DarkMatters website - Looking for feedback regarding Forum speed for post openings or completions.

[gogoblender 3,406]

Hi everyone morning!

This seems to happen every once in a while.  Few years back the speed of opening posts became interminable and we had to make changes to the site.  Just lately when I click on posts, its seems like I'm getting a extra one second or 1.5 seconds.

There's always a number of downloads happening with members or guests downloading, but even with the increase in numbers, the wait, at least to me, seems like an annoyance.

anyone else here who opens posts regularly notice this, or is still the same, lets say from two and a half weeks to go now?

Thanks as always for the fanship, wishing y'all your day of beauty Moos!

gogo

ps just noticed how long it took for the site to publish this post... 

houston I think we have a problem 

[SLD 524]

I have posted a lot recently, but in my head I did not link the delays to the site. Yes sometimes there are like 5-10 second delays on posting or opening a post but so far nothing has failed and it did not impact me much. I thought it was on my end. Can also not say how long this has been happening...

30 minutes ago, gogoblender said:

beauty Moos!

you're welcome


Edit: This took around 4.5 seconds to post (I measured it)

Edited August 17, 2024 by SLD

[gogoblender 3,406]

37 minutes ago, SLD said:

I have posted a lot recently, but in my head I did not link the delays to the site. Yes sometimes there are like 5-10 second delays on posting or opening a post but so far nothing has failed and it did not impact me much. I thought it was on my end. Can also not say how long this has been happening...

you're welcome


Edit: This took around 4.5 seconds to post (I measured it)

great feedback, thanks SLD... now that I also caught the length of time it takes a post to complete, we'll have a look at the site this weekend

 

gogo

[gogoblender 3,406]

Sorry for downtime last night! Maintenance for ye good websites as we get all ready for some new upgrades.  We got some errors last night, and Schot made decision to take all the sites off line while he began maintenance.  If you get errors or slow time, please report it here, and we'll probably continue maintenance next weekend or a weekday coming up..  We'll try and get a notice up with time for everyone so that any large work or articles being written can clear.

We now return you to your daily DarkMatters... joy!

gogo

[SLD 524]

3 hours ago, gogoblender said:

Sorry for downtime last night!

I missed writing here all day... Now there's so much to catch up on but my day should be over now

Edit: only measured <2 secs now. So you already made it better...

Edited August 18, 2024 by SLD

[gogoblender 3,406]

7 hours ago, SLD said:

I missed writing here all day... Now there's so much to catch up on but my day should be over now

Edit: only measured <2 secs now. So you already made it better...

 ... were happy to be back

im kind of the same way about this forum, its one of the most important things in our life, and it being down is like a looooong setting of the sun

*wolfs howl
 ...drama

gogo

[SLD 524]

I've just done a couple posts that took some serious posting time again so I guess whatever you did was only a temporary fix...

Edit: yep, this one liner took 4 seconds again, and it gets a lot worse when the post is longer...

Edit2: Just had a post that took more than a minute to go through...

Edited August 20, 2024 by SLD

[gogoblender 3,406]

Thn

On 8/20/2024 at 4:53 AM, SLD said:

I've just done a couple posts that took some serious posting time again so I guess whatever you did was only a temporary fix...

Edit: yep, this one liner took 4 seconds again, and it gets a lot worse when the post is longer...

Edit2: Just had a post that took more than a minute to go through...

Thanks SLD! I noticed slow time for some posts to complete as well... Forum hosting is an art, we'll see some more options this weekend, perhaps a new engine upgrade is in order

gogo

[SLD 524]

1 hour ago, gogoblender said:

Thanks SLD! I noticed slow time for some posts to complete as well... Forum hosting is an art, we'll see some more options this weekend, perhaps a new engine upgrade is in order

All I can say is that it's not a constant issue. It shifts all the time and I haven't noticed a pattern yet.
The only thing I'm always wondering about is what the 50-80 permanent "guests" are doing here all day

Edit: Forgot to measure this one, but it was certainly too fast to measure anything anyway. So right now everything is fine

Edited August 22, 2024 by SLD

[gogoblender 3,406]

4 minutes ago, SLD said:

All I can say is that it's not a constant issue. It shifts all the time and I haven't noticed a pattern yet.
The only thing I'm always wondering about is what the 50-80 permanent "guests" are doing here all day

Edit: Forgot to measure this one, but it was certainly too fast to measure anything anyway. So right now everything is fine

You're right... I've done some posts today and see that the speed is back to normal, at least for me...this could be an issue from hoster as well, we're having a looking at their *purported* maintenance hours

 

gogo

[SLD 524]

48 minutes ago, gogoblender said:

You're right... I've done some posts today and see that the speed is back to normal, at least for me...this could be an issue from hoster as well, we're having a looking at their *purported* maintenance hours

If you want to do some testing on the speed, I've found that the "post time" spikes correlate with "page load time" spikes. Makes sense, obviously. But that also means you can "simulate" a post by clicking the "WHAT'S NEW!" button. For me that results in a page load time that is more around a medium size post so right now it's less than 2 seconds. When bad times are around it'll take 6-30+ seconds depending on "how bad" it is...
So if the problem doesn't remain "fixed", we could try that method every hour or so to see whether it's linked to daytime or any other metric we can think of. At least we can easily test and log when it's present and when it's not.

[gogoblender 3,406]

3 minutes ago, SLD said:

If you want to do some testing on the speed, I've found that the "post time" spikes correlate with "page load time" spikes. Makes sense, obviously. But that also means you can "simulate" a post by clicking the "WHAT'S NEW!" button. For me that results in a page load time that is more around a medium size post so right now it's less than 2 seconds. When bad times are around it'll take 6-30+ seconds depending on "how bad" it is...
So if the problem doesn't remain "fixed", we could try that method every hour or so to see whether it's linked to daytime or any other metric we can think of. At least we can easily test and log when it's present and when it's not.

thanks for the detailed reporting and feedback
I haven’t had any delays today, have you?
😊

gogo

[SLD 524]

6 minutes ago, gogoblender said:

thanks for the detailed reporting and feedback
I haven’t had any delays today, have you?

No, I did not. But I also post in "bursts". I come online check out the "what's new" section and follow up on everything that happened since my last visit than check out what happened "while" I wrote my new posts etc. and when I'm the last that has done something I log off again. Those bursts are usually multiple hours long and may occur more than once per day. It's just the only way I can keep up with the forum activity

[Hooyaah 3,103]

1 hour ago, SLD said:

All I can say is that it's not a constant issue. It shifts all the time and I haven't noticed a pattern yet.
The only thing I'm always wondering about is what the 50-80 permanent "guests" are doing here all day

Edit: Forgot to measure this one, but it was certainly too fast to measure anything anyway. So right now everything is fine

It's bots! Bots, I tell you!

[Hooyaah 3,103]

31 minutes ago, gogoblender said:

thanks for the detailed reporting and feedback
I haven’t had any delays today, have you?
😊

gogo

The site is quite "zippy" now, indeed.

[gogoblender 3,406]

1 minute ago, Hooyaah said:

The site is quite "zippy" now, indeed.

It is!

I think Brad was right, that the *purported* maintenance was in response to issues... we seem to be ... whats that word...*zippy* now... 

gogo

[gogoblender 3,406]

10 minutes ago, Hooyaah said:

It's bots! Bots, I tell you!

Steve I hearken you're right!
Every year it seems they somehow seem to find us.. no Excape!!

gogo

[gogoblender 3,406]

23 minutes ago, SLD said:

No, I did not. But I also post in "bursts". I come online check out the "what's new" section and follow up on everything that happened since my last visit than check out what happened "while" I wrote my new posts etc. and when I'm the last that has done something I log off again. Those bursts are usually multiple hours long and may occur more than once per day. It's just the only way I can keep up with the forum activity

If the good speed keeps up, lets hope its enough to get you through one of your writing bursts which we're delighted to read...

Are you spending those hours with the forum's response window open or do you write the post in a note pad first before copy paste?

We all know we do the first one, but I've lost vocal chords in loud yells after losing a few posts...and still ... I keep doing it

gogo

[Hooyaah 3,103]

20 minutes ago, gogoblender said:

Steve I hearken you're right!
Every year it seems they somehow seem to find us.. no Excape!!

gogo

Indeed, Rommel. Those Google bots drop in often. They take a look see to ensure that we maintain our impeccable decorum and consistently gentlemanly demeanor.

[gogoblender 3,406]

3 hours ago, Hooyaah said:

Indeed, Rommel. Those Google bots drop in often. They take a look see to ensure that we maintain our impeccable decorum and consistently gentlemanly demeanor.

No darkness  shall befall these walls!!

So says Ammamma 

😎

 

[Hooyaah 3,103]

The queen, Ammamma the Excellent, has uttered her decree! All Hail The Queen!

Mayor Rommel and his diligent Sheriff's shall enforce her majesty's will.

The riffraff, scofflaws, and ne'er-do-wells, have left this region!

[SLD 524]

13 hours ago, gogoblender said:

Are you spending those hours with the forum's response window open or do you write the post in a note pad first before copy paste?

We all know we do the first one, but I've lost vocal chords in loud yells after losing a few posts...and still ... I keep doing it

Same on the first one, but I haven't lost anything directly related to that. The only post I lost so far was some immensly well executed user error

And so my burst begins...

Edit: and now it ends again. this one was quite short, less than an hour. Site was quick and responsive all through. 

Edited August 23, 2024 by SLD

[gogoblender 3,406]

We got good speed this morning!!

gogo

 

[SLD 524]

1 hour ago, gogoblender said:

We got good speed this morning!!

I actually had one quite delayed post today (more in the 5++ seconds range), but everything else went quite well. I even just thought for a moment, that I might have lost a post because it went through so quickly that I didn't even notice it was properly posted already

[gogoblender 3,406]

2 minutes ago, SLD said:

I actually had one quite delayed post today (more in the 5++ seconds range), but everything else went quite well. I even just thought for a moment, that I might have lost a post because it went through so quickly that I didn't even notice it was properly posted already

Im worried abou that postthatneverendsandkeepsgoingandgoingandgoing...

was that your first post of the morning or in the middle

same browser you always use, same device?

do you have the time pls

thanks!

gogo