Do you find VideoSift Slow?

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A total of 82 votes have been cast on this poll.


We're going through a bit of a growth spurt - traffic is increasing and we want to make sure that everyone is getting their Sift fix in a timely manner.

By "Slow" I'm talking about pageloads and server response times. When you click a link - does it take a long time for the next page to load? When you submit a comment - does it take a while for it to show up? When you vote ... you get the picture.
EndAll says...

I hate when I'm halfway through a video and I already wanna upvote but when I do it reloads the page and whatever I was watching is cut short. Unrelated to the poll but I figure this would be the place to express that frustration.

Krupo says...

I usually only get teh reload effect if I do two things at once on a vid, so I only do one thing, usually the main vote, before doing a second thing, like posting a comment or upvoting other vids - particularly when invocations are involved. Avoids the reload annoyance.

xxovercastxx says...

It was getting rather slow for me, but I've recently added noscript again; something I normally don't use because it's annoying to whitelist every site I visit; and it's significantly improved.

google-analytics.com, glam.com and googleadservices.com remain blocked in my config.

berticus says...

Mostly it's fine for me, with intermittent speed issues. Like right now. Painfully slow.
Why does 'intermittent' look so weird? It looks weird right? It's not just me? Why are you all walking away? Hey come back!

mauz15 says...

"does it take a long time for the next page to load?"

What defines a 'long time' for a site full of videos? 3 seconds? 10? 15?

I don't really know about the standards used to determine if a site loads slow or fast independently of the user's connection, but when I see the sum of all the content each section in this site has (embeds of multiple hosts, comments, and votes constantly coming in, etc.) I think it is rarely slow.

rougy says...

When I have problems with vids, I'll go straight to YouTube.

About half the time, it's slow there, too.

I do have problems with LiveLeak vids being choppy, but it might be my video card.

I'm in USA, and Vimeo is usually no problemo at all.

Ornthoron says...

^I don't think dag is talking about video loading times. This is about the loading of web pages on the sift, regardless of them having videos or not.

I do get some lag cases every once in a while, often in the order of several minutes worth of loading a single page. When that happens I usually look at something else and come back later. In the last couple of weeks I've had cases of the comment box freezing when I click "submit new comment", and the comment doesn't get posted at all. Something similar happens occasionally on video submission as well. But it seems pretty random when it strikes.

Throbbin says...

Dag, I demand that the absolutely free service and entertainment you provide me with arrive fast and forthwith!

Furthermore, I wouldn't the least bit surprised to learn all of you habitually smoke marijuana cigarettes!

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