Things going slow again?

KeithP

Johnny-Cage said:

Dreadful for me right now 

Agreed.

Hardly worth trying to use MSE forums at weekends these days.

I wonder how many potential newcomers are put off from using the MSE forums for good?

It's over three months since MSE commented on this thread.

maman

I got a time out when trying to load the site just now. Posts are very slow to load as well. There seem to be a number of duplicate posts on various threads too, probably because people are trying again when nothing happens when you go to 'post comment' so they try again. 🤔

powerful_Rogue

This site is starting to become un-useable due to the slowness and timeouts.

Bridlington1

powerful_Rogue said:

This site is starting to become un-useable due to the slowness and timeouts.

For me it has certainly run smoother in the past but it's definitely been worse before and is far from being unusable. If comes up with a cloudfare error when I first go onto the forum, which is annoying but is usually fine when I try a second time and has touch wood been running reasonably well (though certainly not perfectly) today.

MrsWenger

I have noticed how slow the site has become for the last week or so. For the first time I am regularly getting the “gateway time out” message today.

BootsMullery

@MSE_James @MSE_JC Is anything in hand with Vanilla to sort out this problem? It seems to get sorted for a short time just to return after a couple of months. This is the third time since February that it has become a major problem. It is so frustrating and could be losing MSE members.

MSE_Stephen

Thanks everyone.

I've let our forum provider know and drawn their attention to this thread.

ColdIron

It's as bad as it was in the bad old days of a few months ago

I am getting many vanilla errors today and the usual (as it has become) periodic slow downs

This problem does seem to be exclusive to MSE as I haven't had a gateway time out on any other site for many years

Jenni_D

Just as a counterpoint ... I'm not encountering any issues at all. 🤷‍♀️

BootsMullery

As a comper, this is making MSE unusable for me.

GATEWAY TIME-OUT

The web server reported a gateway time-out error.

• Ray ID: 8b6a6de7cb87cdb1
• Your IP address: 
• Error reference number: 504
• Cloudflare Location: London

What happened?

The initial connection between Cloudflare's network and Vanilla timed out. As a result, the web page can not be displayed.

What can I do to resolve this?

Please try again in a few minutes. If the problem persists, you can contact the site owner to let them know you were unable to reach the website.

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