Forum Feedback & Technical Support
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There’s been some extraordinary slowness on this forum – and site as a whole – these last few days, ever since the downtime on April 21st. I’m trying to discuss this matter with the hosting company, and Malte is trying to think of solutions on our end. Hopefully, it will revert back to normal soon. I apologize for the “annoyance” of posting on a slow board in the meantime. Please don’t leave us permanently because of this!
Yes, I adjusted some caching settings (logged in forum users don’t get cached pages) but we are constantly experiencing unusual high traffic the last days. To speak with Star Wars: “This can only mean one thing: bots”…
Yes, it’s faster now, but not quite back to normal. I’ll hopefully hear back from the hosting company tomorrow – a regular work day. I’m 99% sure the problem is on their end.
Something weird is going on on this site. Did for sure enabled the cachng and now checking the settings it is off again. At least on the caching settings but the admin toolbar above cleary has the button “Delete cache” so it is actually active…
Thor, when you contact them they should check their and our database setup…
Just a quick update:
The hosting company is experiencing issues with their database servers. They’re currently working on it.
Hopefully, we should be back to normal speed soon. It’s (understandably) been a lack of activity here in the last few days while this is happening. I don’t feel much like posting myself when it takes 7-8 seconds for a topic to load. But hang in there, please.
Sounds promising! Additionally another, a little more “agressive” caching plugin is now active. As before loggedin users do not get cache pages. But it should again help reduce load when we have lots of traffic hopefully…
Yeah, that feels good now! As the host reported they fixed something significant and we hope that was it now!
One suggestion from my side. Would it be possible to set the default target for external links embedded in posts to be opened in a separate tab or window? When I click on a link in a post it gets opened in the current Window and CELLULOIDTUNES.NO is gone from my browser.
Would be nice, but that might possibly require a separate plug-in, as I found no such option in the settings. I’ll leave it to Malte to comment in more detail, and if it’s possible. I have some wishes of my own – to remove the name of the most recent poster on top of the board, and putting threads with new replies since the last visit in bold font, but these are not options that come with this simple board either, alas.
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`That would annoyingly open all links that have nothing set by default in a new tab and not just external ones. You would only want this would only do this for external ones and there are constant usability debates if opening any link within a new tab should be left to the user always.
But if you click the link on the toolbar you get a dialog that has a checkbox for opening the link in. You can also use target=”_blank” on the link created by the toolbar manually. Since the forum embeds a link directly it is not possible to simple hook into anything…
I could try to do this via JS dynamically but that might cause a performance issue as we have lots of links on a topic page…
Ah, I hadn’t even noticed there was a “Open link in a new tab” option when you insert links here. I’ll try to use that from now on. Of course, it requires that everyone else does so too.
I’ll try the js way. It has to go through every link to see if the target is external and then add an that target attribute dynamically. Maybe it does not cause any trouble unless you are visitong on a stone age device as here the browser has to do the work after loading everything.
If you use for local links just relative links and not absolute ones it should be easy to distinguish.
But I understand the issue.
Anyway, was just a proposal for a nice-to-have.If you use for local links just relative links and not absolute ones it should be easy to distinguish.
It is easy to check if it is celluloidtunes.no or not, that’s not the problem 😉 I will take a look as soon as I get the chance.
A few updates to the forum:
- Thanks to a currently maintained plugin I found unread topics since the last visit are now marked with an icon before the title. If you don’t like that at all you can disable that on your user profile. Scroll way down to find two radio boxes to “Display unread icons” and “Do not display unread icons”. It may not be accurate yet and instantly label all as unread as there are not records stored yet.
- All external links posted on the forum now open in a new tab or window (depending on your browser setting)
Thanks to a currently maintained plugin I found unread topics since the last visit are now marked with an icon before the title. If you don’t like that at all you can disable that on your user profile. Scroll way down to find two radio boxes to “Display unread icons” and “Do not display unread icons”. It may not be accurate yet and instantly label all as unread as there are not records stored yet.
This is a great addition which I’ve been craving!
For those who have already read every thread in this forum, it might be useful to click “Mark all topics as read” just ONCE, and then all subsequent threads with new replies will now have that black dot next to it.
It would be useful to be able to page someone in a discussion, such that they get an email alert about it. Is something like this possible to implement?
I fear there is nothing for this. You can only subscribe to topics yourself so you get notification mails for every new post (just like I did here).
For those of you who have found your way back here now: The web host (domeneshop.no) has had trouble all day. We’re back now, but slower than normal. They say they’re working on the problem; should be fast again soon:
Completely unrelated; perhaps we would get more participants on the forum if it’s in English. Just a thought. There seems to be most international participants anyway.
We can easily change the site default language to English so all generated elements like forum links are in English. It might indeed be a little discouraging even if you can easily see that the forum talk is in English.
Just looked the site default language is English already. Not sure if it was already set to that or if Thor change something.
In any case everyone can change his/her own preference on the user account.
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