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by jdclyde

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I have noticed for quite some time (as have others) that the pages hang or delay when looking for i.i.com.com and the doubleclick pages.

How about making it so the ads load AFTER the discussions?

I understand that the ads are important and are what pay for the services we are recieving, but if the ads prohibit people from browsing the discussions, I would think less people are going to WANT to browse the discussions leaving less people to see the ads in the first place.

Just a thought, as this has been going on for over a month now.

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by smorty71

We are looking at a few options to resolve the page hanging issues. We are still trying to pinpoint exactly what is causing the delay with i.i.com.com.

I'll keep you all posted on what we find.

Thanks for the feedback.

by jdclyde

was view.atdmt.com

Although I get the page not found error more than I get the page hanging issue.

by hal 9000

When I open a Discussion page the Banner Add will load and then nothing at all will make the rest of the page load hitting refresh or going back to the original URL only comes up with the Banner Add.

Now I'm going to learn all about what M$ is doing to keep us honest people in work. :p

I haven't got an enforcement alert for at least 4 weeks now. :D

Actually if there was no MS Logo there it could be the Q Continuum which I need to visit for a few centuries so when I return I'll be so out of date that I'll be unemployable. :(

Col ]:)

by jdclyde

Using FF 1.5

A dialog popped up saying:

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The operation timed out when attempting to connect to ad.doublclick.net
OK
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by m_a_r_k

It really is consistently the slowest web site I use regularly. Slowest by far. Nothing else even compares. Not even close. It is bad. Really, really bad. If Yahoo was this slow, their stock would tank and they'd be out of business within two months. I guarantee it. Same with CNN or AOL or any other web site that gets several thousand times as much traffic as TR. This is 2006, not 1986. What's so difficult about creating a web site that at least loads page consistently in less than 45 seconds? I did an experiment just now. I accessed the web page for this discussion. In another IE window, I simultaneously loaded Yahoo's home page. I kept hitting Refresh on the Yahoo page while waiting for this TR page to load. Yahoo's page loaded 30 times while TR's creeped along. I actually stopped at 30. My index finger was getting tired of clicking. And I didn't want to wear out my Refresh button. :)

Part of the problem may be that a lot of these ads seem to use Macromedia Flash Player. Why do those ads ALWAYS load immediately within microsecnds and the stuff we really want to see--the simple stuff like basic text--can't seem to load?

by jdclyde

look HARD at what they CHANGED and change it back.

Rocket science.

The HAVE to know enough about tech that they did SOME testing of the code before roll out AND didn't run the tests over a 10/100 network connection. Or do they? Testing locally?

I am befudled that it would/could/should take over a month to resolve the same few problems. All having to do with as MARK pointed out, at getting the SIMPLE part of the page to load.

Again, change the order of the load or change it back to the way it used to load.

by m_a_r_k

It really is consistently the slowest web site I use regularly. Slowest by far. Nothing else even compares. Not even close. It is bad. Really, really bad. If Yahoo was this slow, their stock would tank and they'd be out of business within two months. I guarantee it. Same with CNN or AOL or any other web site that gets several thousand times as much traffic as TR. This is 2006, not 1986. What's so difficult about creating a web site that at least loads page consistently in less than 45 seconds? I did an experiment just now. I accessed the web page for this discussion. In another IE window, I simultaneously loaded Yahoo's home page. I kept hitting Refresh on the Yahoo page while waiting for this TR page to load. Yahoo's page loaded 30 times while TR's creeped along. I actually stopped at 30. My index finger was getting tired of clicking. And I didn't want to wear out my Refresh button. :)

Part of the problem may be that a lot of these ads seem to use Macromedia Flash Player. Why do those ads ALWAYS load immediately within microsecnds and the stuff we really want to see--the simple stuff like basic text--can't seem to load?

by m_a_r_k

What a coincidence! LOL I didn't do it on purpose. I swear I didn't. I guess I got tired waiting... sorry about that. :|

by jdclyde

I have to wonder if it is more than just the site that is slow....... :p

pebkac! :^O

by m_a_r_k

as in impatient. I've learned to select and copy [b]EVERY[/b] message that I submit before I click the Submit button. If I get the expected "Page requested not found", I usually back up a couple of pages to the discussion page, and refresh to see if the post actually got submitted. If it did not, I resubmit by posting my copied message back into a brand new posting. It's an absolute pain going through all those steps just to submit a post. Sometimes I get impatient and just don't give a rip if the message actually gets submitted twice or not so I'll do a refresh on the "Page requested not found" page. In those cases, sometimes the message gets submitted twice.

BTW, what in the world is "pebkac"?

by Member 25348569

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I think he was suggesting that it's you...

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:p

by jdclyde

Neils tran[b]B[/b]slation service needs a spell checker thought! :p

I can NOT believe he didn't know that one!!!!!!!!!!

How about an I D 10 T error? :D

by Member 25348569

I'm sure that I don't know [b]what[/b] you're talking about!

Hallucinating! Are you on something besides your computer?

by m_a_r_k

I assumed that "transblation" was another of jdc's infamous spelling errors. Just like I assumed that "pebkac" was another of his infamous spelling errors. :D

by Member 25348569

I edited my post to make jd look silly. Just as you did when you first suggested that us_geeks_rule was a bloke and then edited your text...

Shame on both of us!

Neil :p

by jdclyde

to doing the same to you in MY post to leave YOUR next post hang, but decided to let it hang so others would question.... :D

You dirty post hanger! :^O

BAWAHHHAHAHAAHAHAHAAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAHAHAHAAAAAAA

Oh yeah, still feeling slow MARK? hee hee!

by jdclyde

now that the second side bar of ads has been removed.

So, was that the whole problem all along?

Things are going along VERY nicely!

Thank you!

jd

by smorty71

Glad to see things are improving. We narrowed it down to a couple of culprits and are trying to determine which of those is the problem.

Thanks for being patient and helping us troubleshoot this.

by too old for it

I should go see where the filtering is, because we never see the ads, not even the annoying "click here to load ActivX" bar.

by jdclyde

between five to ten seconds is SOOOO much better than what it has been in a long time.

Please pass on as many "Attaboys" as are required.

When you narrow it down once and for all what the problem was, will you be telling us? Turn it into a learning experience for us all!

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