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Mark's "New Forum" thread seems to be getting clogged up people doing test posts. I thought a separate thread might help, as the very poor signal:noise ratio in that thread is helping no one.
Trying to post from Flickr @13:38 see hoe long it takes and how distorted it is.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/stu-b/54309204335/in/dateposted/
Surely every post attempt on any thread is a test?
My post above appeared after posting/page refresh.
Now let's try my old account with all the 16 years of 'luggage' attached.
14:09
motorbike
I can't see my post
Well that's gleaned a big clue. My new account posts just fine. My old account sees the delayed post issue.
My old account is full of 16 years of data piled in from the old forum. The new forum doesn't do that. But until we delete the old forum and all it's data all that 'luggage' remains attached to all the accounts. This points to a course of action of focusing on the completing the migration and then deleting all the old data.
Testing
Working with this account?
Photo's still distorted then and took a while to appear.
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Have we drawn any conclusions as to whether the potential dix has worked?
17:01
just started a thread including a flickr link - text & pic visible pretty much instantly
Miguel In the rain
Miguel in the sun
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Are there any users that don't experience this delay? This account I'm using doesn't so I'm hoping there are others.
I've just realised that I didn't need to put a time in my post as it matches the posted date & timestamp at the bottom of the post itself.
Posting (the post enters the database & is visible in the Topic Overview) is pretty snappy, but there's a delay before it shows in the thread proper.
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Well that turned up quickly enough to be edited 😄
Although the Edit appears to be delayed & mot showing
However, if I edit again the previous edit shows in the post edit box 🤷♂️
Now all is revealed - it's looking hopeful 👍
My reply just up there andmy second post on "my" thread both just took about 10 min
edit - this one was v quick though.
With the otheres, as said above, Posting (the post enters the database & is visible in the Topic Overview) is pretty snappy, but there's a delay before it shows in the thread proper.
Mine was quick.
As far as I can tell the new forum hasn’t fixed any of the issues with the last one, the only real issues I ever experienced were delays in loading pages and that still seems to happen now, but with a host of other far worse issues.
<test>
can the brightness of the horizontal lines segregating posts be dampened a smidge please...
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that was posted at 20:25:25 (more or less)
Testing, testing from 1973...
I think from this it's fairly apparent that the posts are being committed to the database immediately, all the time stamps match. Rather, it's pulling them out again which is the issue, it's a delay in availability.
..until we delete the old forum and all its data..
Can’t imagine how weird that day will be for you.
Delay is random for me, they can appear instantly and other times take around 15 minutes. Then other times they appear instantly then disappear for around 15 minutes.
The picture I posted looks normal when viewed on my phone but stretched sideways when viewed on my PC.
Edit.
And this posted instantly.
Double Edit.
But the edit didn't.
testing
testing again
testing
testing again
we apologise for all the amounts of testing replies that you may see, this is because our development sites this issue doesn't happen, but only happens on live
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Gonna give this a try and then edit it afterwards to say how it went (if possible)
13 seconds to refresh, jump to the top, shows that I was the latest post. But nothing showing at bottom of thread..... FAIL
Weird. As it seemed to be working yesterday
EDIT. Did a refresh of page after 10 minutes and my reply was there.
EDIT #2: My first edit appeared instantaneously on the original post in the thread in the right place. Seems only the initial post got delayed
Testing as I'm still not seeing any replies I've made for a 'significant time' afterwards.
Posting this at 10:05am.
So frustrating! The post above appeared within 20secs of clicking add reply (and is visible to me), but a reply I made in reeky's 'Call a Lawyer' thread about 5 mins ago hasn't appeared for me. Total hit or miss for me in success of posting.
And my follow up thread to the above (posted by me at 10:07 hasn't appeared.
Posting this one at 10:08am.
The picture I posted looks normal when viewed on my phone but stretched sideways when viewed on my PC.
Whenever I see a stretched image it seems to be hosted on Flikr. Though obviously, correlation does not automatically imply causation.
we really do apologise for these issues
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Is there any way to adjust the size of the image (other than resizing it offline) ?
10:15
Edited at 10:16.
So performance seems much better now, at least for me, right now.
there isnt just yet we will look into adding the feature once we rectify this caching/post delay
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testing the delay
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please can anyone try and let us know if your reply does show up correctly
Posting at 13:52
My 13:52 post took about 10s to post, and after it completed I couldn't see it
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testing
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Whenever I see a stretched image it seems to be hosted on Flikr.
But in twenty odd years I've been using Flickr it's never been a problem for me and still isn't when viewed on my phone.
Just when viewed on my PC.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/stu-b/54334606817/in/photostream/
testing
Image speed test. 
14:02
YAY! It appeared instantly and as of yet hasn’t disappeared.
My 14:02 post took about 10s to post and I can't see it after it posted.
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Replying to Anthony
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