Same on my ipad too. It's the video ad at the top of the page taking ages to load - even though I have super fast fibre. If I scroll down before the ad finishes the page jumps back to the top.
You're right, that's exactly what it is -'Viewster' advert taking ages loading, as far as I can make out.
It's ridiculous that it's just being allowed to carry on. They asked for reports - I sent one yesterday - and nothing's improved, I can't believe that their tech team haven't a clue!
It often happens with me in Firefox (like earlier today) - I get an "Unresponsive script" message or it keeps going to the bottom of the page very fast with just 1 or 2 clicks of the mouse :mad:
It often happens with me in Firefox (like earlier today) - I get an "Unresponsive script" message or it keeps going to the bottom of the page very fast with just 1 or 2 clicks of the mouse :mad:
The forums load absolutely fine for me in Firefox every time when everything's okay, but the odd time with Internet Explorer, only a quarter of the forum page loads and I have to refresh the page to get it all.
On my Intel i7 4770K, 16GB memory, SSD, Windows 8.1, these are the top 3 processor demands currently, when running Firefox 36.0.1 and nothing else of significance:
9.7% Plugin Container for Firefox (32 Bit)
5.2% Adobe Flash Player 16.r.0 (32 bit)
4.9% Firefox (32 bit)
19.8% out of a total processor load of 21.0%.
Normally Firefox and the other two related programs above use 1% or less between them within 3 seconds of page loads. Scrolling on DS is jerky and slow to respond, even on my system, so good luck to those with lesser setups.
I note that there are currently 4 (yes 4) Kaspersky Flash ads at the same time when on this page so they may be the problem - or may not, if it occurs with other similar flash ads. Four from the same place at the same time is bonkers anyway, that needs sorting out.
I have tried to stop it from displaying Kaspersky ads by googling Renault cars but it hasn't worked yet, I will report back when it changes!
On the other hand, I just visited another well-known forum beginning with ProB [can't say the name as it's blocked, and here I am trying to flipping help!!!] it allows two banner ads per page including basic flash banners of the scrolling/fading kind. Total CPU usage
1.4% Firefox (there's a scrolling non-advertising script on the page)
0.2% Flash Player
0.0% Plugin Container
1.6% out of a total 2% CPU usage.
It's no wonder people resort to ad blocking, is it (no further comment) ! Flawed advertising implementation by DS and/or its advertising agency is the problem - DS *and* the advertisers will take the flak, I suggest that they take a look at the ad types I mentioned above, and stop multiple versions appearing on the same page for starters.
OK, I finally got this page with no Kaspersky ads. There are: e-on at the top, HTC/giffgaff next down, Boots at the bottom and Now TV below that. Total CPU usage for the programs I mentioned at the top is:
2.6% Plugin Container
2.0% Firefox
1.5% Flash
6.1% out of total CPU usage of 7%.
However, with Sky, Plusnet and some other flash video ads, I am seeing very high CPU usage as well, always involving Plugin Container for Firefox and flash player, so it's not just Kaspersky.
I don't mind adverts that load quickly, but the ones that take about 6 seconds to load (Internet Explorer), they do get a bit annoying. You just want to navigate quickly once the forum has loaded. You then have to wait for so long for the adverts to fully load. I don't use an ad-blocker for surfing, only when watching videos online if they have adverts before what you want to watch starts. I don't mind if the owners of this site get commission if I click on an advert for something that I've been thinking about getting on Amazon or wherever.
It seemed as if things were back to normal yesterday, so I thought they had sorted it out.
Now the problem has returned and things are worse than ever.
Awful again today. Is anyone else still having problems, or maybe found a solution ?
Judging by this thread, it must only affect a minority of users. But for me it's practically unusable at present. It's not just the page continually jumping to the top, posting this has been really hard work.
Come on DS, at least give us some indication that you are aware of the problem.
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You're right, that's exactly what it is -'Viewster' advert taking ages loading, as far as I can make out.
It's ridiculous that it's just being allowed to carry on. They asked for reports - I sent one yesterday - and nothing's improved, I can't believe that their tech team haven't a clue!
In fact the worst was in the GD topic list when I was trying to click on this thread!
On iPad for a few days.
The forums load absolutely fine for me in Firefox every time when everything's okay, but the odd time with Internet Explorer, only a quarter of the forum page loads and I have to refresh the page to get it all.
It would be nice to hear from Forum Support to see if anything's being done.
I'm alerting the thread asking for some info.
On my Intel i7 4770K, 16GB memory, SSD, Windows 8.1, these are the top 3 processor demands currently, when running Firefox 36.0.1 and nothing else of significance:
9.7% Plugin Container for Firefox (32 Bit)
5.2% Adobe Flash Player 16.r.0 (32 bit)
4.9% Firefox (32 bit)
19.8% out of a total processor load of 21.0%.
Normally Firefox and the other two related programs above use 1% or less between them within 3 seconds of page loads. Scrolling on DS is jerky and slow to respond, even on my system, so good luck to those with lesser setups.
I note that there are currently 4 (yes 4) Kaspersky Flash ads at the same time when on this page so they may be the problem - or may not, if it occurs with other similar flash ads. Four from the same place at the same time is bonkers anyway, that needs sorting out.
I have tried to stop it from displaying Kaspersky ads by googling Renault cars but it hasn't worked yet, I will report back when it changes!
On the other hand, I just visited another well-known forum beginning with ProB [can't say the name as it's blocked, and here I am trying to flipping help!!!] it allows two banner ads per page including basic flash banners of the scrolling/fading kind. Total CPU usage
1.4% Firefox (there's a scrolling non-advertising script on the page)
0.2% Flash Player
0.0% Plugin Container
1.6% out of a total 2% CPU usage.
It's no wonder people resort to ad blocking, is it (no further comment) ! Flawed advertising implementation by DS and/or its advertising agency is the problem - DS *and* the advertisers will take the flak, I suggest that they take a look at the ad types I mentioned above, and stop multiple versions appearing on the same page for starters.
2.6% Plugin Container
2.0% Firefox
1.5% Flash
6.1% out of total CPU usage of 7%.
However, with Sky, Plusnet and some other flash video ads, I am seeing very high CPU usage as well, always involving Plugin Container for Firefox and flash player, so it's not just Kaspersky.
When it occurs the Select, Copy, Paste etc option boxes appear too briefly to activate them,
Great.
Do the moderators work on a Sunday?
Me too. VERY annoying.
last week it was pages not loading (appeared to only happen when Netflix banner was displayed) and this week it's pages jumping several times.
Now the problem has returned and things are worse than ever.
I don't see why not, they should do - it's not as if the spammers and trolls take Sundays off.
Besides, I also contacted them on Friday and sent in a report that they were asking for regarding the problem. Again - nothing.
Judging by this thread, it must only affect a minority of users. But for me it's practically unusable at present. It's not just the page continually jumping to the top, posting this has been really hard work.
Come on DS, at least give us some indication that you are aware of the problem.