Site having issues last couple days?

[TheMatrix31]

Tons of loading issues. Will crash out, take forever to load, click buttons to reply/submit, navigate. Can't seem to find any common thread too. Disabled ad block, turned wifi off, did other tests but it's really just been a few days of the site being practically unusable.

I figure it's not just me.

[Kramer5150]

Re: Site having issues last couple days?

Definitely not just you, I'm having these issues as well.

[Picci]

Re: Site having issues last couple days?

Usually traffic can snarl a server and there are many lately.........Hmmm......The Show launching, 2k after trade rosters, quality AAA games recently releasing......I'm seeing a pattern

[Steve_OS]

Re: Site having issues last couple days?

Yup, it's traffic related. I've asked the team to bump up some specs but haven't heard anything back yet.

[Ghost Of The Year]

Re: Site having issues last couple days?

Usually traffic can snarl a server and there are many lately.........Hmmm......The Show launching, 2k after trade rosters, quality AAA games recently releasing......I'm seeing a pattern

I blame MLB The Show, lol, who else can I blame too?

[kehlis]

Re: Site having issues last couple days?

^^^ There’s an important poll up in the OS Neighborhood that’s drawing a lot of traffic.


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[Ghost Of The Year]

Re: Site having issues last couple days?

^^^ There’s an important poll up in the OS Neighborhood that’s drawing a lot of traffic.


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Still waiting for a ringing T Bone endorsement from you there. Rumor has it tip calculators may be distributed. And not the Willard.

[MiracleMet718]

Re: Site having issues last couple days?

Do the recent influx of bots have anything to do with it? They popped up towards the end of 2024. Now it seems like there are more and more lurking in every forum.

[BurghFan]

Re: Site having issues last couple days?

Steve did say it's due to increased traffic, you yeah, that may be part of it.

But yeah, this has been brutal lately. Taking 30+ seconds for any page to load once you click the link for it.

[Majingir]

Re: Site having issues last couple days?

Don't know if it's a tapatalk issue or a site one, but I've noticed it a lot lately too.

Then again, tapatalk for me has been borderline unusable for so many months now.

[LowerWolf]

Re: Site having issues last couple days?

I'm not trying to sound like a jerk, but how is traffic an issue when the site is nowhere near as active as it once was?

Looking at the stats, the record was just more than 39K users last September. I think it bogged down then too. But right now the site is slow with just under 5K users (and that includes guests).

[Ghost Of The Year]

Re: Site having issues last couple days?

I'm not trying to sound like a jerk, but how is traffic an issue when the site is nowhere near as active as it once was?

Looking at the stats, the record was just more than 39K users last September. I think it bogged down then too. But right now the site is slow with just under 5K users (and that includes guests).

I guess the infrastructure is showing its age. I wonder if it would help to make the forums unreadable without logging into an account, like the Supporters forum is unreadable without being a Blue Member. Let the unregistered guests read articles from the home page and such, but block the forums. Even that might not help. Just spitballing.

[Majingir]

Re: Site having issues last couple days?

I guess the infrastructure is showing its age. I wonder if it would help to make the forums unreadable without logging into an account, like the Supporters forum is unreadable without being a Blue Member. Let the unregistered guests read articles from the home page and such, but block the forums. Even that might not help. Just spitballing.

I've always thought about that too.

There's pros and cons obviously.

Pros being that you have less guests on the site because people aren't just able to view whatever they want without being a registered member, so it would also lead to more people signing up, and less bots if there are bots around too.

Con being that there will be less traffic which would suck too because all the clicks/views the site gets would go down and some just wouldn't even bother signing up and would go elsewhere.

[Steve_OS]

Re: Site having issues last couple days?

Should be much better now.

[Majingir]

Re: Site having issues last couple days?

Should be much better now.

It was the same as usual in the morning but I have noticed the last few hours it has been much better than it has been in days.