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[qmodem]

wow. what have you done? you have managed to slow down a perfectly good site to a crawl. everything you click on takes forever to load, if it loads at all. is this the new site? will it be fixed. if not, i'm outta here. i can't stand the long pause between steps. what were you thinking? unbelieveable:confused:

[kevin]

Bound to be teething problems with anything new, qmodem and as of now,
the system is as quick as i've ever seen.

[Delighted]

The system's really moving now!

Greased something or other.

Thank you.

:-)

[jugzluva]

stupefyingly slow to access any of the galleries, to the point where I started assuming they'd been deleted.

[jugzluva]

and once into any gallery, loading an image is becoming more of a career than a quick job.
tried in Opera and IE6 so far, both the same.

[oldtimes]

It takes over 5 minutes to view an image. Most of the time this web site times out. I have no problems with other sites but this one is by far the slowest crawler I've seen. Absurd!

[orvar]

It´s amazing how slow the site have been in the last weeks;or am I the only member who have experienced these problems...everything from wiewing pics to rate them etc....I feel so tired for the moment really tired.
If it is gonna be like this from now on whats the point whit all then?
Orvar.




It takes over 5 minutes to view an image. Most of the time this web site times out. I have no problems with other sites but this one is by far the slowest crawler I've seen. Absurd!

[Rabbit1]

I would think you would all have a little more patients than you seem to have ---the owner of this site has put out a good bit of money to upgrade the software ---yes there is some problems but he is working on the problems ----what do you expect for free ---you could at least support the guy is trying to improve the site ---to make it better for all of us ---Click on our sponsors if you can not click in the gallery ----post pictures in the forum to look at until it is fixed ----you know he has a life besides just this forum
he can not spend every minute of his time working on a free site --he has a family too ---so lets cut him some slack ----

[winger]

I belong to a couple of other EZ board forums besides this (both American History related) and both have the same problems and worse than are experienced here, they have both been down for weeks at a time and both seek $ contributions to keep things running.
Tiger and Rabbit have never sought contributions, just ask to click on a sponser, they are the ones that keep this site free. If you feel you have to give the site a rest for awhile and then come back later,then do so, take a breather. Threatening to leave something that you have no real investment in is a empty threat. Leave, take a break, spend $19.95 a month for Pinup Files, then come back...we will still be here working for you.

[Delighted]

Compared with when I bought my first modem - this is a breeze!

Thank you, gentlemen, for all of your efforts.

Much appreciated.

D

[Delighted]

Me again, sorry.

It's worth saying again that the galleries seem to be running moreorless OK so by changing screen res to 640x480 the thumbs are not at all bad. I found that I had to go into the control panel to get my vid card driver to do this as the plug 'n play thingys that you get by right clicking on the desktop only went down to 800x600, maybe not even that. Have a play about (with care!!). It works.

:-)

D

[baranger1]

Its so slow here I have given up!

[winger]

Methinks the natives are restless.

[Rabbit1]

well I am not having any problem at the present time ----but then again it could be the time of day and the numbers of members accessing each site on this server ----heavy traffic will slow it down ---but for free ---I do not know what everyone expects ----this is the internet not life ---because you can not get the speed you want from a site does not mean the world is going to end --just try back later ---

[kevin]

Just to annoy the hell outta everyone i'll say that, i've never had the problems
that other members seem to have with loading times.
It averages around 4-6 seconds for me.

[florbflonch]

Patience. This site rocks for the most part so I am not complaining. Glad to know there is others with loading time concerns. moderators are well aware apparently. the nice thing about free sites is lot more page visits. the bad thing is the only revenue is banner ads and what i can guess is pro bono frustration for some members.

It also seems that with the forum you get a community of sorts. That has recently been promoted with a private category, which is something to aspire to. Community is a good thing. I feel like a member of the "big tit lover" community which gives me great sense of belonging. And a sense of longing... for big tits.

The internet and more specifically, internet porn, has catalyzed the demand for instant gratification that marks this time period. When sites run slow or have tech diffs. people get irritable,impatient, rude.This site has some unique qualities because there are a few connosiors of erotic art and people with a sense of history. Wanking to images created a century before i was born gives me a sense of history.


So if the owners of this site are target ********* to a group with patience it may be easier said than done. I just hope this site remains up and running and continues to provide quality content.

p.s. give me the password to the private gallery. :)

[baranger1]

Average time for me is 2 to 3 minutes.
I am trying to have patience but that is a long time.

I am not sure why it is so slow here.
Any ideas

[charliels531]

I've had the whole range of response times. I notice that the slowest loading times are midnight to 3 a.m. or 4 a.m. Pacific time.

[Rabbit1]

I had slow response times ---and I got a adware cleaner ----suprised the hell out of me ---as not I get good speed here and at other sites ---

[HDGBBBS]

Is it any surprise that the average # of people on this site has dropped off more than 10 fold in the past year or so? Nobody has patience for such a slow site, so before this thing completely dies, I'd suggest the admins try adding some bandwidth.

[Rabbit1]

the bandwidth is fine ---I suggest you clean out your cashe and get rid of adware ---as I have the same access to the site as you --I use dsl and I am getting speeds just fine

[chester]

Excruciatingly slow to navigate through this otherwise totally awesome and unique resource. Has been this way for months. I much prefer the simple HTML affair the owner had going a few years ago, where the pictures were catologued by the model's name. Much more efficient than this bloated site.

Just so you know, admins, I am computer literate and I am grateful to you for working on this site for free. But cleaning out the cache has nothing to do with why this site is so slow.

I suggest maybe you stop using the BBS software and take it back to the simple and easy HTML site it used to be.

[orvar]

I think what chester said seems like a great idea...OK Im no computer wizzard or so but everything should be well worth trying to get up the speed.
I´ve been a member of this site since the old day´s when Paulos ran it,and back then the design and everything was much simpler but The BIG DEAL is in these days the speed worked fine so.
I´ll appreciate all the fine work everbody does for the site and the fact that it´s for free.
But if it´s gonna be so slow like it is now I am affraid that many members just give up and dont log in or upload pics anymore and that would be a really big shame because I love My Archives and it´s members so much and I think the site is The nr1 retro/vintage site in syberspace.

Best regards Orvar.








Excruciatingly slow to navigate through this otherwise totally awesome and unique resource. Has been this way for months. I much prefer the simple HTML affair the owner had going a few years ago, where the pictures were catologued by the model's name. Much more efficient than this bloated site.

Just so you know, admins, I am computer literate and I am grateful to you for working on this site for free. But cleaning out the cache has nothing to do with why this site is so slow.

I suggest maybe you stop using the BBS software and take it back to the simple and easy HTML site it used to be.

[Rabbit1]

What I am saying is ---I have the same access to the site as you the member does ---I am not having the same problem you are ---if it was a site problem we all would have it -----I have loged on as a member under a different name ---not as an admin to prove this point ----I do not wait over a second for a pic to open ----it is lightning fast ----I use a dsl modem ---

now if it were a site problem ----I would have the same slow connection you say you are having ----and so would everyone else ---but only a hand ful have even complained about slow access -----so that tells me there is a setting on your browser or firewalls ---or something ---cashe or something that is slowing down your connection ---maybe spyware or adware ---I do not have your computer in front of me ---but something beside the site is wrong ----the server is not loging and over load now ---

[florbflonch]

bummer. I look at the site on rare occasion now because download time is so slow. i figured admin would have gotten it together by now. oddly its only the galleries that load slow. there are other sites that do the same but dont have this problem. guilting people into clicking banner ads never works.

[Rabbit1]

bummer. I look at the site on rare occasion now because download time is so slow. i figured admin would have gotten it together by now. oddly its only the galleries that load slow. there are other sites that do the same but dont have this problem. guilting people into clicking banner ads never works.


ya know it is funny ---but only a hand full of members are having a speed problem ----Since I cleared my computer of adware and spyware ---I find this site on of the fastest on the net ---Kind of hard to fix a problem when you can not find one----out of over 16000 members I have heard from maybe a dozen or so about a speed problem ----if it was a site problem we all would have the same problem ---including me ---as I have the same access to this site as you do ---by internet connection ---I am no where near the server site---

[charliels531]

I have no idea why, but right after I suggested darkly that my ISP might be tapped, everything speeded up.

[Rabbit1]

hey it could be something as simple as a cookie conflict ---one member told me he logged out then back in and the difference in speed was amazing ----but it is not a site problem or all of us would have the same problem ---could be your ISP ---but I can not fix a problem that is not on the site

[jugzluva]

Rabbit, the speed issue isn't with the forums, it's with the galleries alone, which are still absurdly slow.

Example test today:

http://www.myarchives.net - takes about 10-12 seconds to load main page

http://www.myarchives.net/gallery/ - about 10-12 seconds for the list to populate

choosing a gallery at random:
http://www.myarchives.net/gallery/browseimages.php?c=188 - about 14 seconds for page to load

choosing one image on that gallery (deliberately chose a small one):
http://www.myarchives.net/gallery/showimage.php?i=88283&c=188 - 34 seconds to display a 29KB image

I am on 2gig broadband, always clean my cache and history, always check and clean out any adware, and never see such slow response times on other picture sites. I should also say that I have set the gallery to display only 30 images at a time, no more.

Continuing the test:
1) going back to main page and choosing "galleries" - 13 seconds to load page
2) choose a different gallery - http://www.myarchives.net/gallery/browseimages.php?c=27 - 21 seconds to finish loading
3) choosing three images to download in three windows (each image is below 75KB) - the images open one after another after 51, 55 and 59 seconds.

I don't know if any of this helps or is even relevant, but you can see that I am also suffering with slow speeds.

[jugzluva]

One final test:
Open a gallery, open a picture in a different (background) window, go back to gallery and download the nexy page of 30 images, choose another image to download in the background. Do the same on the third and fourth gallery pages.

The first image selected eventually appears after 2 minutes 25 seconds.

The rest follow some time after that.

Surely this cannot be right?

[Rabbit1]

and I do not know the answer to your problem ---as I check the gallery first thing when I log on ---and it does not take a second for the gallery to populate or to load any image for me ---like I keep telling you if it was a site problem ---I and everyone would have the same problem ---I do not have direct access to the server ---I get on the same way --I have a dsl modem ----so can anyone answer that ---why it is slow for some and not for others???? the server is not even straining now as a forum was moved off of this server ----

I do see the server stats from the admin panel ---and again it is not that as an admin I have direct access to the galleries ---I logged on as my alter ego --just a plain member and still get the same speeds ---we can tweak the server setting if it shows a strain or slowdown ---but when it shows no problems --there is nothing to fix----I am open to suggestions ---if there are no errors in the log ---and the server speed shows no strain ---and some members are not experiencing slow speeds but some are ----there is not much that can be done as it does not appear to be a server problem

[jugzluva]

Okay, this is the final comment, I promise.
I posted (or tried to post) a comment on one of the pictures I opened, while opening a gallery and another picture in background windows.
At the time of writing, the comment had still not been uploaded after 18 minutes, so I closed the window.

[Rabbit1]

I do not doubt it but I have had several members say they had the same problem ---the all of a sudden they found it speeded up ---now weather it was from an update or a change of their settings I can not tell you ---I know when mine speeded up ---after removing the adware and spyware off my computer ---but that does not seem to help others having the problem ---I also notice newer members not having as much problem as the older members ---I can not explain that either ----

[Rabbit1]

in a earlier post in this thread a member Delighted posted what worked for him

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Me again, sorry.

It's worth saying again that the galleries seem to be running moreorless OK so by changing screen res to 640x480 the thumbs are not at all bad. I found that I had to go into the control panel to get my vid card driver to do this as the plug 'n play thingys that you get by right clicking on the desktop only went down to 800x600, maybe not even that. Have a play about (with care!!). It works.

[Rabbit1]

in this same thread one of our moderators was having the same problem but not now

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I have no idea why, but right after I suggested darkly that my ISP might be tapped, everything speeded up.

[Rabbit1]

Can someone tell me how I am suppose to fix that ---it seems it could be any number of problems -----but once again if it was a site problem ---all of us would have the same problem

[legin]

I said to myself a long time ago that I would not get involved in this business of the site speed (as I love this site), but my first and last comment on it is this...over the last few days it has been a pleasure to be on here as the speed, especially on downloading pics, has been MUCH,MUCH better!!..nearly as quick as the old days!....end!

[orvar]

I dont know what´s happened...but suddenley the speed is up again and wiewing the Gallerys is the pleasure that it used to be...hope this is not just for the moment.
So splendid indeed.
Best Orv.




I said to myself a long time ago that I would not get involved in this business of the site speed (as I love this site), but my first and last comment on it is this...over the last few days it has been a pleasure to be on here as the speed, especially on downloading pics, has been MUCH,MUCH better!!..nearly as quick as the old days!....end!

[Tony T]

I echo Orvar's comments, there seems to have been a turbo charger fitted somewhere down the line.

At present the site is almost back to the speeds I used to know, if it lasts my heartfelt thanks to whoever.

Tony T

[BigDon]

Well, that lasted a day. After yesterday's "maintenance" it slowed down to a crawl again. (Over a minute to switch forums, longer to download a single picture.) See you guys when I need another Mary Waters fix.

BD

[Tiger]

I have been working on the site for about 2 days straight and I think things are a lot faster. If there are still problems let me know. I'm still trying to get it even faster.

[Delighted]

We all appreciate your efforts.

Many thanks.

D

:-)

[Tiger]

Is it any faster now? I just did an upgrade and it seems to have helped a lot.

[fritzelsas]

Much better, thanks for your efforts. But did I miss something? Suddenly posts disappeared from about 17-19 April, like three days' worth of site material got deleted. Sorry if I missed a comment about this elsewhere.

Cheers, chaps.

[Tiger]

Sorry but while I was trying to fix the system we lost the entire database. I had to use a backup from 2 days before thats why there are 2 days or so missing.

[Delighted]

Thank you, Tiger. There seem to be some very subtle changes in this new software and they certainly appear to have done the trick.

D

:-)

[Tiger]

I also think there is something that is slowing the system down after it has been down for a while.

I just got back on and it was slow again then I restarted the system and its flying now.

[orvar]

I really like the updates of the site....well let me put it this way...everything is worth trying out to get the site working properley (at first )the speed issue seems to be the biggest issue...well that´s have been the main problem for almost everyone I´ll guess anyway....all your work is much appreciated dear Tiger....it can only get better from now on.
Best Orvar.

[Tony T]

Tiger

I also like the new layout and the site has certainly speeded up compared with a month ago, although not quite up to what it was last week. I will now try to post the playmate pictures have been trying to do for the last 6 months.

As I mentioned in a previous post, the speed of the site does slow down during the day, at least for me here in the UK. I suspect this may be due to the greater traffic on the internet once most of the US has woken up.

Many thanks for all your hard work it is much appreciated.

Tony T

[Tiger]

Made some more changes today seems to be helping.