Forum slowness

[philamena]

Hey what's up doc? lol :crazy:
For the past few days the forum's been real slow. Not all the time, only in spurts.
Today for instance, I couldn't get on for 2 hours.:waitasec:

[philamena]

dark_shadows posted this earlier on the BB forum.
Brooke Bennett forum 17 post 67
com/forums/showthr...t=67144&page=3 (http://websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=67144&page=3)

[adnoid]

Hey what's up doc? lol :crazy:
For the past few days the forum's been real slow. Not all the time, only in spurts.
Today for instance, I couldn't get on for 2 hours.:waitasec:

Yep.

Do you know what actually slows it down? Emailing instant notifications that there has been a new post to a thread. We may have to make some adjustments there.

[KatK]

Probably it's the news on the Ramsey case. There were at least 400 readers here just a bit ago, and just now I saw 365, members and guests. ;)

[Taximom]

Yep.

Do you know what actually slows it down? Emailing instant notifications that there has been a new post to a thread. We may have to make some adjustments there.

Can't people just check "New Posts" at the top? Or subscribe to the thread and follow it that way?

[adnoid]

Can't people just check "New Posts" at the top? Or subscribe to the thread and follow it that way?

Subscribing to threads is what does it. Every time there is a new post to a thread, everyone with automatic notifications gets an email.

[Taximom]

Is it subscribing to threads alone, or subscribing and asking for the email to be sent? I subscribe but don't request or get the emails. So I'll stop if that's causing a problem!!!

[j2mirish]

Subscribing to threads is what does it. Every time there is a new post to a thread, everyone with automatic notifications gets an email.
so why not eliminate that option?

[adnoid]

Is it subscribing to threads alone, or subscribing and asking for the email to be sent? I subscribe but don't request or get the emails. So I'll stop if that's causing a problem!!!

I misspoke. The default option is to subscribe with instant email notification when you make a post. Subscribing only creates no load, it's scanning the threads and sending out notification emails that does is.

[philamena]

Yep.

Do you know what actually slows it down? Emailing instant notifications that there has been a new post to a thread. We may have to make some adjustments there.

Oh man.... Sorry about that adnoid.
I also didn't realize that the JBR news hit the forum at about that time. We definitely had a full house.
Thanks for the reply.:)

[adnoid]

so why not eliminate that option?

I'm looking into a way to disable it when the load is high. Most of the time it's not an issue, but when we have lots of people posting on multiple threads it becomes a problem.

Many boards do disable it.

[philamena]

Subscribing to threads is what does it. Every time there is a new post to a thread, everyone with automatic notifications gets an email.


Thank goodness I don't do that. lol
I don't like getting a ton of emails anyway. :)

[Taximom]

I misspoke. The default option is to subscribe with instant email notification when you make a post. Subscribing only creates no load, it's scanning the threads and sending out notification emails that does is.

OK, so it sounds like I'm ok w/just subscribing to a thread without the email notification. Thanks for the info, Adnoid.