[Spangly Shiny]

It’s been getting slower and slower to load pages over the last month or so but now it is almost completely unuseable. For instance just to create this post took more than 6 minutes waiting. If it carries on like this I shall have to think seriously about my subs.

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[David9694]

keep up the good work Mr

keep up the good work Mr Adblock, Temu seems to have picked-up on my searches for 3/4 tights and knickers (someone was looking for old-fashioned knickers, remember? ) although it may also be my wife comparing the meerkat or looking at kitchens 

[quiff]

mctrials23 wrote:

If I was an advertiser I wouldn’t be paying them a penny at the moment because the site is so unusable.

Judging by the ads I get served, I don’t know how many advertisers are making deliberate, human, decisions to advertise here, as opposed to just winning indiscriminate eyeball space. 

[BalladOfStruth]

Secret_squirrel wrote:

Its amazing how some freeloader who doesnt contribute anything to the site thinks their opinion counts a stuff whilst doing nothing to support it.

Wind your neck in.

By their own admission, Road.cc generates vastly more revenue from ADs than from subscribers, so if you visit this site without an ad-blocker, you’re contributing and your opinion is perfectly valid.

Besides, they’ve said in their statement that the issue is at the application level, not the hardware. This is a failry simple site, so it’s a little embarassing that the issue is still persisting after three weeks.

[Rendel Harris]

mctrials23 wrote:

Its amazing that they are not haemorrhaging money right now. If I was an advertiser I wouldn’t be paying them a penny at the moment because the site is so unusable. 

I don’t know, I reckon it might be good for advertisers, I’m spending a lot more time staring blankly at their advertisements whilst waiting for the next page to come up…

[Secret_squirrel]

mctrials23 wrote:

Its amazing that they are not haemorrhaging money right now. If I was an advertiser I wouldn’t be paying them a penny at the moment because the site is so unusable. Must be absolutely killing their revenue and yet here were are, weeks later with no fix. 

Its amazing how some freeloader who doesnt contribute anything to the site thinks their opinion counts a stuff whilst doing nothing to support it.

Wind your neck in.

 

[David9694]

Car crashes into Web hosting

Car crashes into Web hosting company 

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/car-crashes-front-office-lichfield-16121911
 

[Rendel Harris]

mctrials23 wrote:

Its amazing that they are not haemorrhaging money right now. If I was an advertiser I wouldn’t be paying them a penny at the moment because the site is so unusable. 

I don’t know, I reckon it might be good for advertisers, I’m spending a lot more time staring blankly at their advertisements whilst waiting for the next page to come up…

[mctrials23]

Its amazing that they are not

Its amazing that they are not haemorrhaging money right now. If I was an advertiser I wouldn’t be paying them a penny at the moment because the site is so unusable. Must be absolutely killing their revenue and yet here were are, weeks later with no fix. 

[Jack Sexty]

Really sorry for the issues

Really sorry for the issues everyone, some experts are working on it and hoping to have it sorted soon. We’ve just published this article to provide some explanation according to what we know so far: https://road.cc/content/news/roadcc-website-issues-apology-and-some-updates-304219

[BalladOfStruth]

100%. I’m more of a front-end

100%. I’m more of a front-end guy, so I have no idea exactly what’s happened, but there’s front-end/CSS weirdness that’s started happening around the same time too.

Is the whole site self-hosted or is it hosted by a third party? If it’s the latter, do they not have SLAs? I’ve never known issues like this persist this long, even when I’ve had issues in SMEs. This is honestly a little embarrassing now.

[Paul J]

I clicked to open this forum
I clicked to open this forum post but got a HTTP 502 error. Appropriate I guess.

The new WYSIWYG editor box is really really bad in terms of responsiveness – also missing some functionality.

That road.cc has been having issues for so many days now suggests an “upgrade” without any roll-back plan/ability, nor with any incremental deployment + a/b testing ability. Which is… not wise in this day and age.

[hawkinspeter]

Fixthebloodysite AKA

Fixthebloodysite AKA David9694 wrote:

Is it expertise or £££ needed? 

Usually both. You can just throw modern hardware at an issue and not need so much expertise, or you can hire an expert to identify the actual bottleneck, but that also costs £££

[David9694]

Is it expertise or £££ needed

Is it expertise or £££ needed? 

[hawkinspeter]

I think it’s time to call in

I think it’s time to call in some experts to sort out the issue. I’m assuming that it’s the backend that’s struggling and judging by the size of the site, it’d be cheap enough to run an in-memory database to handle it all.

[HoarseMann]

It be like:

It be like:

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