Strange and annoying behavior

[ColonelKrypton]

6 minutes ago, ColonelKrypton said:

Another perhaps related issue with BM is that emailed notifications from BM can take from a few minutes to arrive in my gmail account but often it can take many hours and even days for some to arrive.  I will frequently receive BM emailed notifications from some topics several days AFTER that specific reply wasted to that topic. 

 

An example of this behavior which just occured, I just received (2024-11-20 12:49 utc) an email notification of a posting in this topic:

 

 

which had been posted in that topic 22 hours ago.

 

I will keep an eye on emailed notifications and see if I get another one several days old.

 

cheers, Graham

[cmatthewbacon]

I don’t get it on BM, but I have noticed something similar on the Model Cars Magazine forum, which also runs on IPB.  There, if people put images in a new post, when you view an “index” type page, for example the “new posts since I last visited” page, small thumbnails of the images appear in the listing. Although they are thumbnail sized, they take a very long time to download (you can see them appearing line by line, three or four at a time) and the page is unresponsive until they have all loaded. I’m not sure if it’s to do with the file size of the so called thumbnails, or IPB not handling multiple parallel download threads of page elements and rendering the page nicely… 

 

It’s not the same thing, but it feels like it might be connected to IPBs behaviour with certain browser content engines…

best,

M.

[bentwaters81tfw]

Nord VPN is a resources hog. Maybe as you are Stateside, all you stuff is being filtered by the CIA/NSA or whomever.

[JamesP]

Hit F12 and open up the WebDeveloper console and click the network tab. Reload BM. In the tab you can see each file being loaded. My guess with the spinner is that a 3rd party file such as a javascript library it not loading. You'll be able to see what files are still pending and what domain they are being served from . It won't solve the issue but will provide some  useful information. 

 

Looking at this page the only 3rd party file is https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js

 

Edited November 20, 2024 by JamesP

[ColonelKrypton]

I did just that, however, F12 doesn't for me using Chrome on WIN11. I went to the three dots in the top right corner to open the Chrome menu and then went to the "More Tools" menu.

 

In any case, this page took 20 seconds to fully load. I tried it three times. this is a clip from the developers tool window showing the one item which took 19.52 seconds to complete

 

 

in this case congi.js?t=OAEF  seems to be the culprit. the initiator to this .js script was ckeditor.js?v=f692aef.......    ( sorry, didn't copy the details )

 

I tried reloading this page several more times with similar results. However, one resulted took nearly 40 seconds load producing this

 

 

for what it's worth ....

 

cheers, Graham

 

 

 

 

[Navy Bird]

15 hours ago, hsr said:

 

@Navy Bird and @chauncy what ISP do you have? I have Verizon FIOS.

 

My ISP is Spectrum. I just ran Speedtest on my PC and my download speed was 676 Mbs and the upload speed was 633 Mbs. My PC (Windows 11) uses an Ethernet connection to the Spectrum cable modem, it does not use the Wi-Fi mesh network in my home. I'm pretty sure the cables are garden-variety CAT6.

 

15 hours ago, chauncy said:

Do you use a VPN?

 

I do not. The only browsers I use on my PC are Firefox and Edge - the both exhibit the same issue with BM. I use an Android S24+ mobile phone, and it has Chrome, Firefox, and Edge, plus I just checked Safari on my wife's iPhone. All show the same issue. Let me stress though - for me the issue is intermittent, sometimes it's there and sometimes it's not. But I've only seen it with BM.

 

15 hours ago, treker_ed said:

The other thing that stands out from the comments is the usage of Malwarebytes, that a couple of you seem to be using.

 

I use Malwarebytes on both my PC and my phone. Turning it off makes no difference, nor did specifically whitelisting BM or disabling their browser extension.

 

*****

 

Perhaps the electrons are following the path of greatest resistance for a giggle?    

 

Cheers,

Bill

[hsr]

2 hours ago, JamesP said:

Hit F12 and open up the WebDeveloper console and click the network tab. Reload BM. In the tab you can see each file being loaded. My guess with the spinner is that a 3rd party file such as a javascript library it not loading. You'll be able to see what files are still pending and what domain they are being served from . It won't solve the issue but will provide some  useful information. 

I am getting the banner:

 

 

taking 19 seconds to load. So I opened another window and just tried to load the banner URL and it took 20 seconds.

[JamesP]

Note the common elements will be cached and the web developer console might disable the cache by default and so re downloads everything. 
 

however it’s very odd for to take so long to download a relatively small image file. 

[psdavidson]

the output above from @ColonelKrypton suggests it the javascript for the editor which is taking the time, not the image itself, which waits for the editor to complete

<link as="style" rel="preload" href="https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/applications/core/interface/ckeditor/ckeditor/skins/ips/editor.css?t=OAEF" />