New V4 ePhotozine views

BenGriffiths

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11 Apr 2007 - 9:53 PM

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Sorry for the extra slowness folks, looks like our ad server is playing up - not actually related to V4. We had it nice and quick when I went home. By the time I actually got home it was really slow again Rest assured first thing on tomorrow's list of jobs is to fix this problem

dazzaman

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11 Apr 2007 - 10:25 PM

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im sorry but i agree with dolphinlady,my favourite photographers list has gone, i cant even get past the first page of my own portfolio.i give up.

a not too happy
dazzaman.

BeiK

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11 Apr 2007 - 10:38 PM

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I went away for a week's holiday and when I came back I couldn't believe how much had happened in my garden in that time...strong new growth everywhere. Then I went on to my favourite Ephotozine but I no longer recognized that familiar site. What's happened , why and to what avail ?....I am not sure that it is "strong new growth", like in my garden...I know most of us become creatures of comfort/familiarity and we really don't like change. I am willing to accept change as long as it's for the better and not just for the sake of it. We don't all HAVE to embrace Windows Vista if that's what it's about, I don't know. But the speed is atrocious at the moment and I must say I have a sad feeling that my time with Ephotozine might be coming to its end if this is going to be a possible new feature for us "non-vistas"....I have faith that it will all be ok again, though....and fun like it used to be.
Bitte
PS I thought before that Ephotozine had its own special features and now, sadly, they think they have to look like everybody else....I might be wrong..

mjsayles

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11 Apr 2007 - 10:47 PM

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OMG it's SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!


The following navigation has taken me around 6 minutes:

>EPZ Home Page
>Forums - Recent Activity
>This Thread
>Reply

That would ordinarily take about 20 seconds.

I hope this speed thing is just temporary, otherwise it's bye-bye EPZ.

mjsayles

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11 Apr 2007 - 10:49 PM

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And why did it post my message twice when I refreshed the page?

I refreshed the page *after* the page had been updated to include my post.

The reason I refreshed was to see what the page load was stalling on. It seemed to be 'waiting for pan.ephotozine.com' that was causing the loooooong delay.

JohnHawthorne

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11 Apr 2007 - 11:09 PM

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That's because the advertising server pan.ephotozine.com is the major bottleneck. What I don't understand though is how that is causing the slow down with the new V4 since pan.ephotozine.com shouldn't have changed at all. Maybe it was just a coincidence.

That's my understanding anyway, or lack of it maybe.

Derek3755

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11 Apr 2007 - 11:18 PM

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well, i am sure you will get all of the problems sorted in the end, but today has just been dreadfully slow, infact it was so slow this morning, i thought my computer has developed a problem as evrything froze, and after restarting 3 times, and being able to visit other sites with no problem, i figured it had to be a problem with ephotozine. tonight is no different.
went to upload a photo, took me ages how to find the link, and then i was told i couldn't upload another photo today, strange i thought, i hadn't uploaded one, tried it again, same message.
and do we not get the number of votes by the photos anymore?

ade_mcfade

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11 Apr 2007 - 11:25 PM

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yeah - i've tested on Opera and safari too, but usually just use the default ie... then someone mentioned Adblock, so when things are grinding I open Firefox and get rid of the annoying ads! so satisfying.

but the difference in response times is staggering

I was getting page refreshes of upto a minute in IE, but in FF it's sub-second in most cases.

That may be because it's just not dowloading images from the dodgy server as I've set it up to ignore those - so that seems a solution.

Of course we can't condone this as EPZ need us to be influenced by their ads to gai revenue

but if you want to be able to use the site now, there's not a lot of choice