GC forum activity

Is it just me, or is the forum less active since the software switchover?

It used to be a full time job to keep up with everything that's going on. Nowadays it seems you can easily keep up with what's new.

 

i was thinking the same thing, but then it could be that the weather has started to improve and we are spending more time in the garden up the lottie and in the greenhouse/ potting shed ? i know i am

 

I am getting fed up of reloading every second post, as if more than ten people on the site,you can not access the server
I stick in as I like the site and the people on it, but it is too frustrating having to re load every thread, three or four times
I expect others have just given up

Jack McH

 

it can run slower for me sometimes but to fair we are in the garden more at mo but weathers not been great so plants are behind and thats more frustrating so less to report,im finding it hard to find old threads which winds me up for sure x

 

i second that

 

I put it down to the longer days / time of year, seriously.
I am also on other forums, its the same every year, summer months folks are outside, be that visiting places or sitting in their gardens or visiting relatives I know not, so as they are "out" they are not "in" on a forum.

 

It is a lot quieter , seems to have lost a little of its buzz as well . This will probablly return as people get used to the new format . Jack have you reported this reloading problem ? It sounds like a right pain.
I do miss the like and thanks buttons , we only have the like button now - its not the same.
I remember the days when all you had to do was mention multi purpose compost and you would have 100 replies , photos , lab analysis , national costings in 24 hours

 

May be it's because i joined

 

The site is taking longer to load than other sites,and if the reason there is less activity is due to folks working in their gardens that is good,but because of the weather I am not sure this is 100% the reason.
If that is the case though god help us in the winter when the forum becomes busy it will be as if we are back on dial up, click a link and go and make a coffee then come back and read it!
The lay out change is ok for us who have taken the time to learn it but the "normal" poster who would nip in and out will struggle to refind their post to see if it has been replied to.

 

nah Jiffy if i joining didnt make them you joining certainly wont

thing is even Mandii, Ziggy and dare i say it Dim are being more quiet them usual ( i know i am going to regret say that )

 

I'm just the new kid on the block here so I have only a farthing's worth right to chip in. I reckon all this rain and lack of sunlight has a lot to do with it. I don't give a stuff who got the most seats in the by elections yesterday but I do care about the big outdoors and sharing it with GC. My daughter, who is struggling in Southern Ireland to run an Equestrian Stables tells me that a dry sunny day is the only free fix that they can afford and it DOES make all the difference. To me too,

 

Armandii is off on a secret mission & i've been busy with family matters i'm afraid.

I'm posting this from a secret location in North Devon

 

family is more important Zigmister

 

Its slow for me too, and I know my machine is healthy.

Forgive me for getting all techy, but it might help diagnose the problem

I've just had a look at the network activity tab in Chrome. It seems the forum is downloading the file many times on every page load. Browsers try to download files in batches, and can download multiple files at the same time (multiple tcp ports per browser session - usually 8 these days). Once the 'request queue' hits a limit (usually about 8) further requests are stuck on the end of the queue and wait. Basically that means that the browser has to set up lots of new requests, and sometimes they hang briefly when the request is 'pending'.

This issue is usually nothing to do with the total size of the download in bytes, which is why it is so often difficult to diagnose. Someone reports a go-slow, you look at the size of the download, its quite small. You look at the server load, it is low or well within normal limits, and you look at the database server, and find it healthy. Yet the problem is still present. When that happens it is often the scenario I've just described.