Senior Forums Really Slow?

[Nathan]

Oh dear I initially read the title of this thread as ‘Senior Forums Reality Show’. That would be interesting lol

I have that same kind of astigmatism!

 

[Deya]

How exciting for us old folks! The slow connection gives us something new to talk about. Nothing like a fresh one to get old folks posting with excitement.

 

[CallMeKate]

I have that same kind of astigmatism!

Me three sometimes. Ya know that thread today that said "National Chicken and Waffles Day?" I had a thought for just a split second of "what on earth is Children and Waffles?!"

 

[Nathan]

How exciting for us old folks! The slow connection gives us something new to talk about. Nothing like a fresh one to get old folks posting with excitement.

 

[Pappy]

Same here. And all the above statements.

 

[January]

yes very slow for me.

other sites I go on are normal speed

 

[Born_To_Lose]

I noticed the same thing going on. What’s up? Maybe a hosting problem?

 

[MACKTEXAS]

Early in the day, other sites were normal here too. Then mid morning (my time) some sites started changing for the worse, especially the insurance site I use to pay my bill.

The crash impacted sites reliant upon Amazon Web Services (AWS) - the cloud computing service that hosts countless websites around the world.

I still haven't found out if this site is tied to that service or not, and don't know any way I could.

For what it's worth, I asked AI if the outage could effect social sites and got this:

 

[Kaila]

This is what's causing the problem:

Internet services outage leaves websites and apps lagging ...​

Thank you for posting this, here.

 

[Kaila]

Early in the day, other sites were normal here too. Then mid morning (my time) some sites started changing for the worse, especially the insurance site I use to pay my bill.

The crash impacted sites reliant upon Amazon Web Services (AWS) - the cloud computing service that hosts countless websites around the world.

I still haven't found out if this site is tied to that service or not, and don't know any way I could.

For what it's worth, I asked AI if the outage could effect social sites and got this:

View attachment 459451

Thank you, Mack Texas.

 

[Kika]

Earlier today the Amazon shopping site was down, as was my Alexa device. I had a zoom meeting at 4 pm, and we had the meeting but with all kinds of technical difficulties.
I think the worst may be over, but not totally back to normal.

 

[Kaila]

Yes. My problems ...with SF.....

It's CRAWLING. I tried to apply a reaction to a post and it took 30 seconds to apply. My WIFI is flying on all other sites - just slow on this one.

Edited at 10:40 CST: I'll just sign out and try some other time. This is taking way too long.

Yes, my problems on this site, SF, started before the 3a.m. Amazon outage was reported.
Not sure it's related at all.
Has @Matrix
Weighed in on this thread anyplace?

And sf is still intermittently available, for me , this evening, Monday, Oct 20th.

 

[MACKTEXAS]

Yes. My problems ...with SF.....

Yes, my problems on this site, SF, started before the 3a.m. Amazon outage was reported.
Not sure it's related at all.
Has @Matrix
Weighed in on this thread anyplace?

I think there are 2 threads (last I noticed) and I saw where someone else asked that question with the @ sign like yours, so there will probably be a response.

The odd thing is, sometimes it goes fast, then all of a sudden: BAM, it's a crawl.

The evening news just said Amazon reports all should be fixed by this evening, but we don't know if that has anything to do with this site (yet).

 

[Kaila]

Thank you,
@MACKTEXAS

I only found this thread, though.

 

[Jules]

It’s back to very slow again for me. Grrr.

 

[MACKTEXAS]

Thank you,
@MACKTEXAS

I only found this thread, though.

My mistake, sorry - the other post I saw was in this thread from Jules

 

[Fritz]

Mine has been slow too. It is a bit faster on the laptop than the phone. I have trouble logging in on the phone.

 

[IrishEyes]

Finally got on to pay my electric bill, so at least it's improving

 

[ChiroDoc]

Yes, it's too slow for me to hang around tonight. I hope the techs figure it out.
I'm having no trouble on any other websites, so I'm guessing that the problem is unique to
SF.

 

[Matrix]

Sorry for the inconvenience, but it's not our forum or server's problem, it should resolve itself shortly.

Wait, it's been 3 days for some members? I thought it's a couple of hours. I didn't find it slow though.

 

[Fritz]

Sorry for the inconvenience, but it's not our forum or server's problem, it should resolve itself shortly.

Wait, it's been 3 days for some members? I thought it's a couple of hours. I didn't find it slow though.

Yeah 3 days

 

[jujube]

I just had a hard time getting in. I tried several times over about a 15 minute period and kept getting the message that it was "taking too long". I didn't have any problems earlier today.

 

[Furryanimal]

Seems better this morning but still a little slow.

 

[LadyEmeraude]

Just now logged in after being off of SF all day. No hold up this time or orange lines.

 

[Fritz]

I just had a hard time getting in. I tried several times over about a 15 minute period and kept getting the message that it was "taking too long". I didn't have any problems earlier today.

it's been in and out all day here. i was watching paramount plus no problem then all of sudden it quit working.