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Kaniver
Eager Tradesman
Joined: 04 Dec 2003
Posts: 47
Location: Western Oregon |
I agree it's the damn ads. I realize this is an important revenue stream but someone needs to streamline these things. The adds are using 90-100% of my cpu cycles. Now if that continues it sorta defeats the purpose of the adds as no one will want the hassle. I have noticed this problem occasionaily several months ago but it seemed to clear up in a day or two. This is getting persistant now.
I'm pretty computer savy......the ads are using to much horsepower.........very frustrating................help guys.................this is an important site. |
Mon May 09, 2005 5:24 pm |
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Val
Risen From Ashes
Joined: 18 Feb 2002
Posts: 14724
Location: Utah, USA |
If you are using Firefox, then look here.
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Dhruin
Stranger In A Strange Land
Joined: 20 May 2002
Posts: 1825
Location: Sydney, Australia |
Check out this thread:
http://www.rpgdot.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=331888
Our best suggestion is to use the AdBlock extension (or use IE to access RPGDot for the time being).
Edit - Ah, Val was too quick for me. 
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CassRo
Seer of Delphi
Joined: 11 Feb 2005
Posts: 425
Location: look behind you ... |
Yes, you can use AdBlock, but there is a problem - not important for now, but...
AdBlock stops almost/all the banners etc., so if this thing grows to a larger scale (check out my sig), it will mean that some companies will stop advertising on the Internet, so thousands of sites shall grow bankrupt (don't think the Dot will follow these sites), I mean those that use up a large quantity of space and need money, but have no source of income other than ads.
It is true, though, that the effectiveness of these ads (for games or other pricely programs/services) is very small.
...just wanted to inform you on this matter, if you already know then I am sorry.
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Danicek
The Old One
Joined: 15 Dec 2001
Posts: 5922
Location: Czech Republic |
quote:
Originally posted by CassRo
AdBlock stops almost/all the banners etc., so if this thing grows to a larger scale (check out my sig), it will mean that some companies will stop advertising on the Internet, so thousands of sites shall grow bankrupt (don't think the Dot will follow these sites), I mean those that use up a large quantity of space and need money, but have no source of income other than ads.
Good point. I agree with you. Extensive use of adds blocking can be a very dangerous problem in future. |
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Thu May 12, 2005 8:09 am |
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Toaster
Bread Alert
Joined: 27 Jan 2003
Posts: 5475
Location: Sweden |
One thing you can do with AdBlock is to choose "Hide Ads" instead of "Remove Ads", this way you will download them anyway, and the site will get payed, you just don't see them. 
I'm not sure if it works if you have this Ads/Flash slowing down very much problem though.
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Thu May 12, 2005 9:50 am |
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Cm
Sentinel of Light
Joined: 26 Jan 2003
Posts: 5209
Location: Missouri USA |
Didn't see a reason to open a new thread. I have gotten the following error message on a few seamingly random occassions lately and I don't know if it is my set up or just a site situation. If someone knows the answer I would be curious to know.
phpBB Critical Error
Could not query config information.
Seems to always hit when going from a view topic back to the index or from a link back to topic. Doesn't do it all the time. No rhyme or reason I can figure out. 
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Mon May 16, 2005 8:46 pm |
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tolgerias
High Emperor
Joined: 15 Jul 2004
Posts: 770
Location: The Netherlands |
I have had the same problem recently, I think it has something to do with the system refreshing or something, afaik it happens randomly and you just have to wait a minute, then everything goes smoothly again.
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Mercenary
Helpful Friend
Joined: 25 Nov 2002
Posts: 2874
Location: Chromanin |
I think that happens when site overloaded. When too much people access it at the same time. At least at sometimes happened to me when the guest count + the member count online was in high numbers.
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Mon May 16, 2005 8:57 pm |
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Jaz
Late Night Spook
Joined: 20 Jan 2002
Posts: 9708
Location: RPGDot |
Site situation. Seems to happen when there are more than 150 viewers (at least for me - only sometimes though).
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Mon May 16, 2005 8:58 pm |
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Cm
Sentinel of Light
Joined: 26 Jan 2003
Posts: 5209
Location: Missouri USA |
Thanks guys. As long as it isn't me I can live with it. It is good news if it is the site overloaded. lol Means we are doing a booming trade here. lol
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Tue May 17, 2005 3:06 am |
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crpgnut
Captain of the Guard
Joined: 22 May 2002
Posts: 197
Location: St. Louis |
Just to add my 2¢ worth. The site really crawls for me as well. It's been doing that for a while. I've switched to other crpg sites for my news now but still like
to come to the dot. I'm in St. Louis, Mo USA and have a T1 at work and a 5 mb cable connection at home. It's slightly faster at home but still dog slow compared to every other site I visit. I visit 40-50 websites daily. I don't ever see a pop-up add but I guess that is what's taking so long for the page to load.
I don't pay anything to use your site, so I'm definitely not complaining. I get exactly what I pay for.
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Tue May 31, 2005 10:40 pm |
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Ratavuk
Noble Knight
Joined: 08 May 2005
Posts: 213
Location: I-Net |
Just out of curiosity. Why was the forum yesterday evening until today morning not reachable ? |
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Thu Jun 09, 2005 12:40 pm |
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Toaster
Bread Alert
Joined: 27 Jan 2003
Posts: 5475
Location: Sweden |
It was for me. Got the "phpBB2 Critical Error, could not query config information", or something like that, message all the time.
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Thu Jun 09, 2005 2:29 pm |
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Myrthos
Spoiler of All Fun
Joined: 07 Jul 2001
Posts: 1926
Location: Holland |
There was a problem on the server that was not fixed until today because I was offline for the better part of yesterday. As such I never noticed it and could not take care of it until today.
The problem itself could occur again in principle and we are working on making sure it doesn't.
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