05-27-2009, 02:28 PM | #1 |
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http://dragcave.net/ slows down the site
Sometimes the signatures that are getting data from http://dragcave.net/ are slowing down the usage of the system. The only solution is to edit the signatures to remove the linking. That would speed up the system. It doesn't happen all the time, but for the times it does happen, it is slow.
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05-28-2009, 11:52 PM | #2 |
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I too have noticed this Jon. Some of the people have only a few dragons/eggs and others have a bunch. I get the feeling that the servers are very undersized for the number of requests they are servicing. The result, as you point out, is that other sites like MobileRead also slow down.
Everyone likes their own signature; but, I worry about visitors quickly leaving MobileRead thinking the whole site must be slow because of the dragons and their eggs. |
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05-29-2009, 12:38 AM | #3 |
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05-29-2009, 08:32 AM | #4 |
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Try editing your hosts file if you find it causes you a problem.
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I have hosted out Google-analytics as it is slow. |
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I just waited 30 seconds for a thread to be loaded just because the data transfer from http://dragcave.net/ took time. This is annoying and destroys the previously very good user experience of MR. |
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05-30-2009, 12:06 PM | #7 |
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Well, something is definitely slowing down this site.
Lots of times, I'm "hanging" ........when I try any other site on my favorites bar, there is no hang up.... |
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Since the list seems to be growing, it probably should be looked into. I don't have the problem, (and this isn't a my browser is better then yours argument, seriously) since I think it has to do with how a browser's engine renders a page. Even if the images from dragcave are hanging Opera has already rendered my page minus those images so I just don't notice it. -MJ |
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I really do not like to break the host lookup because you will probably forget it and in the future get problems with images not loading correctly... |
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05-30-2009, 03:00 PM | #11 |
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This problem doesn't happen all the time. But when it does happen, it is annoying. Just because I am the first person to mention it does nt mean others have nt noticed something slowing things down and maybe not noticing what it is. It's not browser specific. It's dragon specific. So if the people who have this in their signatires remove them, then things will be better.
I had something in my signature that others said was causing a problem. I removed to to remove the problem. So if I can be asked to remove something that is causing a problem on MR and I do it, why cannot the others with the dragon stuff remove it from their signatures? Yes, I can fix it for myself, but I cannot fix it for others. Only the people who have the troublesome signatures can fix it. |
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05-30-2009, 03:09 PM | #13 |
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Well ..... duh ..... those of us who like our dragons could always host them somewhere else so that they don't slow anything down. Took me all of half a minute to do that.
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Ok, either certain people are ignoring the fact that I -AGREED- with them that it should be looked into by the mods (and forwarded to said users) or they are just complaining about my responses for the sake of complaining. My responses were just on key points that were questioned or commented about, NOT a denial of the problem. So I'll just leave the thread with a quote from a few posts back, by me;
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05-30-2009, 05:13 PM | #15 |
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There are several options. The one I have taken is to add dragcave.net to add-block plus. It is a firefox plug in. This is very effective.
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