Poorly hamsters?

[funkyrobot]

Site seems to be running slow and have just been given a 'sorry there was a problem' message.

Do the hamsters need some Calpol?

[Big Al.]

Seems OK for me Darn Sarf!

[Laurel Green]

Taking an age here in Londonshire.

[funkyrobot]

It's hit and miss. One minute slow, then it's normal speed.

Oh well.

[Laurel Green]

Seems to be OK using Edge but slow with Chrome.

Is it a conspiracy that Microsoft are 'gremlinising Chrome to slow it down?

ETA: It would seem the page loads quickly, but then takes a time for the adverts to load before being able to 'use' the page.

Edited by Laurel Green on Thursday 20th August 09:21

[B'stard Child]

Laurel Green said:

Seems to be OK using Edge but slow with Chrome.

Is it a conspiracy that Microsoft are 'gremlinising Chrome to slow it down?

ETA: It would seem the page loads quickly, but then takes a time for the adverts to load before being able to 'use' the page.

Edited by Laurel Green on Thursday 20th August 09:21

Had same problem - adverts loading that I couldn't see because of adblock but still had to wait till the scripts had finished before the page loaded

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[saaby93]

I reckon it's adverts
A page (eg list of threads for topic) loads but you cant click anything for 15- 30 seconds maybe a minute until it's finished doing something in background.
Bandwidth eater.
Youre not allowed to go to the next page until weve made sure youve downloaded everything whether you need it or not

[Ollie_M]

Interesting feedback, I'll make sure all of these issues are passed on to the developers on Monday.

P.S. The Hamsters had to go I'm afraid as they just weren't cut out for it.... no stamina. We're experimenting with Guinea pigs and Redbull

[B'stard Child]

Ollie_M said:

Interesting feedback, I'll make sure all of these issues are passed on to the developers on Monday.

Have fun with that one

Ollie_M said:

P.S. The Hamsters had to go I'm afraid as they just weren't cut out for it.... no stamina. We're experimenting with Guinea pigs and Redbull

I know progress is progress but they only time I experiment with red bull is giving Mrs BC's "sisters kids" Red bull or Lucazade before we deliver them back - somehow it just feels like suitable revenge for the hellish day

[Ollie_M]

Brilliant. Never underestimate the power of sugar and E numbers.

[Blackpuddin]

Home page seems to have gone to Amstrad spec

[FourWheelDrift]

On a mobile (Chrome) I get correct screen formatting but Chinese characters at the bottom.

[FourWheelDrift]

But on a tablet (chrome) I'm getting a very long text list of everything before I get the forums by scrolling down a long way.

[FourWheelDrift]

Mobile doing the same as tablet now.

[MrBarry123]

I'm having this same issue on Mac (Safari).

[Blackpuddin]

Also on Chrome Mac

[OtherBusiness]

Its a problem with Amazon AWS I gather. You should see http://www.notonthehighstreet.com - looks even worse

[Snoggledog]

Thank fook for that! I thought it was just me. Seems to be happening in both Firefox and Chrome. Wonder if it was that Java update..

[jeremyc]

OtherBusiness said:

Its a problem with Amazon AWS I gather.

Specifically for those who have BT as their ISP.

AWS Service Health Dashboard said:

Amazon CloudFront
DNS problems for end users on British Telecom ISP in the UK
5:33 AM PDT We are investigating connectivity problems between CloudFront and end users on certain ISPs in the UK.
6:17 AM PDT We can confirm that end users using a single ISP in the UK are experiencing connectivity problems when trying to reach CloudFront. We are working to resolve this issue.
7:04 AM PDT End users using a single ISP, British Telecom, in the UK are experiencing failures when resolving cloudfront.net domain names. We are working with the ISP to resolve this issue. As a workaround, end users can change their resolvers to use a public DNS resolver and successfully resolve cloudfront.net names.

[OtherBusiness]

Thanks for that