Slow loading?

January 21, 2004 9:35 AM

the blue, gray and green all seem remarkable slow the last two days. pages seem to load in fits and starts. often the page appears to be waiting for google ads, but sometimes not. what's the deal?
posted by quonsar to Bugs at 9:35 AM (34 comments total)

Goes for me, also
posted by nthdegx at 9:41 AM on January 21, 2004

Same here.
posted by Melinika at 10:20 AM on January 21, 2004

Me too.
posted by konolia at 10:37 AM on January 21, 2004

Ditto. And if I try to load too many MeFi pages at once, my dial-up connection dies and I have to reboot.

(Yeah, I know. Switch to broadband, already. I'm just waiting for the callback from EarthLink, people.)
posted by Vidiot at 10:39 AM on January 21, 2004

yesterday was really slow for me--today not so much.
posted by amberglow at 10:40 AM on January 21, 2004

i too noticed this but felt meek to say anything as matt MAY make fun of my dial-up and that i should join the 21st century

BUT THAT IS COLD FUSION FOR YOU
posted by clavdivs at 11:46 AM on January 21, 2004

slow for moi, yesterday and today. Maybe the day before, too - can't remember that long ago.
posted by taz at 12:03 PM on January 21, 2004

Cartman says to blame Quonsar!
posted by billsaysthis at 12:11 PM on January 21, 2004

Oh no! Billsaysthis spelled "quonsar" with a capital Q!

At the end of a sentence, no less!

Everybody run! Take advantage of the slowness!
posted by MiguelCardoso at 12:42 PM on January 21, 2004

Oh no! Billsaysthis spelled "quonsar" with a capital Q!

Not even at the beginning of a sentence!

Everybody run! Take advantage of the slowness!
posted by MiguelCardoso at 12:42 PM on January 21, 2004

slow slow slow slow
posted by jennyb at 12:44 PM on January 21, 2004

Double posts, already!
posted by MiguelCardoso at 12:46 PM on January 21, 2004

Anyone else notice if they go to their username page where it shows you how many posts you've made to talk, filter, and ask that your comments in ask say they are in meta and if you pull up your ask comments that way they are in meta-grey?
posted by jopreacher at 1:16 PM on January 21, 2004

Anyone else notice if they go to their username page where it shows you how many posts you've made to talk, filter, and ask that your comments in ask say they are in meta and if you pull up your ask comments that way they are in meta-grey?

Yes, it's still in the beta stages. It'll will be dealt with soon.
posted by The God Complex at 1:35 PM on January 21, 2004

"It'll will" is a new phresh frase by all the young muckrakers, in case you thought I made a mistake in my usage..
posted by The God Complex at 1:36 PM on January 21, 2004

Short, of course, for "It'll will be gonna."

It'll will be gonna the biz-nomb, my multiethnizzles!

and sadly, the Blue still owes me a coupla slow page loads as karmic payback for obsessively reloading and posting in the blogstop thread.
posted by arto at 1:43 PM on January 21, 2004

Embedded metrosexual in the hizzouse!!!
this fulfills your minimum daily requirement of newly coined cliches

Blogstop addicts can still get their fix over at the Monkey House. Tom Swifties abusers should contact Brad personally.

Still, I'll have to blame quons' for the slowdown. After all, Matt gave him fooning privileges...
posted by wendell at 2:37 PM on January 21, 2004

It was unavailable for a moment (reboot?) but much faster now!
posted by vacapinta at 2:56 PM on January 21, 2004

vacapinta: it's faster because, out of respect, I've stopped refreshing every second until MeFi is up to speed again.
posted by MiguelCardoso at 3:02 PM on January 21, 2004

Slow for me the past few days. Obviously quonsar's fault. I've timed out twice four times just trying to post this.
posted by anathema at 3:43 PM on January 21, 2004

Strange, I haven't noticed a problem. But that's probably because I sold my soul to the Cabal™



No, wait, there is no Cabal™.Really.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 4:09 PM on January 21, 2004

I thought there was no Cable.
That's why I haven't been watching Queer Eye and Sex in the City...
posted by wendell at 4:37 PM on January 21, 2004

Metafilter: Embedded metrosexuals in the hizouse!
posted by adamgreenfield at 4:50 PM on January 21, 2004

Miguel, I was simply relating Cartman's accusation, take your flithy capitalization issue up with him.
posted by billsaysthis at 4:52 PM on January 21, 2004

the blue, gray and green all seem remarkable slow the last two days. pages seem to load in fits and starts.

Then the horns kicked in, and my shoes started to squeak.
posted by namespan at 11:41 PM on January 21, 2004

now the walls are melting.
posted by quonsar at 12:18 AM on January 22, 2004

They said Shelbyville was gonna do something to our water supply, but did they? Hah!
posted by arto at 1:28 AM on January 22, 2004

not here, but why my t-shirts keep falling though the floor in whoa orange bursts, the white seems fast fast
posted by namespan at 7:48 AM on January 22, 2004

Apparently Matt has improved the performance of the "automatic Miguel post generator" and "random quonsar comment generator" so they wouldn't be such a drain on resources.

and I told you not to build your house out of Velveeta...
posted by wendell at 7:51 PM on January 22, 2004

randomquonsarcommentgenerate(randomquonsarcommentgenerate());

he added recursion to my code, too.
posted by quonsar at 8:36 PM on January 22, 2004

randomquonsarcommentgenerate(randomquonsarcommentgenerate());

he added recursion to my code, too.

randomquonsarcommentgenerate(randomquonsarcommentgenerate());

he added recursion to my code, too.
posted by quonsar at 8:36 PM on January 22, 2004

STACK OVERFLOW SYSTEM HALTED
posted by quonsar at 8:38 PM on January 22, 2004

So, eh, about the slowness. Is everyone else still getting it? I sure am.
posted by bonaldi at 10:14 AM on January 23, 2004

Now that's one of the scariest things I've ever seen on the Internet: "quonsar with recursion"

Go back to fooning.

As for the MetaSpeed: better, but not back to usual standards here. Everybody who meets Matt at the Portland MeetUp tonight should talk.... ve-ry.... slow-ly...
posted by wendell at 12:55 PM on January 23, 2004