When I send a PM, it can take from 1-2 minutes from the time I click the "send" button until the screen comes back saying that it has been sent. I see a similar behavior in some fora, but not all. I don't know if this is due to the number of posts in a given thread or not. I'm wondering if others are seeing slow response at times.

For example -- the above message posted almost immediately. Yet, while I was waiting for a message to post in the BookObsessed->Discussions->Book Talk --> What are you currently reading? thread, in another browser winddow I read and deleted 3 PMs and started this topic.

I have the same problem

Same problem here. I thought it was my computer.

:ditto:

Since it comes and goes, I'm assuming it's because another forum on this particular server (s14) is getting converted over to the new. All the extra disk writes could tend to slow things down.

I haven't confirmed this definitively, but it jives with the time the conversion process opened up.

I have noticed my posts take longer to post in nearly every thread I post in. Also my pm's seem to take longer to go through lately.

Yes me to
I thought it was me so when I noticed your post I had to come here.

A lot of time I have to wait so long I hit the preview button and then most of the time I notice that my message was posted.

But loading takes an awful long time suddenly.

yep same here. When I post comment I usually open the same thread in new window while waiting confirmation on the first one and usually while in the first is still "posting process" in the second window I can see my comment is already published. So it seems that the slowness is with putting you back in the thread and not with the posting itself.

I was always wondering if old threads can slow down the entire site? If so why not deleting some of them. I see possible issue here but we can pick some. Of course if the number of threads is irrelevant just ignore my suggestion. :)

I'm noticing it too...although inconsistently.

Really bad tonight and can't get to the bottom of any long threads :cry:

To help alleviate the problem that many were having with the entire page not loading, I changed the default # of posts per page from 30 to 20 from the Admin side.

Note however, you can actually set this # to whatever you want from the Board Settings in your own Control Panel. So if you weren't having any trouble and want to go back to 30 posts per page, simply change it there. :)


As I stated previously, many of the other groups using this particular server are converting over to the new Zetaboards, and though InvisionFree has assured us (or Kai actually) that conversion utility is "resource friendly", I have enough knowledge of this kind of thing first-hand to recognize the symptoms of the slowdown. And the fact that it only happens intermittently definitely points to the background processes going on on this server.

The only way we can alleviate it is to do things like I did... make each page have less data, particularly since we are so graphic-heavy. The default was always 20 anyway and Sand had upped it when we first moved over here, so in their own testing, the IF staff is probably only testing the impact with 20 posts per page, and against a group who isn't so graphics-intensive as us.

I just saw this post and I'm very glad I did. I was starting to wonder if perhaps there was something wrong with my computer. :phew: Glad to hear it's just a temporary glitch. :D