WHAT is it going to take to make these forums run smooth? - Calgarypuck Forums - The Unofficial Calgary Flames Fan Community

Shawnski · 02-06-2006, 11:25 PM

Please, let the user community know what we need to do to help out. The perpetual lagging, brutal refresh rates, etc are killing the experience we all enjoy here.

What do you need to help out? A dedicated server? What? How much?

You have an army of posters here. How can we help? The status quo lately isn't cutting it.... and that is NOT any disrespect to Scottie, Photon, Bingo or others that do their best to keep this site up and running, but it is clear something is very, very wrong lately.

Spell it out to us.... Please.

BlackArcher101 · 02-06-2006, 11:34 PM

I agree.... the performance is just disgusting. If this were a game and we were Sutter, someone would be in the press box!

edit: Not to harp on anyone specific as well. But something really needs to be done about it. New hardware? New hosting company? More money? Server upgrades? SQL problems? Hmmm, only took me 40 seconds to open the edit window to do this.

LeftWing · 02-07-2006, 09:01 AM

Right, what we need is a fund-raising thermometer. Those are always the best.

Just let me know, I'd chip in for some performance enhancing goodness.

Flame On · 02-07-2006, 11:42 AM

A campaign would seem warrented and would be welcome I'm sure.

habernac · 02-07-2006, 12:04 PM

yeah, brutal response times today. I'm not even checking the forum as it's annoyingly slow. Just kick off all the damn newbies.

notoepik · 02-07-2006, 01:09 PM

Slowness is brutal, but the thing that is most irritating is my IP being blocked. I hate that.

Eagle Eye · 02-07-2006, 01:45 PM

Just looking at the other thread "problems viewing CP' How do I know if I am doing something that I shouldn't when I log on to CP (I am just using regular old Explorer).

Over the last 4-5 days (seems to be getting worse) it takes sometimes up to 10 minutes for a page to load, seems weird that this has never happened before.

Mango · 02-07-2006, 02:54 PM

Does anyone have any ideas for a campaign/pledge drive? I understand not everyone will want to participate, but I know a lot of people want to help.

OilKiller · 02-07-2006, 03:16 PM

Took me over and hour just to try and view this thread. Who knows if this post will even be posted. It's too bad. This is a great site, but an hour to view a thread? Most times I can't even get any pages to load at all.

Shin Pad · 02-07-2006, 03:17 PM

Viewing these boards for me, was fine until last evening during the Sharks game - I just couldn't get on the boards and when I did, it took forever. Today - the same thing. Count me in if any help is required to make things run smoothly.

ricosuave · 02-07-2006, 07:55 PM

i concur, to all the disapointments, and to the fund raising.

i think, as ive seen on other boards, that you have to wait a certain amount of time before youre allowed to post, maybe that would help?

also, i dont know how much sigs and avatars hold us back, but how about a scale of number of posts to being able to have a sig and or avatar? ie, if youve got 10000 posts, you have it all, if you have 12, sorry....

thoughts?

i may, and i stress may, have something worthy to donate to an auction if that angle is pursued.

rico

BlackArcher101 · 02-07-2006, 08:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ricosuave

also, i dont know how much sigs and avatars hold us back, but how about a scale of number of posts to being able to have a sig and or avatar? ie, if youve got 10000 posts, you have it all, if you have 12, sorry....

thoughts?

i may, and i stress may, have something worthy to donate to an auction if that angle is pursued.

rico

Avatars and Sigs generally don't cause problems since they are hosted off site. It slows the loading on your personal pc, but doesn't slow the loading of the forum page. It appears to be the server hardware or the server software. Pinging the URL last night gave me a steady 90ms, so to the connection is fine. Looks to be internally within the server.

KevanGuy · 02-07-2006, 11:22 PM

Thanks for all the offers of support everyone. Details to come soon.

rockstar · 02-07-2006, 11:58 PM

It seems to be running fairly well (for me) tonight. Which is a nice change.

But yes, let us know.

Pagal4321 · 02-08-2006, 12:06 AM

Do tell us where and when Kev.
I will eat as many Junior Hamburgers as it takes.

THE SLOWNESS MUST GO!

Shawnski · 02-10-2006, 09:49 PM

OK, so the "runaway process" has been addressed? That worked... sort of...

And now we have a potential onslaught of "official" forum posters.....

However, I am not seeing a "root cause" here folks. The army is ready, the generals are stalling!!

As the thread indicates... What is it going to take to make these forums run smooth??

If you don't want to discuss it here, fine, but take it up elsewhere with those that can help.

I am tired of seeing the "White Screen Of Death"!!!! (Win95 reference intended....)

KevanGuy · 02-10-2006, 11:43 PM

We're working on it.

Ironhorse · 02-10-2006, 11:57 PM

If $$ for new hardware is an issue, how about offering sponsorship accounts (sponsorship = more privileges / features)? Some of the other boards I'm on have them, and I would imagine it would help with the 'ol cash flow...

Just thinking out loud.

Flash Walken · 02-13-2006, 04:16 AM

Just don't go overboard like lowtax

evman150 · 02-13-2006, 10:08 PM

I'd be willing to toss 10 or 20 bucks towards making this place run smoother.