News – A story about impending revolution in the U.S. racked up the most votes this week at Propeller. But the community also sounded off about evil robots, kissing, and genetics--and bade a (mostly) fond farewell to William Buckley Jr.
Indeed,closing the "boogie gap" shouldn't be our most pressing national priority, yet sadly it pretty much is.
I also wish to let you know the glitches and unavailability of the site are truly horrendous of late, I'm patient, but participation is almost impossible. I'm not sure if you are aware how bad it's gotten. But nice review of the week!
I thought it was just on my end. Well the site is free, I suppose the frustration is just an add benifit.
Everybody, we realize the site is operating in a dicey manner right now, and discussions are underway about how to improve it. I hate to ask for your patience again--but I promise that we're working hard to figure this out.
Is it something to do with being logged into the site, James? When I'm not logged in, I seem to be able to traverse the pages much more quickly.
It's cookies, Propeller puts a cookie in your browser when you sign in. When you remove that cookie, you're automatically signed out, but your navigation time speeds right up. James, has anyone taken my message seriously? Propeller places a cookie on your browser that slows Propeller down. Please, tell me you've been looking into this. Tell me something!
Say, ind06, your site mails have been appreciated--please don't think otherwise. Sorry if we haven't gotten back to you. And yes, we are looking into it (see Tom's mail below). Other members have noted that the site runs faster when they're not logged in. But without logins, we have no participation, and without participation, we have no social news site. Anyway, thanks as always for your concern.
ind06, could the slowness also be due to the graphical ad streams from the banner ads? I look down in my status bar and it shows that it is connecting to the website that sources the ad. Once that completes, the page loads.
If the friends sidebar starts polling at the same time, the session times out. That's what I'm seeing - is this just me?
Faster is good.
That could be definitely be part of it. All I know for sure is when I logged on fifteen minutes ago and tried to navigate to this string I sat and nothing happened. Well, actually, I didn't sit, I got up and made a sandwich and poured myself a Dr. Pepper and came back and when I came back the message at the bottom of my browser read "Done" but the page was completely blank. Then, I erased all my cookies and entered Propeller again and navigated here and I was reading your comment in about ten seconds.
Sorry James,but we got another problem...I just spent two days disinfecting my PC from CRAPOLA picked up from a link that didn't look like SPAM...Is there anything in the pipeline to help with this??? It's the 3rd time I've been shut down by crap that was planted on the threads here...
HELP!!!
Shadow, we try to delete this stuff as fast as possible--but my advice is to treat embedded links with the same caution you would apply to spam emails. Don't click on them unless they come from a trusted source.
I'm more of a high-touch than a high-tech person and enjoy playing with retro machines as long as they're Macs - currently using a clam-shell, last was the ORIGINAL Bondi Blue which I bought for my daughter before it even shopped.. Just got a cable connection, through the window from the computer shop downstairs and was ready to zoom faster through the ether but..
The only strategy which I've intuited is to frequently clean "history" - that does frequently connect me when I feel like I'm on the verge of timing out..
The one great plus which no one has mentioned is that propeller does NOT come with a mechanised voice - "All our operators are busy with other customers blahblahblah.. next available operator.. " When that's transatlantic its a REAL problem. and has lead to the death of several phones.. We were strictly cell-phones and skype for a while..
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Thanks for the weekly review, James. And, I know that you appreciate our patience, but the ability to navigate through the web pages on Propeller this week has been horrendous.
For me, it was so bad that it was too tedious to even vote, comment, and post stories.
The problem can't be on my end, because my browsers both work fine on all the other sites that I visit.
I would like to resume my regular participation, but it currently is too frustrating waiting for pages to load. It would be nice to inform us when this problem might be resolved.
I totally agree. Clicking from page to page in Propeller has me just about pulling my hair out. The pages take FOREVER to load and sometimes won't even do it at all. The Show Full Thread feature also doesn't seem to be working in my Messages.
James, I know you told us last week to be patient but can you give us any idea as to when this might be fixed? Thank you.
Ditto
I thought it was a conspiracy aimed at me.
I was beginning to think I needed a new computer -- a bit relieved to hear the problem lies elsewhere.
Me, if I can get on then the sidebar needs reloading 2 or 3 times a session or you can,t post a reply, even if you can get a comment on it disappears and never mind trying to give a neg or pos
Good work James, thanks for the mention!
I sent messages to both anchors about this over the weekend and yet to receive even a polite acknowledgment that my concerns were read and taken seriously. It's driving me nuts, not to mention the "five at a time" rule on notifying friends of a post and then the notification window takes forever to open. I'm up to a full hour just posting two stories a day.
As an example, it took two minutes by my computer's clock from the time I clicked "submit comment" on the above comment 'till it appeared in the comment string.