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Synthoid · Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 12:14 am Post subject: Forums.....the worst websites!

Don't know about the rest of you, but I have the worst time with online forums! This website hasn't been too bad, but I often have the following issues elsewhere:

1.) Forums taking a LONG time to load, even when they aren't graphics intensive, and only 3-4 people are viewing at the time.

2.) Stalling when trying to read a thread or reply to one.

3.) Forgetting my screen name and password, even when I've chosen to be "remembered."

4.) Forums being down, then when I try again.....suddenly it's back 2 seconds later!

The above issues rarely or never happen with other websites. Anyone else experience this nonsense?

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Daz · Retired Joined: 01 Jan 2002 Posts: 10829

I guess the problem is that a forum is essential a multi-user piece of software, where as most webpages are just documents. So forums tend to chew up more resources on the server and behave less well. In the background a forum is churning through an enormous database to create the text you see on the screen and thats not nearly as efficient as just reading a majoratively static page off disk and firing back to the user's browser.

To be completely honest, having seen how these forums work in more technical detail, I am surprised they work as well as they do Wink

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Sharp · Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 12:37 am Post subject:

Have to say that I'm delighted with the reliability, speed and uptime we are getting from our server. The forums are very quick to load.

I also don't have any problems with other forums I visit. That said, I wouldn't use anything else other that FireFox. It's just so fast and free from all that Microsoft bull.

Regards.
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Synthoid · Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 1:09 am Post subject:

Can you have both Firefox & Explorer? Not running at the same time, but both loaded on the same PC?

Any issues with Firefox with certain websites....? Or with downloading?

Thanks. Cool

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Sharp · Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 1:19 am Post subject:

Diego · Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 1:21 pm Post subject:

Totally agree with you!

Consider that now webmasters are develpoing websites under FireFox and then fix any problem had with Explorer, so don't warry about that sotfware.

I generally use FireFox, too, but at work I use Explorer: there is no comparison between two, Explorer can't be nearly compared to FireFox's speed and reliability.
Now I'm using my iBook and surfing the web with Safari2: very good browser, too.

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Diego · Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 10:34 am Post subject:

Maybe Daz is insterested in this one...
phpBB has updated to version 3, maybe we can switch over the new version.
It seems to be nuch stable, faster and reliable than the previous one.
It's quite good amount of time the new version is out, so I guess all major bugs are fixed and all problems have already came to light.

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Timo · Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 1:00 pm Post subject:

Which other websites do you have problems with, Synth?
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Synthoid · Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 1:59 pm Post subject:

The Musicplayer forums are the slowest loading ever. And sometimes when I start replying to a post there, the webpage will switch to something different entirely!

It stalls from time to time as well.

Confused

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GregC · Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 11:52 am Post subject:

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Voltan · Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 12:57 pm Post subject:

and don't forget to install the "Adblock Plus" plugin, it's brilliant Very Happy

georgeinar · Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 1:18 pm Post subject:

while I'm now interested in firefox because of this thread i will say i'm on a new vista pc IE and having not trouble at all with my any websites loading etc, maybe i just have a very fast machine, and i have 2 gig memory
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GregC · Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 4:15 pm Post subject:

Diego · Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 9:58 pm Post subject:

same here grec!

Mac rules! Cool

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