DST?

Yeah, I really don't think the problem is PhotoPost. LOTS of sites use it, with just as much traffic, without problems...so I don't know.
 
Okay, so after posting I got around to checking out DST today and it is going much faster for me (the gallery is still a bit slow for commenting, mind you). I won't be surprised if it's bogged down again in a few days though. Seems like an ongoing cycle.
 
amyb said:
I just installed this but do you have to go through and click on every ad to block it?
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I add those two that Bree suggested and it didn't work for me. I re started Firefox and my computer and it still didn't work. I had to open ABP (the little stop sign up in the right hand corner) and manual block all the ads. I might be an idiot though and not have know how to "do it right"!! :p :D
 
Go into your add-ons area and click on "Options" under AdBlocker Plus
When you are in the options, click on "Add Filter"
Type in http://www.digishoptalk.com/adbanners and click "OK"
Click on "Add Filter" again
Type in http://www.digishoptalk.com/oldopenads and click "OK"

They SHOULD disappear...at least they did for me! LOL!
 
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ditzyscrap said:
Go into your add-ons area and click on "Options" under AdBlocker Plus
When you are in the options, click on "Add Filter"
Type in http://www.digishoptalk.com/adbanners and click "OK"
Click on "Add Filter" again
Type in http://www.digishoptalk.com/oldopenads and click "OK"

They SHOULD disappear...at least they did for me! LOL!
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that's what I did and it worked for me. :)

I think DST is running much faster now though. On our desktop I don't have the ads blocked and it seems to be zipping along. Haven't ventured in the gallery though.
 
ditzyscrap said:
Yeah, I really don't think the problem is PhotoPost. LOTS of sites use it, with just as much traffic, without problems...so I don't know.
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If you can point me to one then I'll gladly contact them for their tips on how to clean up photopost's inefficient code. :) According to the photopost tech staff, we are not only one of their biggest but probably their busiest clients. I have yet to find a site that generates the same traffic we do in a photopost gallery. There are busier sites but those are usually busy in their stores or their forums. We're mostly busy in the forum and gallery. And they are integrated and that is why they effect one another. The ads program also effects it. We've turned off the verbose statistics and that's been a significant improvement. Those are the two major softwares that have caused us problems.

Truly, if you know of a site that generates as much photopost traffic as we do, please direct me to it. I'd love to know how to get it working faster.
 
P.S. You're welcome to turn on your ad blockers but you'll be taking income away from us that way. Maybe you don't care and that's ok. But DST's survival depends on those ads. I'm not trying to sound .... however I might sound. :D You've gotta do what you've gotta do to make your experience at DST the way you like it. I just wanted you to be aware how that effects us. :)
 
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it still took quite a while for it to load today before I put the ad blocker in. It has been a slow-loading site, for me anyways, pretty much since I started posting the odd post there. Which is one of the reasons for very few posts from me in the 1.5 years I have been a member there. And I've always had high-speed.

If it would load easily for me, I would gladly take the ad blocker off. But today was the first time any page has loaded in less than a minute for me.
 
I will say that I personally noticed improvement today since Shannon & Eric changed that "verbose ad" thing! It was running *unusually* slow the past day or so, and for me it is much better now. I don't block ads or siggies & it's never been as slow for me as some of you have described. *scratching head*
 
shannonbieger said:
If you can point me to one then I'll gladly contact them for their tips on how to clean up photopost's inefficient code. :) According to the photopost tech staff, we are not only one of their biggest but probably their busiest clients. I have yet to find a site that generates the same traffic we do in a photopost gallery. There are busier sites but those are usually busy in their stores or their forums. We're mostly busy in the forum and gallery. And they are integrated and that is why they effect one another. The ads program also effects it. We've turned off the verbose statistics and that's been a significant improvement. Those are the two major softwares that have caused us problems.

Truly, if you know of a site that generates as much photopost traffic as we do, please direct me to it. I'd love to know how to get it working faster.
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Well, I don't frequent any anymore, but back when I was paper scrapping there were tons of sites with as much traffic using PhotoPost and they worked well. Can't say for sure what their activity is anymore, but back in the day...lol. I haven't been to most of them in 3+ years. Maybe PhotoPost did some upgrades that really sucked in the last 3 years, I don't know...but from what I know, it's a pretty reliable gallery.

I wonder if the problem is PhotoPost and PHPadsNew running together, with so much traffic...I don't doubt that they bog down the database and sever. Maybe you could try hosting the ads on another domain/server and see if that speeds things up? It probably wouldn't have to be a big server...just to test it out and see.
 
I've checked photopost's top sites and still haven't found anyone with as much gallery activity as ours (well I should say I checked it about a year ago and no one came close so I've never gone back). So if you happen to remember any of the names of the sites, please let me know. I'd love to pick their brains for ideas!

Photopost is reliable in that it's accurate and not buggy. But it's a system hog. We've been with 3 different server companies and all 3 have told us that photopost is the primary problem. These other issues (ad statistics, downloads at the beginning of the month, etc.) would all be a drop in the bucket if we weren't running photopost.
 
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