My Christmas Wish

[toobfreak]

My Christmas wish would be for our group owners to find a solution to the constant time delays this site suffers where one minute it works fine as it should, then goes into fits where it often takes a minute or more just to respond to a command to post a message or open a menu.

 

[ChristisKing]

Same.

 

[White 6]

Toob, I am not seeing that. When did it start?

 

[toobfreak]

Toob, I am not seeing that. When did it start?

It went away for a while weeks back but recently it has gotten worse again. It comes and goes both randomly and in severity. Sometimes the delays are just a few seconds, other times, they can last for minutes.

One minute, all is fine, the next minute, the site freezes. Earlier, while waiting for a message to post, I tried opening my Alerts menu for something else to do while waiting, and instead of the two requests being serially stacked in the que, the second request cancelled out the first and I had to go back and make a second request to post the message.

I finally realized that most times when this happens, if you watch in the upper right corner (to the right of SEARCH), you'll see green bars flashing indicating Xenforo operating in the background much like either it or the server is clogged with too many requests all at once.

The idea was proffered about changing the site to a pay site with an annual fee. I'm good with that.

This same matter was addressed maybe a couple months ago by one of the Admins, and I think his conclusion was something about too many bots and stuff clogging up the pipeline. After that, someone deleted a ton of bots and the problem seemed to slowly clear.

So instead of seeing 150 members and 5000 "guests", the guests were brought down to more like 1500.

 

[White 6]

It went away for a while weeks back but recently it has gotten worse again. It comes and goes both randomly and in severity. Sometimes the delays are just a few seconds, other times, they can last for minutes.

One minute, all is fine, the next minute, the site freezes. Earlier, while waiting for a message to post, I tried opening my Alerts menu for something else to do while waiting, and instead of the two requests being serially stacked in the que, the second request cancelled out the first and I had to go back and make a second request to post the message.

I finally realized that most times when this happens, if you watch in the upper right corner (to the right of SEARCH), you'll see green bars flashing indicating Xenforo operating in the background much like either it or the server is clogged with too many requests all at once.

The idea was proffered about changing the site to a pay site with an annual fee. I'm good with that.

This same matter was addressed maybe a couple months ago by one of the Admins, and I think his conclusion was something about too many bots and stuff clogging up the pipeline. After that, someone deleted a ton of bots and the problem seemed to slowly clear.

So instead of seeing 150 members and 5000 "guests", the guests were brought down to more like 1500.

Are you typically on laptop/desktop, or typically on cellphone or some other mobile device?

I am almost always on desktop, an old Windows 10 system? My system tends to load up, and cause freeze after being on awhile. This is not peculiar to this site. It could be here, Memorandum, Drudge, whatever. I Cclean, restart, and then as good as new, no matter where I am, including here.

 

[toobfreak]

Are you typically on laptop/desktop, or typically on cellphone or some other mobile device?

I am always on an Apple MacPro desktop running Firefox.

I am almost always on desktop, an old Windows 10 system? My system tends to load up, and cause freeze after being on awhile. This is not peculiar to this site. It could be here, Memorandum, Drudge, whatever. I Cclean, restart, and then as good as new, no matter where I am, including here.

I don't have this problem on any other site and the problem comes and goes, from severe delays to working perfectly fine with no intervention from me, and the green bars I mentioned are on the Xenforo site suggesting either a Xenforo or server problem, not a software incompatibility problem.

 

[White 6]

I am always on an Apple MacPro desktop running Firefox.


I don't have this problem on any other site and the problem comes and goes, from severe delays to working perfectly fine with no intervention from me, and the green bars I mentioned are on the Xenforo site suggesting either a Xenforo or server problem, not a software incompatibility problem.

I am rarely on the Xenforo site, and have not researched this question there. You might see if you can propose the question to Admin. The one most often on is elchorizo, but not on right now.

 

[toobfreak]

I am rarely on the Xenforo site, and have not researched this question there. You might see if you can propose the question to Admin. The one most often on is elchorizo, but not on right now.

Not my top pressing issue right now, W6, besides, the same question was already posed in the past and reposting it here, I kinda hoped I already was asking administration. And if you look back at this thread and the previous one, it can't be confined to my own computer as many others report having the same problem/experience. So apparently whatever was the original fix didn't really solve the problem (naturally now, hours later, the site is again seemingly for now working normal again).

Just trying to keep it from falling through the cracks. See the attached thread from 6 months ago:

Thread 'Is USMB really slow lately?'

Jun 12, 2025

Seems like it takes forever for some things to load if the links and such work at all. Is anybody else having this problem?

I am not having the problem on any other website.

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[sparky]

One minute, all is fine, the next minute, the site freezes.

i thought it was just me......... ~S~

 

[luiza]

Never happens over here in the promised land .

I guess those in charge know exactly whom their most important and best valued patrons are .

 

[sparky]

the video's aren't loading now.......~S~

 

[1srelluc]

Yeah, it's gotten much worse in the last couple days.

 

[luiza]

the video's aren't loading now.......~S~

Check that you are switched on .

Then try your laptop .

 

[ChristisKing]

I keep getting a message about the server didn't respond in time when it's taking forever to load. I'm almost always on my phone now though for the record.

 

[JustAnotherNut]

I've been having all the same issues as OP with my desktop. When it gets really bad, I leave and come back later. Often times it improves by then though sometimes not

 

[toobfreak]

I keep getting a message about the server didn't respond in time when it's taking forever to load. I'm almost always on my phone now though for the record.

I think it might be the server. Last summer when elchorizo spoke to the matter, as I recall, they spoke of going to a paid site as a resolution as apparently, they were not getting enough voluntary donations to keep up with costs. I'd be fine with that, especially as it might induce some of the riff-raff to leave maybe.

Most people here give no mind to resources whereas I always try to avoid dup threads, unnecessarily large file attachments, I even truncate posts to just the salient points to help reduce storage space.

 

[ChristisKing]

I think it might be the server.

So let me guess you've been getting that message too?

 

[toobfreak]

So let me guess you've been getting that message too?

No, actually, I don't think I have. But then, I'm not using a cellphone or a common store bought computer.

 

[playtime]

it's been intermittent with me & when all's well, i get a green bar scroll & my posts are immediate. lotsa times now i get a yellow bar scroll & i'll stop/refresh. sometimes that helps, most times, not. i have a netbook, windows 11.

 

[TemplarKormac]

My Christmas wish would be for our group owners to find a solution to the constant time delays this site suffers where one minute it works fine as it should, then goes into fits where it often takes a minute or more just to respond to a command to post a message or open a menu.

It may not even be the group owners. The server is owned by Cloudflare. Cloudflare has been unusually unstable this year.