[freebie]

Hi
IE7 (current updates??) very slow, but a little better the last few minutes, and all browsing history cleared. Your link fast! but the avatar does not load?

FF 2.0.0.13 (not up to date?) not as slow as IE7, your link INSTANT and the avatar loads?

[gladly]

how about quantserve?

[gladly]

just tried it, on this machine ie6 is fast now

[freebie]

Wow, super fast now on IE7!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Too save a little time when typing those commands, do the first one make sure its correct hit enter. The prompt will come back up, now hit F3 this will put back up what you previously typed. Move the cursor over the text that has changed and hit enter again. Repeat once more.

Cheers

[NaterGator]

Originally Posted by gladly

how long will that work for?

That will work as long as the scripts called on 'mud continue to use those domains or until you open up the hosts file and remove those lines.

I've contacted a few of the ad providers with broken/slow scripts. We'll see if they are aware of the glitches or if they're working on a fix.

[freebie]

Originally Posted by freebie

Wow, super fast now on IE7!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Too save a little time when typing those commands, do the first one make sure its correct hit enter. The prompt will come back up, now hit F3 this will put back up what you previously typed. Move the cursor over the text that has changed and hit enter again. Repeat once more.

Cheers

Opps!!
Move the cursor over the text that has changed and replace it with the next line ie; yieldbuild.com with ads.digitalpoint.com rather then retyping the whole line.

[gladly]

Originally Posted by freebie

Wow, super fast now on IE7!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Too save a little time when typing those commands, do the first one make sure its correct hit enter. The prompt will come back up, now hit F3 this will put back up what you previously typed. Move the cursor over the text that has changed and hit enter again. Repeat once more.

Cheers

or just cut and paste the whole line in...

[-Spike-]

Originally Posted by NaterGator

Ok IE users (or other people having problems)

I NEED YOU TO TRY THIS
You'll see my username on here because this is a static page I saved and edited, but it's just to see if it still loads slowly for you. Please click it and let me know.

www.nate-online.com/mud_test.html

Loaded fine, fast.

-Spike

[freebie]

I have not been able to cut and paste anything into a post or private message in mud????
Not sure why

Cheers

[gladly]

it's still slow on the ie7 for me, but the ie6 machine is as fast as firefox

[NaterGator]

Originally Posted by gladly

it's still slow on the ie7 for me, but the ie6 machine is as fast as firefox

Try clearing your cache. You may have the scripts stored in cache.

[gladly]

Originally Posted by NaterGator

Try clearing your cache. You may have the scripts stored in cache.

lol, I use IE so seldom, I am not even 100% on how to do that

[gladly]

still slow

[youmustbecrazy]

Originally Posted by MarcoPolo

x2

part of page loads, says "done" and rest doesn't come up for a long wait - really pissing me off! Brings back dial up memories, something ain't right!

[NaterGator]

Gladly, can you access this link in IE7?
http://tag.contextweb.com/TAGPUBLISH...2F&mrnd=317899

[gladly]

Originally Posted by NaterGator

Gladly, can you access this link in IE7?

which link

[gladly]

Originally Posted by gladly

which link

if you mean the one you posted earlier, yes, it still works quick in ie7

[campoj2]

Concur - This weekend the site is moving at super slow speed, I know its not on my end. I hope the site can remedy this situation.

[bosscat800]

This site is very slow, what happened?

[gladly]

Originally Posted by NaterGator

Ok, windows users here is a quick fix until woody gets back:

Open a command prompt (Start->Run... type in "cmd" [without the quote] and hit Ok...) and run each of these one at a time (be sure to type them exactly. if you make mistakes the fix wont work)

echo 127.0.0.1 yieldbuild.com >> %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
echo 127.0.0.1 ads.digitalpoint.com >> %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
echo 127.0.0.1 tag.contextweb.com >> %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

To be fair to woody, blocking ads kills his ad-revenue and makes running the site more difficult. However there is no point in keeping crashing ads that make the site unusable, so I don't feel too terrible explaining how to block the offending domains.

edit: To explain what that does.... every operating system has to look up the IP address of a domain name when you request a page (for example: no computer can access ih8mud.com directly. They must first query a nameserver for the IP address where the server for ih8mud is located. In this case it is actually 204.10.140.65) before it can connect to it. Windows will check what is known as the "hosts" file first though (before it contacts a nameserver) to see if the domain is listed there. These commands add lines to the hosts file which tell windows that the IP address of the offending domain is actually your own computer Now, obviously you aren't the host, and windows knows this but it never questions the hosts file, so it simply cannot load the ads. It's a crafty way to get around the ads and these changes apply all over windows, not just to IE.

hope that helps

[DBAX]

Charlton Heston died..

[Moe R]

I thouhgt it was me. mines slower than s#!t .

[gladly]

Originally Posted by gladly

it's still slow on the ie7 for me, but the ie6 machine is as fast as firefox

it's good now on both machines, I just needed to restart explorer on the laptop, and now it is all good

edit: safari is working better now too

[gladly]

Originally Posted by NaterGator

Gladly, can you access this link in IE7?
http://tag.contextweb.com/TAGPUBLISH...2F&mrnd=317899

aha, you edited!

no, that doesn't come up. of course, given the elapsed hour, you might have moved it.

[srplus]

I thought someone had Organic to ace tomorrow!

Adderall and get on with it. You will be up all nite and NWAS in the morning.

[woody]

Originally Posted by NaterGator

Ah ha. I bet I know why. IE has a nasty tendency to match the end of a multiline html comment using non-greedy regular expressions. This is a flaw. Yield build was turned off with multiline comments. See:

<!-- Yieldbuild OFF

<!-- GOOGLE AdSense / Yieldbuild -->
<center>
<!-- YB: nav (728x15) -->
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
yieldbuild_client = 779;
yieldbuild_layout = "thread___universal_zones";
yieldbuild_loc = "nav";
yieldbuild_options = {};
//--></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://yieldbuild.com/s_ad.js"></script>


</center>

-->

IE should ignore everything up to the green --> tag, but instead it only seems to ignore to the red --> tag.

I'm going to make a mirror of the page and I need an IE user to click it and tell me if it's still slow.

You know what? I'm pretty sure I'm wrong. I think IE just doesn't handle the fact that yieldbuild is broken as gracefully. Non-greedy is logically the best pattern search. Woody probably just didn't realize what he was doing was wrong EDIT2: nope. It's not standardized properly in IE.

removed the yieldbuild info completely from the templates....workin on other fixes as I can, but just finished 4 gruelingly long pathetic days at an autoshow and have to drive 1200 miles by Tuesday afternoon...

will squeeze fix time as i can....

[NaterGator]

Originally Posted by woody

removed the yieldbuild info completely from the templates....workin on other fixes as I can, but just finished 4 gruelingly long pathetic days at an autoshow and have to drive 1200 miles by Tuesday afternoon...

will squeeze fix time as i can....

No worries. That should fix most of the 'major' slowdown non-firefox users were feeling anyways. Besides, there is always more than one way to fix things on a computer

[woody]

RC2 is avail......hope to install later this week....

[woytovich]

Maybe I'm reviving an old thread when I should be starting a new one?

Just recently (last update?) I have been having trouble getting pages to load here. Usually the first page, or maybe 2, come up ok then the loading progress bar stops at about 1/3 to 1/2 way... it never finishes (well maybe not NEVER... but I've given up before it gets there)

This is happening on a Mac, OSX 10.4.11, in Safari and Firefox... it seems to be worse in Safari. (both are latest versions) Quitting the app then relaunching seems to help it for a bit...

.js problem? Do I have an old/bad java thang goin' on?

Thoughts...? I did the usual, permissions, zap PRAM, toss com.apple.Safari.plist... what else...?

Mark

PS: another "clue" is that there is 1 1/2" of black empty space between the "User CP / Blogs... etc" bar and the "Forum / Last Post / Therads / Posts" header above the forum lists. Browsers other than Safari have ads in that space...