Posting is painful

[ignatio]

I haven't made many posts on this forum, but every time I try to, it's a painful experience: Submit, save draft, preview, and file upload often just hangs and eventually times out without doing anything. When it works it's always quick.

If I try to browse the forum from another tab while this happens, that hangs too, so I wonder if it's some kind of firewall/session problem. I don't think it's a network problem on my end, because I don't get anything similar on any other site, and otherwise browsing the forums is fine.

Eventually it works, but I have to keep trying - sometimes it takes 10 minutes.

For this post, I had to click preview 3 times and submit once.

[Koub]

That's actually strange because I have Never ever experienced any kind of ... what you describe on this forum. And I think I have been around here for enough time to notice if such a thing happened to me.

[ignatio]

Yes, I suspect it's not common, or else there'd been more complaints about it. It feels like a http-level bug of some sort - reminds me a bit of the hangs one could get back in the day when browsers and web servers didn't do keep-alive sessions correctly.

Maybe it has to do with the browser; I'm using Firefox 47.0 on Ubuntu Linux.

For this reply I'm trying Chrome instead to see if that works better. But no, it doesn't. Then I don't know what it is, but it's pretty irritating.

[Koub]

Maybe can you try, next time you're browsing, to open the web console (Ctrl-Shift-K on Firefox iirc), and see in it if there is something noticeable ?

[mojo2012]

I never had that kind of issue but still I think the forum should be improved a lot.

Why do textboxes have a dark grey background and black font? Either make the background white or the font. It's painful to post here.

[Aspherix]

Indeed it is, though most of the times it's not really that hard.