Software Upgrade 2nd December 2008 & Advertising Sidebar (merged)

[Rambit]

Originally Posted by UK CHRYSLER 300C

you wanna see what I do when I really get angry.lol

Well, did you complete your assignment and hand it in for marking?

Bernie

[UK CHRYSLER 300C]

errr,yes I did sir (tail between my legs,sulking,lol)If you're on about what I think your on about then yes I really did.lol

[Rambit]

Originally Posted by UK CHRYSLER 300C

errr,yes I did sir (tail between my legs,sulking,lol)If you're on about what I think your on about then yes I really did.lol

Why yes I am! How'd it go BTW?

Bernie

[UK CHRYSLER 300C]

dunno really,did everything I was told to do(thats a first,I can tell you,lol)recorded,saved and sent,havent heard anything back yet,would be nice/good to know if it got through so i know I hadnt wasted anyones time.Dont suppose you know if it got there do you?

[Rambit]

Originally Posted by UK CHRYSLER 300C

dunno really,did everything I was told to do(thats a first,I can tell you,lol)recorded,saved and sent,havent heard anything back yet,would be nice/good to know if it got through so i know I hadnt wasted anyones time.Dont suppose you know if it got there do you?

Sorry, I don't know, but I imagine if there were any problems or suggestions the tech will be reporting back to us so we can foreward it on to everyone.

Hey, thanks for being part of the solution, at least that's the aim. Thanks for not giving up too!!!

Bernie

[UK CHRYSLER 300C]

hey,thats one thing I never do,is give up,just ask my wife,no on second thoughts dont ask her,lol,must be the Italian in me.I just hope this techie actually knows what he's talking about,I've met some techies in my past and they just tried to baffle everyone with bullsh1t,lets hope he's a "gud un".lol

[2008uk300c]

still very slow for me, about 8 seconds each time for the page to load, whilst i was staring at the white pages, i noticed that down the bottom left, where is says waiting for etc etc, it seems to be waiting for all the ad links to load.

i don't know a lot about websites, but as a suggestion, maybe you could switch of the ads, if that makes all the difference, find a solution to the problem, then re-introduce the ads, we don't really look at them anyway!!

[UK CHRYSLER 300C]

wtf,everytime I go to a link off this site my pop-up blocker warns me,so I have to turn it off so I can see this link,didnt happen before,anyone else getting this?

[Administrator]

Hello Everyone,

I just wanted to let you know that we are listening and we are aware of the issues that some of you are facing. We have plans for making some changes and modifications to the forum that should ease the loading woes and hopefully prevent the "white page" loading issue that IE is doing. Please be patient these things do take time.

For everyone that sent me an httpwatch log, thank you, I don't have time to individually respond to all of you. The logs are to give me a baseline of what the forum is like for everyone that is browsing and the fixes I would be making will effect everyone, they won't be fixes specific to one user or another. Im looking to lower the overall load time of the page for everyone and therefore taking a less personal approach to each log is nessecary.

-jmarshall

[badger]

The change required to restore the forum to correct operating speed is not rocket science and doesn't require specialist "techs" - get rid of the google ads and all will be back to normal.
No point in fudging things with alterations and modifications, just remove the ads, at least from all pages except the main forum page. I think most people would settle for that - a slow loading main page, but once you're "in", normal service resumed.