I'm starting to sound like a hater, but i genuinely want to help people on these forums, especially in the Storage forum since thats my speciality. But this site isn't making that easy for me, or even pleasant. Loading pages is terribly slow, over a period of more than 6 months.
Today it was very bad, and i just did a ping over 50 minutes time (3000 seconds), more than half of the pings were dropped. No wonder i get such a bad experience browsing these forums. The pings that do come through aren't slower than 100ms though, so its only the packetloss. Obviously it goes without saying other sites show 0% packetloss so a problem with my connection seems excluded.
To be frank, i expect something more from a website that positions itself as high-tech. Not only can multiple people not edit their posts - one of the very basic functionalities of any forum - but its terribly slow to the point that i use google's cache sometimes to view the thread i want.
Isn't it time to fix this? Is it a money problem? Is it a technical knowhow problem? Do you need any help to fix it? Is there any motivation to fix it?
Personally, i feel very demotivated to continue helping people if it's being made so hard for me to do so. I don't want to be a hater, but i can't stop my frustration from turning into that. Please admins, take a look at the technical issues on this site?
- sub
Today it was very bad, and i just did a ping over 50 minutes time (3000 seconds), more than half of the pings were dropped. No wonder i get such a bad experience browsing these forums. The pings that do come through aren't slower than 100ms though, so its only the packetloss. Obviously it goes without saying other sites show 0% packetloss so a problem with my connection seems excluded.
Code:
$ ping www.tomshardware.co.uk
PING tomshardware.co.uk (89.30.126.28) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 89.30.126.28: icmp_seq=1 ttl=49 time=32.7 ms
64 bytes from 89.30.126.28: icmp_seq=5 ttl=49 time=29.9 ms
64 bytes from 89.30.126.28: icmp_seq=6 ttl=49 time=30.6 ms
64 bytes from 89.30.126.28: icmp_seq=9 ttl=49 time=32.3 ms
64 bytes from 89.30.126.28: icmp_seq=13 ttl=49 time=32.3 ms
((snip))
--- tomshardware.co.uk ping statistics ---
1009 packets transmitted, 472 received, 53% packet loss, time 2930809ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 26.706/31.289/97.992/4.397 ms
Isn't it time to fix this? Is it a money problem? Is it a technical knowhow problem? Do you need any help to fix it? Is there any motivation to fix it?
Personally, i feel very demotivated to continue helping people if it's being made so hard for me to do so. I don't want to be a hater, but i can't stop my frustration from turning into that. Please admins, take a look at the technical issues on this site?
- sub