Anybody seeing slow load times?

[Brock Beauchamp]

I just received a PM that a poster in southern Illinois has been seeing extremely long load times for the past few days, like 10+ seconds at times.

I'm in the Twin Cities and haven't seen this at all. Anyone else suffering from this malady?

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Haven't noticed anything unusual here in Greater St. Louis.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

Negative

[Jason Ross]

Working great here in Lexington, KY, Including battling through my incredibly odd work filter.

[Irrelevant Dude]

I just came here to post this.  I have been experiencing very slow load times recently across multiple devices.  It can take several seconds after clicking on a thread link before the thread actually opens.

[jersey cubs fan]

[Rob]

Decatur, IL area. Lots of slow load times.

[Brock Beauchamp]

15 hours ago, Irrelevant Dude said:

I just came here to post this.  I have been experiencing very slow load times recently across multiple devices.  It can take several seconds after clicking on a thread link before the thread actually opens.

Okay, thanks for the notification. Anyone else?

[Brock Beauchamp]

15 hours ago, Rob said:

Decatur, IL area. Lots of slow load times.

And I should have scrolled a bit further. Okay, I'll look into it.

[bddavidson]

Yes, slow loading on mobile and desktop.  In Chicago

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Maybe it’s me but the site has been crawling since the Imanaga news broke, regular ~30 sec page loads across multiple devices.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

It seems fine on my desktop, but it takes super long for pages to load on my iPad or iPhone these days. 

[Rob]

1 hour ago, Ding Dong Johnson said:

It seems fine on my desktop, but it takes super long for pages to load on my iPad or iPhone these days. 

More or less the same from me.

[Irrelevant Dude]

This has been ongoing for me as well.  Desktop loads fine, but my phone is awfully slow to load.  It makes no difference whether I'm on wifi or mobile data.

[Thurman Merman]

Yep, same here

[Brock Beauchamp]

I'm getting reports of slow load times across all three sites. We're looking into it, I think one of our server instances (we run 3-4) is really slow right now.

[Irrelevant Dude]

11 minutes ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

I'm getting reports of slow load times across all three sites. We're looking into it, I think one of our server instances (we run 3-4) is really slow right now.

I knew it!  We stole the Brewers' manager, now Brewer Fanatic is stealing our bandwidth.

[Brock Beauchamp]

8 minutes ago, Irrelevant Dude said:

I knew it!  We stole the Brewers' manager, now Brewer Fanatic is stealing our bandwidth.

Be careful, they're petty af over there. 😁

[Brock Beauchamp]

Okay, it turns out I was on the right path. One of our server instances (of four) was pegged at 99% CPU usage. We've added more instances (now six) and told the offending server to stop being naughty.

Let me know if things are still slow in an hour. It takes a little time to spool up the new instances and properly redistribute users across them.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

This better work. The desktop experience has been shite today.

[Derwood]

Super slow right now, and wasn't loading well at work today or yesterday either

[Rob]

I appear to have stolen Derwood's bandwidth. Don't make me give it back.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

She's a dog today. Slowest it's ever been for me across all platforms.

[Brock Beauchamp]

So it turns out that our master server is getting hammered by bots. If you're unfortunate enough to be allocated to that server, that's why you're seeing site slowness. We're working on it and hope to have it resolved by tomorrow.

[entbird79]

Load times have been extremely slow for me the last couple of days across desktop and mobile using Chrome.  Averaging about 13-15 seconds from click to page populating.  Don't know if it's me or a server issue again.  

Also, while I'm here.  Can we get the next page button to go to the top of the thread when it loads on mobile?  I am used to using the button to go to the top at this point but thought I might bring this back up.