Site is freezing up to often

[gmc2003]

Every since the latest upgrade to the forum. I've been experiencing a few issues that are frustrating as all heck. The latest one which has been going on for a week or so is just to much of a pain to deal with. The problem I think is with the AD space at the bottom of the page. When there is an ad showing the site works fine. When the ad disappears I get some type of landscape scenery photo running across the top of the page. This photo freezes, and basically renders my screen useless(except scrolling up and down). I can't reply to any posts and I cannot open anyone's thread to read it. Heck, I can't even log out when it happens. The only fix on my end is to refresh my screen, and sometimes that takes 3 or 4 tries. This is an intermittent issue, but is starting to occur more frequently. It happened while writing this note. Now I realise that I'm not a paying member so I shouldn't complain to much, but this is basically the end of my participation on SMF. I'll check in every so often to see how folks are doing and get some new ideas, but that's gonna be about it. I've played with my Ad-blocker, but it doesn't seem to help. I do not experience these issues on other forums that I frequent, so I don't think it my computer.

It's been a nice ride since 2012, but all thing must come to an end I guess.

Chris

 

[BrianGSDTexoma]

Might try changing Browsers. I use FireFox and been having several problems last few weeks. Have to keep going to Chrome for certain sites. Guess I going to have to just change to Chrome.

 

[Winterrider]

It's been a nice ride since 2012, but all thing must come to an end I guess.

Hate to see you walk away Chris. Always appreciated your input as I'm sure others do also.

 

[SmokinAl]

Sorry to hear that Chris.
I know Brian is working on this, but just joining eliminates most of the problems. However I have to disable my ad blocker to get on here, which is a PIA. This is the only site I have to do that for. I have asked Brian if this will change, but he did not know. I hope we don’t loose too many members over this, but it looks like we will loose a bunch!
TOO BAD! This has been a site where we could all exchange recipes & advice without egos, and I hope that doesn’t change. I hope you will check back in a couple of months to see if things have changed.
Al

 

[Gonna Smoke]

I'm not seeing any of the problems you guys are talking about, everything seems to work fine. DuckDuckGo browser on my laptop and using a VPN...

 

[sandyut]

I'm not seeing any of the problems you guys are talking about, everything seems to work fine.

same here. no problems at all on Chrome.

 

[dr k]

Every since the latest upgrade to the forum. I've been experiencing a few issues that are frustrating as all heck. The latest one which has been going on for a week or so is just to much of a pain to deal with. The problem I think is with the AD space at the bottom of the page. When there is an ad showing the site works fine. When the ad disappears I get some type of landscape scenery photo running across the top of the page. This photo freezes, and basically renders my screen useless(except scrolling up and down). I can't reply to any posts and I cannot open anyone's thread to read it. Heck, I can't even log out when it happens. The only fix on my end is to refresh my screen, and sometimes that takes 3 or 4 tries. This is an intermittent issue, but is starting to occur more frequently. It happened while writing this note. Now I realise that I'm not a paying member so I shouldn't complain to much, but this is basically the end of my participation on SMF. I'll check in every so often to see how folks are doing and get some new ideas, but that's gonna be about it. I've played with my Ad-blocker, but it doesn't seem to help. I do not experience these issues on other forums that I frequent, so I don't think it my computer.

It's been a nice ride since 2012, but all thing must come to an end I guess.

Chris

Bingo. Exactly. I'm on my mobile device and there are ads overlapping ads with the partial green ad on top and double/triple ads on top of each other below. There's only 3.5 lines of SMF copy to try to scroll up and down but doesn't work and freezes since the video of peach cobbler etc was added.and clusters of ads. If you leave the site after a few minutes and come back so does the clustering of ads. I wonder what visitors do. This may only be on mobile. I don't think this site is for mobile users. The x to close the ads to veiw the site doesn't work once clustering freezes the site.

 

[checkdude]

I use Google Chrome and no issues so far.

 

[JckDanls 07]

I use Chrome as well... and have the same issues Chris has ...

I understand ads are needed to make money... but this has gotten ridiculous... It's a cheezy way to get you to pay to be a premier member...

 

[kilo charlie]

I too have been around for awhile.. and yea.. it's time to move on as well. . It's more of a hassle and please don't tell me to fork over money. I belong to multiple forums with no ads or ads that are unobtrusive and 100% free.

So much more to say about this subject but it seems no one will listen when there's money involved.

 

[chopsaw]

I'm not getting the ads popping up anymore , but it hangs and slow to load pages . When this happens I open another window and go to another site . No issues there .
Come back here , slow to join , navigate or join in .

 

[Bearcarver]

My "MacBook Pro" has been working perfectly, since that one day when Jeff was showing us how to make the Peach Dump Cake.

Stick around---They'll get it fixed Chris!!

Bear

 

[MCQSmoker]

Works fine on the phone!

 

[SmokyMose]

I had an issue a few weeks ago where as soon as I logged in to the site my computer locked up. Used my I-Pad a couple of days and tried again.
No problems since and I use Firefox.
Ads are getting more aggressive every day on all sites.

 

[pineywoods]

Maybe TulsaJeff or bmudd14474 might have some info on this. I'm having no problems with any of that

 

[DougE]

I'm not getting the ads popping up anymore , but it hangs and slow to load pages . When this happens I open another window and go to another site . No issues there .
Come back here , slow to join , navigate or join in .

The pc in my office gets slow after I've been on the site awhile. I just click out and open the site again in a new tab and it's fine. I only seem to get the slow down with firefox, but chrome causes me issues with other sites, so I can live with it. Not that big a deal to click out of SMF, and reopen it every so often.

Right now I'm on the barn computer which runs windows10 using edge and never have issues. I run linux on my office pc, and that is the one that slows down every now and then.

 

[bmudd14474]

We are looking into what changed with the ad blocker thing to see what we have to change to fix it

 

[Brokenhandle]

Hate seeing anyone frustrated and leaving because of these issues... with that said I have learned alot from you Chris and many others and hate to see you go but if you do please come back and visit. Each one of us has to do what's right for ourselves. Probably 90% of the time I'm on my galaxy s6 phone with no issues. My desktop runs windows 10 using edge, no issues for what little bit I use it. And I am quite computer illiterate! Maybe it is because I paid to be a lifetime premier member long ago before any of the latest upgrades... but back then I'd had enough of the ads and wanted to help support this forum. I've learned more than enough on here to easily make that worthwhile to me! But I also smoked cigarettes for 30 years... that's only about 15 days worth for $100. I do have faith they will get to the problem causing this... they always do!
Sorry for the novel! Better go, Metv has super colossal cartoon Christmas on!!
Ryan

 

[cmayna]

If the site is freezing up then tell the seniors to turn up the heater.........sorry

No problem with my cel or using Chrome on my laptop. Hope it gets resolved.

 

[Brokenhandle]

If the site is freezing up then tell the seniors to turn up the heater.........sorry

No problem with my cel or using Chrome on my laptop. Hope it get resolved.

I'm sorry... but that made me laugh!

Ryan