Mudcat Slow!!

Subject: RE: Mudcat Slow!!
From: maeve
Date: 19 Mar 12 - 09:22 AM

Hi, Max. The Mudcat logo appears to be missing, and with it the Support Mudcat links. The "Order Mudcat cds" link is still visible, but leads to the following message: "Firefox can't find the server at tweedsblues.net." I'm still hoping for that one to include information about both Mudcat cd sets.

Perhaps you are working on these already. In any case, thanks.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Slow!!
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 18 Mar 12 - 11:30 PM

Fantastic!

Subject: RE: Mudcat Slow!!
From: bobad
Date: 18 Mar 12 - 07:18 PM

The first word in my previous post is supposed to be Wowza, in case anyone is wondering.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Slow!!
From: bobad
Date: 18 Mar 12 - 07:10 PM

WSowza.....I've never seen it this fast - refreshes instantly.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Slow!!
From: maeve
Date: 18 Mar 12 - 02:27 PM

Merrily we roll along!

Thank you.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Slow!!
From: Jeri
Date: 18 Mar 12 - 02:06 PM

Zoom-soom now!
WTG Mr Grumpypants!

Subject: RE: Mudcat Slow!!
From: Ole Juul
Date: 18 Mar 12 - 02:05 AM

I take it that blackout was due to server changeover. It's certainly much better now. In fact it's a treat!

Subject: RE: Mudcat Slow!!
From: YorkshireYankee
Date: 16 Mar 12 - 08:28 PM

As others have already said, play with your kids.
We'll be fine.
Thanks for all you are doing, not to mention all you have already done -- and all you will no doubt do in the future...

Subject: RE: Mudcat Slow!!
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 16 Mar 12 - 05:17 PM

Useless

Subject: RE: Mudcat Slow!!
From: Bill D
Date: 16 Mar 12 - 03:30 PM

"..why are things always blue ala blue clicky thing?"

they are blue by default.... you can change 'em to off-pink if you care to/....somewhere in settings. (I actually did change my
'visited links' color to a lighter red). You can have links underlined...or not...and in any font installed on your computer.

If you don't want to experiment with Max's 'interesting' suggestions, why...just go explore all the menu items for your browser. ☺

Subject: RE: Mudcat Slow!!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 16 Mar 12 - 03:15 PM

Some are pulling them, and some are smoking them ;-)

Subject: RE: Mudcat Slow!!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 16 Mar 12 - 03:13 PM

I vote go hang out with the kids, we should all be doing more than playing on the computer this weekend.

I'm pulling weeds, but maybe tonight I'll round up my kids and take them out to dinner.

Good start to the weekend!

SRS

Subject: RE: Mudcat Slow!!
From: gnu
Date: 16 Mar 12 - 02:22 PM

Max... play with the kids all weekend.

In my opinion, this thread SHOULD be about trying to help Max with feedback and info regarding users' experiences.

If there is to be a complaint department, I would like to offer my services to Max as the first line response to simple complaints.

Allow me to interview for the position herein...

Complaint : It's too slow and I am getting impatient.
gnu : It's free. Bite me.

Do I get the job?

Subject: RE: Mudcat Slow!!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 16 Mar 12 - 02:09 PM

Birds of a feather

Subject: RE: Mudcat Slow!!
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 16 Mar 12 - 02:03 PM

The Blue pop ups were an unexpected and suspicious [late night UK] imposition on OUR browsers and computers
- simple as that.

A thread title from Max prepaing us such an experiment would have been sufficient to allay all potential mudcat user questions
and concerns regarding issues of site security:
and having been properly informed that this was a legitimate 'survey request' and not a potential site 'hack' to be wary of,
many mudcatters would be more at ease to submit well considered positive replies.

That would have been easy fair and reasonable,

Every moment on the internet we are bombarded by all kinds of ugly distracting corporate advertising animations
and pop up/unders.

All of it a burden on our computer processing resources; and a larger percentage of it less than benign in intent.

That's why we as 'informed consumers' are forced into having to resort to deploying tiresome software counter measures
such as 'Ad Blockers'
which themselves can cause additional problems and conflicts with browser components.

It's a running perpetual battle between us and all those despicable corporate power greedy profiteering usurpers
of our personal internet liberties,
... and other international criminal gangs.

This is the wider context that popular forum site admins need to always be responsibly aware of when implementing
and surprising users with any well intentioned unexpected 'improvements' and developments.

Even more so with a bunch of notoriously die hard anti authoritarian paranoid conspiracy theorist misfits like mudcat members.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Slow!!
From: katlaughing
Date: 16 Mar 12 - 10:31 AM

Play with the kids, Max.

Wish I'd seen the blue thingie, which reminds me, why are things always blue ala blue clicky thing?**BG**

Subject: RE: Mudcat Slow!!
From: maeve
Date: 16 Mar 12 - 09:44 AM

Interesting, John. Font and spacing appear to me to be the same.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Slow!!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 16 Mar 12 - 09:41 AM

Well it gets slower here, as the US east coast wakes up, but is it my imagination, or has the font and the spacing changed?

Subject: RE: Mudcat Slow!!
From: maeve
Date: 16 Mar 12 - 09:28 AM

I've been sitting here biting my tongue, already sore from such self-control efforts. I see the combined threads addressing the fuss about the Feedback flag has gone, so will offer these few thoughts here. The little blue Feedback flag was an experiment. What's so scary about Max trying things here, on HIS site? He's told us he'd be doing just that.

I clicked and sent him a short message. I thought it would be an easy way for us to offer helpful feedback and it seems generous of Max to even offer it. Suggestions about placement, blocking it, etc. could go right on the suggestion form. I blocked the little face just to see how it would respond, and was left with a plain blue flag; less of a distraction, yet still visible.

Sure enough, there were so many immediate complaints the Host of the Feast was exasperated enough to yank it before he could evaluate its effectiveness. I'm wicked cautious about such things...even removed my google+ membership...but this was clearly something of Max's. I don't believe I am entitled to a vote. We are "living" in Max's living room, for Pete's sake.

There are things here I am not thrilled about. I can offer opinions when invited to do so, but I am not interested in controlling what Max chooses to do with his site.

Hey Max, did you get my comment on the blue flag Feedback form? I wasn't sure the last part of my note was entered correctly...it said, "Thank you."

Subject: RE: Mudcat Slow!!
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 16 Mar 12 - 12:34 AM

I agree with My guru always says. Playing with your kids is more important. I can wait.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Slow!!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 Mar 12 - 08:57 PM

Yuck! I see it also. Max, is this a new app you're trying out? It looks cloyingly cheerful. That's a vote against it right there.

SRS

Subject: RE: Mudcat Slow!!
From: Paul Burke
Date: 15 Mar 12 - 07:34 PM

By Imhotep! What's this queer blue face besmirching my screen? If I move the mouse over it, it expands to "feedback" but I wasn't Bjorn yesterday.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Slow!!
From: GUEST,Peter Laban
Date: 15 Mar 12 - 12:07 PM

Do play with the kids and take your time but right now a page load never takes less than 15 second and a post to another thread just sat there 25 seconds before the system digested it.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Slow!!
From: My guru always said
Date: 15 Mar 12 - 04:06 AM

Play with the kids, Max, much more important!

What are you smoking these days?

Subject: RE: Mudcat Slow!!
From: Max
Date: 15 Mar 12 - 02:07 AM

Fancy shmancy new store-bought server arrives in the morning. Will take a couple days, maybe just one if I don't play with my kids, to get up and running, but we're close gang. I appreciate your patience, I'll make it up to all of you I promise, and we'll be tip top before you know it, it's assured.

In the meantime, that is to say: to pass the time, may I suggest switching underpants with your spouse for the evening and/or doing something you've never done before... or doing something you do in a venue you've never done it in before... that is to say: do something stupid.

Empower your whimsy, disarm regret, bend over willfully, cheerfully, for consequence and go out and make a memory that you and your spouse will awkwardly chuckle about till your end of days. Then we all win.

If your spouse is unwilling, call them a fuddy duddy, then bath, groom and dress in your finest means and manner, telephone the silliest person you know and take them out and do the smooshy ice cream dance.

If you do not have a spouse, practice saying yes in the mirror a few times and just generally having an affirmative attitude for several minutes, perhaps a snort or two from the vanilla extract bottle in the cupboard, then make that call you've been thinking about a lot lately. What the hell? It's mudcat tradition, you're just being a supportive member of the community and it's quirky traditions. Forgiveness is built in, whadaya got to lose?

If it all goes haywire, just abort the mission and start talking about what a wanker I am, and maybe drink the almond extract. And if it goes well, I just got you laid. You are welcome.

I do this sort of stuff every chance I get and look how well adjusted, patient, prudent and content I am.

You may now return to your version of reality.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Slow!!
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 14 Mar 12 - 11:29 PM

I wrote to soon. It has slowed down again.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Slow!!
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 14 Mar 12 - 10:28 PM

It was slow for me on the 13th and into the early evening today (14th). Then I shut down my laptop because I got the low battery warning. After it finished recharging, I had trouble getting onto the Internet, but I think that's another issue. Once i got onto the Internet, Mudcat seemed to be working fine. I hope that continues to be true.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Slow!!
From: topical tom
Date: 14 Mar 12 - 04:47 PM

Snails are faster.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Slow!!
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 14 Mar 12 - 04:32 PM

I had had trouble with the Mudcat freezing, but today it seems fine. How nice.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Slow!!
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 14 Mar 12 - 04:54 AM

Well all the rest of the web is up to speed here in Kent UK.

Ping of 39ms and download speed of 17.49Mbps.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Slow!!
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 14 Mar 12 - 01:30 AM

I've only had to refresh about 3 times when a thread "hung" on me, but quite a few things have taken more than a minute to load.

I've put it down the the feud Anonymous is having with Jester, since two of our local TV stations have been reporting that their computers have crashed, died, totaled. (all the smoke escaped, and they don't work anymore.)

I may have spent (euphemism for wasted?) a little less time here than usual because it was really good entertainment watching a couple of our local fluff-heads trying to report the news without prompters, and one of the weather guys was absolutely hilarious without his fancy gimmicks. (I think the guy has an iPad app to read a thermometer, and even that was down - must be a "cloud app.")

Has anyone checked whether it's local or net-wide?

John

Subject: RE: Mudcat Slow!!
From: Beer
Date: 14 Mar 12 - 12:07 AM

Pain in the arse.
ad.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Slow!!
From: katlaughing
Date: 13 Mar 12 - 11:30 PM

It's been ultra-slow, today. Anyone else notice?

Subject: RE: Mudcat Slow!!
From: gnu
Date: 05 Mar 12 - 09:48 PM

Has mudcat been freezing up for anyone else? I had to close my browser and reload it at least 30 times today.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Slow!!
From: michaelr
Date: 04 Mar 12 - 10:39 PM

What's the status of olddude's server getting to Max?

Subject: RE: Mudcat Slow!!
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 04 Mar 12 - 06:38 PM

I'll second k-1's recommendation that you copy a post before you hit submit, and will add the recommendation that you always preview before the final submit.

For really complex posts, I usually try to set the text up in Word before opening the Reply box. Then it's just a Copy/Paste to put it in the reply box. (Of course if you do this you do need to turn off the "curly quotes" in Word.)

There are TWO good reasons for the last suggestion.

1. On a really complex post it is possible for your connection to "time out" before you get done.

2. You can't look back at what others have posted, to make sure you're responding accurately, once you've hit the first preview.

(Of course you can always make your reply in a separate window/tab, but that means loading the thread twice.)

With respect to current mudcat performance, I'm getting quite a few clicks where the selected thread appears to have loaded completely, but is "DOA" and I can't scroll down or do anything else. Usually a "refresh" will reload and after the refresh everything works normally, but the "hung loads" seem to be annoyingly frequent. I suspect it's still due to overload of the server queue, but I've sent Joe an email and my speculations won't help until Max can take a look at it.

John

Subject: RE: Mudcat Slow!!
From: GUEST,999
Date: 04 Mar 12 - 05:37 PM

Q, over time I have learned that when the 'cat is tetchy it's worth it to copy the post in the event it doesn't take. That way you can put it onto a word document until such time as the 'cat's easier to get along with.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Slow!!
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 04 Mar 12 - 05:07 PM

Speed is good in most cases, but some posts are slow to take, causing me worry about posting lyrics that take time to set up on a post.

On very long threads, e. g., the Bigots attack BP, I have had the thread freeze, and have to leave the mudcat site temporarily.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Slow!!
From: Girl Friday
Date: 25 Feb 12 - 02:25 PM

Very slow on editing today... otherwise -not bad

Subject: RE: Mudcat Slow!!
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 24 Feb 12 - 11:56 PM

Much better. Thank you!

Subject: RE: Mudcat Slow!!
From: gnu
Date: 24 Feb 12 - 01:59 PM

"Send us the bill."

Check out the Mudcat Auction. I used to use this to donate quite often when I was flush. Now I am flushed.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Slow!!
From: Charley Noble
Date: 24 Feb 12 - 08:58 AM

Max-

Much more better!

Send us the bill.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Mudcat Slow!!
From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
Date: 24 Feb 12 - 06:44 AM

Working quite briskly now, even though Facebook is on the fritz.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Slow!!
From: scouse
Date: 24 Feb 12 - 04:05 AM

10:05 European time....Very reasonable this morning.
As Aye,
Phil.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Slow!!
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 24 Feb 12 - 02:17 AM

yah Max & yah olddude

sandra

Subject: RE: Mudcat Slow!!
From: Bill D
Date: 23 Feb 12 - 08:11 PM

They were invited, but they were lolling on Hamster Beach

Subject: RE: Mudcat Slow!!
From: katlaughing
Date: 23 Feb 12 - 06:26 PM

BillD, here I thought you'd sent him your hamsters!

Subject: RE: Mudcat Slow!!
From: Joe_F
Date: 23 Feb 12 - 06:19 PM

Hoo bloody ray!

Subject: RE: Mudcat Slow!!
From: bobad
Date: 23 Feb 12 - 06:11 PM

Just blazing along at road runner speed.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Slow!!
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 23 Feb 12 - 06:05 PM

Wey-hey! It's whizzing now.