Site Issues and Improvements

MEC407: It works, thanks!

Glad to help!

Is the issue of disappearing posts going to be solved sometime soon? I have still seen several cases of posts vanishing over the last several days, as recently as yesterday.

It seems like the pages have been loading very slowly recently. I have high speed internet service and haven't noticed any slowness on other sites.

Thanks.

Poppyl

The site was down this afternoon when I got home from work. There is a website -- is it down right now? -- that you can use to verify if a site is down. When I checked Railroad.Net around 4:00 PM EDST it was down. See the screen capture below:

The site was down for a while today,the "General Error" message,showed that the site had "crashed".
Is there any time frame during the week when the site goes down for "maintaince"??

poppyl wrote:It seems like the pages have been loading very slowly recently. I have high speed internet service and haven't noticed any slowness on other sites.

I use FIOS and most sites -- but not all -- load very quickly. Railroad Net is one of the slower loading ones and has been for a while. Lately I too have noticed the download time has increased. When the site is loading you can see the connections it is making in the lower left corner of your screen. My experience is it seems to hang up when connecting with Google Analytics which is a widely used website statistic service. Many users have complained about GA related slow downs on website page loading speed and I think Google usually blames it on sites using old versions of Google Analytics. However on Google's own product forum many users claim that GA does load slowly no matter what version you use.

There seems to be a "script" glitch in that google "crap"that's creating the slow load problem,
get a stop or debug script box in IE and Firefox,hitting the stop script button seems to get rid of that "bad script".

Try noscript plugin for firefox; Javascript can only run from the sites you allow.

I have zero issues with the site loading since the updates on Google chrome. And I have absolutely terrible Comcast of all internet services.

Found that addon for Firefox and added the ad blocker as well,that should kill that glitch

ApproachMedium wrote:I have zero issues with the site loading since the updates on Google chrome. And I have absolutely terrible Comcast of all internet services.

I second this - except of course, when the site is down

Backshophoss wrote:Found that addon for Firefox and added the ad blocker as well,that should kill that glitch

This has been working excellently for me also.

The outage the other day was a Mysql and/or phbb failure. The website was technically up but only serving error pages. When you see that sort of thing, cut and paste the error & email the admin, which is what I did in case he didn't already know. Came back later and it seemed to be fixed. Isn't the internet wonderful

[OT] Besides noscript & adblock-plus, try ghostery (tracking cookies, widgets, web beacons). I'd recommend forecastfox also but it's abandoned & partially broken...

I do run adblock plus on my google chrome also, so I wonder if the ads are causing the glitches?