What the heck is going on with such long refresh times? It's extremely rare for this forum to ever take more than maybe 3 seconds to display a page for me.

It's been this way for me for at least the last 3 weeks... in both xp and vista. In fact it even takes up to 2 minutes between the login screen and when the forum pops up (I'm using firefox and a dsl connection). It's fast on the internet as well as other forums... it's only the Sony forums that I'm having huge problems with.

Thank goodness everyone had a problem, I thought it was just me. :)

Me too - it's a pain sometimes :(

/Ulf

I was thinking of making an open-source API that matches the sleek and diet feel of this forum. The difference would hopefully be that this OpenSource version would also retain the sleek, diet backend and load times that a site like this one should have for all. Then again, maybe it's just our connections? I dunno. Here's a link to the proof of concept (is it even proof?). It's obviously lame at the moment, with no permissions or advanced userbase - but it's a start. If anyone wanted to setup their own forums that aren't terribly bulky like some of the bigger guys, this is what I would be aiming for. For now, it's just a project to help me learn more about creating Content Management Systems (CMS)s. I'm trying to make the backend really lite and processor friendly. Any programmers here? I wish I could learn how to program stuff for the Sony Vegas plugin API. Anyway, I'm glad these forums are back up and going. Here's to faster load times.

Not everyone. I almost never see any slow load times here. I connect from several different PCs at many different locations through several different ISPs.

Hmmm. Maybe it's because i don't use MSIE? *shrug*

I use only Firefox on PC and Safari on Mac, still unbearably slow.

It is basically unbearable to just check the latest posts without having other work to do while waiting for each post to appear.

I'm beginning to wonder if the database is configured incorrectly for the volume of messages in the Vegas Video Forum.

If the database can't be replaced entirely, perhaps a prefetch unit can be added that automatically pulls in the most common requests (the same recent posts) into RAM. This is established, off-the-shelf technology, used in many companies already.

I'm finding that opening posts is generally fine. Listing the posts is where the main hold up occurs. Although, once held up trying to list even a single post becomes tough to open. The forum itself may have less to blame at this stage of flitting between clickables in order to get some response at all.

It seems that there are only so many requests allowed into the listing queue. It seems reminiscent of the waiting you see people doing outside a department store prior to their opening for the seasonal sales.

Back to my tent and sleeping bag........ hoping to catch the next snippet about Vegas Pro 8 !

Clicking on "Back to Vegas - Video" is what is annoyingly slow for me. Several tens of seconds sometimes.

Using Firefox on XP Pro

Hmmmm. I just thought of something ...

I have 2o7.net blocked at my routers. My DNS server returns 127.0.0.2 for any 2o7.net hosts. Perhaps that's the issue. For me, the browser almost instantly decides not to try even contacting 2o7.net. Maybe other people are getting held up waiting for the long response times from 2o7.net. Could be that it's not the SONY server that's slow at all.