM	#4 (permalink)
WereBo Resident Village Idiot Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: SE London, UK Posts: 14,380 OS: Win-7, XP-Pro SP3 My System	Re: Frustrated It is frustrating and I realise that it is urgently being worked on - I hope that our newer members show some patience and don't just give up for other pastures. __________________ I shall meet all of my deadlines directly in proportion to the amount of bodily injury I could expect to receive from missing them.

06-14-2009, 07:28 AM	#5 (permalink)
Done_Fishin Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Brit living in Greece Posts: 7,392 OS: WinME, WinXP Pro SP3, Win7 Beta, Ubuntu 9.04 & Netbook Remix & CD2USB, Mepis 6.5, Fedora 10 My System	Re: Frustrated Unfortunately the latest effort to try & speed things up has resulted in a major headache that made things worse rather than better. Patience is the golden word until things improve .. we have seen better times believe me, But Good Old Murphy is sitting on the sidelines having a laugh at us whilst proving his theory of evolution .. "any minor change requires more minor changes" __________________ . . I'm not old!! I'm age impaired .. D_F I DON'T PLAY GAMES How to mark your thread as solved HDD DIAG UTILS TSF's Photographer's Corner

06-14-2009, 07:31 AM	#6 (permalink)
carsey Moderator, TSF Articles Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Hunwick, Co. Durham England Posts: 10,678 OS: XP Pro SP3 My System	Re: Frustrated Only time I get any slowness is when i load the home page. Any other page after the first connection is fine. __________________ Submit New Articles Here

06-14-2009, 07:37 AM	#7 (permalink)
WereBo Resident Village Idiot Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: SE London, UK Posts: 14,380 OS: Win-7, XP-Pro SP3 My System	Re: Frustrated Mine seems to be 'time-related', the 1st 5-10 minutes are nice 'n' speedy, but it slows down drastically from then on. I found that closing my browser (both I.E. 7/8 and Mozilla Seamonkey) then re-opening it speeds things up, but not for long.... __________________ I shall meet all of my deadlines directly in proportion to the amount of bodily injury I could expect to receive from missing them.

06-14-2009, 07:39 AM	#8 (permalink)
WereBo Resident Village Idiot Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: SE London, UK Posts: 14,380 OS: Win-7, XP-Pro SP3 My System	Re: Frustrated Edit: - No 'Edit' button It's also 'thread-size' related - New threads with very few posts load almost instantly, whereas threads with loads of pages take a helluva lot longer.... I hope this helps with the diagnosis __________________ I shall meet all of my deadlines directly in proportion to the amount of bodily injury I could expect to receive from missing them.

06-14-2009, 10:31 AM	#10 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 56,515 OS: win 7 32x 64x rtm	Re: Frustrated i am sure admin are just as frustrated as the rest of with the current problem and are working like beavers to correct it as quickly as possible __________________

06-14-2009, 10:58 AM	#11 (permalink)
WereBo Resident Village Idiot Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: SE London, UK Posts: 14,380 OS: Win-7, XP-Pro SP3 My System	Re: Frustrated Yep, just offering words of possible help and hopeful encouragement __________________ I shall meet all of my deadlines directly in proportion to the amount of bodily injury I could expect to receive from missing them.

06-14-2009, 01:48 PM	#12 (permalink)
Jason09 Moderator, Games Team Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Near Washington, D.C. Posts: 2,314 OS: Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 3 My System	Re: Frustrated Make sense. I also noticed that things were slow, almost every other website I go to is faster than TSF. __________________ Gaming troubleshooting steps. Real peace cannot be found in what happens in Washington, D.C. Only God can give true peace to people.

06-14-2009, 02:23 PM	#14 (permalink)
koala Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: UK Posts: 12,307 OS: XP/7/Ubuntu My System	Re: Frustrated Oops! Sorry, Midnight. __________________ New members: Subscribe to your thread (Thread Tools) to receive an instant email notification when you get a reply. TSF Folding@Home Team 85015 - details here

06-14-2009, 03:22 PM	#15 (permalink)
manic Mod Hardware Team Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Florida Posts: 5,236 OS: xp	Re: Frustrated Been with tsf for awhile now. Never can remember a time when things were this laggy, or times out as much as it has. Although today the site seems pretty snappy. Im sure the powers that be are working on it. But I will say that TSF is the best tech forum out there, if not for anything else but the courtesy factor/knowledge. I would rather be slow and laggy than fast and insulting, cant stand that. It will come around, patience is a virtue,,, __________________

06-14-2009, 04:22 PM	#16 (permalink)
jenae Mentor Hardware Team Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 1,303 OS: XP & Vista	Re: Frustrated Hi, when you get to my age patience is about all you've got. Thanks for the heads up on the admins. My concern is for the forum (I agree it is one of, if not the best). Many times I have not responded to threads where I could have helped either I respond then "submit" just hangs or I cannot get past the main thread page, when I do get on I notice quite a number of OP's have probably moved on since you do not hear back from them. Pity you guy's aren't located here in Aus my tech's would have this sorted. __________________

06-15-2009, 06:06 AM	#17 (permalink)
Mcninjaguy Temporarily Banned Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Posts: 10,422 OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit My System Blog Entries: 1	Re: Frustrated This is strange for me because TSF has never been faster for me. odd? I used to get what you guys were experiencing all the and now I don't. The only thing I do get with regularity is how its says I should wait 30 seconds between posts, but it did post correctly. I back to the page and refresh and my post is there.

06-15-2009, 12:06 PM	#19 (permalink)
WereBo Resident Village Idiot Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: SE London, UK Posts: 14,380 OS: Win-7, XP-Pro SP3 My System	Re: Frustrated Well, someone's doing something right, TSF has been a lot more responsive today __________________ I shall meet all of my deadlines directly in proportion to the amount of bodily injury I could expect to receive from missing them.

06-15-2009, 12:13 PM	#20 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 56,515 OS: win 7 32x 64x rtm	Re: Frustrated it thinks it's a dance server from here it doing the slow foxtrot __________________