Board is so slow

[Greeny]

Forum URL: johnnysangels.proboards23.com

*sigh* My board is taking a long time to load the pages. There are several others on my board who are having the problem as well, but not all. I have cleaned out my Temporary Internet Files as well as Cookies, and rebooted, but it didn't help.

Honestly, I think it's my smiley code, because it's been causing all sorts of trouble. Ever since the upgrade to PBV4, I have had nothing but trouble getting a smiley code to work properly.

I never had trouble with the smileys working or page loads being slow in PBV3... and all of the smileys appeared on the reply pages. But after the upgrade, they simply wouldn't work. So I went looking for a new code that would work with the upgrade, and this is the one I used: support.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=codedatabase&action=display&n=1&thread=70214

This the first time we experienced the slow page loads. Actually some of my members, including myself, where experiencing repeated browser crashes. After many attempts to troubleshoot that code, nothing helped. So in hopes that it would work better with the smileys not actually all appearing on the reply page, I thought it might help to use this code: support.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=codedatabase&action=display&n=1&thread=70256

But the page loads are just as slow. No more browser crashes, but pretty slow page loads... and I have a high speed connection. As I said, I have cleaned out my Temp Internet Files, Cookies, and rebooted... but it's still slow.

Please help!

[Ms PiXie]

greeny said:

Forum URL: johnnysangels.proboards23.com

*sigh* My board is taking a long time to load the pages. There are several others on my board who are having the problem as well, but not all. I have cleaned out my Temporary Internet Files as well as Cookies, and rebooted, but it didn't help.

Honestly, I think it's my smiley code, because it's been causing all sorts of trouble. Ever since the upgrade to PBV4, I have had nothing but trouble getting a smiley code to work properly.

I never had trouble with the smileys working or page loads being slow in PBV3... and all of the smileys appeared on the reply pages. But after the upgrade, they simply wouldn't work. So I went looking for a new code that would work with the upgrade, and this is the one I used: support.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=codedatabase&action=display&n=1&thread=70214

This the first time we experienced the slow page loads. Actually some of my members, including myself, where experiencing repeated browser crashes. After many attempts to troubleshoot that code, nothing helped. So in hopes that it would work better with the smileys not actually all appearing on the reply page, I thought it might help to use this code: support.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=codedatabase&action=display&n=1&thread=70256

But the page loads are just as slow. No more browser crashes, but pretty slow page loads... and I have a high speed connection. As I said, I have cleaned out my Temp Internet Files, Cookies, and rebooted... but it's still slow.

Please help!

after viewing you source codes your main problem is having almost 200 smileys that have to load up, you'll either have to get rid of some of them that are the least used or deal with the slow loading..sorry

[Greeny]

*sigh* That's the thing... I have not added any smileys, and it was not a problem before the upgrade.

[Ms PiXie]

greeny said:

*sigh* That's the thing... I have not added any smileys, and it was not a problem before the upgrade.

also get rid of that "Change Skin" code it is now out of date and is not really doing anything.

[Tylr]

greeny said:

*sigh* That's the thing... I have not added any smileys, and it was not a problem before the upgrade.

ProBoards v4 does take longer to load, but is fine by itself. When you add 200 smileys though, things can get cumbersum.

[Greeny]

pixiestix said:

also get rid of that "Change Skin" code it is now out of date and is not really doing anything.

Well, I'm pretty sure I have to do more than just get rid of it... and I haven't really took the time yet to see what needs to be done there. It works how I have it, so I left it. But if it might help with this smiley thing... I should preobably spend some time on that.

tyrantlytamale said:

ProBoards v4 does take longer to load, but is fine by itself. When you add 200 smileys though, things can get cumbersum.

Ah, alrighty. I wonder if there's a way for it not to load all of them unless you click that 'View all smileys.'

[Ms PiXie]

the bottom line is this: these are the two biggest things slowing your board down.