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

Ernie1

Could barely access all day today again and tried to log in and said ‘incorrect password’ even though I use a saved password.

Went to reset it and didn’t even recognise my email!

Clearly some problems behind the scenes.

Also I notice it’s device specific. I was able to access on my laptop (Safari on Mac) but unable to access on my phone (Safari on iOS)

Ernie1

I get this every time unless I clear the cache.

JahLaza

It’s been unavailable to me most of the past two days, either the screen Ernie1 put up or the page stays trying to load and doesn’t. Mostly from safari on iphone. Been unavailable the past hour or so, I just managed to get it to work on a desktop now

Cuprajake

Still buggy as hell

MattH

Sent a donation… my short time here has seen me fall down the rabbit hole 😂 - all good fun !

DavecUK

MattH Appreciated, thanks on behalf of Freeflarum.

Rob666

It was a bit slow for me yesterday. Now slick.

DavecUK

I switched on the progressive web app extension for the forum2 or 3 days ago. The server guys assured me it shouldn’t cause undue server load or problems. These issues with the server started happening shortly after and we’re a big forum.

So I turned it off just know. Let’s see if it improves things and I’ll ask them to check the server logs for our forum. Probably coincidence, but no point taking chances.

Cuprajake

Been better for me since you deactivated it 👍

Alpesh

Cuprajake Same here. Since Dave deactivated last night it seems to be back to normal.

Ernie1

Same problems for me still. Even worse, I got this for the first time:

Off to change my password!

Waitforme

Ernie1

I got that error on my iPad and went into the error and told it I was happy to continue, since then it’s been ok.

MediumRoastSteam

Waitforme - hit and miss for me right now. Have to refresh multiple times in order to get it to work. Didn’t bother to check the errors in the browser’s console.

But yeah, very unreliable.

Ernie1

Waitforme

I was able to continue also but it’s risky on an unsecured connection, I’d advise changing your password.

MediumRoastSteam

For instance… got this just now…

After trying about 3 or 4 times refreshing the page, it then works and I was able to post this.

prezes

Still playing up a lot on mine /safari - iPhone/.

Pretty much won’t load up normally. Managed to get on using private browsing now

MediumRoastSteam

prezes - so I then got a message saying the cert is invalid. But then, after a few retires and what nots, it works.

Have they forgotten to update the certificate in one of the nodes?

And if I use digicert…

So looks like they had a certificate expiring on the 22nd, which tallies up with when I started seeing these issues (see my post on the 23rd). They renewed the cert, and, at a guess, they might not have fully updated it across the board.

MediumRoastSteam

For whichever reason, this issue seems more prominent on Safari on iOS. Doesn’t happen much on Chrome.

prezes

After clearing website data for freeflarum and accepting the new certificate seems to be working fine

MediumRoastSteam

prezes and accepting the new certificate

You trusted the expired certificate? It should be ok, but it just feels wrong.

DavecUK

MediumRoastSteam You trusted the expired certificate? It should be ok, but it just feels wrong.

Considering it’s the same forum you’ve always used, why does it feel wrong?

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