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Re: The website is slooooooooooow

Flea — Tue Apr 12, 2005 1:28 am

Author: Flea

Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 1:28 am

I use Firefox, I just tested Konquerer and all seems fine to me! I'm not going to install any other browsers just to test out the speed though. What isp's/connection speeds are ppl on? I'm on a 2mbit adsl BT Broadband line.

Personally I think the whole thing is blisteringly fast now!

Re: The website is slooooooooooow

nordle — Mon Apr 11, 2005 10:58 pm

Author: nordle

Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 10:58 pm

evilnick wrote:

i wouldn't rule out the possibility that some code here may cause problems. Let us know your exact browser/platform so we can test it.

However, Mozilla, Firefox and IE, as far as we can see, don't have any problems.

I'm running Firefox 1.0.2, IPV6 disabled, and it takes <1 second to do anything, FANTASTIC! Maybe the new server is just nearer to me now

Sounds as though the new server is pretty beafy, much appreciated, image is not everything but it can't be ignored either, this should help add to lxf's popularity in many areas, subscribers and advertisers alike.

Re: The website is slooooooooooow

evilnick — Mon Apr 11, 2005 3:14 pm

Author: evilnick

Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 3:14 pm

ticktock wrote:

About 20 seconds on Mozilla with the ads showing. So I need to change my browser to get this site working smoothly. Yeah that must be it. Rest of Internet is wrong. My browser is bad. This site is good. Or maybe.....

Re: The website is slooooooooooow

ticktock — Mon Apr 11, 2005 12:13 pm

Author: ticktock

Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 12:13 pm

About 20 seconds on Mozilla with the ads showing. So I need to change my browser to get this site working smoothly. Yeah that must be it. Rest of Internet is wrong. My browser is bad. This site is good. Or maybe.....

Re: The website is slooooooooooow

chickens_are_good — Sat Apr 09, 2005 2:12 pm

Author: chickens_are_good

Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 2:12 pm

my konqueror on suse 9.2 with 256/64k ADSL seems fine, and i don't think the ads would make much difference - there's only two per page. Actually, just looking at other sites opening, this site seems to be loading quite fast - about a second to fully load.

Re: The website is slooooooooooow

ripleyscat — Sat Apr 09, 2005 2:00 pm

Author: ripleyscat

Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 2:00 pm

Good to see LXF back up and running. It loads nice and fast from FF with ad-blocker

Re: The website is slooooooooooow

nordle — Fri Apr 08, 2005 11:07 pm

Author: nordle

Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 11:07 pm

WOW, this is more like it, stuff has finished loading even before the mouse button has returned to its normal position. OK, nobody is allowed to post anything, no causing the system to slow down due to stupid posts

I was checking back every few days since it went down, each time thinking just maybe, but no, then wondering if it was down for good. Glad to see you guys/gals back, faster, brighter and decked out with new buttons which means new features, nice.

Well done LXF!

Re: The website is slooooooooooow

evilnick — Fri Apr 08, 2005 6:55 pm

Author: evilnick

Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 6:55 pm

Well, all I can do is assure you that the speed problems aren't related to the server. I tweaked the database a little more so it should be even faster now.

The ads have often been something of an issue, but on a good browser, won't stop the rest of the page loading.

Re: The website is slooooooooooow

mikejd — Fri Apr 08, 2005 6:15 pm

Author: mikejd

Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 6:15 pm

I've found it's slow on Opera 7.54 and also not much faster on Firefox. It's still better than it used to be.

It seems to start opening then hang for a while before anything shows. The ads and images are then slow to load.

I guess it won't stop me visiting as it used to be the most useful Linux forum.

Cheers,
Mike

Re: The website is slooooooooooow

lxfadmin — Thu Apr 07, 2005 11:34 pm

Author: lxfadmin

Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 11:34 pm

Right, I make that at least three votes for an orange theme so far...

Re: The website is slooooooooooow

Rhakios — Thu Apr 07, 2005 9:55 pm

Author: Rhakios

Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 9:55 pm

Hmm, I think mange to spoll rasonbly wel on 8 1/2 hours a day.

It's good to see so many of the old crowd back

Re: The website is slooooooooooow

Erin — Thu Apr 07, 2005 9:38 pm

Author: Erin

Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 9:38 pm

Rhakios wrote:

Erin wrote:

Firefox on Debian with 1Mbps Telewest... pauses experienced. However, these are due to ad.doubleclick.net and not the site itself it seems. Good work all those involved with the site upgrade and I would like an orange theme back. I liked it anyway.

Regards Erin

Ha! You might pretend to be Erin, but your spelling is far too good and I don't believe he would have asked for the return of the dreaded orange theme.

Hello Rhakios. Well it most certainly is the Erin of old. Think it must be that awful 8hr/day 'W' thing that's helping with the spelling. Much prefer orange to blue. Blue reminds me too much of Redmond!

Erin

Re: The website is slooooooooooow

guy — Thu Apr 07, 2005 9:34 pm

Author: guy

Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 9:34 pm

Erin wrote:

Firefox on Debian with 1Mbps Telewest... pauses experienced. However, these are due to ad.doubleclick.net and not the site itself it seems.

H'mm. I wonder how many other slow experiences are due to not having Firefox-type ad blocking set up effectively.

Cheers,
Guy

Re: The website is slooooooooooow

Rhakios — Thu Apr 07, 2005 9:29 pm

Author: Rhakios

Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 9:29 pm

Erin wrote:

Ha! You might pretend to be Erin, but your spelling is far too good and I don't believe he would have asked for the return of the dreaded orange theme.

Re: The website is slooooooooooow

fingers99 — Thu Apr 07, 2005 9:12 pm

Author: fingers99

Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 9:12 pm

Blisteringly fax in Firefox today (on dial up) with javascript disabled.