Site Issues

Came to this section to make my own thread but then saw many others have said the same thing. The site has been slow as hellllll the last few days. It takes forever for the site to load, then its taking a minute plus to go to each page, uploading takes forever…etc. Whats going on?
 
Since @SkyriseCities seems to be an absentee owner, my guess is that they went with a cheap/unreliable hosting service and has not paid any attention to service levels. Or perhaps even worse than neglect, the recent slowness was an intentional reduction in cost/quality to eek a few more net dollars out of the advertising. To be clear, I don't mind ads. I want the owner to make money, but there also needs to be some minimal service standards, and what we are getting is well below that.
 
HenryAlan said:
Since @SkyriseCities seems to be an absentee owner, my guess is that they went with a cheap/unreliable hosting service and has not paid any attention to service levels. Or perhaps even worse than neglect, the recent slowness was an intentional reduction in cost/quality to eek a few more net dollars out of the advertising. To be clear, I don't mind ads. I want the owner to make money, but there also needs to be some minimal service standards, and what we are getting is well below that.
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Awaiting a response from skyrisecity.
 
HenryAlan said:
Since @SkyriseCities seems to be an absentee owner, my guess is that they went with a cheap/unreliable hosting service and has not paid any attention to service levels. Or perhaps even worse than neglect, the recent slowness was an intentional reduction in cost/quality to eek a few more net dollars out of the advertising. To be clear, I don't mind ads. I want the owner to make money, but there also needs to be some minimal service standards, and what we are getting is well below that.
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I wouldn't necessarily assume they are making any profit after hosting costs. Personally I would rather throw some money at an annual aB gofundme than look at ads, but maybe that's just me.
 
I'm getting a lot of these now ...


Hmmm… can't reach this page​

It looks like the webpage at

archBOSTON

archBOSTON Forum
archboston.com
might be having issues, or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.
 
kdmc said:
I wouldn't necessarily assume they are making any profit after hosting costs. Personally I would rather throw some money at an annual aB gofundme than look at ads, but maybe that's just me.
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Even a basic Patreon would probably at least cover some of the hosting costs, and I know I'd throw a few bucks at it. Despite the fact that this isn't a non-profit type, charity situation, I think the site provides enough of a resource to be worth supporting.
HenryAlan said:
Since @SkyriseCities seems to be an absentee owner, my guess is that they went with a cheap/unreliable hosting service and has not paid any attention to service levels. Or perhaps even worse than neglect, the recent slowness was an intentional reduction in cost/quality to eek a few more net dollars out of the advertising. To be clear, I don't mind ads. I want the owner to make money, but there also needs to be some minimal service standards, and what we are getting is well below that.
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How does making the site not load/load slow mean the ads are making more money? Reducing viewership of the ads would decrease revenue, not increase it.

For the record, I'm getting a bunch of failure to load/slow loading pages.
 
ulrichomega said:
Even a basic Patreon would probably at least cover some of the hosting costs, and I know I'd throw a few bucks at it. Despite the fact that this isn't a non-profit type, charity situation, I think the site provides enough of a resource to be worth supporting.
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kdmc said:
Personally I would rather throw some money at an annual aB gofundme than look at ads, but maybe that's just me.
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If I remember correctly, and it's been a long time since I've been in the back-end of xenforo, you can even have subcription payments built into the site and have tiered style membership. I.e. subscribers get an ad-free website while free users still see ads.
 
ulrichomega said:
How does making the site not load/load slow mean the ads are making more money? Reducing viewership of the ads would decrease revenue, not increase it.
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My thought was not that the ad revenue would increase, but that the cost of running the site would decrease. It's a question of which is the bigger change -- reduced ad revenue from fewer hits vs reduced cost from buying a lower service level. If the lower service level saves more than is lost in ad revenue, then the site owner does better financially.
 
Is anyone else getting 403 errors? The site seems to work fine in private/incognito but on multiple devices I've gotten 403 errors after posting.
 
Any time I try to access Archboston on my phone I'm getting "Forbidden. You don't have permission to access this resource. Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request."
 
found5dollar said:
Any time I try to access Archboston on my phone I'm getting "Forbidden. You don't have permission to access this resource. Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request."
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I've had it happen before, clear your cache/history and it should be back to normal
 
Anyone else lose the ability to upload photos when viewing the site on Mobile? All the functionality to upload pics is completely disabled for me.
 
Can someone please update the embed media approved sites list to include X.com alongside Twitter? Not to comment on Elon, but while editing the domain to Twitter still works, I don't know how long that'll last, and for some things Twitter is still the place for information.

(For the future I'd also love Threads and/or bsky embeds)
 
Plus the photo uploader is still all jacked up. When you upload a photo it will only post at the very top of a post instead of where your cursor is and its a pain in the ass. So this makes it that when you post photos they always end up in reverse order because each one goes to the very top. So then you have to go in and select each one to copy and paste them how you like but to top it off when you try to copy photos within a post by selecting “select” instead of “select all” it highlights halfway up the page. So every single time you try to highlight a picture you have to scroll half way up the page and then drag the cursor waaaay down to whatever you actually wanted to select. The whole point of select instead of select all is to be able to just select one thing and not have this problem. This is the only site where this is broken and it suuucks. Its been screwed up for a while now so hopefully this can get fixed.
 
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