Forum has been very slow 2 days now...

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Bo Persson
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Re: Forum has been very slow 2 days now...

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Larger sites are seeing the problem too:

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/17/ ... es_report/
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Bo Persson wrote: Thu Jun 19, 2025 10:22 am Larger sites are seeing the problem too:

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/17/ ... es_report/

Good find! 8-)

Web servers are going to need a feature that lowers the priority of sessions which are consuming a lot of data.
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If it is not the badly designed crawlers, it could be other resource consuming searches or actions? I wonder if it would help to make the Avatars hardcopied on the site as jpg for instance and preferably a bit larger than they are now? Now they can be links to any website, for instance somewhere in Iran :0 Not that Iran or anywhere necessarily would have to be a problem but potentially a risk I think to the safety of the website.
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first
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are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
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