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

DavecUK

ajohn That forum (CFUK) is sending you loads of crap with the page…all those adverts you are not interested in (even if you have an ad blocker, they are still sent, just not displayed. Plus all the tracking crap as well. Our forum sends nothing to you apart from the forum posts. If it has cookies, they are simply used for tracking whether you are logged in or out…the most basic essential cookie. It’s not doing anything else sneaky behind the scenes.

Completely clean and non commercial, with no limited company behind it that I or anyone owns. It’s run on completely free infrastructure.

JHCCoffee

Done! Thanks for the reminder.

I spend copious $ on coffee, equipment, etc, This Forum really helps me optimize this spend and my overall coffee experience.

It’s a useful calculation to estimate that amount and allocate 1% to 5% to this Forum.

DavecUK or LMSC

I got an acknowledgment from FreeFlarum, so I presume the funds are now in CoffeeTime’s hands. Feel free to confirm.

ajohn

DavecUK It’s not doing anything else sneaky behind the scenes.

LOL I suspect another one is from time to time.

JHCCoffee

Happy to. This is a great Forum. How do I do this (send money)? Hope you like payment in Canadian maple syrup. 😁

LMSC

JHCCoffee As long as the bank can accept Canadian Maple Syrup for some Euros!

There are no recommended amount to donate. Up to you.

Thx mate. Appreciate it. 😊

LMSC

JHCCoffee

https://coffeetime.freeflarum.com/d/854-donations-new-process/3

DavecUK

JHCCoffee I got an acknowledgment from FreeFlarum, so I presume the funds are now in CoffeeTime’s hands. Feel free to confirm.

It did thanks very much, I don’t know who donates, I just get an e-mail confirming someone from our forum has donated x amount to the free flarum project. So on behalf of them…thanks.

LMSC

Thank you so much mate! Contributions like this make a critical difference. Much appreciated!

Edit:

The money goes directly to support freeflarum and not to Coffeetime.

JHCCoffee

If you think of what we spend on tips in restaurants (a decent donation is = 1 tip), this puts @DavecUK ’s ask in perspective. I think everyone who benefits from this Forum should step up in this manner.

LMSC

JHCCoffee I agree. It helps freeflarum and us!

JHCCoffee

DavecUK LMSC

I yesterday received the below email from Ko-Fi at my corporate office email address, with regards to my Freeflarum contribution. Not sure why at my corporate email, unless I was using it when I confirmed the donation. However, I am loth to click on the link, until I know that this is legit (not malware, spyware, etc.). Have you seen this type of email before? Thanks.

LMSC

JHCCoffee That’s fine. It’s a genuine email from them, IMO.

You will only receive an email to the address we provide on the page. I always use aliases. I also received one, did click and took me to the private message / note section of the page. You don’t need to take any action or click that link, as we all specify Coffeetime to mark the donations.

If in doubt, the donors may forward the copy of the donation acknowledgement email to info@freeflarum.com and request them to manually mark the donations from Coffeetime. They would manually mark and reply quickly.

DavecUK

JHCCoffee It would only send to you if that’s the email that paid…nothing spyware or anything about freeflarum or the forum. Looks like a security anti fraud check to me.

Cuprajake

i got one to, just deleted it

MediumRoastSteam

Is it only me but for the past 20 hours or so the forum has been very slow and having and sorts of connectivity issues?

It’s been the case for me at least. Connection timeout, bad gateways… all sorts. Even now, it has taken me a few attempts to post in the past 10 minutes.

Cuprajake

Yeah been really bad for me too

Alpesh

Likewise I have had issues since yesterday. Looking at the freeflarum status board there was an issue last night so maybe related:

“Our database server crashed due to high load & low server memory. I have restarted it, so all forums should be back up now.”

DavecUK

There was an issue yesterday and probably a little the day before. It’s all OK now. I don’t believe our forum is causing it fortunately and I do everything I can with the configuration to keep our server load as low as possible.

Ernie1

Same here, was completely unable to access it for most of yesterday and this morning.

Petre

forum was offline for me few hours ago

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