Waiting for api.ak.facebook.com

Blackpool_Saver

aha, so because facebook is down and we are linked to it, it is slowing us up, is that it?

marshallka

robt wrote: »

Probably because Facebook is down.

This page took about 30 seconds to load.

Maybe some coding is required to stop trying to load the Facebook content if it hasn't done it within three seconds.

I am not even on facebook lol.

Former_MSE_Neil

Hey All,

Last night Facebook had a major service outage, unfortunately this had a knock on effect of the performance of our site. Over the coming weeks I will be discussing with our devs whether we can adjust the code to stop this in the future.

It appears that full service has resumed on Facebook so the load times of threads should be substantially improved.

Thanks

Neil

robt_2

marshallka wrote: »

I am not even on facebook lol.

Doesn't matter - MSE still loads some code from Facebooks servers

marshallka

MSE_Neil wrote: »

Hey All,

Last night Facebook had a major service outage, unfortunately this had a knock on effect of the performance of our site. Over the coming weeks I will be discussing with our devs whether we can adjust the code to stop this in the future.

It appears that full service has resumed on Facebook so the load times of threads should be substantially improved.

Thanks

Neil

Cheers for coming along Neil and putting our minds at rest. At least my puter had a good much needed clean.

DVardysShadow

MSE_Neil wrote: »

Hey All,

Last night Facebook had a major service outage, unfortunately this had a knock on effect of the performance of our site. Over the coming weeks I will be discussing with our devs whether we can adjust the code to stop this in the future.

It appears that full service has resumed on Facebook so the load times of threads should be substantially improved.

Thanks

Neil

What puzzles me is that Facebook is providing me no content - it is doing nothing for me. So should I not just have a static link like every other static link, which only seeks out the server when the user selects it?

Facebook means nothing to me, so why should my pages be stuck loading content from there? It seems to me that this is being whizzy for the sake of it at the expense of the user experience.

Tigsteroonie

Loading the Facebook gizmo is slowing things down for me again tonight, IT'S INCREDIBLY ANNOYING - yes, I did mean to shout, I've complained about this before!

southernscouser

I agree. It's always happening. It is so annoying it's unreal.

To be honest I'm surprised a site like this would allow to be slowed down so much by such a pointless gimmick.

marshallka

Happening to me again the last few nights. It is annoying MSE. It takes ages to open pages.

forgotmyname

As mentioned use firefox and a plugin called noscript, It asks you what sites you want to allow & what scripts to run on a page.

Facebook is blocked, Zynga one of the creators of farmville are being sued in the US i think. Passing on details of facebook users
without permission. Not the only ones. They dont do all that stuff for free, To think they dont sell your details on is naive.