Forum Performance Issues

[Bealdwine]

Ah first to post, virgin territory :D

Just a quick note about an issue I get on the site.

 

Because I tend to use the 'View New Posts' option to go directly to new content the site doesn't recognise that I don't need to be alerted to new activity in the 'containing' fora so the icons for these are still yellow if I go into the forum manually == confusing :?

 

Eg. I use View New Posts to go to the latest chat in '[REL] Skyrim Unplugged' but once I finish if I go into the main forum the icons are telling me there is unread content in /Mods, the Universe & Everything and then /Specific Mods as well. As you plan to use layers of sub-fora for organisation this is going to recur quite often.

 

Just a small glitch but might be fixable?

[z929669]

MyBB has also something like that' date=' but I'm not sure if there is a point of searching for it and installing, when we move to new engine...?[/quote']

I( was hoping to move soon, but s4n has the IPB license and is still building the server install script.

 

the MyBB plugin will likely be incompatible with our unique editor, but again, that is for s4n to confirm.

[stoppingby4now]

IPB had auto save when they used ckeditor, but don't think they have it in their current custom version. I'll double check. I had attempted to get a solution working for us, but lack of time and getting a reliable architecture defined delayed getting anything working.

[stoppingby4now]

Feature list indicates automatic saving of draft posts. Assuming this applies to anything where the editor is used, but can test to confirm st done point.

[TechAngel85]

Anyone else experiencing really slow performance from the forums? The rest of my internet is working fine, but it would seem the last couple of days that the STEP forums at taking forever to load most of the time. I feel like I'm back on dial up on this site the last two days!

[phazer11]

It's been  little slow on here but nothing major like you. Nexus is still a veritable quicksand of waiting for me though.

[TechAngel85]

It's been  little slow on here but nothing major like you. Nexus is still a veritable quicksand of waiting for me though.

Nexus is usually fast for me...when it's up. They've been down a lot here lately with no real communication of what all the maintenance is about.

[EssArrBee]

They've mentioned a few times that they moved to a new server cluster that will be more stable in the future. Plus they had quite a bit of DDOS non sense this year. I don't really get why though, it's just a community driven mod site.

[z929669]

I occasionally get really bad page-load times on the forums.... getting tired of it, so the move to the new server node will happen very soon.

 

Waiting on s4n's latest code and IPB, but, I am thinking that we should get it up first week of September, regardless.

 

@s4n

Is this possible?

[stoppingby4now]

Took longer than I liked, but we are on the new server now (cutover Sunday night). Clean environment, and tweaked for performance.

 

I definitely notice an improvement, but if anyone experiences any problems, please let me know.

[TechAngel85]

Took longer than I liked, but we are on the new server now (cutover Sunday night). Clean environment, and tweaked for performance.

 

I definitely notice an improvement, but if anyone experiences any problems, please let me know.

+1

 

Next up... Forum software!

[TechAngel85]

Not really an issue than more of an observation. Now that we're officially supporting MO, the wiki drop-down menu at the top of the forum should probably be switch to point to the MO Guide. It still points to the WB Guide.

[z929669]

Good point, will change.

 

Fixed

[Octopuss]

Scrolling the forums randomly slows down to crawling without any apparent reason. Is that a known problem or something?

[rootsrat]

Scrolling the forums randomly slows down to crawling without any apparent reason. Is that a known problem or something?

A user contacted me via Steam recently with the same problem. Couple more reported it well.I never experienced it personally though.

[Octopuss]

It really is completely random, and sometimes it goes away after opening different page and then opening the forums again, but... there's no apparent pattern to it. Could it be Flash related?