Forum Speed

Pagination is possible, but there is a bug in Drupal which prevents forums from correcly paginating (specifically "todays posts" and the sidebar links would brerak for anythiong not on page1) tenis elbow foot is a silly thread, with no need to have even 100 posts (all with external pictures in makes pages load slowly under any forum software). 

 

I'd suggest dumping to a new thread every 75 posts of that game, then it should be a lot faster. 

 

 

Hi Tom

Thanks for the background info re: the paginating bug, my suggestion of 100 posts was a finger in the air statement and much better than the 230 posts of the last game.

 

I agree that TEF is a silly game and long may if continue , Chirpy, one of the absent Mod's (who's now broadcasting on the BigL) started this very sucessful game years ago and a few other chatter threads which gave a humorous side to this technical forum.

 

If the TEF thread slows down after 75 posts it's no problem to start another game, if 75 posts is a known technical issue can a virtual message popup for members to start a new thread on all threads be implemented, just a thought and not 100% serious, although I have already been asked the question 

 

btw I can load most threads here on my android phone, I ignore the long picture threads because of my mobile data usage (I know I could switch off the pictures loading).

 

Thanks for your input Tom, very much appreciated.

:) its always good to have some sillyness.

 

I'm not sure there is a (simple) way to do any kind of automated message. We might well get away with 100+ posts, its kind of dependent on how good peoples broadband is apart from anything else.

 

Martin has done some database optimisation stuff recently too which i think should help. 

I still find the forum very slow to load. Here's a couple of tracert and ping which are pretty typical. The last lap is consistently slow and gives timeouts.

HTH

Mark

 

C:\Users\Mark>ping dvforums.com

Pinging dvforums.com [46.32.231.93] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Reply from 46.32.231.93: bytes=32 time=1192ms TTL=56

Ping statistics for 46.32.231.93:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 1, Lost = 3 (75% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 1192ms, Maximum = 1192ms, Average = 1192ms

Tracing route to dvforums.com [46.32.231.93]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  4    22 ms    22 ms    77 ms  xe-0-2-0.ptw-cr02.plus.net [212.159.1.18]
  5    22 ms    21 ms    22 ms  ae2.ptw-cr01.plus.net [195.166.129.4]
  6    22 ms    21 ms    22 ms  linx1-hex.webfusion.com [195.66.225.171]
  7     *       29 ms    29 ms  hx8-cr4.core.webfusion.com [109.104.95.138]
  8    29 ms    30 ms    29 ms  cr4-cr5.core.webfusion.com [109.104.95.146]
  9    31 ms    31 ms    30 ms  cr5-ldc5.core.webfusion.com [109.104.95.134]
10     *        *        *     Request timed out.
11     *        *        *     Request timed out.
12  1667 ms  1348 ms     *     847832.vps-10.com [46.32.231.93]
13  1246 ms     *        *     847832.vps-10.com [46.32.231.93]
14     *       31 ms    34 ms  847832.vps-10.com [46.32.231.93]

Tracing route to dvforums.com [46.32.231.93]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  4    22 ms    22 ms    22 ms  xe-0-2-0.ptw-cr02.plus.net [212.159.1.18]
  5    21 ms    21 ms    21 ms  ae2.ptw-cr01.plus.net [195.166.129.4]
  6    21 ms    22 ms    23 ms  linx1-hex.webfusion.com [195.66.225.171]
  7    29 ms    29 ms    29 ms  hx8-cr4.core.webfusion.com [109.104.95.138]
  8    30 ms    30 ms    30 ms  cr4-cr5.core.webfusion.com [109.104.95.146]
  9    31 ms    31 ms    31 ms  cr5-ldc5.core.webfusion.com [109.104.95.134]
10     *        *        *     Request timed out.
11  2058 ms     *        *     847832.vps-10.com [46.32.231.93]
12    39 ms    30 ms    28 ms  847832.vps-10.com [46.32.231.93]