Massive number of comment.
I’m really enjoying influx of new members on Newstalkers. It’s been really good for this site. There are a lot of strong opinions and a lot of good debate and some not so much. With this has come an enormous number of comments on many articles. And once an article has 300 or more comments the loading times are so very slow.
I’m wondering about the possibility of partitioning articles so that once an article reaches 300 plus comments a new article would appear that would have the same title but with “Part Two” or “Continued” added to the same title. I think it would make it easier to return to a comment or conversation.
Any thoughts or suggestions ?
Thanks !
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The loading times are soooooooooooo slooooooooooooowwwwww.
I've seen that myself. It's irritating.
We are aware of it, and we are trying to come up with a viable solution. I could get into the tech of it, but it's because not only does NT allow the written word, it also allows videos and photos, and scripts take longer to load.
Please don't talk tech, just fix the problem....LOLOL I'm not tech savy.
I hope you don't think I'm being critical, Perrie.
Not at all Pat. No worries
A big part is the scripts are loading onsite content, but also there are scripts on each page that are calling content from offsite so you have the internet and outside server speeds to deal with also.
And trust me some of the content on the site is drawn by many many sites all at the same time.
Usually there is a little box in the lower left of the screen that tells you what is loading and where it has to come from......
And yeah some pages take as much as two minutes to load, and this is on a 40/200 internet connection.
It would be really nice to have an option to disable images. That would reduce your server load too.
You should also consider the old Newsvine format which would automatically segment long threads into multiple pages.
Agreed, the loading time is extreme.
It could be as simple as making it the responsibility of the seeder of an article to start a new one with "Part 2" in the title once the original reaches 300 comments.
The issue arises from the threading.. people would have to pick up the various threads and that might kill the discussion.
Lol, I'm so impatient I just open another tab and read something else while the first tab loads.
Don't laugh, I do the same thing Pat.
I was going to comment on how slow articles load but being new thought it would be rude of me. had noticed that articles with more comments loaded a lot slower and so assumed that was the issue...
It is the length of the articles that is causing it JBB.
I'm not having so much of a loading problem is that I'm getting script error warnings every time log in.
Oh! And even though I opted out of getting updates, I have been clearing responses and replies to Perrie's article about discussion degrading.
I sign in when I have a few minutes to spare. When loading takes so long, I think twice about signing in.
I get a lot of messages saying " This site is not responding" or "Do you want to recover this web page?"
But problems only arise when the article has 300 or so comments.
Al