Forum loads vee. e. .. ery slow ..ow ..ly.

[ColdHands]

Is it just me or is this forum excruciatingly slow? E.g. 10-20 seconds to load a new page / post a reply?

 

Other websites are way faster right now.

Edited 16 hours ago by ColdHands

[Coinery]

I came here to say the exact same thing!

I’ve also noted the word ‘test’ in the top left corner, just in case that’s relevant?

 

 

Edited 9 hours ago by Coinery

[Paddy]

ditto

[Chris Perkins]

The 'test' thing has been there for a while. It was something I did and tried to undo. I thought it was only visible to me!

It would seem that my host is probably having issues, as my other websites are also slow. 

I'll get them to check things.

[ColdHands]

@Chris Perkins as an asides, do you rate Invision higher than, say, Discourse? [I'm interested in creating my own small forum for something unrelated to numismatics or even collecting altogether]

Edited 4 hours ago by ColdHands

[Chris Perkins]

2 hours ago, ColdHands said:

@Chris Perkins as an asides, do you rate Invision higher than, say, Discourse? [I'm interested in creating my own small forum for something unrelated to numismatics or even collecting altogether]

I chose Invision all those years ago and have used it ever since. I'm afraid I have no experience with the alternatives. phpBB may have been the only competition back in 2002.

I always delay major updates for as long as possible because they always causes complete failure, like the one in October last year. There are of course many other server-side factors that play major roles in causing it to go belly-up when upgrading. It would probably be even worse attempting to migrate a fairly large forum to something else at this stage, so I'll stick with it as long as it works. I'm no whizz though. There are probably many other capabilities that I haven't explored.

[ColdHands]

Hi thanks for the reply. Don't worry, l wasn't sugesting changing software, my enquiry was completely unrelated to this site, this is my first week here and it looks good. Though l'd like a night theme if possible, easier on the eyes

[Chris Perkins]

Looks like the next major new version will include a night theme by default. For this version it can be done with an add-on. I'll look into it.