Long delay in posting

[Per Hansson]

I've done some testing, and as far as I have been able to see the slow posting only occurs when posting in our "TechSpot News and Comments" & "Articles and Reviews Comments" forum sections.

• When I post in the forum view the post normally takes ca 5 seconds to go through in those two sections. (News & Articles/Reviews comments)
• When I post from the main pages comments view it's much more variable, just now one post took 35 seconds to post!
• In all other forum sections the posting is instant.
  
  I'd like you to confirm or deny my findings, everything is of value.
  There are reasons for why the two forum sections I've mentioned would be slower and rest assured we are looking into that.

 

[SNGX1275]

I just clicked Like on a post on a News story, in forum mode. Took ~10seconds.

 

[SirGCal]

More of the same. I tried on Firefox and then IE even (which I loathe). IE finally worked but FF never did. Windows 7. Unless it is all non-refreshing in which I'll have a dozen posts on the France makes it illegal for tech forums... post...

Also, logging in with IE was VERY buggy. I had to enter the information, refresh the page, go to a new page and then suddenly I was in. Something's up with your interface. Never used to be a problem...

 

[cliffordcooley]

I'm not sure if it is me or the website, but TechSpot has been agonizingly slow today with every post I've made. Even with any of the likes I've submitted. I don't think it is me because everything else seems fine.

 

[St1ckM4n]

Test. It's normal (fast) speed for me in Australia. Could be content servers (if TS has em)?

 

[SNGX1275]

Hitting like has a big delay, 7+ seconds. I haven't seen any posting speed issues today.

 

[cliffordcooley]

I'm not having this issue today either. But all day yesterday I was having to wait for comments to post.

 

[Julio Franco]

Not sure if this will fix anything to be honest but we'll be moving to faster servers in the coming weeks.

 

[captaincranky]

OK, I'm not complaining about the wait. I'm a realist, and I realize what I have to say may not be all that important..................................(wait for it)...................But, the lack of the progress bar when posting is a tad frustrating.

AFAIK, at least a progress bar was present for editing a post, and I'm hoping that it should be there for an initial post as well.

Really, I'll wait as long as it takes to register a post, without complaint. As long as the software is showing me it's thinking about doing it.

 

[Julio Franco]

I realize this is an old bug, one that escaped us for so long and we partly alleviated when we moved to newer, faster servers.

However tonight we uploaded a major code change that improves how we handle caching for news stories. Previously we did the same for Product Finder pages and it worked really well.

I won't go into technical details but the end result should be that reads (loading pages) should be slightly faster -- it was already pretty fast, even with a ton of traffic -- but writes should be way improved. Examples of writes: posting a news comment from the news or forum views, deleting a comment, deleting spam, updating the story itself from our CMS, among others.

Let us know how it goes for you and if you notice any improvement