I haven’t been able to get in here without a half dozen page refreshes since last night and when I do get in it’s rarely loading up any threads I click on. So is it just me or are we having some bother?

I noticed some issues last week, but since then, it’s been loading pretty quickly for me.

I installed forefox to see if it was IE acting up and I found this and more on my error console..

Has it just been the forums where you’ve noticed this issue, or throughout the rest of the site as well?

FWIW, it’s highly unlikely that the errors you found in the Firefox console were causing any significant slowdown. (Which isn’t to say that I won’t look at them and try to fix them.)

My guess is that you tried hitting the forums during a rather high traffic time, and the servers were a little strained.

That is odd? I haven’t had any issues and normally I’m the first to complain (looking at my post-count, I should also be the first to notice).
I had a couple of issues but that was weeks ago.

Yeah it’s goin’ down on the main site as well. It’s settled some, I only have to refresh a couple of times which makes less fuss. I’ve never had any bother on here beyond last week when we couldn’t get in for a while. All my other regualar sites are loading without the need to refresh…strange!

I haven’t visited the site recently but I have found things to be very slow on my home computer when using Firefox. Is anyone else having problems with it? I’m not sure whether it’s Firefox or my Internet Provider because once again last night I couldn’t get even get onto the net….

Well, we have those randomized ads on the site which are pulled from the net by our ads-provider. Sometimes an advertisement is wonky or something is wrong with that ad’s server instead of our own.

That’s also why a simple stop and refresh often helps: the randomizer picks different ads and the page will load flawlessly. It’s not something which we can easily control but it shouldn’t happen too often, or go on for too long once it does happen. Online-advertisement is quite Darwinesque in its weeding-out of bad ads…

Sleaze - February 19, 2008, 6:23am

I haven’t visited the site recently but I have found things to be very slow on my home computer when using Firefox. Is anyone else having problems with it? I’m not sure whether it’s Firefox or my Internet Provider because once again last night I couldn’t get even get onto the net….

If you can’t get onto the net—in other words, if you can’t get to any websites, let alone Twitch—then chances are, it’s your Internet provider whose to blame.

Ardvark - February 19, 2008, 6:52am

Well, we have those randomized ads on the site which are pulled from the net by our ads-provider. Sometimes an advertisement is wonky or something is wrong with that ad’s server instead of our own.

That’s also why a simple stop and refresh often helps: the randomizer picks different ads and the page will load flawlessly. It’s not something which we can easily control but it shouldn’t happen too often, or go on for too long once it does happen. Online-advertisement is quite Darwinesque in its weeding-out of bad ads…

Well said. Online advertising is oftentimes a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it’s nice to have someone else manage and host the ads, because it’s one less headache for us. On the other hand, anytime you’re using a third party to manage some portion of your website, that becomes a liability. If their servers are down, or are running bit slow, that will likely have an adverse effect on Twitch’s performance.

Now, in all honesty, that doesn’t happen all too often—if it did, we’d be making some adjustments real quick—but it does happen.

Opus - February 19, 2008, 6:58am

Sleaze - February 19, 2008, 6:23am

I haven’t visited the site recently but I have found things to be very slow on my home computer when using Firefox. Is anyone else having problems with it? I’m not sure whether it’s Firefox or my Internet Provider because once again last night I couldn’t get even get onto the net….

If you can’t get onto the net—in other words, if you can’t get to any websites, let alone Twitch—then chances are, it’s your Internet provider whose to blame.

But when I do get on I find Firefox really slow. IE seems not to be affected so I’m guessing it’s a bit of both….