[Important] What the hell just happened?!?

[jwhouk]

All I've noticed is that the ratings icons are not showing up right away when you click the thumbs button. And when they do appear, sometimes they close right away if you don't have the mouse on the toolbar when it scrolls out.

 

[Gared]

All I've noticed is that the ratings icons are not showing up right away when you click the thumbs button. And when they do appear, sometimes they close right away if you don't have the mouse on the toolbar when it scrolls out.

They open on hover now, instead of on click, and click closes them.

 

[Tinwhistler]

I haven't been having any slowdown issues

 

[Celt Z]

I'm having slowdown issues on both my pc and phone since the change.

 

[DarkAudit]

Is the host still getting attacked? IIRC there was a DDOS attack a few hours after the cockup.

 

[Tinwhistler]

This is pretty typical of the response time I've been getting.

I was using the new 1.1.1.1 DNS (which was faster than my Comcast's DNS servers), but it completely died on me a couple days ago, and I switched back to Comcast DNS.

 

[figmentPez]

I've been getting random bouts of slowdown, too.

 

[Dave]

I'll message the host and let him know. Maybe there's something he can look at.

 

[PatrThom]

I was using the new 1.1.1.1 DNS (which was faster than my Comcast's DNS servers), but it completely died on me a couple days ago.

AT&T explains why it blocked Cloudflare DNS: It was just an accident

You might be on Comcast, but as it says later in the article, Cisco equipment apparently likes to snap up the 1.1.1.1 address for its own use.

—Patrick

 

[PatrThom]

Oh hey, I just noticed that when I load forum pages, the lock icon in the address bar isn’t always there. Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn’t. This might be related. Cert issue?

—Patrick

 

[Dave]

Interesting theory. I'll forward it on.

 

[GasBandit]

It won't be there if there's content embedded that is from another side.. IE, imgur.

 

[PatrThom]

Here, maybe this will be of help:

Yes, that's ~13s it just sits there, waiting for a response from the server.

--Patrick

 

[Thread Necromancer]

I didn't read this thread. I just here to say "It's ok Dave. we still love you" But of course I'm late and not paying attention. That's kind of my thing.

 

[strawman]

Here, maybe this will be of help:
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Yes, that's ~13s it just sits there, waiting for a response from the server.

--Patrick

My guess is SQL stuff. Some query or another is badly optimized (maybe indexes are broken and need to be reindexed) or the SQL server is separate from the web server and isn't responding quickly.

 

[strawman]

And going to the main page and the forums page, both are pretty quick. It's when I go to a forum like general or hit new posts that it slows down.

 

[Dave]

There are things in the ACP that let me reindex stuff, but I don't want to do it until traffic is down a bit as it'll slow stuff down.

 

[Bubble181]

There are things in the ACP that let me reindex stuff, but I don't want to do it until traffic is down a bit as it'll slow stuff down even more.

FTFY

(also, *posting* or reacting in a thread *is* quite fast.)

 

[Dave]

I went ahead and started the indexing. If it works, it'll be done soon enough. If it doesn't I can update the ticket.

 

[Bubble181]

Not to be a bother, but entering a thread is still slow as molasses. The forum pages are OK, reacting/posting is fast, but New Posts and actually going to the page of a post are still in the "go get a coffee while you wait" category.

 

[Dave]

I'll send something to the host, but don't expect anything today thanks to a US holiday.

 

[Dave]

Okay, I've unstuck this. Looks like everything is basically back to normal. There are a few things I still have to take care of, but they are on the server side.

 

[Dei]

So it's a super minor thing, but as of this morning, on my phone, some things in my UI layout randomly changed, such as not having a what's new hotlink button without turning my phone sideways or opening the sidebar.

 

[Dave]

The UI.X styles were throwing up a billion errors and I believe one of the things that were helping slow things down. I got them fixed this morning. So if there are issues, please document them and we'll see what we can do to fix them.