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amyb

amyb

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Is it just me or has DST's site been moving really slow lately? It seems like I have to wait a long time for it to process any click! :confused:
 
It's been horrible for me the past few days too. In all honestly, it's been bad for me since they made the server switch, that was supposed to make the site faster. It took me ages to post my LO last night over there. :cursing:
 
It's always been super slow for me, but I realized what was really slowing it down was all those ads, so I found an adblocker and removed them. Moves MUCH quicker now - but is still one of the slower sites I visit.
 
They did some kind of an upgrade last night. I saw the banner when I was on last night. i guess it didnt't help. :(
 
It's been really really slow for several days now. I haven't hardly left any praise there because it just takes forever and now that we're not supposed to open multiple tabs it's going to just be ridiculous. I really hope they can figure out a solution soon.
 
ditzyscrap said:
It's always been super slow for me, but I realized what was really slowing it down was all those ads, so I found an adblocker and removed them. Moves MUCH quicker now - but is still one of the slower sites I visit.
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Do share which one you used. I already have siggies disabled, would love to do that w/the ads too.
 
It was terrible for me yesterday, but I was just there about an hour ago and it seemed back to normal.

Karen if you use Norton you can turn on ad blocker in there and it doesn't show the ads at DST.
 
Hom74 said:
Do share which one you used. I already have siggies disabled, would love to do that w/the ads too.
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Well I use Firefox, so I grabbed the add-on Adblock Plus and then disabled these 2 addresses (add on the http://www part, lol...didn't want them to link):

digishoptalk.com/adbanners
digishoptalk.com/oldopenads

Now they don't show up. I tried another one but all it did was leave the space where they should have loaded with a blank square, it was so annoying, lol...this one makes them go away completely. :)
 
ditzyscrap said:
Well I use Firefox, so I grabbed the add-on Adblock Plus and then disabled these 2 addresses (add on the http://www part, lol...didn't want them to link):

digishoptalk.com/adbanners
digishoptalk.com/oldopenads

Now they don't show up. I tried another one but all it did was leave the space where they should have loaded with a blank square, it was so annoying, lol...this one makes them go away completely. :)
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Thanks Bree!!! I am breezin' through DST now! hehehe
 
wow thanks Bree! I just got onto DST and it is much faster with those ads disabled.
 
AmyM said:
wow thanks Bree! I just got onto DST and it is much faster with those ads disabled.
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Yeah, I don't know why her ads slow the site down so much, but they do. Even on high speed, I would find pages loading for 10 minutes AFTER all the siggies and avatars loaded, and it was just the dang ads. I was like...ixnay on the ads, I don't look at them anyway, so it's slowing me down AND using up my precious bandwidth (I'm limited to 10GB/month)...so off they went.
 
great idea on the ad blocker, because that is one of the slowest sites I visit. Although this morning (for me anyway) it has been faster than it has been in awhile
 
ditzyscrap said:
Well I use Firefox, so I grabbed the add-on Adblock Plus and then disabled these 2 addresses (add on the http://www part, lol...didn't want them to link):

digishoptalk.com/adbanners
digishoptalk.com/oldopenads

Now they don't show up. I tried another one but all it did was leave the space where they should have loaded with a blank square, it was so annoying, lol...this one makes them go away completely. :)
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Thanks! d/l and hopefully it'll be installed the next time I restart :)
 
Very cool...and in ABP, it shows you how many 'hits'...whatever that means. Just 1 visit to DST (clicking on main forum page) showed 12 'hits'.
 
It has been really slow for me.. I almost dont want to even go over there until it gets faster. I hate waiting for pages to load LOL
 
Does anyone ever have the problem at DST where the page freaks out like the page turns black and the ads starts really freaking out like on super fast blinking. Then my whole internet freezes. It's so hard to go to DST anymore because that keeps happening to me. :( I have no idea how to solve it! And I use Internet Explorer.
 
juliebee70 said:
Does anyone ever have the problem at DST where the page freaks out like the page turns black and the ads starts really freaking out like on super fast blinking. Then my whole internet freezes. It's so hard to go to DST anymore because that keeps happening to me. :( I have no idea how to solve it! And I use Internet Explorer.
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Mine locks up, and when I scroll down, the whole screen just turns into lines going down.....and the posts don't show. It's hard to explain, but it locks up my entire computer for a few minutes until it, I suppose, loads all the ads. The slowness lately has prevented me from visiting as much as I'd like to :(
 
newfiemountiewife said:
Mine locks up, and when I scroll down, the whole screen just turns into lines going down.....and the posts don't show. It's hard to explain, but it locks up my entire computer for a few minutes until it, I suppose, loads all the ads. The slowness lately has prevented me from visiting as much as I'd like to :(
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Mine does that exact same thing Jamie, so I know exactly what you are talking about.
 
I have barely been visiting DST lately because it has been so slow. I know Shannon says it is almost entirely due to PhotoPost, but I honestly think there's more to it than that. PhotoPost would affect the forum to some degree, because they would share a database, but I can't see it being the sole reason.

I'm far from an expert, but their problems to me scream design issues. I suspect whoever designed/is designing their website doesn't have the cleanest code and is maybe not equipped to design a site of that size and traffic level. I don't know if they hired someone, or if it's a friend, or what the case is, but I think they might have to look into it. I love DST and I miss popping by there regularly, but there's only so much time in the day and it's way too time consuming to do anything there lately.
 
To be honest, BEFORE the upgrade, the site ran a lot faster for me. Since they switched to the dedicated server, it's been horribly slow for me, and I run a DSL connection. I'm guessing dialuppers couldn't even get anything to load over there.

I miss hanging out over there like I'd like to, also.
 
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