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[Sir Wolf]

sometimes i am having issues with the pages loading and posting times.  it happens more at my moms house who has a dial up connection  but i still have had a few times at home on my cable modem were some of these pages take there sweet time loading. its weird. jsut thought i would let ya know.

anyone else having any issues?

[Sir Edward]

Yeah, I've noticed it taking some time to load forum pages sometimes. Haven't found a reason for it. The server is not overworked, the database is responsive, other web pages on the server come up in a snap. Perplexing.

[Sir Edward]

I've made a couple tweaks. I was suspecting DNS hostname resolving latency, so I've told the forum not to do lookups, and also switched to faster servers to do the lookups against when they do occur. Hopefully that'll help.

Also, apparently email sent by the forum wasn't working either. I think I have that fixed.

[Sir Edward]

I think the changes I made worked... it's been very quick all day. How does it look to you?

[Sir Wolf]

yes, it loads much better at work now with their dial up.

[Sir Wolf]

ok newish issue. a few times i log in and click on the "new posts since last visit"  and it comes up with no new posts. but i know there have been due to i can see the times and "Today" post in bold from teh main menu.  anyone else have this issue

[Sir Edward]

Odd.. Are you logging out or staying logged in "forever"? I find that if I actually log out, I see all the new posts next time just fine. If I stay in "forever", sometimes it shows there's a new post in one of the message boards with the gold icon, but they might not have the "new" tags when I go look.

Probably some quirk with how it does cookies to track when you last looked. Probably not much I can do about it.

[Das Bill]

Yeah, I've had some weird issues with the "show unread posts" function as well, including occassionally seeing a new topic that I have actually read weeks ago, and has not had anything new since.

I don't really use that function anymore because of that, I just go straight into the forums and look at what's new.