Mike Peregrine
EF5
Ahh cool ... thanks, Tim ... I've been trying to figure out how to structure a Google search for this joint.
Jason Foster
ah....was about to post a thread about where the "New Posts" went too, but figured I'd check this thread first.
I miss that feature, but I'll live...
David Drummond
Member
Disabling a major functional feature that makes a forum such a great platform is **FAIL**
Jason Boggs
Where did the New Posts section go?
Jeff Snyder
EF5
I'm under the impression that the 'New Posts' features relies upon forum search, just as the "Find all posts by [member x]" feature. AFAIK, when search is turned back on, the "New Posts" feature will re-emerge.
This forum was crawling yesterday (and a few days in the past week), so I imagine that Tim had to decide either to try to cut resources where possible to bring the forum back up to a manageable speed (so we don't need to wait 30 seconds to see a thread, open a forum, etc.) or to leave the search feature enabled but nearly worthless since everything would be so slow. *shrug*
Jason Boggs
Ah, I got ya. Thanks for the explanation. I thought that might be the case, but I wasn't sure.
Scott Weberpal
EF5
One thing I've noticed is that google adsense has been slowing down a LOT of sites for me lately. I'll click a link at at the bottom of my browser it will say "Waiting for 74.55.39.45" for sometimes over a minute, which I understand is related to the ads. Not sure if anyone else is having that problem, but I installed "Ad Blocker" for firefox, and now ST and the other sites are back to loading fast for me again.
Jason Foster
Yes, not only search, but also:
"New Posts" at the top (which is now missing)
...but also, under your username/member page:
Find all posts by username
Find all threads started by username
Find all thanked posts by username
Find all posts thanked by username
"New Posts" at the top (which is now missing)
...but also, under your username/member page:
Find all posts by username
Find all threads started by username
Find all thanked posts by username
Find all posts thanked by username
I agree with some earlier posts in that without search and "view posts since last visit", ST is now 100% worthless to me as I can't easily navigate to the latest posts. I hope these come back soon; real soon.
Tim Vasquez
EF5
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I'll put the search back online, but if things slow down we'll know what it was.
Tim
Tim
Thanks Tim; much more usable now!
Not sure how long ago you put "New Posts" back online, but just in the last 15 minutes I've noticed a huge slowdown to the website. It was cruising along fine, then it bogged down into perpetual hour glass syndrome.
Jerry Prsha
EF4
At 9pm... It's pretty "zippy".
Robert Dewey
EF5
To be honest, I haven't had any problems. I occasionally use this site from a computer that has AdBlock, but I'm not sure if that's had any effect (as suggest by Scott Weberpal).
Jason Foster
With the search (and it's associated features) back up, perhaps watching how it does through the next event will be the key. I don't know it would help, but bumping the time between searches from 15 seconds to 60 seconds might be one way until server upgrades (or whatever) is done.
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