Forum Issues?

Forum Issues?
« on: September 08, 2018, 10:34:14 PM »
Hi Guys,

Anyone else having troubles with the forum?

It started for me around a week ago when I couldn't log in, I also couldn't get the forum to email me a new password.

I contacted support and Carsen changed the password for me and then I could get in.

What I am seeing now is the background image is not being cached and loads very slowly on each page, say 5-20 seconds. It does the same in Chrome and Safari.

I also get very slow ping times:

PING forum.sequential.com (198.49.77.114): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 198.49.77.114: icmp_seq=0 ttl=49 time=119.024 ms
64 bytes from 198.49.77.114: icmp_seq=1 ttl=49 time=117.068 ms
64 bytes from 198.49.77.114: icmp_seq=2 ttl=49 time=116.750 ms





Is anyone else seeing anything strange?

Cheers

Andy

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Re: Forum Issues?
« Reply #1 on: September 09, 2018, 12:20:42 AM »
Was it after the name change to Sequential?

https://forum.sequential.com

I’m not having issues here.
« Last Edit: September 09, 2018, 12:24:20 AM by Gomjab »

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Re: Forum Issues?
« Reply #2 on: September 09, 2018, 07:45:39 AM »
No problems here.

Re: Forum Issues?
« Reply #3 on: September 09, 2018, 09:49:27 AM »
Everything has been fine over here.

Re: Forum Issues?
« Reply #4 on: September 10, 2018, 12:39:43 AM »
Hi Guys,

Thanks for the replies.

If you click on this: https://forum.sequential.com/Images/forum_background.png

Does it load quickly?

For me it is 15 seconds:

wget https://forum.sequential.com/Images/forum_background.png

--2018-09-10 08:40:10--  https://forum.sequential.com/Images/forum_background.png
Resolving forum.sequential.com... 198.49.77.114
Connecting to forum.sequential.com|198.49.77.114|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1956483 (1.9M) [image/png]
Saving to: ‘forum_background.png’

forum_background.pn 100%[===================>]   1.87M   205KB/s    in 15s     

2018-09-10 08:40:26 (126 KB/s) - ‘forum_background.png’ saved [1956483/1956483]


Cheers

Andy
« Last Edit: September 10, 2018, 12:41:24 AM by BobTheDog »

Re: Forum Issues?
« Reply #5 on: September 10, 2018, 12:59:31 AM »
Takes about 2 seconds to load here.

Re: Forum Issues?
« Reply #6 on: September 10, 2018, 04:09:20 AM »
Takes about 2 seconds to load here.

Same for me.
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Re: Forum Issues?
« Reply #7 on: September 10, 2018, 06:53:01 AM »

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Re: Forum Issues?
« Reply #8 on: September 10, 2018, 11:26:10 AM »
The thing that sticks out to me is the size of the thing. 1.9M? Here's what I've got:

Code: [Select]
Saving to: ‘forum_background.pn’

forum_background.pn               [ <=>                                              ]   2.38K  --.-KB/s    in 0s     

2018-09-10 14:24:11 (42.3 MB/s) - ‘forum_background.pn’ saved [2441]

jasonjustian$ ls -la forum_background.pn
-rw-r--r--@ 1 jasonjustian  staff  2441 Sep 10 14:24 forum_background.pn
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Re: Forum Issues?
« Reply #9 on: September 10, 2018, 11:43:53 AM »
The thing that sticks out to me is the size of the thing. 1.9M? Here's what I've got:

Obviously so if forgetting the trailing "g" of the filename. I get 1956483 bytes for "forum_background.png" and 2441 bytes for "forum_background.pn".

Forum usually loads fairly fast for me though it sometimes seems slow(er). Browser cache issue?
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Re: Forum Issues?
« Reply #10 on: September 10, 2018, 11:58:45 AM »
The forum background image is quite visible and can be studied using standard browser features (view background image etc). Background image seems to be loading last and yes it does slow down the forum a bit depending on available bandwidth. Suggestion for improvement: "007" instead of "006". ;)
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Re: Forum Issues?
« Reply #11 on: September 11, 2018, 11:20:44 AM »
Hi guys,

Thanks for the info.

I think there might be a routing issue from the UK.

I'm not a web expert I think setting it as cacheable might help.

Re: Forum Issues?
« Reply #12 on: September 11, 2018, 11:22:02 AM »
I'm on the iPad here and it is cacheing the image, super speedy.

Looks like a safari issue on my Mac then.

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Re: Forum Issues?
« Reply #13 on: September 14, 2018, 11:37:23 AM »
So this morning I did have forum issues.  I only got a message stating that the traffic quota had been exceeded.  Working fine now.


Sacred Synthesis

Re: Forum Issues?
« Reply #14 on: September 14, 2018, 05:47:48 PM »
The forum issue I have is not being able to get onto Sequential's Facebook page.  I presume it's being re-designed for the new name change, but it's been down for some time now.  Clicking on the link results in this:

"The link you followed may be broken, or the page may have been removed"
« Last Edit: September 14, 2018, 05:50:24 PM by Sacred Synthesis »

Re: Forum Issues?
« Reply #15 on: September 18, 2018, 05:15:10 PM »
The FB page got renamed:

https://www.facebook.com/sequentialLLC/

They haven't approved our business name change yet so it'll still say DSI when you get there, but the page is still intact.
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