Slow Thread Loading: Best Songs Ever

[lisab]

Is the thread "Best Songs Ever" getting slower to load for anyone else? Twice today I've had to bail out waiting for it to load.

 

[Evo]

Is the thread "Best Songs Ever" getting slower to load for anyone else? Twice today I've had to bail out waiting for it to load.

I'm going to split it off tonight.

 

[dlgoff]

I noticed a little slowing on page 175, but not enough to bail out.

 

[dlgoff]

I'm going to split it off tonight.

How time flies. You started the thread in '06.

 

[Evo]

How time flies. You started the thread in '06.

No way, it seems like 2 years ago, tops.

 

[Mark44]

Is the thread "Best Songs Ever" getting slower to load for anyone else? Twice today I've had to bail out waiting for it to load.

I would imagine that the embedded videos (as opposed to the URL links) would cause the thread to load slowly. For each embedded video the browser has to send a GET request for the starting image of the video, and the image data has to come back over the wire before the page is fully loaded.

That's my explanation, and I'm stickin' to it...

 

[lisab]

I would imagine that the embedded videos (as opposed to the URL links) would cause the thread to load slowly. For each embedded video the browser has to send a GET request for the starting image of the video, and the image data has to come back over the wire before the page is fully loaded.

That's my explanation, and I'm stickin' to it...

I figured it was gnomes!

The new thread loads lightning-fast .

 

[Borek]

I would imagine that the embedded videos (as opposed to the URL links) would cause the thread to load slowly. For each embedded video the browser has to send a GET request for the starting image of the video, and the image data has to come back over the wire before the page is fully loaded.

That's my explanation, and I'm stickin' to it...

You are most likely right, with one more important remark: how long it takes to load these videos from youtube depends on the number of videos embedded on a particular thread page, not on the number of videos embedded in the whole thread.

Splitting the thread won't change that (although it may slightly lower our server load).

 

[Evo]

Splitting the thread won't change that (although it may slightly lower our server load).

Greg asked me to split threads that have over 1,500 posts to lighten server load.

 

[DennisN]

You are most likely right, with one more important remark: how long it takes to load these videos from youtube depends on the number of videos embedded on a particular thread page, not on the number of videos embedded in the whole thread.

I have a feeling I'm probably the one to blame; I posted eight clips in the same post on page 175, which probably was a bad idea . Sorry!

If these kind of things are tough on the server, an idea would perhaps be to limit the number of allowed youtube embeddings in one and the same post and/or encourage people to just link and not embed when the post contains multiple links.

Just a suggestion, I don't know if it's a good one.

At least I won't make any mutiple embeddings anymore, I promise .

 

[Evo]

I have a feeling I'm probably the one to blame; I posted eight clips in the same post on page 175, which probably was a bad idea . Sorry!

If these kind of things are tough on the server, an idea would perhaps be to limit the number of allowed youtube embeddings in one and the same post and/or encourage people to just link and not embed when the post contains multiple links.

Just a suggestion, I don't know if it's a good one.

At least I won't make any mutiple embeddings anymore, I promise .

<le GASP> (as Pepe le Pew would say), so, all of the trouble...it was...YOU!

 

[Jimmy]

I like the way JREF manages YouTube videos:
http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=251327#29

 

[DennisN]

<le GASP> (as Pepe le Pew would say), so, all of the trouble...it was...YOU!

Ok, what about this story?

I had written a post with 8 embedded links. I realized this would be troublesome to the server, so I had doubts about posting it. But suddenly my cat stepped on the mouse, and accidentally posted it on the forum. When I reached for my cat, I strained my right hand. This hurt, so I quickly reached for a first aid kit with my left hand. Unfortunately, this made me strain my left hand. Without my hands I could not edit nor delete the post my cat had submitted. The next day both my hands had miraculously healed - but then it was too late to edit the post.

 

[Evo]

Ok, what about this story?

I had written a post with 8 embedded links. I realized this would be troublesome to the server, so I had doubts about posting it. But suddenly my cat stepped on the mouse, and accidentally posted it on the forum. When I reached for my cat, I strained my right hand. This hurt, so I quickly reached for a first aid kit with my left hand. Unfortunately, this made me strain my left hand. Without my hands I could not edit nor delete the post my cat had submitted. The next day both my hands had miraculously healed - but then it was too late to edit the post.

Now that is perfectly understandable, happens more than you know. We get many posts that have obviously been made by cats, or some other animal.

 

[Borek]

Now that is perfectly understandable, happens more than you know. We get many posts that have obviously been made by cats, or some other animal.

Actually some posts were apparently made by unicellular organisms, as they suggest poster IQ lower than that of a volvox.

 

[Enigman]

Actually some posts were apparently made by unicellular organisms, as they suggest poster IQ lower than that of a volvox.

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