Is the forum being buggy and slow for others? This is across android and also my pc at work.

Yesterday it was for me. Today its OK.

@"Cuprajake"#p37190 I think if they run an update, or are backing things up it can be. Updates run in the background and upgrade forum after forum, which slows the servers down. However better that taking all the forums down to do an update. Yesterday was a bit laggy at times, but today is fine. It's not laggy today, you you may want to refresh the cache.

It doesn't seem to gobble up as much cpu time as a certain other coffee forum does at times.

@"ajohn"#p37210 That's because it's not trying to suffocate you with adds, tracking cookies and other such things.

It can struggle to load occasionally, like this morning. Resolves itself.

> @"LMSC"#p37215 It can struggle to load occasionally, like this morning. Resolves itself. Well we all know how we can help them speed things up….. ![Giphy - College Reaction GIF by New York Institute of Technology (NYIT)](https://media0.giphy.com/media/rxP6Pi3LkHJt7hmXe9/giphy.gif?cid=bb77869fmvua41bm07be7n640x61jkt2rig7f5npck7w7sa5&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g)

@"DavecUK"#p37216 **Absolutely**. You read my mind. I was thinking of posting a request to members to donate. Our donation has stalled. Even if every one donates one euro a year, that’s 808 euro a year. On that note, my iPhone calendar had long been set to remind me of anniversary payment some time this month. My request to all members is this: **Please donate, what ever you can.** Assuming we spend £30 a month on coffee beans, that’s £360 a year. Conservatively, I do think we will spend at least £150-£200 a year. Am sure, we can can afford to donate at least £2 a year to help them and us to stay afloat. It’s not a huge ask, IMHO. I know the current living conditions are difficult. We all need to save as much as we can. But, if we can spend money on machines, tools and beans purchases, so **we can afford to donate.** I am sorry, if any one find this request uncomfortable. They don’t have to, if they can’t. Some may state it is cheaper to host our own server. But it’s too much of work to run the services smoothly and securely. **Please donate and kindly set a yearly reminder on your calendar!** Thanks for reading this and we all appreciate your help. I think you need to put a note / reference as “Coffeetime”. @"DavecUK"#p37216 can correct, if this ref is wrong.

> @"LMSC"#p37218 Our donation has stalled. Even if every one donates one euro a year, that’s 808 euro a year. Well yes and no, because it's really only regulars, those that join come and go, sometimes they are spammers..

@"DavecUK"#p37220 Of course! But, we are looking at a very high level, ignoring non-regulars. 😊 Edit: We have contributed a lot of money; however, I think, we had donated just a little since the end of Aug 22. You would know the details more than any of us on this forum. IMO, we could some more on a regular basis.

@"DavecUK"#p37212 Traditionally I have always run a real workstation but switched to a tiny hp low power unit. Still ok for photo work but that forum at times has taken 60%+ of the processor time for a short period which is a bit much for it. Worse still sometimes the fan comes on - highly unusual and odd periods of 60% wont do that. ;) Still trying to find out what that is when it happens. I have a suspicion.

Forum slow

MediumRoastSteam

Agree with Jake - kinda better, but not massively. Performance improved a lot, but yesterday and today I’ve seen quite a few identical posts showing up.

Cuprajake

im on both pc and android atm

Yorkie_Al

I’m also seeing some identical posts and some images are slowing down scrolling past them. I use an iPad version 16.?? OS

Yorkie_Al

Yorkie_Al and this post took a very long time to post and generated an “oops something went wrong. Please reload the page” error message

prezes

Much faster most of the times! Agree on duplicate posts

MediumRoastSteam

Not sure what happen today but I was unable to access the forum from 08:00 until 11:00 (UTC+1) or so.

I tried all sort of different devices and browsers, to no avail.

DavecUK

MediumRoastSteam Not sure what happen today but I was unable to access the forum from 08:00 until 11:00 (UTC+1) or so.

I tried all sort of different devices and browsers, to no avail.

Probably running an update, I’ve been rather busy of late, so took my eye of the support thread.

MediumRoastSteam

Forum seems to have been timing out for me all day today, until now. Yesterday it was very hit and miss as well. Every time I tried, it would just be there trying to load, and eventually I’d get a timeout message.

Freeflarum had no reported incidents.

prezes

MediumRoastSteam I’ve been having same issues

DavecUK

Something seems badly wrong, no updates yet.

Uncletits

Is everyone on holiday?

dfk41

Uncletits Only a dreadlock holiday, coupled with retirement!

MediumRoastSteam

The forum is still very much hit and miss for me. Like, this morning I tried, but it wouldn’t load. Seems ok now, but overall it is far from being “available”.

Something isn’t right either with this forum or with the freeflarum hosting infrastructure.

prezes

Exactly the same for me which is quite infuriating. Most like this is the reason of the forum being quieter than normal.

It feels like the forum being targeted as freeflarum doesn’t show any issues

Uncletits

Me too just have to give up iPad

Elcarajillo

Same problems here- Macbook /Chrome

dfk41

Working just fine for me using Macbook/Opera

MediumRoastSteam

dfk41 Working just fine for me using Macbook/Opera

Now it seems to be working fine. The question really is: Over the past week, has it been working fine for you? Hasn’t been for me (and for some others as per above posts).

woodymogs

MediumRoastSteam

Been looking around the forum quite a bit over the last 7 days (contemplating a new machine) and haven’t had any problems accessing or browsing threads at all (Windows 11 PC but also been using an android phone too without problems).

HarveyMushman

Yeah been hit/miss for me most of the time. Not loading or various errors with pages displaying.

I guess that’s a trade-off for using a smaller, free hosting service.

Semi-related, does Freeflarum allow custom URL’s?

I’d guess we’d get some more traffic if it just used a normal TLD.

MediumRoastSteam

HarveyMushman if it just used a normal TLD.

I don’t think TLD is the right acronym in this context. There’s nothing wrong with “.com” ;-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-level_domain

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