Geekhack only half loading, can't figure out the problem

[atlas3686]

Hey Guys,

So Geekhack is only half loading at work, just the top part of the site, none of the pages load the whole page. Can't find any other sites that do this and can't exactly ask IT to fix my keyboard forum 
Anyone have any ideas?

Screenshot:

[nubbinator]

Using IE?  I get that problem sometimes when I check it at work.

[swathe]

A few people in IRC have been reporting issues, but has been working fine for me.

[bueller]

Been having the same problem in Chrome.

[singaporean123]

same issue on chrome.

is geekhack really low on funds or something?

double posting, timing out, half screen...man

[atlas3686]

Sorry should have given a little more info, all browsers tested, they all do it. resolved itself yesterday for about an hour and the started doing it again. Have to refresh tons of times just to get it to load enough to see the post button Only happens on the work connection, not on my phone or home. Nothing else is doing anything similar though. 

(also apologies for the triple post here, was getting an error)

Oh works through TOR but don't like logging into sites without HTTPS on TOR.

[tp4tissue]

prolly adblock or someting..

[FrostyToast]

prolly adblock or someting..

This happens on my phone when on a bad network or using LTE. So, it probably isn't ad block

[Michael]

It's not you, it's geekhack's poor DB performance issues. It happens in all my browsers, on all of my devices. It's 100% GH

[trizkut]

It's not you, it's SMF's poor DB performance issues. It happens in all my browsers, on all of my devices. It's 100% SMF

FTFY.   I don't know why any large forum in the past 10 years would use anything other than IPB or Vbulletin.  I haven't personally used Xenforo, but I hear it's been highly regarded as of late.

[naasfu]

Yeah, I've been getting the same thing this week for GH at work, and this happened in the past when the site was having issues.  My guess is that the GH site is taking a bit too long to serve up the page, and our work proxies are timing out and truncating the responses.

My workaround has been to use the downlevel mobile version.  Tack on ";wap2" onto the end of the url.  No images unfortunately.  Reducing the number of posts per page might help too.  I haven't tried that out yet.

http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=65344.new;wap2

[theteam]

only happen to my when i'm using my phone, pc is fine

[Distilled]

This only happens to me at work. Phone and home is no dramas.

[SpAmRaY]

I changed the default number of posts per page to the forum default settings and pages are loading now that weren't before.

[noisyturtle]

Fine on phone. Broken everywhere else.

[atlas3686]

Thanks guys, at least I know it's not just me so frustrating, I can't get my KB fix. Using the wap2 trick now thanks Naasfu.
Will try reducing the number of posts displayed per page too.

[rowdy]

http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=65215.0

And various similar report from this post onwards: http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=33106.msg1522569#msg1522569

[vivalarevolución]

I thought I was the only one and it was related my security settings or something.

[ninjadoc]

I've had the same problem, especially on my iPad.

[Michaela]

Happened to me on my iPad too.

[Touch_It]

Usually when I have issues like this I clear my browsing history, cookies, etc. and it resolves the issue but It does not sound like it is the case here.  My main issue is that when I try to start threads it sits forever, then errors out.  I'd chalk these issues up to the website itself .

Edit, also probably related lots of pictures will only load half-way for me.

[dustinhxc]

This happens to me when I'm on LTE not Wifi.

[paicrai]

never seen this happen wtf you dingbats

[0100010]

I changed the default number of posts per page to the forum default settings and pages are loading now that weren't before.

What are you set to?  I have this problem all the time, and I have each page set to show 50 posts.

[rafomalave]

I have a few issues on Firefox and my phone loading images

[Lurch]

I just want to see the beard thread

[Sygaldry]

I have this problem with Safari on my iPhone.
At home, on both Firefox and Safari, some images only load to 20%.

 

[noisyturtle]

So is this another data loss situation, but pertaining to media? Because tons of pics from any thread older than 2 months in like half bunko now. All those lost clack pics...

[SpAmRaY]

I changed the default number of posts per page to the forum default settings and pages are loading now that weren't before.

What are you set to?  I have this problem all the time, and I have each page set to show 50 posts.

Try 25 or 30.

[Heliosphere]

I've been having this issue especially with image loading these past couple weeks. PC or phone.

[Computer-Lab in Basement]

Dear Geekhack,

Fix your ****.

Sincerely,

The users of Geekhack

P.S. Even if you can't immediately identify the problem, any acknowledgement from the GH staff as to the status of this situation would be greatly appreciated. It's called communication. Thanks.

[rowdy]

Dear Geekhack,

Fix your ****.

Sincerely,

The users of Geekhack

P.S. Even if you can't immediately identify the problem, any acknowledgement from the GH staff as to the status of this situation would be greatly appreciated. It's called communication. Thanks.

I did read somewhere that the admins were "working on it".

About a week ago.

[tp4tissue]

why are ya'll so angry.. there's only a bijillion other forums to post stuff on .

[Computer-Lab in Basement]

Dear Geekhack,

Fix your ****.

Sincerely,

The users of Geekhack

P.S. Even if you can't immediately identify the problem, any acknowledgement from the GH staff as to the status of this situation would be greatly appreciated. It's called communication. Thanks.

I did read somewhere that the admins were "working on it".

About a week ago.

Hmm... interesting...

A week ago it didn't seem as though this issue was as wide-spread as it is now.

And considering that it's been a week without a status update, I'd say we're due for one.


IDK... I mean, I've been working in an IT department for one whole week now, and the thing that has been made abundantly clear when dealing with a situation like this is COMMUNICATION. Even if they said the forum is ****ed and has to be shut down, I'd like to at least be informed.

[MOZ]

It's not you, it's SMF's poor DB performance issues. It happens in all my browsers, on all of my devices. It's 100% SMF

FTFY.   I don't know why any large forum in the past 10 years would use anything other than IPB or Vbulletin.  I haven't personally used Xenforo, but I hear it's been highly regarded as of late.

I've worked to certain extent with all three. XenForo is the best of the lot IMO.

Also, I get this issue on all my devices, in all browsers, I have 50 posts per page, I will try and go to default and see if it fixes the issue. Thanks ray!